The Electoral Commission (EC) has expressed utter shock and disappointment at the voter turnout in this year’s general elections.
According to the Chairperson of the commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei, the voter turnout is 49% based on collated results from 210 constituencies out of 275.
A total of about 15,712,499 eligible voters were expected to participate in the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections.
The 49% voter turnout is the lowest since Ghana returned to multi-party democracy when its first election was held in 1992.
“We are pretty disappointed at the turnout so far, based on the collated results from 210 constituencies.
The provisional turnout for the election is about 49%. This is way below our history in elections,” Mrs. Charlotte Osei said in a short press briefing.
Source: 3news.com
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She is a novice; she should have consulted before spitting out that wrong voter percentage figure.
The Togolese couldn't come and vote. They were scared when Bawumia pointed it out. Next 4 years we will remove all the Togolese names from the register. We will clean the register.
I thought she said over-voting?!? So how come there was low voter turnout ???!
Total Registered Voters: 15,253,840; Total Valid Votes: 10,263,805 for 267 constituencies. How can voter be 49 percent? This Challotte woman must stop the gimmicks and do the right thing!!!
Maame how did you come by that percentage, out of the total figure, tell us what makes up that your so called 49%. Akai!!
Declare the Winner and Shut Da ***barred word*** Up . Who cares about the Turnout . So So Ways & means nkoaaaa Alooooo
ben ephson is a lair he go to room and work with e,c and ndc to rig election, shame to him, from gh people
Who cares just declare the winner.
master u can even cross to 99% what we know is the will and choice of ghanaians cant be changed
You cant say the turnout was low if u claim to have only 210consituencies cos there are still 65 more to go