African Elections Project (Accra)
8 December 2008
A compilation of reports from the Ghana page of the African Elections Project.
The media is now busily broadcasting provisional results from its correspondence across the country. This is as result of the slow pace at which the certified results are trickling in from the constituencies.
According to the www.africanelections.org media monitoring centre, a lot of radio and TV stations across the country are racing each other to announce provisional results.
According to our reporter who visited Korle Klottey Constituency collation centre located at the Arts Centre in Accra, the venue is swamped by reporters from various media houses trying to solicit results from presiding officers who have brought results from their polling stations.
Across the country, a lot of people are holding virgils as they anxiously determine if their candidate has won or lost.
Hackman Retains New Juaben North Seat
Mr. Hackman Owusu Agyeman, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), parliamentary candidate and incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the New Juaben North constituency had retained his seat.
Uncertified results released at the constituency collation centre in the early hours of Monday indicated that he won with 13,711 votes.
Mr. Emmanuel Adu Boateng, of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), polled 4,892, Mr Frank Adu Amankwa of Convention People's Party (CPP), polled 285, Dr Kwame Twum Agyeman, independent candidate, polled 2,037, while Mr Victor Asare Gyapong, also independent candidate polled 2,783 votes.Total votes cast were 23,950 with 242 ballots being rejected.
In the presidential elections, NPP had 16,438 votes, representing 68.6 per cent of the votes cast, NDC had 6,780, CPP had 164.Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), had 61 votes, Democratic People’s Party (DPP) had 11 votes, Reformed Patriotic Democrat (RPD) had 9 votes, Mr Kwasi Amoafo Yeboah, the independent presidential candidate had 32 votes, with 414 ballot papers rejected.
In 2004, President John Agyekum Kufuor had 17,191 votes representing 73.2 per cent of the votes while Professor John Evans Atta Mills polled 6,042 representing 25.7 per cent of the votes cast in that polls.
Independent candidate wins Nkawkaw seat
Mr Seth Adjei-Baah, popularly known as Shaaba, Managing Director of Shaaba Enterprise Limited, has won the Nkawkaw Constituency Parliamentary seat.
He polled 19,757 votes to defeat Mr. Kwabena Adusa Okerchiri, the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP), who had 14,376 votes.
Mr. Kwabena Nkansah Boamah, of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), polled 1,863 votes with Mr Dennis Boamah, of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), getting 763 votes.
In the presidential election, the NPP polled 25,628 votes, NDC 9,825 votes, CPP 460 votes, Peoples National Convention (PNC), 101 votes, Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), 67 votes, Reform Patriotic Democrat (RPD), 28 votes with the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) getting 24 votes.
Mr Seth Adjei-Baah, popularly known as Shaaba, Managing Director of Shaaba Enterprise Limited, has won the Nkawkaw Constituency Parliamentary seat.
He polled 19,757 votes to defeat Mr. Kwabena Adusa Okerchiri, the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP), who had 14,376 votes.
Mr. Kwabena Nkansah Boamah, of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), polled 1,863 votes with Mr Dennis Boamah, of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), getting 763 votes.
In the presidential election, the NPP polled 25,628 votes, NDC 9,825 votes, CPP 460 votes, Peoples National Convention (PNC), 101 votes, Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), 67 votes, Reform Patriotic Democrat (RPD), 28 votes with the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) getting 24 votes.
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