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Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party won 34 of the 38 elected seats in the assembly, [5] claiming all five seats and nearly 95% of the vote in urban areas; [6] Nkrumah himself winning the Accra Central seat with 22,780 of the 23,122 votes cast. In rural areas the CPP won 29 of the 33 seats, taking around 72% of the vote. [7]
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– CPP: Kwame Nkrumah: 55.44 72 +38 NPP: Simon Diedong Dombo: 9.72 15 New GCP: Kofi Abrefa Busia: 4.55 1 −2 TCP: Senyo Gatror Antor: 3.57 3 New MAP: Bankole Awoonor-Renner Cobina Kessie: 3.00 1 New AYO: Modesto Apaloo: 1.59 1 New Independents – 22.13 11 +10
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.
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 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.
[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 ...
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 National Democratic Party: NDP 1950 Nii Amaa Ollennu: right ...
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]