Voters in Ghana’s historic presidential and parliamentary elections poured into polling stations from as early as 2am on Monday with long queues being witnessed.
This is the seventh successive multi-party poll under the forth republic, which started with former President Jerry Rawlings after the 1960 general election.
An electoral official tears out a ballot paper for a voter in the Eastern Region district of Kyebi, Ghana on December 7, 2020.
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More than 17 million of Ghana’s 29 million people registered as voters are expected to cast their ballots during the 10-hour period in more than 38,622 polling stations across the country to elect a new president and 275 parliamentarians.
An electoral official points to a ballot box to voters at a polling station in the Eastern Region district of Kyebi on December 7, 2020 during Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections.
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Twelve presidential candidates are contesting for the country’s top seat. But the major gladiators are incumbent President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Former President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
An electoral official checks the temperature of a voter at a polling station in Jamestown on December 7, 2020.
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Winners in past presidential elections:
A woman votes in Jamestown on December 7, 2020.
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Presidential candidates in the 2020 election:
1. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, 76 — NPP
2. John Dramani Mahama, 61 — NDC
3. Christian Kwabena Andrews, 55 — GUM
4. Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, 54 — CPP
6. Henry Herbert Lartey, 66 — GCPP
7. Hassan Ayariga, 48 — APC
8. Percival Kofi Akpaloo — 49, LPG
9. David Asibi Apasera, 58 — PNC
10. Brigitte Akosua Dzogbenuku, 51 — PPP
11. Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, 72 — NDP
12. Alfred Kwame Asiedu Walker, 64 — independent candidate
