The Electoral Commission (EC) on Sunday, January 5, 2025, re-collated parliamentary results for four disputed constituencies following the December 7, 2024, general elections.
The constituencies in dispute included Ablekuma North, Techiman South, Okaikwei Central, and Tema Central.
The Commission conducted the re-collation exercise after the High Court in Accra, on Saturday, January 4, ruled in favour of a mandamus application by the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The application sought to compel the EC to re-collate results from these constituencies and declare winners. The court, presided over by Justice Forson Agyapong, ordered the EC to re-collate the results and finalize the declarations.
Following the court order, the EC re-collated the results in the early hours of Sunday. At the conclusion of the exercise, the EC declared Members of Parliament-elect for three of the disputed constituencies, while the results for Ablekuma North were suspended for further validation.
In Tema Central, the EC declared NPP’s Charles Forson as the MP-elect after collating the results from two outstanding polling stations, as directed by the court.
Forson secured 18,870 votes, narrowly defeating Ebi Bright of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who polled 18,815 votes.
For the Okaikwei Central constituency, Patrick Yaw Boamah of the NPP was declared the MP-elect with 21,099 votes, ahead of his opponent Abdulai Abu Baba Saddiq, who secured 19,368 votes.
The court had ordered the EC to complete the collation of results from 31 outstanding polling stations and incorporate them into the final figures.
In Techiman South, the EC declared NPP’s Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah as the MP-elect. After collating results from 147 outstanding polling stations, Korsah emerged victorious with 46,663 votes, defeating Christopher Beyere Baasongti of the NDC, who polled 43,429 votes.
The EC stated that adding results from the single remaining polling station would not alter the outcome.
However, in the case of Ablekuma North, the EC suspended the collation of results indefinitely due to discrepancies in figures from 20 polling stations.
Although the constituency had 62 outstanding polling stations, the EC successfully collated results from 42, leaving 20 stations unresolved.
The returning officer indicated that 24 hours would be needed to validate the figures from these polling stations before declaring the winner.
