Contrary to unsubstantiated claims by the twice beaten presidential candidate of the NDC and former President of the Republic of Ghana that elections 2020 were rigged, TNF study of the data shows otherwise. There was no rigging.
In the Presidential elections of Ghana, there is only ONE CONSTITUENCY, GHANA which is made up of a collection of all 275 constituencies of Parliamentary seats. Despite this, the Electoral Commission for administrative purposes tabulates results on regional basis before national.
There are four layers in computing Presidential Elections Results namely; Polling Station Count, Constituency Collation, Regional Tabulation, and then National Collation and Computing. There were 38,622 polling stations, 275 constituencies and 16 regions in the December 2020 elections.
TNF analysis of the regional tabulations show that the NDC flagbearer won in 9 out of the 16 regions but failed to win with margins that will secure the entire 275 constituencies put together. The President, and candidate of the NPP on the other hand won in 7 regions with mega margins.
Notably in Ashanti and Eastern Regions, the NPP candidate won with margins that cancelled out the comparatively marginal wins in the 9 regions the NDC won. Given the humiliating defeat, the NDC candidate suffered in 2016 as incumbent, TNF believes the recovery in 2020 was victory.
An aggregate score of the 137 Parliamentary seats the two sponsoring parties each had buttress the win by the NPP candidate unlike in 2012 when the NDC majority parliamentary sum was less than the NPP minority of seats sum in excess of 123,000 votes or citizens represented.
With 137 seats, the NPP Parliamentary score of 6,695,611 was 81,355 less of the Presidential votes of 6,776,966 with Techiman South inclusive. The NDC Parliamentary score of 6,194,897 was 70,319 less of the Presidential votes of 6,265,216. The NPP MPs beat the NDC MPs by 500,714.
In the Presidential, the NPP Candidate beat the NDC Candidate by 511,750 votes. The results show more citizens voting NPP than the NDC though they have the same number of seats. The burden of democracy is to submit to the rules governing it, else the NPP should be crying foul.
Source: The National Forum
