{"id":142537,"date":"2024-01-23T21:29:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T21:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/23\/npp-parliamentary-primaries-key-battle-grounds-to-look-out-for\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T21:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T21:29:19","slug":"npp-parliamentary-primaries-key-battle-grounds-to-look-out-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/23\/npp-parliamentary-primaries-key-battle-grounds-to-look-out-for\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP parliamentary primaries: Key battle grounds to look out for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/NPP-primaries.jpg\" alt title=\"NPP primaries\"><\/div>\n<p>After securing a substantial majority with 169 seats in the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) faced a significant setback in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>The party experienced a notable decline, losing 32 seats and reducing their Members of Parliament (MPs) to 137. <\/p>\n<p>In this electoral shift, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) gained the majority of the lost seats, bringing their total to 137. <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The NPP regained the parliamentary majority when an independent candidate decided to align with the party in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>On January 27, 2024, the NPP will once again be in the primary battlegrounds to select candidates who will contest on the party\u2019s ticket, to restore a significant majority in the 2024 general elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are key battlegrounds to pay attention to.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><mark>1.DOME KWABENYA CONSTITUENCY<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-9-1024x1024.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-10032449129\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><mark>2. ASANTE AKIM CENTRAL CONSTITUENCY<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-16-1024x1024.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-10032449126\"><\/figure>\n<p><mark><strong>3. BANTAMA CONSTITUENCY<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Artboard-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-10032449083\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><mark>4. TANO NORTH CONSTITUENCY<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/T-1024x1024.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-10032448902\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><mark>5. OLD TAFO CONSTITUENCY<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Vincent-and-Serwaa-1024x1024.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-10032448903\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><mark>6. ADANSE ASOKWA CONSTITUENCY<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5-8-1024x1024.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-10032449134\"><\/figure>\n<p>            &lt;!&#8211;  <!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen&gt;--><\/p>\n<p>            [embedded content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After securing a substantial majority with 169 seats in the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) faced a significant setback in 2020. The party experienced a notable decline, losing 32 seats and reducing their Members of Parliament (MPs) to 137. In this electoral shift, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NPP parliamentary primaries: Key battle grounds to look out for - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/23\/npp-parliamentary-primaries-key-battle-grounds-to-look-out-for\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NPP parliamentary primaries: Key battle grounds to look out for - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After securing a substantial majority with 169 seats in the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) faced a significant setback in 2020. 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