Ambrose Dery retains Nandom seat for NPP 11th Dec 2020 | Source: GNA
Ambrose Dery, the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) and candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Nandom Constituency has won the seat for a second term on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Mr Dery who is also the Interior Minister garnered a total of 15,237 votes to beat the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, Dr Richard Kuuire, who also polled 11,110 votes.
Total valid votes cast were 26,890 while the total valid ballots recorded were 26,347 with total rejected ballots numbering 543.
Meanwhile, in the Presidential race, Mr John Dramani Mahama of the NDC defeated Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the NPP after he polled 13,457 votes as against 12,260 votes.
Interior Minister retains Nandom seat for NPP
December 11, 2020
Mr Ambrose Dery, the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) and candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Nandom Constituency has won the seat for a second term on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Mr Dery who is also the Interior Minister garnered a total of 15,237 votes to beat the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, Dr Richard Kuuire, who also polled 11,110 votes.
Total valid votes cast were 26,890 while the total valid ballots recorded were 26,347 with total rejected ballots numbering 543.
Meanwhile, in the Presidential race, Mr John Dramani Mahama of the NDC defeated Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the NPP after he polled 13,457 votes as against 12,260 votes.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, has been elected the Eighth President of Ghana’s Fourth Republic.
Mrs Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission who is also the Returning Officer for the presidential elections declared Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President-Elect, at a press briefing on Wednesday.
She said at the end of the polls President Akufo-Addo secured 6,730,413 representing 51.59 per cent of the total vote cast which is 13, 434574 with 79 percent turnout.
President Akufo-Addo’s main challenger, Former president John Dramani Mahama, of the National Democratic Congress, polled 6,214,889 representing 47.366 per cent of the total vote cast.
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More than 48 hours after the close of voting last Monday, the patience of Ghanaians, who had waited anxiously for the results of the presidential poll, was rewarded when the Electoral Commission (EC) declared the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President-elect minutes before 6 p.m. yesterday.
It was a nation in waiting when the EC Chairperson, Mrs Jean Mensa, who is also the Returning Officer for the presidential election, took her seat at the EC Headquarters in Accra to make the historic declaration: “Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, on the basis of the foregoing election results, and by the power vested in me as the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana and Returning Officer for the presidential election, it is my duty and honour to declare Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo President-elect of the Republic of Ghana.”
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