1996 Ghanaian General Election
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General elections were held in
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on 7 December 1996. In the presidential elections, incumbent
Jerry Rawlings Jerry John Rawlings (born Jerry Rawlings John; 22 June 194712 November 2020) was a Ghanaian military officer, aviator, and politician who led the country briefly in 1979 and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military junta until 1993 and then se ...
of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was re-elected in a single round, defeating
John Kufuor John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor (born 8 December 1938) is a Ghanaian politician who served as the tenth president of Ghana from 2001 to 2009. He was the fifth chairperson of the African Union from 2007 to 2008 and his victory over John Atta Mills at t ...
of the Great Alliance (led by Kufuor's
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) with 57% of the vote. The NDC retained its majority in
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, winning 133 of the 200 seats. In contrast to the 1992 general elections, these elections were not mired in controversy. In the aftermath of the contentious 1992 elections, several electoral reforms were made with the intent to increase the perceived fairness of the electoral process and put in place measures to prevent fraud.


Results


President


Parliament


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List of MPs elected in the 1996 Ghanaian parliamentary election This is a list of members of parliament (MPs) elected to the Parliament of Ghana for the Second Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana at the 1996 parliamentary election, held on 7 December 1996. The list is arranged by region and constitu ...


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1996 Parliamentary Election Results
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Election and referendum articles with incomplete results December 1996 in Africa