Election Name: | 2015 Lagos State gubernatorial election |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2011 Lagos gubernatorial election |
Previous Year: | 2011 |
Next Election: | 2019 Lagos gubernatorial election |
Next Year: | 2019 |
Election Date: | 11 April 2015 |
Nominee1: | Akinwunmi Ambode |
Running Mate1: | Idiat Oluranti Adebule |
Party1: | All Progressives Congress |
Popular Vote1: | 811,994 |
Percentage1: | 54.94 |
Nominee2: | Jimi Agbaje |
Running Mate2: | Safurat Abdulkareem |
Party2: | People's Democratic Party (Nigeria) |
Popular Vote2: | 659,788 |
Percentage2: | 44.64 |
governor | |
Before Election: | Babatunde Fashola |
Before Party: | All Progressives Congress |
After Election: | Akinwunmi Ambode |
After Party: | All Progressives Congress |
An election for Governor of Lagos State took place on 11 April 2015. All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Akinwunmi Ambode, who is a former accountant general of Lagos State, defeated People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Jimi Agbaje and Alliance for Democracy (AD) candidate Bolaji Ogunseye. The governor and deputy governor are elected on the same ticket.[1]
APC candidate Akinwunmi Ambode defeated 12 other contestants to clinch the party ticket. He won with 3,735 votes to defeat his closest rival, Obafemi Hamzat (who received 1,201 votes), and Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly Adeyemi Ikuforiji, who came in a distant third with 182 votes.