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The CPP secured 34 of the 38 seats contested on a party basis, with Nkrumah elected for his Accra constituency. The UGCC won three seats, and one was taken by an independent. Arden-Clarke saw that the only alternative to Nkrumah's freedom was the end of the constitutional experiment.
The result was a victory for Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party, which won 71 of the 104 seats. [1] A new constitution, approved on 29 April 1954, established a cabinet composed of African ministers drawn from an all-African legislature chosen by direct election.
The result was a victory for Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party, ... Party Votes % Seats; ... Northern People's Party: 68,709: 9.72: 15: Ghana Congress Party ...
At the elections on 7 December 2004, the party won three out of 230 seats. Its candidate in the presidential elections, George Aggudey, won only 1.0% of the vote. [citation needed] In the 2008 presidential and parliamentary elections, the party won one parliamentary seat for Kwame Nkrumah's daughter, Samia Nkrumah, in the Jomoro constituency.
[10] [11] Kwame Nkrumah who was then in prison on a three years sentence for sedition [12] was released from jail by Charles Noble Arden-Clarke, the Governor of the Gold Coast and invited in order to become the Leader of Government Business. [13] [14] His party, the Convention People's Party (CPP), won 34 of the 38 elected seats in the election ...
Convention People's Party: CPP 1949 Kwame Nkrumah: 71 1956: Nkrumah tradition, split from UGCC Federation of Youth Organization: FYO Modesto Apaloo 1 1956 Merged into United Party in 1957 Ghana Congress Party: GCP 1952 K. A. Busia: 1 1954 Merged into NLM Muslim Association Party: MAP 1954 Cobina Kessie: 1 1956 Merged into United Party in 1957
It was said Nkrumah rejected a proposal for the promotion of fundamental human rights. [11] The UGCC performed poorly in the 1951 elections, winning only three seats. The following year, it merged with the National Democratic Party and disaffected members of the CPP, to form the Ghana Congress Party. [12] [13]
There were hardly any votes against the one-party state in all the regions. [12] A year later in June 1965, all 198 candidates of the CPP for parliament were elected unopposed. [13] In February 1965, Nkrumah reshuffled made a big change to his government. Twelve new ministers were appointed and many others changed portfolios. [14]