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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 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 ...
Presidential elections were held for the first time in Ghana on 27 April 1960. The elections were held alongside a referendum on creating a republic with an executive presidency. The winner of the elections would become the country's first president if the new republican constitution was passed, which it did.
Summary of East Africa Elections Country Presidential Elections (1999–2019) Recent Election Year Next Election Presidential Votes Cast in Last Election
The Egyptian parliamentary elections of 2010 first voting round was held in Egypt on November 28, 2010 [103] [104] [105] and the second round was held on December 5, 2010. [ 106 ] [ 107 ] Human rights groups said this was the "most fraudulent poll ever" in Egypt's history. [ 108 ]
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.
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1960 - Ghana becomes a republic. Kwame Nkrumah becomes the country's first elected president. [1] 1964 - Kwame Nkrumah declares that there will be no other political party apart from the Convention People's Party (CPP). February 1966 - Kwame Nkrumah overthrown in a coup d'état by Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka. [2]