2020 Election In Ghana

On Feb 18, 2020

2020 Election In Ghana

General elections are scheduled to be held in Ghana in November or December 2020.

Electoral system

The President of Ghana is elected using the two-round system, whilst the 275 members of Parliament are elected in single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting.

Eligible voters must be Ghanaian citizens who are at least 18 years old, although those declared insane are disenfranchised. Parliamentary candidates must be Ghanaian citizens at least 21 years old, and either be resident in their constituency or have lived there for at least five of the ten years prior to the election

Campaign

In February 2019 former president John Mahama was confirmed as the candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress. In December, incumbent president Nana Akufo-Addo announced that he intended to run for re-election as the New Patriotic Party. The two previously ran against each other in both 2012 (with Mahama winning) and 2016 (with Akufo-Addo winning).

General elections will be held in Ghana, November 7 or December 7 – 2020, to elect the President of Ghana and Members of Parliament (Accra) of Ghana. (Some links below, may open a new window!)

Ghana will hold presidential and parliamentary elections in December 2020, in a vote that will be a very close contest between Akufo-Addo’s New Patriotic Party and the main opposition National Democratic Congress.The presidential candidate of the NDC will be announced by Feb 26, 2019.