Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
General elections were held in Ghana on 7 December 2020. Incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was re-elected in the first round after securing a majority of the votes. [1] Former President John Dramani Mahama announced that he would contest the results. [2]
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]
March 4 – Creation of OmniBSIC Bank Ghana Limited. [1] December 7 – 2020 Ghanaian general election: won by Nana Akufo-Addo with 51.59% of the vote. [2] December 29 – The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it will contest the December 7 election result. [2] [3]
Ghana is due to get a new president after December’s election. The current vice-president, Mahamudu Bawumia, and a former head of state, John Mahama, are the two leading candidates in contention ...
Ghana's former President John Mahama will be under enormous pressure to meet the expectations of voters following his landslide victory in Saturday's election. ... In 2020, a UK court had found ...
In all, 17 candidates contested for the election. [148] As of 2020, this is the highest number of presidential candidates in a Ghanaian presidential election. NPP in Blue and NDC in Green. Nana Akufo-Addo won the election in the first round with 51.30% of the votes against Mahama's 47.36%. [149]
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 ...
Akufo-Addo announced his intention to run for re-election by picking a nomination form as flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party ahead of the 2020 general elections. [55] On 9 December 2020, Akufo-Addo was declared the winner of the 7 December 2020 Ghana Presidential election after securing a majority of 51.59% of the vote, just enough to win re ...