2024 Ghanaian general election

General elections will be held in Ghana on 7 December 2024 to elect the president and members of Parliament. Incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo is term-limited and thus ineligible to run again.

2024 Ghanaian general election
7 December 2024
Presidential election
 
Nominee TBC John Mahama
Party NPP NDC
Incumbent President

Nana Akufo-Addo
NPP


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Electoral system

The President of Ghana is elected using the two-round system, whilst the 275 members of Parliament are elected in single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting.[1][2]

Eligible voters must be Ghanaian citizens who are at least 18 years old, although those declared insane are disenfranchised. Parliamentary candidates must be Ghanaian citizens at least 18 years old, and either be resident in their constituency or have lived there for at least five of the ten years prior to the election.[3]

Primary elections

New Patriotic Party

The ruling New Patriotic Party will open its nomination period on 26 May 2023, and close nominations on 24 June 2023. It will select its candidate at its National Congress on 4 November 2023.[4] However, if more than five candidates file to run in the primaries, the party will call a Special Congress on 26 August. Incumbent President Akufo-Addo said that members of his cabinet who sought to run for president should step down from their posts to focus on their campaigns, prompting a number of resignations.[5][6]

Declared candidates

Potential candidates

National Democratic Congress

The opposition National Democratic Congress opened its nomination period on 22 February 2023 and closed nominations on 22 March 2023. Candidates were required to post a GH₵500,000 filing fee and a GH₵30,000 nomination fee (women and disabled candidates were eligible for a 50% discount, but none ultimately applied). The NDC will select its candidate on 13 May 2023.[10]

Candidates

Results

The NDC primary was held on 13 May 2023. Kobeah dropped out on March 29, and Duffuor dropped out the day before the election, claiming irregularities in the organization of the polls, leaving two candidates.[12][13] Former President Mahama won nomination in an overwhelming landslide, winning nearly 99% of the vote, setting the stage for the fourth consecutive election in which he would be the NDC's flag-bearer.[14] Bonsu called Mahama to concede and offer his support.[15]

CandidateVotes%
John Mahama297,60398.94
Kojo Bonsu3,1811.06
Kwabena Duffuor00.00
Total300,784100.00

Movement For Change

On 25th September 2023, Alan John Kyeremanten formed the Movement For Change party to aspire for the 2024 Ghanian general election as an independent presidential candidate for the presidential race after resigning from New Patriotic Party(NPP). Therefore he will be a presidential candidate for the 2024 Ghanian general election.[16][17]

References
  1. "Ghana: Vote Counting using Majoritatrian and First-Past-the-Post —". ACE Project. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  2. "Africa Watch: 2020 Is Election Season Across Africa". Modern Ghana. 13 February 2020.
  3. Electoral system IPU
  4. "2024 polls: Know all the key dates for upcoming NPP primaries". GhanaWeb. 4 April 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  5. "Resign if you want to contest NPP presidential primaries – Group". Citi Newsroom. 11 January 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  6. Nyabor, Jonas (10 January 2023). "Ghana: Succession race kicks off after Trade Minister quits". The Africa Report. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  7. "Farmers will vote for me to become NPP's 2024 flagbearer – Afriyie Akoto". Citi Newsroom. 10 May 2023.
  8. "Who leads NPP for 2024 presidential election?". Citi Newsroom. 2 February 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  9. Dontoh, Ekow (4 May 2023). "Ghana's Bawumia Will Run for President Next Year, Graphic Says". Bloomberg. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  10. "NDC opens nominations for presidential and parliamentary elections today". Ghana News Agency. 22 February 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  11. "Know the four NDC faces seeking to kick out NPP in 2024". GhanaWeb. 26 February 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  12. "Ernest Kobeah pulls out of NDC flagbearership race". Citinewsroom. 29 March 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  13. "Duffuor on why he pulled out of NDC presidential primary [VIDEO]". Daily Graphic. 12 May 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  14. "John Mahama elected NDC flagbearer with 98.8% of valid votes - EC". GhanaWeb. 14 May 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  15. "NDC Primaries: 'I've Called And Congratulated Mahama for The Landslide Victory' - Kojo Bonsu Concedes Defeat". Peace FM Online. 13 May 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  16. "Managing director of Celesio UK resigns with immediate effect". The Pharmaceutical Journal. 2017. doi:10.1211/pj.2017.20203863. ISSN 2053-6186.
  17. Devine, Thomas W. (27 May 2013), "I Shall Run as an Independent Candidate for President: Launching Gideon's Army", Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism, University of North Carolina Press, pp. 35–70, retrieved 26 September 2023
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