2024 Ghanaian general election

2024 Ghanaian general election

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Presidential election
Turnout	60.90%
Nominee John Mahama Mahamudu Bawumia Party NDC NPP Running mate Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang Matthew Opoku Prempeh Popular vote 6,328,397 4,657,304 Percentage 56.55% 41.61%
Results by region
President before election Nana Akufo-Addo NPP Elected President John Mahama NDC
Parliamentary election
All 276 seats in the Parliament of Ghana 138 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Seats +/– NDC John Mahama 183 +46 NPP Mahamudu Bawumia 88 −49 Independents – 4 +3 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Speaker before Alban Bagbin NDC

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General elections were held in Ghana on 7 December 2024^[1][2] to elect the president and all 276 members of Parliament.^[3][4] The incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo, having completed his constitutional term limits, was ineligible for re-election.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, former President John Mahama, won a majority of votes, enough to win without a runoff. The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate Mahamudu Bawumia conceded^[5] defeat the morning after election night.^[6][7] Mahama's running-mate Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang became the first woman to be elected as vice president of Ghana.^[8]

In the parliamentary elections, the NDC won a landslide victory, winning 183 out of 276 seats, while the NPP secured 88 seats, with independent candidates also winning four seats. Ablekuma North constituency is yet to be declared by the electoral commission.^[9]