The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) has announced that the candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Ablekuma North parliamentary election, Naa Akua Afriyie, is leading with 48 votes ahead of the rerun of the election in 19 polling stations of the constituency.
According to the commission, after the re-collation of the authenticated results of the 2024 parliamentary election, Akua Afriyie got 32,512 votes.
Her challenger, Ewurabena Aubynn, of the National Democratic Congress, secured 32,464 votes.
The EC indicated that 6,839 votes are up for grabs in the rerun of the 19 out of the 281 total polling stations whose results could not be authenticated.
