2004 Ghanaian general election explained

Election Name:	2004 Ghanaian general election
Country:	Ghana
Previous Election:	2000 Ghanaian general election
Previous Year:	2000
Next Election:	2008 Ghanaian general election
Next Year:	2008
Election Date:	7 December 2004
Module:	Embed: yes Election Name: Presidential election Type: presidential Turnout: 85.12% Image1: John Kufuor 080915-A-8817J-090.JPG Nominee1: John Kufuor Party1: New Patriotic Party Popular Vote1: 4,524,074 Percentage1: 52.45% Nominee2: John Atta Mills Party2: National Democratic Congress (Ghana) Popular Vote2: 3,850,368 Percentage2: 44.64% President Before Election: John Kufuor Before Party: New Patriotic Party After Election: John Kufuor After Party: New Patriotic Party

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

Parliament

See also

• List of MPs elected in the 2004 Ghanaian parliamentary election

External links

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

Notes and References

1. http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2123_04.htm Elections in 2004