Ghana votes to elect new president and parliamentarians today

Presidential and Parliamentary elections are
currently going on in Ghana. The elections began
this morning at 7:00a.m across the 275 polling
stations and will end by 5:00p.m.
There are seven persons contesting for the
presidential position and they include, the
current president, John Mahama from National
Democratic Congress (NDC), Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo Addo, of the main opposition New
Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Ivor Kobina
Greenstreet, Convention People’s Party (CPP),
Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, National
Democratic Party (NDP),
Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, Progressive People’s Party
(PPP), Dr Edward N. Mahama, People’s National

Convention (PNC); and Mr Jacob Osei Yeboah,
an independent presidential candidate.
A candidate must have at least 50% of the total
votes in order to win the election. In a situation
where no one has 50% of the votes, the top two
candidates will have a run-off in two weeks
time.