Nigeria has federal republic type of Government with executive power exercised by the president. The Government is influenced by Composition of upper and lower houses of a bicameral legislature. The President is the only head of state, the head of government, and the head of a multi-party system.
List of 63 Registered Political Parties in Nigeria with their Acronym for Presidential Elections 2015.
S.No | Political Party | Party Acronym |
1 | Accord | A |
2 | Action Congress | AC |
3 | Action Alliance | AA |
4 | Action Party of Nigeria | APN |
5 | Advanced Congress of Democrats | ACD |
6 | African Democratic Congress | ADC |
7 | African Liberation Party | ALP |
8 | African Political System | APS |
9 | African Renaissance Party | ARP |
10 | All Nigeria People Party | ANPP |
11 | All Progressives Grand Alliance | APGA |
12 | Alliance for Democracy | AD |
13 | Allied Congress Party of Nigeria | ACPN |
14 | Better Nigeria Progressive Party | BNPP |
15 | Change Advocacy Party | CAP |
16 | Citizens Popular Party | CPP |
17 | Community Party of Nigeria | CPN |
18 | Congress for Democratic Change | CDC |
19 | Congress for Progressive Change | CPC |
20 | Democratic Alternative | DA |
21 | Democratic Front for Peoples Federation | DFPF |
22 | Democratic People Alliance | DPA |
23 | Democratic People Party | DPP |
24 | Freedom Party of Nigeria | FPN |
25 | Fresh Democratic Party | FRESH |
26 | Hope Democratic Party | HDP |
27 | Justice Party | JP |
28 | Kowa Party | KP |
29 | Labour Party | LP |
30 | Liberal Democratic Party of Nigeria | LDPN |
31 | Masses Movement of Nigeria | MMN |
32 | Mega Progressive People Party | MPPP |
33 | Movement for Democracy and Justice | MDJ |
34 | Movement for the Restoration and Defence of Democracy | MRDD |
35 | National Action Council | NAC |
36 | National Conscience Party | NCP |
37 | National Democratic Liberty Party | NDLP |
38 | National Democratic Party | NDP |
39 | National Majority Democratic Party | NMDP |
40 | National Movement of Progressive Party | NMPP |
41 | National Reformation Party | NRP |
42 | National Solidarity Democratic Party | NSDP |
43 | National Transformation Party | NTP |
44 | National Unity Party | NUP |
45 | New Democrats | ND |
46 | New Nigeria Peoples Party | NNPP |
47 | Nigeria Advance Party | NAP |
48 | Nigeria Elements Progressive Party | NEPP |
49 | Nigeria Peoples Congress | NPC |
50 | Peoples for Democratic Change | PDC |
51 | Peoples Democratic Party | PDP |
52 | Peoples Mandate Party | PMP |
53 | Peoples Party of Nigeria | PPN |
54 | Peoples Progressive Party | PPP |
55 | Peoples Redemption Party | PRP |
56 | Peoples Salvation Party | PSP |
57 | Progressive Action Congress | PAC |
58 | Progressive People Alliance | PPA |
59 | Republican Party of Nigeria | RPN |
60 | Social Democratic Mega Party | SDMP |
61 | United Democratic Party | UDP |
62 | United National Party for Development | UNPD |
63 | United Nigeria Peoples Party | UNPP |
Candidate | Parties | Votes |
Umaru Yar'Adua | Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) | 24638063 |
Muhammadu Buhari | All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) | 6605299 |
Atiku Abubakar | Action Congress (AC) | 2637848 |
Orji Uzor Kalu | Progressive Peoples Alliance | 608803 |
Attahiru Bafarawa | Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) | 289324 |
Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu | All Progressives Grand Alliance | 155947 |
Pere Ajuwa | Alliance for Democracy (AD) | 89241 |
Chris Okotie | Fresh Democratic Party | 74049 |
Patrick Utomi | African Democratic Congress (ADC) | 50849 |
Ambrose Owuru | Hope Democratic Party | 28519 |
Emmanuel Okereke | African Liberation Party (ALP) | 22677 |
Lawrence Adedoyin | African Political System (APS) | 22409 |
Habu Fari | National Democratic Party | 21934 |
Maxi Okwu | Citizens Popular Party (CPP) | 14027 |
Bartholomew Nnaji | Better Nigeria Party | 11705 |
Emmanuel Obayuwana | National Conscience Party | 8229 |
Olapade Agoro | National Action Council | 5752 |
Mojisola Obasanjo | Nigerian Masses Movement | 4309 |
Party | Votes | Seats |
People's Democratic Party | 13312817 | 203 |
Action Congress of Nigeria | 5135306 | 69 |
Congress for Progressive Change | 4212283 | 38 |
All Nigeria Peoples Party | 2900306 | 28 |
Labour Party | 982647 | 8 |
Democratic People's Party | 489074 | 1 |
All Progressives Grand Alliance | 487753 | 7 |
Accord | 335760 | 5 |
People's Party of Nigeria | 133651 | 1 |
Allied Congress Party of Nigeria | 87233 | 0 |
Progressive Peoples Alliance | 77765 | 0 |
People for Democratic Change | 62360 | 0 |
National Transformation Party | 53574 | 0 |
PDA | 30644 | 0 |
African Democratic Congress | 28907 | 0 |
Action Congress | 18732 | 0 |
African Liberation Party | 15361 | 0 |
Social Democratic Mega Party | 15236 | 0 |
Kowa Party | 14736 | 0 |
Mega Progressive Peoples Party | 14698 | 0 |
Alliance for Democracy | 13041 | 0 |
People's Action Congress | 12938 | 0 |
National Conscience Party | 11681 | 0 |
African Political System | 9681 | 0 |
United Nigeria Peoples' Party | 9507 | 0 |
National Solidarity Democratic Party | 9252 | 0 |
People's Redemption Party | 9215 | 0 |
ANC | 8556 | 0 |
Democratic Front for People's Federation | 7390 | 0 |
African Renaissance Party | 6958 | 0 |
Change Advocacy Party | 6612 | 0 |
United Democratic Party | 6015 | 0 |
Citizens Popular Party | 5500 | 0 |
Congress for Democratic Change | 5412 | 0 |
Action Party of Nigeria | 3038 | 0 |
Movement for the Restoration of Defence and Democracy | 2856 | 0 |
Justice Party | 2617 | 0 |
Hope Democratic Party | 2561 | 0 |
Fresh Democratic Party | 2156 | 0 |
People's Progressive Party | 844 | 0 |
Advanced Congress of Democrats | 779 | 0 |
NAP | 735 | 0 |
Nigeria People's Congress | 693 | 0 |
Allied Congress Party | 640 | 0 |
People's Salvation Party | 616 | 0 |
Freedom Party of Nigeria | 510 | 0 |
Movement of the People Party | 495 | 0 |
UPGA | 416 | 0 |
Community Party of Nigeria | 392 | 0 |
National Reformation Party | 308 | 0 |
National Majority Democratic Party | 295 | 0 |
DFPD | 274 | 0 |
Republican Party of Nigeria | 256 | 0 |
MCP | 229 | 0 |
New Nigeria People's Party | 204 | 0 |
National Movement of Progressive Party | 204 | 0 |
NTA | 128 | 0 |
People's Mandate Party | 127 | 0 |
Better Nigeria Progressive Party | 120 | 0 |
FNP | 43 | 0 |
Movement for Democracy and Justice | 3 | 0 |
Total | 28552140 | 360 |