Latest Election
| Ghanaian presidential election, 2008 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | First round | Second round | |||
| Votes | Percentage | Votes | Percentage | |||
| National Democratic Congress | John Atta Mills | 4,056,634 | 47.92% | 4,521,032 | 50.23% | |
| New Patriotic Party | Nana Akufo-Addo | 4,159,439 | 49.13% | 4,480,446 | 49.77% | |
| Convention People's | Paa Kwesi Nduom | 113,494 | 1.34% | |||
| People's National Convention | Edward Mahama | 73,494 | 0.87% | |||
| Democratic Freedom | Emmanuel Ansah-Antwi | 27,889 | 0.33% | |||
| Independent | Kwasi Amoafo-Yeboah | 19,342 | 0.23% | |||
| Democratic People's | Thomas Ward-Brew | 8,653 | 0.10% | |||
| Reformed Patriotic Democrats | Kwabena Adjei | 6,889 | 0.08% | |||
| Valid votes | 8,465,834 | 97.63% | 9,001,478 | 98.98% | ||
| Invalid or blank votes | 205,438 | 2.37% | 92,886 | 1.02% | ||
| Totals | 8,671,272 | 100.00% | 9,094,364 | 100.00% | ||
| Voter turnout | 69.52% | 72.91% | ||||
| Source: Electoral Commission of Ghana, | ||||||
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