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Run-off for Ghana Election
11 Dec 2008
ACCRA - Ghana's presidential election must be decided in a second-round vote, the electoral commission announced yesterday.
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ACCRA - Ghana's presidential election must be decided in a second-round vote, the electoral commission announced yesterday.
Ruling party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo won 49.13 percent of the vote, against 47.92 percent for his rival, John Atta Mills, the commission said.
But neither reached the 50 percent threshold needed for an outright win and a run-off will be held on December 28.
Local and international observers have praised Ghana for setting a good example on how to conduct an election.
Electoral commission chairman Kwadwo Afari Gyan told a news conference in the capital, Accra: "There is going to be a re-run and it will be between the two leading candidates."
High Stakes
The commission chairman did not immediately announce the results of the parallel parliamentary elections also held on Sunday, saying the commission needed to clarify some issues.
Turnout was 69.52 percent for Ghana's fifth set of elections since it embraced multi-party democracy in 1992.
The BBC's Will Ross in Accra says after winning praise for its peaceful poll Ghana will now have to do it again, but the stakes are high, he adds, as the country has just discovered oil.
There were a number of candidates to succeed President John Kufuor - who steps down in January having served the maximum two terms - but the election has been a two-horse race.
New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate Akufo-Addo won 4 159 439 votes, while National Democratic Congress (NDC) contender John Atta Mills had 4 056 634 ballots, it was announced.
Trailing a very distant third was businessman Papa Kwesi Nduom, of the Convention People's Party (CPP), with 1.3 percent of the ballot.
The former British colony was the first African state to gain its independence in 1957.
A nation of 22 million people, it is the world's second biggest cocoa grower and Africa's number two gold miner.
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Ruling party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo won 49.13 percent of the vote, against 47.92 percent for his rival, John Atta Mills, the commission said.
But neither reached the 50 percent threshold needed for an outright win and a run-off will be held on December 28.
Local and international observers have praised Ghana for setting a good example on how to conduct an election.
Electoral commission chairman Kwadwo Afari Gyan told a news conference in the capital, Accra: "There is going to be a re-run and it will be between the two leading candidates."
High Stakes
The commission chairman did not immediately announce the results of the parallel parliamentary elections also held on Sunday, saying the commission needed to clarify some issues.
Turnout was 69.52 percent for Ghana's fifth set of elections since it embraced multi-party democracy in 1992.
The BBC's Will Ross in Accra says after winning praise for its peaceful poll Ghana will now have to do it again, but the stakes are high, he adds, as the country has just discovered oil.
There were a number of candidates to succeed President John Kufuor - who steps down in January having served the maximum two terms - but the election has been a two-horse race.
New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate Akufo-Addo won 4 159 439 votes, while National Democratic Congress (NDC) contender John Atta Mills had 4 056 634 ballots, it was announced.
Trailing a very distant third was businessman Papa Kwesi Nduom, of the Convention People's Party (CPP), with 1.3 percent of the ballot.
The former British colony was the first African state to gain its independence in 1957.
A nation of 22 million people, it is the world's second biggest cocoa grower and Africa's number two gold miner.
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