Data release · Polls and elections data
Think Tank research
An open, multilingual record of elections, results and published opinion polls across Africa. A project of the ADAFP Think Tank. The ADAFP AI Laboratory builds and runs the data collection pipeline.
The Pan-African Polls and Elections Data Platform is a research infrastructure project of the ADAFP Think Tank, approved on 18 October 2026. It is an open, multilingual record of elections, results and published opinion polls across Africa. The platform does not conduct polls; it collects, checks and documents those already published.
It covers three data layers: an election calendar, results and parliament compositions for all 54 African countries; public opinion indicators from Afrobarometer; and voting-intention polls, beginning with the pilot countries South Africa and Kenya. All records link to their source. Data is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
A data pipeline, built and run by the ADAFP AI Laboratory, finds, reads and checks published polls and election data. Records are handled at one of three trust levels. Structured feeds from recognised sources publish automatically. Polls from a registered pollster's own site publish after passing automated checks. Everything else — new pollsters, media-only sources and any record that fails a check — is reviewed and approved by a human Data Editor before it is published.
Two quality controls apply throughout. The pipeline goes live only if at least 98 per cent of the figures it extracts are correct on a test set of past polls checked by hand. Each week, one in ten automatically published polls is re-checked against its source.
Editorial decisions rest with the Data Editor, Dr Francis Gabriel Oke, who reports to the Think Tank's Director General for this role. The project works under a published editorial charter. The same rules apply to every party. No ADAFP organ or member organisation may alter a record. Polls commissioned by political parties are labelled as such. Methodology, data and corrections are public.
The platform covers elections, results and parliaments for all 54 African countries. Voting-intention polls begin with South Africa and Kenya as pilot countries. A public pilot is planned for December 2026. Full coverage is planned for March 2027. The platform does not include forecasts, seat projections, reader polls or AI estimates of opinion from social media.
Every record on the platform links to its original source. All data is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The data pipeline and collection methodology are documented and available to researchers.