The 2015 Taraba State gubernatorial election was the 6th gubernatorial election of Taraba State .[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] Held on April 11, 2015 and April 25, 2015 due to inconclusive, the People's Democratic Party nominee Darius Ishaku won the election, defeating Aisha Alhassan of the All Progressives Congress .[15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38]
PDP primary
PDP candidate, Darius Ishaku clinched the party ticket.[39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] The PDP primary election was held in 2014.[53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66]
APC primary
APC candidate, Aisha Alhassan clinched the party ticket. The APC primary election was held in 2014.[67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75]
Results
A total of 11 candidates contested in the election. Darius Ishaku from the People's Democratic Party won the election, defeating Aisha Alhassan from the All Progressives Congress .[76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] Registered voters was 1,461,645, accredited voters was 787,516, votes cast was 681,166, 174,131 votes was cancelled. The winner, Darius Ishaku won by 93,334 votes.[86] [87] [88] [89] [90] [91] [92] [93] [94] [95] [96]
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