The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has won the Dawakin Tofa local government area, Kano State. NNPP is the party of the former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso.
The local government is where the incumbent governor of the state, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress hails from.
In the results announced by the INEC returning officer, Adamu Jibril, APC scored 16,773 votes while NNPP scored 25,072 votes. PDP scored 2,477 votes, and Labour got 202 votes.