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Ghanaians will be voting to elect leadera to govern the country today, December 7, 2020.
Twelve aspirants are vying for the presidential seat including the sitting President Akufo-Addo.[ads2]
275 parliamentarians will be voted nationwide to the parliament today with the Electoral Commission vowed to declare the outcome of the results within 24 hours. The elections start at 7am and end at 6:pm.[ads3]
There are a total of 33,000 polling stations as against (over 28,000 stations in 2016) dotted across the country where the EC will be supervising affairs with security agencies to conduct the country’s eighth successive general election.
After voting, counting and collation takes place. The former at the polling station before certified figures are then transmitted to the constituency collation centers. From that point, parliamentary results are declared.
In the case of the presidential race, results are counted and transmitted to collation centers from where there is an onward transfer to the national collation center where the EC boss acts as a returning officer and thus the only person bound by law to declare a president-elect.
Ghana operates the usual 50%+1 rule for a candidate to be declared winner of a presidential vote whiles the first past the post is used to determine a winner in all of the parliamentary contests.
Who becomes the President of the republic??
And who heads to the parliament after the elections today.
Kyfilla.com will bring to you all the updates.[ads5]
