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Ghana is heading for its ninth general election since multiparty politics resumed in 1992. ... With more than half the population - some 24 million people - under the age of 35, young people have ...
The Electoral Commission of Ghana did a demarcation exercise which increased the number of constituencies from 200 to 230. [6] The total list of constituencies was increased to 275 prior to the 2012 Ghanaian general election. [1] This was done by the Electoral Commission of Ghana after the final results of the 2010 population census became ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
Ghana's Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has accepted defeat in Saturday's elections, congratulating opposition leader and former President John Mahama on his victory. Early results suggest this ...