Zero-Rejection States in House and Senate Elections

The following 12 states can be regarded as “zero-rejection states” in that their ENTIRE House and/or Senate returns had absolutely zero bad ballots, despite their total number of votes of 5,953,221 in the House of Reps. (H) elections and 7,671,236 in the Senate (S) elections, both elections being held on the same day?

    Abia (H,S), Adamawa (H,S), Bauchi (H,S), Bayelsa (S), Borno (S),
      Ebonyi (H), Enugu (H,S), Gombe (S), Imo (H,S), Lagos (S), Oyo (H)
      and Sokoto (H,S).

And if there were zero-bad ballots in these two elections held on the same day, same time and place, where then did at least 172,688 votes go in some of these states?

Table 1 below shows the tally.

Interesting stuff !  7.7 million people going to the polls - and not a single bad ballot?

Interesting stuff that stretches credulity!

P.S.  This is my last public observation on these elections, at least for a while - until a lot more results are in for the April 12/April 19 elections, and more corrections are made on INEC's website.  No comments from this end will be made on upcoming Saturday May 3 elections into the State assemblies.

Let democracy march on!

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TABLE 1:  Tally of Zero-Rejection States
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Name of         Senate     House         Diff.
State              # Votes     #Votes       in Votes
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Abia                  304,545     442,061          **
Adamawa           793,288     739,449         53,839
Bauchi            1,162,275   1,114,991        47,284
Bayelsa             398,924         *                  **
Borno                886,742         *               8,867
Ebonyi                  *           459,546        16,190
Enugu              614,614       821,076            **
Gombe             578,583          *                  **
Imo                 817,851       778,925         38,926
Lagos           1,434,730          *                  **
Oyo                  *               922,722          2,349
Sokoto            679,684        674,451          5,233
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Total Votes     7,671,236    5,953,221       172,688
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*Note 1:

In the House elections (April 12):
Bayelsa had 210 rejections in a ballot size of 336,066
Borno had 4,913 rejections in a ballot size of 877,875
Gombe had 5,220 rejections in a ballot size of 419,462
Lagos had 59,475 rejections in a ballot size of 1,397,650

In the Senate elections (April 12):
Ebonyi had 17,086 rejections in a ballot size of 475,736
Oyo had 41,134 rejections in a ballot size of 920,373

** Note 2
Calculations of differences in votes are only for states with all election results in.  Otherwise, differences replaced by **.

Not all Senate results are in for Bayelsa, Enugu and Gombe (1 of 3 constituencies each remaining).

Not all House results are in for Abia (1 of 8 remaining), Bayelsa (2 of 5 remaining), Enugu (2 of 8 remaining), Gombe (3 of 6 remaining) and Lagos (2 of 24 remaining).