Overview

Structure before mobilisation

After a contested primary the binding constraint is not reach, it is control. These are the wards where the party has a functioning, aligned executive — and the wards where it does not.

Principal
Not configured
Political layer resolves from config; nothing is hardcoded.
Local governmentsStale source
16Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) — Directory of Polling Units — Kwara State (January 2015)
WardsStale source
193Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) — Directory of Polling Units — Kwara State (January 2015)
Polling unitsStale source
1,872Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) — Directory of Polling Units — Kwara State (January 2015)
Mean ward controlSimulated
34%Computed: aligned + reconciled load-bearing ward seats ÷ seats

Ward control

193 wards
Held
45
Contested
55
Exposed
93
No structure
0

Only 45 of 193 wards have a majority of load-bearing executive seats filled by aligned or reconciled officers. A filled seat held by an unreconciled officer is counted as exposure, not capacity.

Reconciliation

180 stakeholders
Identified
32
Handler assigned
34
Engaged
30
Ask tabled
32
Terms agreed
16
Reconciled
26
Wards at stake
171
Stalled 14d+
139
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Senatorial districts

Kwara Central carries Ilorin metro and the largest share of the roll. Ranking is by structural voter weight, not by current standing — confirm against the current register.
DistrictLGAsWardsHeldExposedMean controlWard sharePU shareAllocation gap
Kwara Central45273128%27%39%+12.4pt
Kwara North558201743%30%24%-5.9pt
Kwara South783184532%43%36%-6.6pt

Allocation gap is polling unit share minus ward share. Resourcing a campaign per ward — the default in party organising — implicitly allocates by ward share. But votes are cast at polling units, and INEC allocates polling units by registered voters.

Kwara Central holds 27% of the wards but 39% of the polling units. Any per-ward allocation under-serves it by roughly a third relative to its electoral weight, while over-serving thinner wards elsewhere. This is home-turf gravity made measurable rather than argued about.

Polling unit counts are a proxy for electorate and are drawn from the 2015 INEC directory. Replace with current registered-voter figures per LGA when INEC Kwara supplies them — the gap will move, the mechanism will not.

Cycle

Verify against the gazetted INEC timetable
  1. 30 May 26
    Party primaries
    complete
  2. 8 Aug 26
    Governorship nomination forms close
    complete
  3. 9 Sept 26
    Governorship campaign opens
    23d
  4. 10 Oct 26
    Final candidate list published
    54d
  5. 16 Jan 27
    Presidential & National Assembly election
    152d
  6. 6 Feb 27
    Governorship & State Assembly election
    173d

The presidential and National Assembly poll on 16 January is treated by this platform as a live full-dress rehearsal of the entire election-day stack — same polling units, same agents, three weeks before the governorship vote.

Structural geography from Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), January 2015. Polling unit counts predate the 2021 INEC expansion and must be reconciled against a current directory before agent assignment or coverage denominators depend on them.