Ghana Election 2024: Former President Mahama declared Ghana’s president-elect with 56% of votes against Bawumia’s 41%
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John Dramani Mahama, Ghana's opposition leader, during an interview in Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. Mahama plans to renegotiate the country's IMF program to reduce taxes and smooth loan repayments if he wins the upcoming elections. Photographer: Ernest Ankomah/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa, has officially declared John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as the president-elect in the 2024 general elections.
The polls, held across the country on Saturday, December 7, resulted in a landslide victory for the former president, Mr Mahama.
According to the EC chairperson who’s the returning officer, Jean Mensa, Mr John Mahama polled 6,328,397 representing 56.55%, while the vice president and presidential candidate of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, secured 4, 657, 304, representing 41.61%, representing.
She, however, explained that the results were collated from 267 constituencies due to outstanding issues with nine constituencies whose results are yet to come in.
She added that per the EC’s calculation, if the results of the nine constituencies which comes to a little over 947,000 votes were added to the first runner’s result, it would not change the declaration of John Mahama as the winner.
The difference between Mr Mahama’s votes and Dr Bawumia’s is 1,671, 093.
The EC chair said the results of the nine constituencies would eventually be collated and added to the results for the Commission’s record.
The total valid votes according to Jean Mensa is 11,191,422, with rejected ballots being 239,109.
The total votes cast were 11, 430,531, whereas the register had a total of 18, 774, 159.
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