Ghana 2008 vɔɔtʋg

Ghana 2008 vɔɔtʋg la da bɛnɛ yʋʋm tusa ayi nɛ anii nwadis piinɛ ayi daba ayɔpɔi daar (7 December 2008). Ka na’aya’ad sɔ’ pʋ paam ka di paae vɔɔt pisnu kɔbiga pʋʋginla (50%) ba da maligim, vɔɔt ya’as (run-off election) yʋʋm tusa ayi nɛ anii nwadis piinɛ ayi la dabpisi nɛ anii daar (28 December 2008) na’anya’adib ayi banɛ da gaad tuon la, Nana Akufo-Addo onɛ bɛ Wabʋg Na’adɔɔg, New Patriotic Party nɛ John Atta Mills onɛ bɛ Ma’asim Tiig Na’adɔɔg, National Democratic Congress. Mills da di vɔɔt la gaadi o tiraan la nɛ vɔɔt yinne kɔbiga pʋʋgin, o da di vɔɔt kan on da mɔ nɔɔra atan ka pʋ di la. Dinɛ an vɔɔt kanɛ pʋ lal taaba labakʋda ni Ghana pin’il vɔɔtʋg.

Ghana 2008 vɔɔtʋg

Ghanaian legislative election

Country	Ghana
Applies to jurisdiction	Ghana
Follows	Ghana 2004 vɔɔtʋg
Followed by	Ghana 2012 Vɔɔtʋg
Point in time	7 Samanpiid/Nwadispii nɛ atan 2008
Office contested	President of Ghana
Successful candidate	John Attah Mills

Zi’esim

21 December 2006, Zuraan nya’andɔl kʋdʋg John Atta Mills, onɛ da nya’ National Democratic Congress (NDC) zuraan vɔɔtʋg yʋʋm tusa ayi la (2000) nɛ yʋʋm tusa ayi nɛ anaasi la ni (2004), Ma’asim tig na’adɔɔg nidibi da gaŋ o ye o aan ba zuraan na’anya’ad yʋʋm tusa ayi nɛ anii (2008) vɔɔtʋgin la da diya.

Ba da gaŋ Foreign Minister kʋdʋg Nana Akufo-Addo ye o an yʋʋm tusa ayi nɛ ayi la (2008) zi’en wabʋg na’adɔɔg, New Patriotic Party (NPP) nɔba zug ba na’adɔɔg la congress ni yʋʋm tusa ayi nɛ ayɔpɔi la nwadis piinɛ ayi dabpisi nɛ atan daar (23 December 2007). La’anɛ on da pʋ paam vɔɔt pisnu kɔbiga pʋʋgin (50%) la, onɛ da ti’ali ayi daan ka an Trade Minister kʋdʋg John Alan Kyeremanten, da siak ye on liya ka sʋŋi Akufo-Addo.

Vɔɔtʋg la zi’esim da maligim paas ka di yinɛ ban da paam kpaam Ghana la ka yʋ’ʋm mɔr pʋtɛn’ɛr ye kpaam ligidi na yina din yi yʋʋm tusa ayi nɛ piiga (2010) la ni. Ya’asa, ba da lɛn zɛrig nidib vɔɔt na’ayiigim dinɛ da ta’as zaba Kenya nɛ Zimbabwe, ka military coups d'état, dinɛ naam Mauritania nɛ Guinea la mɛ kɛ ka nidib wʋsa nindaa yʋ’ʋm bɛ Ghana dim vɔɔtʋgin la ye ba na mɔr constitutional democracy lɛb Africa na.

Zuraan na’anya’adib

Na’anya;adiba anii (eight candidates) da sɔbi ba yʋda tis Electoral Commission of Ghana ye ba nya’ zuraan vɔɔtʋg la.

Kwabena Adjei – Zi’eni tis Reformed Patriotic Democrats

Nana Akufo-Addo –Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Minister for Foreign Affairs, zi’eni tis New Patriotic Party (NPP)

Kwasi Amoafo-Yeboah – An independent candidate

Emmanuel Ansah-Antwi – zi’eni tis Democratic Freedom Party (DFP)

Edward Nasigri Mahama – zi’eni tis People's National Convention (PNC)

John Atta Mills – Vice-President kʋdʋg zi’eni tis National Democratic Congress (NDC)

Paa Kwesi Nduom –Minister for Economic Planning & Regional Cooperation, Minister for Energy, Minister for Public Sector Reform kʋdʋg zi’eni tis Convention People's Party (CPP)

Thomas Nuako Ward-Brew – zi’eni tis Democratic People's Party (DPP)

Pʋtɛn’ɛr vɔɔtʋg

Vɔɔtkanɛ ka ba da maal April 2008 da pa’al ye Mills da bɛ Akufo-Addo tuon bi’ela. National Commission for Civic Education da maal vɔɔtkaŋa nɛ nidib tusa anu, kɔbistan nɛ pisi nɛ ayɔpɔi (5,327). Vɔɔtʋg la mɛ da pa’al ye nidib piswai nɛ ayuobʋ du’ali awai kɔbiga pʋʋgin (96.9%) na yina vɔɔt, vɔɔtʋg daar. Nimbanɛ da lɛbis bu’osa la da yinɛ teŋ la tuon,sʋʋgʋn nɛ nya’aŋ wʋsa.

Angus Reid Global Monitor da lɛm maal vɔɔtʋg yinne October 2008 ka nyɛ ka Akufo-Addo bɛ tuon. Ba da bu’os kpɛɛmnam tusa atan (3,000) banɛ bɛ teŋ la region nam wʋsa ni.

Administered	Akufo-Addo (NPP)	Ansah-Antwi (DFP)	Mills (NDC)	Mahama (PNC)	Nduom (CPP)	Undecided	Source
Apr. 2008	42.6%	—	42.9%	1.1%	6.3%	7.1%
Oct. 2008	50.5%	0.4%	35.6%	2.1%	7.0%	—

Vɔɔt nya’aŋ

Zuraan

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	John Atta Mills	National Democratic Congress	4,056,634	47.92	4,521,032	50.23
	Nana Akufo-Addo	New Patriotic Party	4,159,439	49.13	4,480,446	49.77
	Paa Kwesi Nduom	Convention People's Party	113,494	1.34
	Edward Mahama	People's National Convention	73,494	0.87
	Emmanuel Ansah-Antwi	Democratic Freedom Party	27,889	0.33
	Kwasi Amoafo-Yeboah	Independent	19,342	0.23
	Thomas Ward-Brew	Democratic People's Party	8,653	0.10
	Kwabena Adjei	Reformed Patriotic Democrats	6,889	0.08
Total			8,465,834	100.00	9,001,478	100.00
Valid votes			8,465,834	97.63	9,001,478	98.98
Invalid/blank votes			205,438	2.37	92,886	1.02
Total votes			8,671,272	100.00	9,094,364	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			12,472,758	69.52	12,472,758	72.91
Source: African Elections Database

Wadmaan

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	New Patriotic Party	4,013,013	46.94	107	–21
	National Democratic Congress	3,776,917	44.17	116	+22
	Convention People's Party	252,266	2.95	1	–2
	People's National Convention	117,732	1.38	2	–2
	Independents and others	390,050	4.56	4	+3
Total		8,549,978	100.00	230	0
Valid votes		8,549,978	97.65
Invalid/blank votes		205,438	2.35
Total votes		8,755,416	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		12,472,758	70.20
Source: Adam CarrIPU

Regionnamim

Party	Ashanti	Brong Ahafo	Central	Eastern	Greater Accra	Northern	Upper East	Upper West	Volta	Western	Total
National Democratic Congress	3	9	11	8	18	21	8	6	21	11	114
New Patriotic Party	34	15	8	19	9	4	4	3	1	10	107
Independent	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	4
People's National Convention	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2
Convention People's Party	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
National Total	39	23*	19	27*	27	26	13	10	22	22	228
Source: Electoral Commission of Ghana