Ghana: Resultados Preliminares/Preliminary Results

Breakdown of the Presidential and Parliamentary Elections held on the 7 Dec 2008.

PRESIDENTIAL
Party No. of Votes %
1. New Patriotic Party (NPP) 4,159,439 49.13
2. National Democratic Congress (NDC) 4,056,634 47.92
3. Convention Peoples Party (CPP) 113,494 1.34
4. People's National Convention (PNC) 73,494 0.87
5. Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) 27,889 0.33
6. Independent 19,342 0.23
7. Democratic People Party (DPP) 8,653 0.10
8. Reform Democratic Party (RPD) 6,889 0.08

PARLIAMENTARY
Party No. of seats
1. National Democratic Congress (NDC) 112
2. New Patriotic Party (NPP) 109
3. Peoples Convention Party (PNC) 2
4. Convention Peoples Party (CPP) 1
5. Independents (NPP who went independent) 3

To become a president, one needs to obtain over 50%. Per the statistics above, there is going to be a run-off of the presidential elections to be held on the 28 Dec 2008. The Electoral Commission is yet to declare the parliamentary results of two (2) constituencies