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John Mahama has polled 213,443 representing 95.24% of votes cast across all the 275 constituencies plus the party\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>

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John Mahama has polled 213,443 representing 95.24% of votes cast across all the 275 constituencies plus the party\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n

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Former President John Dramani Mahama will lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC) into the 2020 elections justifying the prediction of pundits that he remains by a petering distance, the party\u2019s most marketed candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n

He runs away with 95.24% of the vote, leaving six others to squabble over less than 5% in a poll that involved about 330,000 NDC voters.<\/span><\/p>\n

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His obscure and distant challenger Prof. Joshua Alabi managed only 3,399 representing 1.516% of votes cast while the man said to have mentored Mahama in politics, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin placed third with 2,313 (1.032%).<\/span><\/p>\n

NDC return, Goosie Tanoh,\u00a0finally got a shot at his most cherished political ambition\u00a0but polled 2,038 votes (0.909%) to place fourth. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Ekwow Spio-Gabrah placed fifth with 1457 votes (0.650%), Sylvester Mensah managed 932 votes (0.415%) with Nurudeen Iddrisu securing 513 votes (0.231) to place sixth and seventh, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

To understand the size of his victory, John Mahama won by a larger percentage contesting six others than he won when he stood unchallenged in the 2015 NDC Presidential primaries.<\/p>\n

In that 2015 YES\/NO vote, he won 95.1% of the votes in a poll in which the ballot paper had only his picture. John Mahama beat every other contender in their own constituency except Alban Bagbin.<\/p>\n

Read also:<\/b> We\u2019ve lost the election; Goosie\u2019s camp disappointed<\/b><\/span>\"Mahama<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the camp of Augustus \u201cGoosie\u201d Tanoh has expressed disappointment following the humiliating defeat suffered by their candidate in the presidential primaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe results we\u2019ve seen so far would suggest that we have lost. You go into a competition with the object of winning. It is not the outcome that we are looking for,\u201d Kyeretwie Opoku, the Campaign Coordinator Mr. Tanoh told Joy News Kwesi Parker-Wilson at the NDC headquarters which also served as the national collation centre.<\/p>\n

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