1969 Ghanaian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Ghana on 29 August 1969, the first since the 1966 coup by the National Liberation Council which toppled the Nkrumah government.

Voters elected the new 140-seat Parliament. Kofi Abrefa Busia, the leader of the Progress Party (which won 105 of the 140 seats)^[1] became Prime Minister. There were no presidential elections, as the system adopted was a parliamentary republic. Instead, a ceremonial president, Edward Akufo-Addo, was elected by an electoral college.

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Progress Party	877,310	58.33	105
	National Alliance of Liberals	463,401	30.81	29
	United Nationalist Party	57,652	3.83	2
	People's Action Party	51,125	3.40	2
	All People's Republican Party	27,328	1.82	1
	Independents	27,216	1.81	1
Total		1,504,032	100.00	140

Registered voters/turnout		2,361,462	–
Source: IPU

Party	Ashanti	Brong Ahafo	Central	Eastern	Greater Accra	Northern	Upper	Volta	Western	Total Seats
Progress Party	22	13	15	18	3	9	13	2	10	105
National Alliance of Liberals	0	0	0	4	3	5	3	14	0	29
United Nationalist Party	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
People's Action Party	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
All People's Republican Party	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Independents	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
National Total	22	13	15	22	9	14	16	16	13	140
Source: UNRISD

↑ Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p435 ISBN 0-19-829645-2

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