2004 Ghanaian general election

General elections were held in Ghana on 7 December 2004. The presidential elections resulted in a victory for incumbent John Kufuor of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who defeated John Atta-Mills of the National Democratic Congress with 52 percent of the vote in the first round, enough to win without the need for a runoff. The parliamentary elections saw the NPP win 128 seats in the expanded 230-seat Parliament, an outright majority.^[1]

Presidential election

There were four candidates:

• George Aggudey (Convention People's Party)
• John Kufuor (New Patriotic Party) - incumbent
• John Atta Mills (National Democratic Congress)
• Edward Mahama (Grand Coalition, an alliance of the People's National Convention, Every Ghanaian Living Everywhere, and Great Consolidated Popular Party)

Results

President

Parliament

See also

• List of MPs elected in the 2004 Ghanaian parliamentary election

References

1. Elections in 2004 IPU

External links

• Ghana Elections 2004 - Think Ghana
• 2004 results - Stanford University Archive Portal
• 2004 results - Friedrich Ebert Stiftung