Assin North By-Election: NPP Leads NDC By 1.1% - Poll
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) and opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are in a neck and neck race in the Assin North by-election slated for June 27.
This is according to the final results of a poll by Global InfoAnalytics, an opinion research company.
The results, published on June 25, noted that the NPP was ahead of the NDC with a margin of just 1.1% with 6.9% of respondents undecided as yet.
The by-election was occasioned by the ouster of James Gyakye Quayson of the NDC as MP for the area after the Supreme Court ruled against him in a dual citizenship case.
Quayson has been retained as the NDC candidate even though he is facing criminal charges from his 2020 candidature. The poll puts him at 45.6% whiles the NPP’s Charles Opoku is at 46.7%.
The analysis also showed that the NPP candidate has squandered a commanding lead, slumping from 57% as of June 6 to his current rating whiles Quayson has appreciated from 38% to 45.6% within the same period.
The by-election has attracted a lot of political activity in the past few weeks. Campaigns ended on June 25 ahead of the vote.
Series polls conducted by GIA prior to todays shows how the NPP's candidate, Charles Opoku squandered a 19% lead to now a statistically dead heat race in four 4 weeks. pic.twitter.com/v4JlOnxGVW
— Global InfoAnalytics (@GInfoanalytics) June 25, 2023
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