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2004 Presidential and legislative elections

by Bern Guri
On December 7th 2004, Ghana went to polls and re-elected President John Agyekum Kufuor and 217 parliamentarians for a second four year term of office, having completed the first term from 2000 to 2004. In all, four political parties contested the elections but the major battle was between the New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by President John Agyekum Kufuor and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) formed by former head of state Jerry John Rawlings and led by John Atta Mills.

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The other political parties that contested the presidential slot were the Peoples National Convention (PNC) led by Dr. Edward Mahama and the Convention People’s Party (CPP) led by George Aggudey. The PNC came into an electoral alliance with two other parties – the Democratic People’s Party (DPP) and the Every Ghanaian Living Everywhere (EGLE). The Reform Party (RP) which is a splinter party from the NDC, did not present any candidate for the presidential slot but contested for one parliamentary seat in the Western Region. Among these parties, the NPP claims to belong to the center-right tradition, while the rest may be loosely classified as belonging to the center-left tradition.

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