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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]
Ghana's first post independence population census in 1961 counted about 6.7 million inhabitants. [9] Between 1965 and 1989, a constant 45% of Ghana total female population was of childbearing age. [9] The crude death rate of 18 per 1,000 population in 1965 fell to 13 per 1,000 population in 1992.
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.
Many young people - who make up almost 40% of the population, according to the 2021 census - want to quit Ghana. They see few job prospects in a country with an unemployment rate of 14%.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...