Seventy-four candidates are to participate in nine by-elections on 3 February.
INEC published the personal particulars and final list of the candidates in affected state offices on Wednesday.
The by-elections will produce lawmakers to fill seats made vacant by the deaths or resignations of their former occupiers in the national and state Houses of Assembly.
By-elections would take place in two senatorial districts in Ebonyi South and Yobe East.
The elections would also be held in four federal constituencies – Shanga/Ngaski/Yauri in Kebbi; Surulere I in Lagos State; Akoko North East/Akoko North West in Ondo State and Jalingo/Yorro/Zing in Taraba.
Candidates would also contest elections into vacant state assembly seats in Guma I in Benue; Chibok in Borno and Chikun in Kaduna State.
Eight of the 74 candidates contesting for the nine vacant positions are female, including three of the 10 candidates contesting for the only vacant seat in Chikun, Kaduna State.
Overall, seven candidates are jostling for position in Borno; nine in Kebbi, 11 in Lagos State, while there are eight candidates in each of Ondo and Ebonyi States.
Benue and Yobe have five candidates each, while Taraba has 11 candidates. No female candidate is contesting in the three states.
