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2008 Ghanaian general election

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Fear of election day violence caused the NPP to file a lawsuit seeking to delay voting in Tain as it claimed that "the atmosphere in the rural district was not conducive to a free and fair election". The court denied the NPP's injunction request and said it would only hear the case on 5 January 2009.
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Turnout on election day was very high. Since few votes were expected for other candidates than those of the two largest parties, a first-round victory for Akufo-Addo or Mills was seen as possible, but Nduom stated he wished to "surprise" the other parties by gaining enough votes to force a run-off
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alone had its run-off election on 2 January 2009 due to problems with distributing ballots. Following the voting on 28 December, Mills led by a slim margin, causing the Election Commission to state it would not announce Mills as the winner until after the election rerun in Tain. Prior to the
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A poll conducted in April 2008 showed Mills slightly ahead of Akufo-Addo. The National Commission for Civic Education conducted the poll which sampled 5,327 people. The poll also predicted a high voter turnout of 96.9%. Respondents came from coastal, middle and northern areas of the country.
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The stakes of the election were raised by the discovery of oil in Ghana and an expectation for incoming oil revenues to begin in 2010. Additionally, allegations of electoral fraud that resulted in violence following elections in
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between the two others. With 40% of the vote counted, Akufo-Addo was leading with 49.5% to Mills's 47.6%. While Mills pulled ahead afterwards, Akufo-Addo again led by a slim margin with over 70% of the votes counted.
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announcement hundreds of NDC supporters converged on the election headquarters demanding that Mills be declared the victor, but were kept at bay by riot police and armed soldiers.
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Ghana-FINAL REPORT-Presidential and Parliamentary Elections 2008-February 2009 EUROPEAN UNION ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION
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In response, the NPP called its supporters to boycott the vote, for which it was criticised by civil groups.
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Kwabena Adjei β€“ A managing director of a timber company representing the Reformed Patriotic Democrats
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Former Foreign Minister Nana Akufo-Addo was elected as the 2008 presidential candidate of the governing
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The conference was organized by a number of international election reform organizations including the
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Map showing the party-political geography of Ghana after the 2008 parliamentary elections.
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African Experts Lay Out Recommendations for Credible Elections, NDI, 22 December 2009.
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saw Akufo-Addo leading. The poll was conducted by interviewing 3,000 adults in all the
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was held on 28 December 2008 between the two candidates who received the most votes,
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The second round was rerun on 28 December 2008 but due to logistics problems, the
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Colloquium on African Elections:Best Practices and Cross-Sectoral Collaboration.
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on 7 December 2008. Since no candidate received more than 50% of the votes, a
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List of MPs elected in the 2008 Ghanaian parliamentary election
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The following eight candidates formally registered with the
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to hope the Ghanaian elections would refurbish the image of
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Ghana Election 2008 (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Ghana)
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The effective management of the 2008 election by the
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Kwasi Amoafo-Yeboah β€“ An independent candidate
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Index

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2012


John Atta Mills
Nana Akufo-Addo
NDC
NPP

President
John Kufuor
NPP
President-elect
John Atta Mills
NDC
Politics of Ghana

Constitution
President
list
Nana Akufo-Addo
Vice President
Mahamudu Bawumia
Ministers
Council of State
Speaker of the Parliament
Alban Sumana Bagbin
Parliament
Members of Parliament
Judiciary

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