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General elections were held in Ghana on 7 December 2024 [1] [2] to elect the president and all 276 members of Parliament. [3] [4] The incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo, having completed his constitutional term limits, was ineligible for re-election.
There are a total of 276 constituencies in Ghana. The 9th Parliament is set to convene on 7 January 2025 to elect a Speaker and Deputy Speakers as well as for the administration of oaths to the Speaker and Members of Parliament. One new constituency, Guan was contested for the first time in this parliament. [3]
[47] [48] The Political Science Department of the University of Ghana polled 11,949 respondents and predicted that Akufo-Addo (NPP) will win 51.7% of the vote while Mahama wins 40.4%. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] An iPoll survey of 670 respondents predicted 48.7% of the votes for Mahama and 46.7% for Akufo-Addo implying that the election may go a second round ...
The Electoral Commission of Ghana did a demarcation exercise which increased the number of constituencies from 200 to 230. [6] The total list of constituencies was increased to 275 prior to the 2012 Ghanaian general election. [1] This was done by the Electoral Commission of Ghana after the final results of the 2010 population census became ...
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana. 4 November: 2024 Ghanaian general election: Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia is nominated by the country's ruling New Patriotic Party as their presidential candidate. [1]
The Year of Return, Ghana 2019 is an initiative of the government of Ghana – along with the U.S.-based Adinkra Group – that is intended to encourage African diasporans to come to Africa (specifically Ghana) to settle and invest in the continent, part of the Blaxit movement.
This is a list of the heads of state of Ghana, from the independence of Ghana in 1957 to the present day. [1] From 1957 to 1960 the head of state under the Constitution of 1957 was the queen of Ghana, Elizabeth II, who was also the monarch of other Commonwealth realms. [2] The monarch was represented in Ghana by a governor-general. [3]
The president of the Republic of Ghana is the elected head of state and head of government of Ghana, as well as commander-in-chief of the Ghana Armed Forces.The current president of Ghana is Nana Akufo-Addo, who won the 2020 presidential election against former president, John Dramani Mahama, by a margin of 4.23%. [2]