Ghana 2008 vɔɔtʋg
| Country | Ghana |
|---|---|
| Applies to jurisdiction | Ghana |
| Follows | Ghana 2004 vɔɔtʋg |
| Followed by | Ghana 2012 Vɔɔtʋg |
| Point in time | 7 Samanpiid/Nwadispii nɛ atan 2008 |
| Office contested | President of Ghana |
| Successful candidate | John Attah Mills |
Ghana 2008 vɔɔtʋg la da bɛnɛ yʋʋm tusa ayi nɛ anii nwadis piinɛ ayi daba ayɔpɔi daar (7 December 2008).[1] Ka naꞌayaꞌad sɔꞌ pʋ paam ka di paae vɔɔt pisnu kɔbiga pʋʋginla (50%) ba da maligim, vɔɔt yaꞌas (run-off election) yʋʋm tusa ayi nɛ anii nwadis piinɛ ayi la dabpisi nɛ anii daar (28 December 2008) naꞌanyaꞌadib ayi banɛ da gaad tuon la, Nana Akufo-Addo onɛ bɛ Wabʋg Naꞌadɔɔg, New Patriotic Party nɛ John Atta Mills onɛ bɛ Maꞌasim Tiig Naꞌadɔɔg, National Democratic Congress.[2] Mills da di vɔɔt la gaadi o tiraan la nɛ vɔɔt yinne kɔbiga pʋʋgin, o da di vɔɔt kan on da mɔ nɔɔra atan ka pʋ di la.[3] Dinɛ an vɔɔt kanɛ pʋ lal taaba labakʋda ni Ghana pinꞌil vɔɔtʋg.
Ziꞌesim
[dɛmisim gbɛlima | dɛmisimi din yi zin'isiana]21 December 2006, Zuraan nyaꞌandɔl kʋdʋg John Atta Mills, onɛ da nyaꞌ National Democratic Congress (NDC) zuraan vɔɔtʋg yʋʋm tusa ayi la (2000) nɛ yʋʋm tusa ayi nɛ anaasi la ni (2004), Maꞌasim tig naꞌadɔɔg nidibi da gaŋ o ye o aan ba zuraan naꞌanyaꞌad yʋʋm tusa ayi nɛ anii (2008) vɔɔtʋgin la da diya.[4]
Ba da gaŋ Foreign Minister kʋdʋg Nana Akufo-Addo ye o an yʋʋm tusa ayi nɛ ayi la (2008) ziꞌen wabʋg naꞌadɔɔg, New Patriotic Party (NPP) nɔba zug ba naꞌadɔɔg la congress ni yʋʋm tusa ayi nɛ ayɔpɔi la nwadis piinɛ ayi dabpisi nɛ atan daar (23 December 2007). Laꞌanɛ on da pʋ paam vɔɔt pisnu kɔbiga pʋʋgin (50%) la, onɛ da tiꞌali ayi daan ka an Trade Minister kʋdʋg John Alan Kyeremanten, da siak ye on liya ka sʋŋi Akufo-Addo.[5]
Vɔɔtʋg la ziꞌesim da maligim paas ka di yinɛ ban da paam kpaam Ghana la ka yʋꞌʋm mɔr pʋtɛnꞌɛr ye kpaam ligidi na yina din yi yʋʋm tusa ayi nɛ piiga (2010) la ni.[6] Yaꞌasa, ba da lɛn zɛrig nidib vɔɔt naꞌayiigim dinɛ da taꞌas zaba Kenya nɛ Zimbabwe, ka military coups d'état, dinɛ naam Mauritania nɛ Guinea la mɛ kɛ ka nidib wʋsa nindaa yʋꞌʋm bɛ Ghana dim vɔɔtʋgin la ye ba na mɔr constitutional democracy lɛb Africa na.[6]
Zuraan naꞌanyaꞌadib
[dɛmisim gbɛlima | dɛmisimi din yi zin'isiana]Naꞌanya;adiba anii (eight candidates) da sɔbi ba yʋda tis Electoral Commission of Ghana ye ba nyaꞌ zuraan vɔɔtʋg la.[7][8]
Kwabena Adjei – Ziꞌeni tis Reformed Patriotic Democrats
Nana Akufo-Addo –Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Minister for Foreign Affairs, ziꞌeni tis New Patriotic Party (NPP)
Kwasi Amoafo-Yeboah – An independent candidate
Emmanuel Ansah-Antwi – ziꞌeni tis Democratic Freedom Party (DFP)
Edward Nasigri Mahama – ziꞌeni tis People's National Convention (PNC)
John Atta Mills – Vice-President kʋdʋg ziꞌeni tis National Democratic Congress (NDC)
Paa Kwesi Nduom –Minister for Economic Planning & Regional Cooperation, Minister for Energy, Minister for Public Sector Reform kʋdʋg ziꞌeni tis Convention People's Party (CPP)
Thomas Nuako Ward-Brew – ziꞌeni tis Democratic People's Party (DPP)
Pʋtɛnꞌɛr vɔɔtʋg
[dɛmisim gbɛlima | dɛmisimi din yi zin'isiana]Vɔɔtkanɛ ka ba da maal April 2008 da paꞌal ye Mills da bɛ Akufo-Addo tuon biꞌela. National Commission for Civic Education da maal vɔɔtkaŋa nɛ nidib tusa anu, kɔbistan nɛ pisi nɛ ayɔpɔi (5,327). Vɔɔtʋg la mɛ da paꞌal ye nidib piswai nɛ ayuobʋ duꞌali awai kɔbiga pʋʋgin (96.9%) na yina vɔɔt, vɔɔtʋg daar. Nimbanɛ da lɛbis buꞌosa la da yinɛ teŋ la tuon,sʋʋgʋn nɛ nyaꞌaŋ wʋsa.[9]
Angus Reid Global Monitor da lɛm maal vɔɔtʋg yinne October 2008 ka nyɛ ka Akufo-Addo bɛ tuon. Ba da buꞌos kpɛɛmnam tusa atan (3,000) banɛ bɛ teŋ la region nam wʋsa ni.[10][11]
| Administered | Akufo-Addo
(NPP) |
Ansah-Antwi
(DFP) |
Mills
(NDC) |
Mahama
(PNC) |
Nduom
(CPP) |
Undecided | Source |
| Apr. 2008 | 42.6% | — | 42.9% | 1.1% | 6.3% | 7.1% | [1] |
| Oct. 2008 | 50.5% | 0.4% | 35.6% | 2.1% | 7.0% | — | [2] |
Vɔɔt nyaꞌaŋ
[dɛmisim gbɛlima | dɛmisimi din yi zin'isiana]Zuraan
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| John Atta Mills | National Democratic Congress | 4,056,634 | 47.92 | 4,521,032 | 50.23 | |
| Nana Akufo-Addo | New Patriotic Party | 4,159,439 | 49.13 | 4,480,446 | 49.77 | |
| Paa Kwesi Nduom | Convention People's Party | 113,494 | 1.34 | |||
| Edward Mahama | People's National Convention | 73,494 | 0.87 | |||
| Emmanuel Ansah-Antwi | Democratic Freedom Party | 27,889 | 0.33 | |||
| Kwasi Amoafo-Yeboah | Independent | 19,342 | 0.23 | |||
| Thomas Ward-Brew | Democratic People's Party | 8,653 | 0.10 | |||
| Kwabena Adjei | Reformed Patriotic Democrats | 6,889 | 0.08 | |||
| Total | 8,465,834 | 100.00 | 9,001,478 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 8,465,834 | 97.63 | 9,001,478 | 98.98 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 205,438 | 2.37 | 92,886 | 1.02 | ||
| Total votes | 8,671,272 | 100.00 | 9,094,364 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 12,472,758 | 69.52 | 12,472,758 | 72.91 | ||
| Source: African Elections Database | ||||||
Wadmaan
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| New Patriotic Party | 4,013,013 | 46.94 | 107 | –21 | |
| National Democratic Congress | 3,776,917 | 44.17 | 116 | +22 | |
| Convention People's Party | 252,266 | 2.95 | 1 | –2 | |
| People's National Convention | 117,732 | 1.38 | 2 | –2 | |
| Independents and others | 390,050 | 4.56 | 4 | +3 | |
| Total | 8,549,978 | 100.00 | 230 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 8,549,978 | 97.65 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 205,438 | 2.35 | |||
| Total votes | 8,755,416 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 12,472,758 | 70.20 | |||
| Source: Adam Carr[12]IPU[13] | |||||
Regionnamim
[dɛmisim gbɛlima | dɛmisimi din yi zin'isiana]| Party | Ashanti | Brong Ahafo | Central | Eastern | Greater Accra | Northern | Upper East | Upper West | Volta | Western | Total |
| National Democratic Congress | 3 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 18 | 21 | 8 | 6 | 21 | 11 | 114 |
| New Patriotic Party | 34 | 15 | 8 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 107 |
| Independent | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| People's National Convention | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Convention People's Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| National Total | 39 | 23* | 19 | 27* | 27 | 26 | 13 | 10 | 22 | 22 | 228 |
| Source: Electoral Commission of Ghana | |||||||||||
Gbanvɛɛnsa
[dɛmisim gbɛlima | dɛmisimi din yi zin'isiana]- 1 2 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7763304.stm
- 1 2 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7775789.stm
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7809451.stm
- ↑ http://www.modernghana.com/GhanaHome/NewsArchive/news_details.asp?t=mg&id=VFZSSmQwNTZaM2c9&menu_id=1&sub_menu_id=0
- ↑ http://www.modernghana.com/GhanaHome/NewsArchive/news_details.asp?menu_id=1&id=VFZSVmVFMTZUVE09
- 1 2 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7804212.stm
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110515065211/http://www.ec.gov.gh/node/69
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Commission_of_Ghana
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081211050605/http://www.thinkghana.com/elections/polls/120.php
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090111224554/http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/32333/akufo_addo_leads_rivals_in_ghana
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Reid_Global_Monitor
- ↑ http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/g/ghana/ghana20082.txt
- ↑ http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2123_E.htm