Okaikoi North Election Results

Page 29 Tuesday December 9 2009
Story :Jennifer Dornoo & Leticia Ohene-Asiedu.
At the Okaikwei North Constituency, the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo Addo won by 46,077 out of 89,570 total votes cast in the provisional results from the constituency with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) coming second with 42,164 votes.
Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) came third with 883 votes, the Peoples National Convention (PNC) with 319 votes, Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) with 120 votes, Independent candidate with 23votes, Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) 15 votes and the Reformed Partriotic Democrats (RPD) with 4 votes.
At the Parliamentary level the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency, Mrs Elizabeth Sackey, retained her seat with 44,172 votes, with her rival Mr Augustus Ken Kweku Eshun of the NDC coming second with 41,342 votes.
The Mr Mike Eghan Jnr of the CPP came third with 2,064 votes, Victoria Kobbila of the PNC coming forth with 895 votes and Mr Noel Jean Kwesi Brahini of the DFP obtaining 499 votes.
Out of 134,828 registered voters in 125 polling centres at the Okaikwei North constituency, only 89,570 which formed 66.43% of the voters cast their votes yesterday.
88,960 of the total votes cast were valid while 610 ballot papers were rejected.
The atmosphere was peaceful when the results were declared at 10:15am at the coalition centre at the Ghana Telecom University.