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Due to a constitutional amendment passed by the CPP majority and a referendum the previous year, the CPP had become the sole legal party. All other parties were banned. It was the first vote for the country's parliament since the pre-independence 1956 legislative elections; Nkrumah's victory in the 1960 constitutional referendum was taken by the President and his party as a fresh mandate from ...
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 ...
On 4 November, the party's leadership announced the nomination of Kwabena Agyeman Appiah Kubi popularly known as Roman Fada as its new presidential candidate. [38] [39] The party will not contest in the election due to the disqualification of Philip Appiah Kubi who was nominated as replacement for Akua Donkor after her demise. [40] [41] [42]
Convention People's Party: CPP 1949 Kwame Nkrumah: 198 1965: Nkrumah tradition Federation of Youth Organization: FYO Modesto Apaloo: 1 1956: Merged into United Party in 1957 Ga Shifimo Kpee: GSK 1957 0 — Merged into United Party in 1957 Muslim Association Party: MAP 1954 Cobina Kessie: 1 1956 Merged into United Party in 1957 National ...
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.
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]
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.