Sentences with phrase «valid votes cast in»

If no candidate receives 50 % of valid votes cast in the first round, the two candidates with the most votes proceed to the second round while all other candidates are eliminated.

Mr Nduom who polled about 1 percent of the total valid votes cast in the 2016 presidential elections said although the party did not win the elections, it had demonstrated to...

Not exact matches

His bid to seek re-election in 2016 hit a snag when he could only garner 44.4 % of valid votes cast as against Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)'s 53.8 %.

Former President Mahama is coming off the worst election defeat of a sitting president in Ghana's democracy, where he recorded 44.40 percent of valid votes cast, losing to the New Patriotic Party's Nana Akufo - Addo, who was endorsed by 53.85 percent of the electorate.

The Parliamentary Candidate for the Progressive People's Party (PPP), in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem (KEEA) Constituency in the Central Region, John Sterlin, is aiming at winning 65 % of the valid votes cast on 7th December.

The PPP came third in the presidential elections with just 1 % of the total valid votes cast, having contested the election for the second time since it was established.

To place an initiated constitutional amendment on the ballot, proponents must collect valid signatures signatures equal to 10 percent of votes cast for governor in the last gubernatorial general election.

President Mahama in 2012, unopposed, secured 99.5 % of valid votes cast.

In 2015, still unopposed, President Mahama secures 95.1 % of valid votes cast, a worse result than President Mills, and a loss of more than 4 % of his (president Mahama's) own endorsement in 2012.&raquIn 2015, still unopposed, President Mahama secures 95.1 % of valid votes cast, a worse result than President Mills, and a loss of more than 4 % of his (president Mahama's) own endorsement in 2012.&raquin 2012.»

«In 2011, President John Evans Atta mills, against fierce competition from Mrs Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, secured 96.7 % of valid votes cast.

Counties used this time to count any absentee ballots or provisional ballots not yet counted, to reconcile the number of signatures on the roster of registered voters with the number of ballots recorded on the ballot statement, to count any valid write - in votes, to reproduce any damaged ballots, if necessary, and to conduct a hand count of the ballots cast in 1 % of the precincts, chosen at random by the elections official.

Where preferential voting is used for the election of an assembly or council, parties and candidates often advise their supporters on their lower preferences, especially in Australia where a voter must rank all candidates to cast a valid ballot.

It did not act on the previous referendum's result, which was the first time ever a majority of valid votes were cast for statehood in the former Spanish colony.

Akufo - Addo beat ex-president John Mahama and five other candidates in the December 7 election by securing 53.85 per cent of valid votes cast to win the contest for the presidency.

The PPP came third in the presidential elections with just 1 % of the total valid votes cast, having contested...

Candidates need to collect valid signatures by mid-July from 5 percent of party members based on the votes cast for that party's candidate in the last gubernatorial election.

The Presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo - Addo defeated President Mahama with a 53.85 percent lead in all valid votes cast, against the latter's 44.40 percent.

Former President Mahama suffered the worst election defeat of a sitting president in Ghana's democracy, where he recorded 44.40 percent of valid votes cast, losing to the New Patriotic Party's Nana Akufo - Addo, who was endorsed by 53.85 percent of the electorate.

The NPP won the December presidential polls with 53.85 % of the total valid votes cast, against the NDC's 44.40 %, the worst defeat to have been recorded by a sitting President who was seeking a second term in office.

57 (1) Immediately after the close of the poll, the deputy returning officer shall count the number of electors who appear by the poll record to have voted and on such record shall enter that number and draw a bold double line immediately below the name of the elector who voted last, and shall sign his or her name thereto, then, in the presence and in full view of the persons entitled to be present, as set out under subsection 42 (1), the deputy returning officer shall open the ballot box and proceed to count the number of valid ballots cast for each candidate and all other ballots therein giving full opportunity to those present to see each ballot and observe the procedure.