Historical record
Osun Election 2022: full governorship results
Osun State went to the polls on 16 July 2022 to elect a governor. INEC declared Senator Ademola Adeleke of the PDP the winner the following day, unseating the incumbent Adegboyega Oyetola of the APC by 28,344 votes. The figures below are the declared state-level totals, kept here as the baseline against which OsunWatch’s citizen-verified 2026 polling-unit ledger can be compared.
Key facts
- Election date
- 16 July 2022
- Declared
- 17 July 2022 by INEC
- Winner
- Ademola Adeleke (PDP)
- Margin of victory
- 28,344 votes
- Local governments
- 30
- Polling units
- 3,023
Votes by party
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| PDP | Ademola Adeleke | 403,371 | 51.2% |
| APC | Adegboyega Oyetola | 375,027 | 47.6% |
| ADC | Akin Ogunbiyi | 4,931 | 0.6% |
| SDP | Yusuf Lasun | 1,868 | 0.2% |
| ADP | Moshood Adeoti | 1,305 | 0.2% |
| LP | Omowaye Oluwadare | 1,128 | 0.1% |
| Total (parties listed) | 787,630 | 100% | |
Figures as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Minor parties with very small vote counts are not itemised. Where you have an original 2022 result sheet, treat the declared figure as the reference and the sheet as the evidence.
Why 2022 matters for 2026
The 2022 contest was decided by a margin of roughly 28,344 votes across 30 local governments and 3,023 polling units — an average of under ten votes per unit. In a race that tight, unit-level evidence is the difference between a disputed claim and a provable one. That is what OsunWatch exists to collect: a photographed, hash-sealed result sheet for every polling unit, uploaded by the people who were standing there.