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General elections were held in Ghana on 7 December 2020. Incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was re-elected in the first round after securing a majority of the votes. [1] Former President John Dramani Mahama announced that he would contest the results. [2]
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 also lost the 2020 election so this victory represents a stunning comeback. Mahama's NDC and the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) have alternated in power since the return of multi-party ...
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.
Akufo-Addo announced his intention to run for re-election by picking a nomination form as flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party ahead of the 2020 general elections. [55] On 9 December 2020, Akufo-Addo was declared the winner of the 7 December election after securing a majority of 51.59% of the vote, just enough to win re-election in a single round.
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 former president John Dramani Mahama is set to make a stunning political comeback after the vice president conceded defeat in the presidential election overshadowed by concerns of a ...