Full breakdown of the Ekiti 2026 governorship election results. See how APC’s Biodun Oyebanji defeated PDP and ADC with 319,224 votes across all 16 LGAs.

Ekiti 2026 Governorship Election Results: Oyebanji Secures Second Term as APC Sweeps All 16 LGAs

Ekiti State has a new four-year mandate sorted out, and it didn’t take long to settle. Voters went to the polls on Saturday, June 20, 2026, to decide who governs the state for the next term, and by the early hours of Sunday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had a clear answer: Governor Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is going back for a second term.

The result wasn’t close. Oyebanji polled 319,224 votes, more than seven times what his closest rival managed. Below is the full rundown, party by party, plus what the numbers tell us about how the election actually played out.

The Bigger Picture: Turnout and Accreditation

Numbers around the edges of an election often say as much as the results themselves:

Registered voters: 988,251

Accredited voters: 384,940 (about 39% of registered voters showed up)

Total votes cast: 382,109

Valid votes: 375,777

Rejected votes: 6,332 (roughly 1.7% of votes cast)

That turnout figure is worth sitting with. Fewer than 4 in 10 registered voters were accredited on election day, a pattern that’s become familiar in Nigerian state elections held outside the general election cycle. It also means Oyebanji’s win, while overwhelming in percentage terms, came from a relatively small slice of the total electorate.

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Election results by local government

How the Margins Broke Down

Oyebanji beat PDP’s candidate, Wole Oluyede, by 278,681 votes, and beat ADC’s Oluwadare Bejide by an even wider 306,352 votes. The APC also won in all 16 local government areas, including Efon, which happens to be the PDP candidate’s home turf. The PDP still managed second place there, but the gap (8,742 to APC against 2,051 for PDP) shows the scale of the APC’s spread across the state, not just in its usual strongholds.

ADC came in third overall, ahead of the PDP in a handful of areas like Ikere and Ekiti Southwest, but never close enough to challenge for the top two spots anywhere.

The remaining twelve parties combined for just over 3,100 votes between them, less than 1% of the valid total. It’s a reminder of how lopsided Nigeria’s multi-party system tends to look once results are actually counted, regardless of how many parties appear on the ballot.

What Happens Next

The Returning Officer, Professor Adenike Oladiji, Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, formally declared Oyebanji as the winner after confirming he met the constitutional requirements for the office. With that declaration, Oyebanji’s second term begins, and attention in the state now shifts to how the administration follows through on the campaign promises that helped deliver this result.