Nigeria elections

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LAGOS, March 1 (Reuters) - Nigeria's electoral commission said on Wednesday ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu had won last week's The major opposition parties have complained of irregularities and rejected the result as fraudulent. There have been reports of violence and intimidation, although not on the scale of previous elections. Here are details of the election process and votes tallied. WHO WERE THE MAIN CANDIDATES? Eighteen candidates were running for president but only three were seen as having a realistic chance. They were Tinubu from the governing All Progressives Congress party (APC), Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the smaller Labour Party (LP). A fourth contender, Rabiu Kwankwaso, of the New Nigeria People's Party (NNPP), received votes in parts of the north. WHO WON? According to final Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) tallies from all 36 states and the federal capital Abuja, Tinubu garnered about 36.6% or 8.79 million of valid votes counted from the weekend election, while Atiku trailed behind with 29.1% or 6.98 million of valid votes. Obi received 25.4%, or about 6.1 million votes. HOW WERE THE VOTES TALLIED? Results from 176,846 polling stations were counted manually and were then to be relayed electronically to the INEC headquarters in Abuja, for posting on its website. The results were also tallied at the ward, local government and state level. A returning officer from each state was t...

ABUJA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Nigeria's electoral commission began announcing state-by-state results from national elections on Sunday, amid complaints of irregularities, though it is not expected to name a victor in the race to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari for several days. The Votes in presidential and parliamentary elections are collated in each of Nigeria's 36 states before the count is transmitted to the electoral commission's central tallying centre in the capital Abuja. The first results, from Ekiki state, showed a majority of votes for president cast in favour of Tinubu pulled in more than 200,000 votes in the state, against less than half that total for Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman Mahmood Yakubu adjourned the session following the first results and said the However all three parties complained of irregularities. Obi's Labour party lambasted the electoral commission for failing to upload results directly from each polling unit to its website, as it had promised to do to guarantee transparency. More than 24 hours after polls were meant to close, many polling stations have yet to upload their results. Nigerian Civil society organisations decried the error and the failure of several polling stations to open on time in a news conference. INEC apologised for these glitches in a statement. "The Commission is aware of challenges with the INEC Results Viewing Portal ... (which) has been relatively slow and unsteady," it said, blaming "techni...