The 2014 Osun State gubernatorial election occurred in Nigeria on 9 August 2014, the APC nominee

Rauf Aregbesola Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola (born 25 May 1957) is a Nigerian politician who is the current Minister of the Federal Ministry of Interior of Nigeria. Before that, he served as the fourth civilian governor of Osun State. He is a native of Ile ...

won re-election, defeating

Iyiola Omisore Iyiola Ajani Omisore (born 15 September 1957) is a Nigerian businessman, engineer, and politician who served as Deputy Governor of Osun State from 1999 to 2003. Subsequently, he served as a member of the Nigerian Senate for Osun East from 2003 t ...

of the PDP.

emerged APC after he was returned as the sole candidate. He picked Titilayo Laoye-Tomori as his running mate.

was the PDP candidate with Adejare Bello as his running mate. 20 candidates contested in the election.

Electoral system

The

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is elected using the plurality voting system.

Primary election

APC primary

won the primary election after he emerged unopposed.

PDP primary

The PDP primary election was held on 5 April 2014.

won the primary election polling 1,128 votes against 3 other candidates. His closet rival was Olasunkanmi Akinlabi who scored 45 votes, Wole Oke scored 4 votes while Isiaka Adeleke withdrew.

Results

A total number of 20 candidates registered with the

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to contest in the election. A total number of 1,407,222 voters registered in the election.

By local government area

Here are the results of the election by local government area for the two major parties. 20 political parties participated in the election. Blue represents LGAs won by Rauf Aregbesola. Green represents LGAs won by Iyiola Omisore.

References

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