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The Electoral Commission has issued a statement on the number of parliamentary seats won by the 2 main political parties in the recently concluded general elections.
According to the statement, out of the total number of 275 constituencies, the NPP has won 137 parliamentary seats, the NDC has 136 and independent candidate lawyer Andrew Asiamah Asamoah has 1 seat. This brings the total number of seats declared so far to 274.
The only pending seat that has not yet been declared by the EC is that of the Sene West constituency in the Bono East region.
The NDC secured its largest number of seats in the Greater Accra region by winning 20 constituencies, while the PNP’s stronghold, the Ashanti region, awarded the party 42 seats.
At least 108 of the 275 deputies of the 7th Parliament will not return to the house of the 8th Parliament, either because they lost the primaries in their parties or retired or lost their seat in the December 7 elections.
That means that around 39.20% of the 275 parliamentarians do not return home.
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At least 33 deputies from the incumbent New Patriotic Party (PNP) lost their seats in the December 7 elections. About 21 of them are ministers, state ministers or vice ministers.
That is aside from the 41 incumbent deputies who lost the PNP primaries earlier this year and thus did not participate in Monday’s elections. Meanwhile, 4 NPP deputies are retiring.
In total, the PNP will lose at least 78 deputies of its 169 in the next parliament. That means that around 50% of all NPP deputies do not return.
NDC
On the side of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), at least 15 deputies lost in the elections. That’s aside from the 10 NDC MPs who lost their primaries last year, and the 7 NDC MPs who retired.
That means 32 current NDC MPs out of 106 will not return to parliament. That means that around 30% of all NDC MPs in parliament do not retire.
