{"id":237778,"date":"2012-12-09T23:27:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T23:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/12\/confirmed-mahama-wins-2012-presidential-election\/"},"modified":"2012-12-09T23:27:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T23:27:05","slug":"confirmed-mahama-wins-2012-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/09\/confirmed-mahama-wins-2012-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Mahama wins 2012 presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"story_photo\">\n<div class=\"image-frame\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/0cc7766745969_250031.jpg\" title=\"Confirmed: Mahama wins 2012 presidential election\" alt=\"Confirmed: Mahama wins 2012 presidential election\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\"><span class=\"caption-text\">President John Mahama<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_text_1\"> The Chairman for the Electoral Commission, Dr kwadwo Afari Gyan has declared Ghana\u2019s incumbent president John Dramani Mahama, the winner of the 2012 presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahama who ran on the ticket of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), polled 5,574,761 representing 50.70% to win the polls held on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Akufo-Addo had 5,248,898 of the valid votes cast, representing 47.74%.<\/p>\n<p>Out of a total of 14,158,890 registered voters, 11,246,982 voters exercised their franchise. 10,995,262 of this number were deemed valid. The total rejected votes stood at 251,720. The turnout in the 275 constituencies is 79.43%<\/p>\n<p>The flag-bearer of the Progressive People\u2019s Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom placed third in the elections with 64,362 votes representing 0.59.<\/p>\n<p>Click to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/media.myjoyonline.com\/docs\/201212\/2012finalresults.pdf\">full results of the 2012 presidential elections<\/a> as declared by the EC.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"story_text_1\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> President John Mahama The Chairman for the Electoral Commission, Dr kwadwo Afari Gyan has declared Ghana\u2019s incumbent president John Dramani Mahama, the winner of the 2012 presidential elections.President Mahama who ran on the ticket of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), polled 5,574,761 representing 50.70% to win the polls held on Friday and Saturday.The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Akufo-Addo had 5,248,898 of the valid votes cast, representing 47.74%.Out of a total of 14,158,890 registered voters, 11,246,982 voters exercised their franchise. 10,995,262 of this number were deemed valid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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