The Electoral Commission (EC) has decided to rerun the parliamentary election in the Ablekuma North constituency in Accra in 19 polling stations.
The commission has announced that the rerun will be done on Friday, July 11, 2025.
This follows more than seven months of a delay in collating and announcing the results following a disruption of the process on December 7, 2024 that resulted in the destruction of some of the result sheets.
An earlier attempt by the commission to use duplicates of the sheets in areas where the sheets were destroyed was received with some disagreements over the validity of the sheets, which has held up the declaration of the results as of now.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, the Deputy Chairman in charge of Operations at the EC, Samuel Tettey, said the decision was reached after extended discussions with representatives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The parties remained divided for months despite several meetings.
The most recent round of talks took place on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, following earlier engagements, including a session on June 12.
The dispute centred on 37 pink sheets submitted by the NPP during the collation process. The NDC questioned the authenticity of the scanned copies and called for a rerun in all 37 polling stations. The NPP, however, insisted that 34 of the pink sheets had already been validated, and only three were outstanding.
Mr Tettey explained that although party agents from both sides had approved the scanned results from 19 polling stations, the presiding officers responsible for those centres had not verified the forms.
He said this led the commission to conclude that a rerun was necessary in those stations.
“The 19 scanned polling station results used for the collation, though approved by agents of both political parties, were not verified by the presiding officers responsible for those polling stations,” Mr Tettey said.
He added that the commission had since received verification from presiding officers for the remaining 18 polling stations originally under dispute, making a rerun unnecessary in those locations.
The controversy dates back to December 2024, when the collation process in Ablekuma North was disrupted. According to the EC, some political party supporters entered the collation centre and destroyed several pink sheets, halting the process.
Ahead of the rerun, the commission has requested support from the Ghana Police Service to maintain order at the affected polling stations.
Once the rerun is completed, the results are expected to bring finality to the 2024 parliamentary elections and restore full membership in the 276-seat Parliament.
