Accra — The Electoral Commission has released 109 certified results 20 hours after the polls closed across the country. With the 109 certified results released so far, the NDC’s Professor Evans Atta-Mills is ahead with 54.42% and NPP’s Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo has 45.58% of the total votes cast.

The media has however released over 210 provisional results so far. The EC has promised to release the results of presidential run-off within 48 hours after polls closed.

It is however not clear what is going to happen to that timeline with results from the Tain constituency still outstanding. Voters in Tain have yet to cast their votes in the presidential run-off following a dispute over missing ballot papers.

JOY FM calls elections for Professor Atta Mills

Joy FM, the Accra-based radio station, has projected Professor John Evans Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress as Ghana’s next president.

Their projection is based on the station’s analysis of 223 constituency results certified so far by the Electoral Commission. The Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan will declare the official results.

NDC supporters in early celebrations

Reports reaching www.africanelections.org/ghana indicate that scores of NDC supporters have thronged the campaign office of Prof Atta Mills to celebrate his victory.

Our reporters say crowds of supporters clad in party colours are presently jubilating at the campaign office. The celebrating is based on provisional results released so far by the media.

Meanwhile, our reporters can confirm there is a massive presence of NPP supporters at the party head office anxiously waiting for the declaration of the presidential run-off results.

Professor Mills says NDC supporters can jubilate if they so wish

Professor John Evans Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress says NDC supporters can jubilate if they so wish but as a party they are waiting for the EC to declare the official result. Professor Mills was addressing the press at the campaign office a while ago.

Meanwhile, a leading member of the NPP, Nii Ntow, addressing supporters at the party headquarters, urged them to continued with the jubilating as they await official declaration of the election results by the EC. Nii Ntow also urged the party supporters to ignore any media reports declaring/projecting anyone as a winner.

EC chairman is the presiding officer for all presidential elections in Ghana

The chairman of the EC is the presiding officer for any presidential elections in Ghana. For that matter Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan, the current chairman of the EC is the presiding officer and the only one certified by law to release results from the various constituencies in any presidential election.

Dr. Afari Gyan had in the past explained that as the Presiding Officer for the presidential elections, results from the various constituencies are forwarded to his office, authenticated and released to the public.

Results announced at the constituency level by presiding officers are therefore provisional and must be sent to the national headquarters for certification by the presiding officer (who is chairman of the EC). At the constituency level, the constituency presiding officer declares the parliamentary election results.