The Bayelsa State gubernatorial election was held on the 16th of November 2019 as scheduled by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). 45 political parties fielded candidates (42 males and 3 females) for the election, making a 125% increase from the number of candidates that contested for the position in 2015. The state has a total number of 923,182 registered voters out of an estimated population of 1.8 million. According to INEC, 96.3% of the registered voters collected their Permanent Voters Card (PVC) before the election day.

The African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD), as an accredited INEC domestic election observer, deployed a team of trained observers to the state to observe and provide factual election day reports from Yenagoa Local Government Area.