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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 ...
No elections yet Ashanti ADANSI ASOKWA No elections yet Ashanti OBUASI WEST FAUSTILOVE APPIAH KANNIN ELECTED Ashanti OBUASI EAST SAMUEL ABOAGYE UNOPPOSED Ashanti BEKWAI SAMUEL PREMPEH JNR UNOPPOSED Ashanti BOSOME FREHO APPIAH-KUBI CHARLES UNOPPOSED Ashanti ODOTOBRI EMMANUEL OBENG-AGYEMANG ELECTED Ashanti MANSO NKWANTA SAMUEL ADJEI ELECTED Ashanti
Ghana’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has conceded defeat a day after a tense presidential election, marking a historic political comeback for the opposition candidate, former leader John Mahama.
7 December – 2024 Ghanaian general election: Former president John Mahama is elected to a second non-consecutive term as president. [10] His running-mate, Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, also becomes the first woman to be elected as Vice-President of Ghana. [11]
Akua Donkor was again elected to contest the 2024 presidential election on the ticket of the Ghana Freedom party and was part of the 13 presidential candidates cleared by the electoral commission of Ghana. [12] But she died on 28 October 2024 at Greater Accra Regional Hospital following an illness and the party is yet to elect her replacement.
He was previously the Deputy Majority Leader in the Parliament of Ghana until February 2024, when he was promoted to Majority Leader as part of a reshuffle by President Nana Akufo-Addo and the leadership of the New Patriotic Party.
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]