The 2024 general elections in the Upper West Region has recorded a voter turnout of 66.31% with 2.71% of the votes cast turning out to be rejected ballots.
Out of a total of 518,746 registered voters in the region, only 344, 015 electorates turned up to vote, while a whopping 9,467 votes were registered as rejected ballots, raising concerns about the increasing rate of rejected votes in our body politics during elections.
After the collation of the regional results from all the eleven constituencies, the Regional Director of EC and Presiding Member, Mr.
Ali Adamu Osman, declared John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as the candidate leading in the region against his closest contender and Presidential Candidate of the NPP, Dr.
