By law, it is the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission that is the Returning Officer for the Presidential elections in Ghana. But it is not out of the ordinary to see the media, per their collated figures "projecting likely" winners.
Admittedly, Ghana has historically seen some incredibly tight elections, but it’s rare to see both the presidential and parliamentary race so close to the extent that even after 36 hours, who gets to occupy the highest office of the land and a majority in Parliament, is that difficult to know.
But the 2020 general elections is no ordinary one, considering this is the only occasion the country has frontliners who have tasted power before; one an incumbent and the other an ex-president.
So far, an incredible 50 Members of Parliament, most of them Ministers and Deputy Ministers have been kicked out. Additionally in more than 30 constituencies, Ghanaians engaged in split-ticket or skirt and blouse voting; a trend where a voter chooses the presidential candidate of one party and a parliamentary candidate of another party on the same ballot.
Per the election result projections conducted by Peacefmonline and with three (3) constituencies - Sene West, Techiman South and Talensi - left to complete the 275 constituencies across Ghana, this authentic and reliable online portal projects the winner of this year's Presidential elections.
Results based on 272 out of the 275 constituencies show His Excellency, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is currently leading by 563,174 votes.
President Nana Akufo-Addo has polled 6,637,081 votes representing 51.4% while the Presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and former President, John Dramani Mahama garnered 6,073,907 representing 47.0%.
The number of registered voters in the outstanding constituencies stands at 203,609.
Based on the above and considering the outstanding voter population, outstanding constituencies which we predict the outcome to split between the two Presidential candidates and should we even project 100 percent turnout in the outstanding constituencies for the candidate with the least votes, there is no way the trailing candidate, in this case the NDC's John Dramani can catch up; mathematically.
Also there are sixteen Regions in Ghana, of which the candidates will have to garner most votes to win the elections.
By Regional breakdown, President Akufo-Addo won the Ahafo Region by 55.1% and the NDC Presidential candidate John Mahama attained 44.2%.
In the Bono, Bono East, Central and Eastern Regions, the President got 58.2%, 43.5%, 52.7% and 60.5% respectively while Mahama clinched 40.4%, 55.4%, 45.9% and 38.5% in this order.
The Greater Accra, Northern, Oti and Savannah Regions all saw President Akufo-Addo on the losing side while the former President won all the Regions.
The polling results for the President ranged between 48.1% and 35.2%, and Mr. Mahama had between 63.0% and 51.0 percent.
The President further pulled massive votes in the North East Region representing 51.4% with Mr. Mahama scoring 47.0%.
Upper East, Upper West and Western North Regional Presidential results went in favour of former President John Mahama. He polled 63.3, 67.4 and 53.6 in terms of votes percentage.
In the aforementioned Regions, the statistics also showed the electorates not voting massively for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who contested the Presidential elections on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
President Akufo-Addo also had 51.0% of the votes from Western Region and Mr. Mahama received 46.2%.
The highest vote cast was recorded in the strongholds of the two candidates, that's the Ashanti Region and Volta Region.
The NDC Presidential candidate swept the Volta Region by polling 84.8% but lost massively in the Ashanti Region to the incumbent who polled 71.6%.
The total tabulation of the results indicate President Akufo-Addo with 51.3 percent whereas the former President attained 47.2 percent.
With the Regional and constituency statistics in view, it is clear who leads the Presidential elections.
The 2020 Presidential race is decided, essentially; and Peacefmonline can boldly project Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as President-elect.
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