2023 Lagos State gubernatorial election

The 2023 Lagos State gubernatorial election was held on 18 March 2023 to elect the Governor of Lagos State, concurrent with elections to the Lagos State House of Assembly as well as twenty-seven other gubernatorial elections and elections to all other state houses of assembly. The election — which was postponed from its original 11 March date — was held three weeks after the presidential election and National Assembly elections. Incumbent APC Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu was re-elected by a margin of 39% over first runner-up and LP nominee — Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour.

The primaries, scheduled for between 4 April and 9 June 2022, resulted in Sanwo-Olu being renominated by the All Progressives Congress unopposed on 26 May while the Peoples Democratic Party nominated Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran on 25 May. On 4 August, Rhodes-Vivour — who withdrew from the PDP primary in May — won the rerun primary of the Labour Party.

In the early morning of 20 March, INEC declared Sanwo-Olu as the winner amid protests due to considerable reports of alleged electoral irregularities, including voter suppression and fraud. The official totals showed Sanwo-Olu winning just over 762,000 votes (~66% of the vote) to defeat Rhodes-Vivour with about 312,000 votes (~27% of the vote) and Adediran, who won around 62,000 votes (~5% of the vote). Due to alleged irregularities, Rhodes-Vivour and Adediran rejected the results and filed a challenges at the electoral tribunal. The legal cases eventually reached the Supreme Court, which upheld the election of Sanwo-Olu in a January 2024 judgment.