Following the controversy over the validity of the results from the general election held on December 7, 2024, the Ghanaian Electoral Commission (EC) has declared that it will hold a rerun of the parliamentary election in 19 polling stations within the Ablekuma North Constituency.
“The decision was made following a follow-up meeting with representatives of the two main political parties—the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP)—held on Tuesday, July 1, 2025,” the Commission said in a July 2 press release signed by Samuel Tettey, Deputy Chairman of Operations at the EC.
The NDC’s reservations about the use of scanned pink sheets from 37 polling places—which the party says were supplied by the NPP and lacked adequate verification—are the root of the issue. The NDC demanded that those 37 stations be used to rerun the entire poll.
The NPP, however, insisted that the scanned Pink Sheets had previously been validated by NDC agents during the process and that just three unresolved polling station data needed to be compiled to determine the final result.
When political party members invaded the collation centre, physical copies of the Pink Sheets—documents used to record polling station-level results—were destroyed; therefore, scanned copies were used instead. This is the crux of the matter, the EC said.
After much discussion, the EC decided to rerun the election in 19 of the 37 polling places, stating that while the scanned results from these stations were accepted by both party agents, the Presiding Officers had not verified them.
The Commission stated that the remaining 18 scanned results will not be rerun because they were confirmed by the Presiding Officers and the agents.
The Commission has promised the public that it will maintain its integrity, impartiality, and transparency throughout the repeat, which is set for Friday, July 11, 2025. In order to guarantee a peaceful and orderly election, the Ghana Police Service has been asked to provide sufficient security.