1979 Ghanaian general election

1979 Ghanaian general election

Presidential election
← 1960 18 June 1979 (first round)
9 July 1979 (second round)
1992 →
 
Nominee Hilla Limann Victor Owusu
Party PNP PFP
Popular vote 1,118,305 686,097
Percentage 61.98% 38.02%

Results by region

President before election

Jerry John Rawlings
Military

President-elect

Hilla Limann
PNP

Parliamentary election
← 1969 18 June 1979 1992 →

All 140 seats in Parliament
71 seats needed for a majority
Party Vote % Seats
People's National Party

36.44 71
Popular Front Party

30.60 42
United National Convention

17.51 13
Action Congress Party

8.84 10
Social Democratic Front

3.90 3
Independents

0.91 1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

General elections were held in Ghana on 18 June 1979, with a second round of the presidential election on 9 July 1979. The presidential election resulted in victory for Hilla Limann of the People's National Party, who received 62% of the vote in the run-off,[1] whilst his PNP won 71 of the 140 seats in Parliament. According to one scholar, the elections were conducted "in as free and fair a manner as might be considered humanly possible under local conditions" and the losing candidates publicly accepted defeat.[2] Around 5,070,000 people were registered to vote.[1]

The Electoral Commissioner during the elections was Joseph Kingsley-Nyinah, an Appeal Court Judge who was appointed by the Supreme Military Council (SMC).[3] Although the SMC was overthrown on 4 June 1979, the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council military government which replaced it allowed the elections to proceed just two weeks later.

  1. ^ a b Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p438 ISBN 0-19-829645-2
  2. ^ Jeffries, Richard (July 1980). "The Ghanaian Elections of 1979". African Affairs. 79 (3): 401. JSTOR 722047.
  3. ^ "Profile of Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, the Next NPP Flagbearer". VibeGhana. 25 April 2014. Archived from the original on 29 April 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

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