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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 ...
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana 20 January – A truck carrying explosives to a gold mine explodes after crashing into a motorcycle in Apiate , Western Region ; the explosion destroyed nearby buildings and vehicles, killing 17 people and injuring 59 others.
This national electoral calendar for 2022 lists the national/federal elections held in 2022 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included.
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]
This is a list of the next general elections around the world in sovereign states. The general elections listed are for the government of each jurisdiction. These elections determine the prime minister and makeup of the legislature in a parliamentary democracy, or the president and then the legislature in a system where separate votes are taken for different tiers of government.
This local electoral calendar for 2022 lists the subnational elections held in 2022. Referendums , recall and retention elections , and national by-elections (special elections) are also included. Part of the Politics series
2022 East Timorese presidential election 19 April 2022; Philippine general election. 2022 Philippine presidential election 9 May 2022; 2022 Philippine Senate election 9 May 2022; 2022 Philippine House of Representatives elections 9 May 2022; 2022 Lebanese general election 15 May 2022; 2022 Thailand Bangkok gubernatorial election 22 May 2022
The offices of ″LGBT+ Rights Ghana″ are closed by security forces. [6] 26 February – 2021 Asafo-Akyem bus crash; 20 May - 2021 Ghana gay arrests; 11 June – During the 2021 United Nations Security Council Elections, Ghana was elected to serve a two-year term on the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member. Its term, starting in 2022 ...