Elections in Ghana gives information on election and election results in Ghana.
Ghana elects on national level a head of state, the president, and a legislature. The president is elected for a four year term by the people. The Parliament of Ghana has 230 members, elected for a four year term in single-seat constituencies. The presidential election is won by 50% plus one vote whilst the parliamentary elections is won by simple majority,and, as is predicted by Duverger's law, the voting system has encouraged Ghanaian politics into a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party. Elections have been held every four years since 1992. Presidential and parliamentary elections are held alongside each other, generally on 7 December.
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