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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.
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 ...
He subsequently won the 2024 Ghanaian general election parliamentary seat for the New Patriotic Party in the Okere (Ghana parliament constituency), beating the candidate of the National Democratic Congress (Ghana), Prince Henry Akim-Owiredu. He polled 19,080 votes representing 68.43%, while his opponent 8,803 representing 31.37%.
The result of Ghana's general election is another blow to a ruling party in a region where voters, hit by economic hardship, high inflation and local currency depreciation, have caused upsets as ...
Ghana’s former president John Dramani Mahama is set to make a stunning political comeback after the vice president conceded defeat in the presidential election overshadowed by concerns of a ...
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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 incumbent NPP candidate Mahamudu Bawumia conceded defeat the morning after election night. [27] [28] Mahama's running-mate Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang became the first woman to be elected as vice president of Ghana. [29] During the 2024 parliamentary elections, the NDC won a landslide victory, winning 183 out of 276 seats. [30]