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Nana Akufo Addo Re-Elected as President of Ghana in tight Presidential Elections By: Prof. Michael Baffoe, Winnipeg, MB The incumbent President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo has been re-elected in the just-ended Presidential Elections held in Ghana on December 7th, 2020. In announcing the results of the President Elections at a crowded News Conference in Accra, monitored by The Ghanaian News, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission who is also the Statutory Returning Officer for the Presidential Elections revealed that the total number of votes cast in the Presidential
Elections was 13, 434, 574 representing 79 per cent of the total registered voters. The incumbent President, Nana Akufo Addo obtained a total of 6,730,413 representing 51.59 per cent of the votes while his closest challenger, former President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress Party obtained 6,214,889 votes representing 47.36 per cent of the total votes cast.
President Nana Akufo Addo Nana Akufo Addo thus becomes the 8th President of the 4th Republic of Ghana that began in 1993. The results of the Presidential elections,
in the bitterly fought contest, represent two dramatic outcomes for both candidates: For Mahama and his National Democratic Congress (NDC), it was an unbelievable
shock for having come very close, improving his 2016 record of 44.4% by three percentage points to 47.36%, while Nana Akufo Addo of the New Patriotic Party dropped from his 2016 vote level of 53.86% to a low of 51.59%. The major shock for the New Patriotic Party was in the Parliamentary Elections where they dropped dramatically from a solid majority of 169 Seats to a low of 137 seats while the Opposition NDC dramatically increased their Parliamentary seats from the 2016
level of 106 seats to 137. At the time of going to Press there was one Independent Member of Parliament, the former Member of Parliament for the Fomena Constituency in the Adansi District in the Ashanti Region who won his seat after losing the NPP Party’s Parliamentary Primaries contest. It remains to be seen which side the Independent MP for Fomena will align himself with in Parliament which will determine the balance of power in Parliament.