Ghanaian general election, 2008
The first round of presidential elections in Ghana in 2008 was held on December 7, 2008 to coincide with the parliamentary elections held in 2008 in Ghana. Although surveys in October Nana Akufo - Addo, the candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party, had clearly seen in front of his biggest rivals John Atta Mills of the opposition National Democratic Congress, neither of the two candidates could reach the necessary 50 percent of the vote. On December 28, therefore, had to be carried out a ballot. The runoff election was based on 229 of 230 constituencies counted a bare majority of 50.13 % of the votes for John Atta Mills, against 49.87 % for the candidate Nana Akufo - Addo government. The voices of the missing constituency Tain Districts in Northern Ghana with 53,000 voters could not be determined because of logistical problems with the ballot boxes. Here is an election on December 30, 2008 was necessary, the majority situation even could have changed due to the very tight result.