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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.
[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 ...
As the country was a one-party state at the time, no parties except President Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party (CPP), were allowed to participate. The CPP's central committee nominated 198 candidates for the 198 seats in the National Assembly, who were then declared elected without a vote taking place. [1]
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.
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 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.
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]
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 ...