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Results of the 2020 Ghanaian parliamentary election by constituency There has been a long delay in declaring the final result in the parliamentary election. On 14 December, a week after voting was completed, the Electoral Commission announced that it was working on finalising the results for Sene West constituency.
March 4 – Creation of OmniBSIC Bank Ghana Limited. [1] December 7 – 2020 Ghanaian general election: won by Nana Akufo-Addo with 51.59% of the vote. [2] December 29 – The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it will contest the December 7 election result. [2] [3]
Ahead of Ghana becoming a republic, the first presidential election was held on 27 April 1960. Nkrumah won 89 per cent of the vote and was subsequently declared President for life. [10] [16] In the 1965 Ghanaian parliamentary election, all the CPP candidates were elected unopposed due to the one-party state system in place at the time. [17]
Mahama, 66, who served as Ghana's president from 2012 to 2016, framed Bawumia as representing a continuation of the policies that led to Ghana's worst economic crisis in a generation.
The West African nation is guaranteed a new leader as Nana Akufo-Addo steps down after serving two terms.
This is a list of the 276 constituencies in Ghana. They will be contested in the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana, from December 2024. There were 275 constituencies at the time of the 2020 Ghanaian general election. [1] One more constituency, Guan, was added in 2023 and was contested for the first time in the 2024 Ghanaian general election.
The presidential election is won by having more than 50% of valid votes cast, [3] whilst the parliamentary elections is won by simple majority, and, as is predicted by Duverger's law, the voting system has encouraged Ghanaian politics into a two-party system, creating extreme difficulty for anybody attempting to achieve electoral success under any banner other than those of the two dominant ...
Ghana’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has conceded defeat a day after a tense presidential election, marking a historic political comeback for the opposition candidate, former leader John Mahama.