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Parliamentary elections were held in Ghana on 29 August 1969, the first since the 1966 coup by the National Liberation Council which toppled the Nkrumah government. Voters elected the new 140-seat Parliament. Kofi Abrefa Busia, the leader of the Progress Party (which won 105 of the 140 seats) [1] became Prime Minister.
The 1951 election was the first in Africa to be held under universal suffrage. In the 1927 Gold Coast general election, four of the nine Africans elected on the Legislative Council were J. E. Casely Hayford [3] (Sekondi), John Glover Addo [4] (Accra), Kobina Arku Korsah [5] (Cape Coast) and Nana Ofori Atta [2] for the Western
The following table is a list of MPs elected on 29 August 1969, ordered by region and constituency. Table of contents: Ashanti Region • Brong Ahafo Region • Central Region • Eastern Region • Greater Accra Region
In the 29 August 1969 elections, the PP won 105 of the National Assembly's 140 seats. [2] The party was co-founded in 1969 by Kofi Abrefa Busia, who was born as a Bono prince in the traditional kingdom of Wenchi, and by Lawyer Sylvester Kofi Williams, who was born as an Ahanta prince, and a descendant of the Ahanta King Badu Bonsu II.
The NLC certified its plans to transfer power to civilian rule. It lifted the ban on political activities in Ghana in May 1969. A date was fixed for general elections in order to hand over to civilian rule on 1 October 1969. [28] Five political parties participated in the August 29 elections.
Because of military interventions, Ghana now has a 4th Republic since 7 January 1993. This was the only Parliament of the 2nd Republic. This includes MPs elected in the Ghanaian parliamentary election, 1969 and those subsequently elected in by-elections.
Pages in category "Elections in Ghana" ... 0–9. 1927 Gold Coast general election; 1931 Gold Coast general election; ... 1965 Ghanaian parliamentary election; 1969 ...
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 ...