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The 2024 Ghanaian general election took place on 7 December 2024 to elect Members of Parliament (MPs) to the 9th Parliament of the Fourth Republic. [1] The Speaker is not an elected member of parliament though must be qualified to stand for election as such. There are a total of 276 constituencies in Ghana. The 9th Parliament first convened on ...
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.
1.1 Constituencies with sitting MPs. ... to the 2024 Ghanaian parliamentary election, political parties chose candidates for the 275 seats in the Parliament of Ghana.
This is a list of the 276 constituencies in Ghana. They will be contested in the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana, from December 2024. There were 275 constituencies at the time of the 2020 Ghanaian general election. [1] One more constituency, Guan, was added in 2023 and was contested for the first time in the 2024 Ghanaian general election.
3 October: Ghana reports its first case of mpox this year. [2]14 October: A bus falls into a ditch in Kwapia, Ashanti Region, killing 13 people. [3]18 October: Parliament speaker Alban Bagbin declares four seats held by MPs who switched parties vacant, effectively giving the opposition National Democratic Congress a majority in the legislature. [4]
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]
Analysts viewed his election as a shift in the balance of power within the legislature, potentially influencing parliamentary proceedings. [25] In October 2024, Bagbin declared four seats held by MPs who switched parties vacant, saying that the Constitution of Ghana prohibited party-switching.
MPs Last election Comments All People's Congress: APC 2016 Hassan Ayariga: 0 2024: Split from PNC Convention People's Party: CPP 1949 1996 Nana Frimpomaa Sarpong Kumankumah [9] 0 2024 Banned 1966, reformed 1996 Great Consolidated Popular Party: GCPP 1995 Daniel Augustus Lartey [10] 0 2024 Ghana Freedom Party: GFP 2012 Akua Donkor [9] 0 2024 ...