NDC Increases Seats In Upper East

Mr Dominic Azumah, incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Garu-Tempane constituency retained the Parliamentary seat, with 1,6318 votes to beat his main competitor, Mr. Alhassan Samari of the National Patriotic Party (NPP) who had 1,5650 votes.

The Electoral Commission’s (EC) confirmed results indicate that NDC also won the Presidential elections, polling 1,9477 while NPP got 1,2564.

The Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) polled 408 votes for the Presidential elections and 1,241 votes for Parliamentary, while the People’s National Convention (PNC) party polled 462 for Presidential and 445 for Parliamentary.

The Convention People’s Party polled 234 votes for the presidential elections and 471 for the parliamentary, while DPP had 88, and RDP, 64 Presidential votes and the Independent Candidate got 178 votes.

There were 1,752 rejected votes from the Presidential and 1255 from the Parliamentary.

In the Bolgatanga Constituency, Mr Opam Brown Akolbire of the NDC won the Parliamentary seat with 2,8656 votes while the NDC Presidential election polled 3,0941 to beat the other parties.

The NPP polled 1,3554 for presidential and 1,0063 for Parliamentary, while PNC which had held Bolgatanga as its strong hold for the past three elections, had 4,393 for Presidential and 1,0009 votes for Parliamentary.

The CPP polled 472 for Presidential and 640 votes for Parliamentary.

Democratic Freedom Party had 162 votes for Presidential and 229 for Parliamentary and DPP had 60 for Presidential and 97 for Parliamentary while RPD that had no Parliamentary Candidate had 52 votes for Presidential and the Independent candidate got 63 votes.

Source – GNA