2024 Ghanaian general election
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| Turnout | 63.97% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All 276 seats in the Parliament of Ghana 139 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 63.79% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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General elections were held in Ghana on 7 December 2024 to elect the president and all 276 members of Parliament. The incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo, having completed his constitutional term limits, was ineligible for re-election.
Former President John Mahama, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, won a majority of the votes, securing victory without the need for a runoff. Mahamudu Bawumia, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate, conceded defeat the morning after the election. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Mahama’s running mate, made history as the first woman elected Vice President of Ghana.
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. The number of women elected to parliament was 40, the same as in the previous election (2020), which means that the percentage of women members of parliament in Ghana remains at 15%, a level lower than the average in the sub-region West Africa (18%), the continental African average (27%) and the global world average (also 27%). Ablekuma North constituency is yet to be declared by the electoral commission.