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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
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 ]
Because of military interventions, Ghana now has a 4th Republic since 7 January 1993. This was the only Parliament of the 2nd Republic. This includes MPs elected in the Ghanaian parliamentary election, 1969 and those subsequently elected in by-elections.
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.
1969 Botswana general election; 1969 Chadian parliamentary election; 1969 Chadian presidential election; 1969 Ethiopian general election; 1969 Gabonese legislative election; 1969 Ghanaian parliamentary election; 1969 Kenyan general election; 1969 Rhodesian constitutional referendum; 1969 Rwandan general election; 1969 Somali parliamentary election
0–9. 1927 Gold Coast general election; 1931 Gold Coast general election; 1935 Gold Coast general election; 1944 Gold Coast general election; 1946 Gold Coast general election
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]