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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 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
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
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.
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During the Third Republic, the following list of parties contested the 1979 general election. The All People's Party was a merger of the opposition parties in parliament formed later. All parties in the Third Republic were banned following the military coup d'etat on 31 December 1981.