INEC Quietly Moves 2023 Election Results to New Servers as Three States Remain on Old Host
Key Takeaways
- •The domain inecelectionresults.net, which hosted INEC's 2023 polling-unit result sheets linked from the IReV portal, expired on April 25, 2025 and was re-registered by another party hours later, according to Mundx Analytics.
- •Mundx identified at least 470,619 result records tied to the expired domain and said it notified INEC more than a month earlier without receiving action, although Technext has not independently verified these figures.
- •The 2023 presidential results and links for 28 of 31 states with gubernatorial elections now load from a DigitalOcean Spaces endpoint, while Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo still point to the older iiirev.incportals.com address.
- •The 'lon1' label in the new address suggests the files are stored in a London data centre, raising questions under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, which requires a lawful basis for transferring personal data abroad.
- •INEC has not publicly acknowledged the incident, and the Electoral Act 2026 requires the commission to maintain a continuously updated National Electronic Register of Election Results.
Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) appears to have quietly migrated its 2023 presidential result sheets to a new host, taking most of its 2023 governorship records with them, while the governorship results of three states remain stuck at an older address.
Technext checked claims made by Mundx Analytics in a post on X (https://x.com/mundx_analytics/status/2104466500300021911) that INEC had lost control of the domain previously used to deliver its 2023 polling-unit result sheets. When checked hours after the post, the presidential results loaded, but from a different address than the one Mundx described.
What Mundx claims
In an X post and a three-minute video that drew tens of thousands of views, Mundx said INEC used inecelectionresults.net to host result sheets linked from the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV), the portal through which the commission published polling-unit results from the 2023 general election for public viewing. According to the analytics firm, the domain lapsed after expiring on Apr 25, 2025, and was registered by someone else at 6:37 p.m. UTC that same day. It now points to a domain parking system that earns money from advertising traffic. Once a registration lapses, the name becomes available to any other registrant, and every link built on it resolves to whatever that new owner configures.
Mundx said it found at least 470,619 result records pointing to the expired domain, more than half of the records expected from the 2023 general election, and that it emailed INEC more than a month ago without receiving any action. Technext has not independently verified these figures.
Where the records now sit
The 2023 presidential results, checked in full, now load from irev-results.lon1.digitaloceanspaces.com, an object storage endpoint on DigitalOcean's Spaces cloud service. Of the 31 states that held gubernatorial elections in the 2023 cycle, result links for 28 now point to the same host.
The three exceptions are Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo, whose links still point to an older address, iiirev.incportals.com. These are the states that held governorship elections on Nov 11, 2023, separately from the main 2023 general election calendar.
The five earlier governorship elections still listed on the portal are available on the new host: Edo 2020, Anambra 2021, Osun 2022, Ekiti 2022 and Ondo 2020.
The newest records sit on a third domain, inc-s3-cache.incportals.com. These cover the governorship elections in Osun 2026, Ekiti 2026, Anambra 2025, Ondo 2024 and Edo 2024, plus the 2026 House of Assembly, Senate, House of Representatives, councillor and chairmanship results. Clicking these links downloads the files to the device instead of opening them in the browser.
A citizen using IReV therefore now touches at least three hosts, and the 2023 records for three states remain on the one that still fails. The portal exists so the public can view those raw sheets, which is why the host sitting behind each link matters.
Questions over data location and compliance
Technext confirmed that the sheets open at the new address. It has not compared them with the originals, so it cannot say whether the documents are identical to those first uploaded.
Moreover, the "lon1" label in the address suggests the files sit in a London data centre. If so, the records have moved from one foreign host to another. Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, transferring personal data abroad requires a lawful basis, and INEC has not publicly said what basis it relies on.
INEC has not publicly acknowledged the incident or responded to Mundx's post as at the time of publishing this report. Mundx, for its part, has not acknowledged the recent change covered in this story.
The Electoral 2026 requires INEC to maintain a continuously updated National Electronic Register of Election Results. The commission has yet to explain how records now distributed across three domains, including one with links that still fail, fit into that register. Whether the Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo links eventually follow the rest is, for now, an open question.
