Ethno-religious voting in Nigeria: interrogating voting patterns in the 2019 presidential election

ABSTRACT

This article analyses voting patterns in Nigeria’s 2019 presidential election. Its main objective is to gauge continuity or change in ethnic, regional and religious voting in Nigeria’s elections. The paper takes a historical approach in examining voting patterns in the past elections as a background to the examination of the 2019 presidential election. It was discovered that ethnic, regional and religious sentiments were still major factors that shaped voting choice in the election.

KEYWORDS:

• Presidential election
• voting pattern
• ethno-regional identity
• religious identity