About this project

About the data

Know Your Candidates is a nonpartisan guide to names on Nigerian election lists. It is designed to help voters find information, not to recommend a candidate or party.

Sources and checks

Candidate entries are based on the supplied INEC final lists. Senate and State Assembly entries have been extracted from the source PDFs. The currently available House of Representatives entries are based on spreadsheet copies and have not yet been checked against their PDFs.

A source note on each candidate profile states whether that entry was checked against a PDF. “On INEC list” means the entry appears in the supplied list; it does not mean that a person has independently verified every detail.

How listings are presented

Every candidate has the same presentation and profile fields.
Parties use neutral, outlined acronym labels, never party colours.
Candidates are ordered by party acronym, then name.
Personal information not needed for this lookup, including the PWD field, is not shown.
Missing information is described as “Not stated on the list”.

Report a problem

Public correction submissions are not connected yet. The reporting form will be enabled after the Supabase project is configured and tested. Until then, no contact address is published here, so reports are not sent to an unmonitored inbox.

Some entries are flagged for human review. Review flags are not a finding of wrongdoing; they identify data that needs a person to compare it with the original source.