{"iso":"GH","name":"Ghana","flag":"\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded","vote":"Parliament \u00b7 baseline forecast","model":"baseline","updated":"2024-12-07","source":"2024 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling. Shares are the parliamentary vote at the general election of 7 December 2024, official results as published by the Electoral Commission of Ghana. Parties below one percent are not shown.","shares":{"NDC":52.9,"NPP":44.5,"IND":2.3},"polls":[],"parties":{"NDC":{"name":"National Democratic Congress","color":"#2E8B57"},"NPP":{"name":"New Patriotic Party","color":"#132F7A"},"IND":{"name":"Independents","color":"#9a9a9a"}},"primer":{"system":"Presidential republic","head_of_state":"President John Mahama","legislature":"Parliament of Ghana, unicameral, 276 members serving four-year terms.","electoral_system":"Members are elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-seat constituencies.","government_now":"The National Democratic Congress governs with 184 of 276 seats after its December 2024 landslide, with former president Mahama returned to office.","context":"Mahama won the December 2024 presidential vote outright, and the ruling NPP's candidate conceded the next morning. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang became the first woman elected vice president of Ghana.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"NDC":["National Democratic Congress","","Centre-left social democrats, one of Ghana's two dominant parties; won the December 2024 landslide and now govern under President John Mahama."],"NPP":["New Patriotic Party","","Centre-right, pro-market liberal-conservatives in the Danquah-Busia tradition; governed 2017-2025 and are now the main opposition after their 2024 defeat."],"IND":["Independents","","Independent candidates with no party affiliation; a handful won individual constituencies in 2024."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"Parliament of Ghana","as_of":"2024 election","total":276,"seats":{"NDC":184,"NPP":88,"IND":4}},"region_winners":{"Greater Accra":"NDC","Central":"NDC","Western":"NDC","Volta":"NDC","Northern":"NDC","Upper East":"NDC","Upper West":"NDC","Brong-Ahafo":"NDC","Ashanti":"NPP","Eastern":"NPP"},"region_meta":{"election":"2024 Ghanaian general election \u00b7 presidential vote (7 December 2024)","source":"Electoral Commission of Ghana, official results as published","note":"Each region shaded by the presidential candidate who led there: John Mahama's NDC led eight of these regions while the NPP's Mahamudu Bawumia led Ashanti and Eastern. The geometry uses Ghana's former 10 regions, so results are aggregated from the 16 present-day regions."},"has_geo":true,"next_election":{"date":"2028-12-07","title":"Ghanaian general election","chamber":"Presidency & Parliament","type":"scheduled"}}