The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced the provisional turnout figures for the first Special Voting which was held on Thursday, December 1.
A statement issued by Mr Eric Kofi Fleming Dzakpasu, the EC Head of Communications, which was copied to the Ghana News Agency on Saturday, said out of a total 126,875 Special Voters, 92,231 turned out to cast their vote representing 72.69 percentage turnout.
The provisional turnout for each region are Ashanti; 15,474 out of 19,710, representing 78.51, Greater Accra; 16,474 out of 25,273, represents 65.18 per cent; Volta; 9,672 out of 14,485, representing 66.77 per cent, Central; 7,451 71.93 out 10,358, representing 72.93 per cent, and Western; 4,747 out of 7,016, representing 67.66 per cent.
The rest are Eastern; 9,286 out of 12,995, which is 71.46 per cent, Brong Ahafo; 10,721 out of 13,716, representing 78.16 per cent, Northern; 10,245 out of 13,134, representing 78 per cent, Upper East; 6,327 out of 7,254, representing 87.20 per cent and Upper West; 1,828 out of 2,934, representing 62.30 per cent.
"We wish to emphasise that the above figures are provisional at this stage.
"As agreed at the emergency Inter-Party Advisory Committee meeting held on Thursday, December 1, the Special Voting exercise will continue on Sunday December 4, in all 275 constituencies," the statement said.
Source: GNA
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I believe she already have the results in her hand. December 7 presidential elections is just to show.
This should tell Ghanaians how she is going to declare the results. She will manipulate it to favour Mahama.
Very pathetic. Some security personnel cannot still find their names on today's register. Please, EC, do so well that no one will be disenfranchised. I hope and pray any anomalies will be cleared before the main one on 4th.
Disgraceful EC chair... She must resign...
Charlotte Osei is a perfect description of what it means to have a "square peg in a round hole." She is irritatingly disappointing. A novice to the core without any idea of what it means to be an electoral commissioner. From day one, her childish attitude of taking a posture of a fighter rather than using common sense to attend to her basic assignments has painted a dirty picture of her to Ghanaians. Why should Charlotte Kenson-Smith (Now Charlotte Osei) who stood on the ticket of the NDC in 2008 as a parliamentary candidate be made and electoral commissioner? No wonder her bias towards the NDC. Mahama is such a disappointment in the history of Ghana's presidency.
The Queen does not tell us who should govern us ..learn life
cahrlote osei is deliberating disenfranchising some people , this will make trouble in ghana, if forces cant vote in thier country then ghana is headed to trouble, we will not accept this election result. it is manipulated, rig and the international observers should send massage to the queen of england that ghana 2016 election is not of the best, it is not credible forces are not made to vote in their in thieir country, shame to electoral commission of ghana, she has failed the whole ghana, from ghana people