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Stateconcluded18 March 2023

2023 Akwa Ibom State Governorship Election

Umo Eno (PDP) was declared winner of the 18 March 2023 Akwa Ibom State governorship election with 354,348 votes, ahead of Bassey Albert Akpan (YPP, 136,262) and N/A (APC, 129,602). The Akwa Ibom governorship tribunal dismissed the petitions against Umo Eno on 28 Sep 2023 and the Supreme Court dismissed the APC, YPP and NNPP petitions on 11 Jan 2024. No per-LGA results: Wikipedia's LGA table for this race is missing, has undeclared (TBD) cells or does not reconcile with the declared candidate totals.

Governor, Akwa Ibom·18 candidates · 2.4M registered

Election concluded. Certified results below.

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Certified result · INEC

Sourced from INEC. Updates as official numbers are declared.

Votes counted

620.2k

Winning share

57.1%

Umo Eno

PDP · Umo Eno

354.3k

Platform poll · where citizens stand

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Timeline
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    Election day

    18 Mar 2023

Petitions & tribunal

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Sources