2011 Nigerian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Nigeria on 16 April 2011, postponed from 9 April 2011. The election followed controversy as to whether a northerner or southerner should be allowed to become president given the tradition of rotating the top office between the north and the south after the death of Umaru Yar'Adua, a northerner, when Goodluck Jonathan, another southerner assumed the interim presidency.
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73,528,040 registered voters 25% in each of 2/3 States + Majority votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 53.68% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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States won by Jonathan (in green), Buhari (blue), and Ribadu (purple) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Immediately after the election widespread violence erupted in the northern, Muslim parts of the country. Jonathan was declared the winner on 19 April. However, international observers declared the election to be "orderly, free and fair" in the entire southern half of the country.
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