Low voter turnout in Tuesday’s district level elections

• Posted on December 18, 2019December 18, 2019
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Voting in Tuesday’s district-level elections across Ghana where a total of 57,030 candidates are jostled for seats in either the assemblies or the unit committees witnessed a low enthusiasm.

With the exception of Nkoranza North, Nkoranza South and Lower Manya Krobo where there was no election, all other districts voted on Tuesday.

There were however pockets of incidents in some electoral areas and polling stations to interrupt the voting process.

In the district assembly election, 18,510 people, comprising 17,601 males and 909 females, contested, while in the unit committee election, 38,520 people, made up of 34,769 males and 3,751 females, offered themselves for election.

The elections took off smoothly across the country.

The President, Vice, and some dignitaries cast their votes early in the morning.

The usual long queues and eagerness to vote which characterises the general election was absent as voters trickled in to cast their ballots in many areas.

In two communities in the Central and Western North regions, some people boycotted the civic responsibility to vote.

The people of Ekumfi Immuna in the Ekumfi District of the Central regions boycotted the elections in a protest against bad roads.

This was also the same situation in Aowin, where some youth boycotted the election for lack of good roads.

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