The National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) candidate, Bernard Bediako Baidoo has won the Akwatia by-election with 18,199 votes as against the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Solomon Asumadu’s 15,235 votes.
The third candidate in the race, the Liberal Party of Ghana’s (LPG) Patrick Owusu got 82 votes.
The development has now reduced the number of seats held by the NPP in Parliament to 87 with that of the NDC now at 184 with Tamale Central outstanding.
If the NDC goes ahead to win the Tamale Central by-election, which the NPP has indicated it will not contest, then the NDC’s majority in Parliament will increase to 185 seats.
There are four independent MPs currently in the 276 member House.
From the results declared from the total 119 polling stations in Akwatia by the Returning Officer of the Electoral Commission (EC), a total of 303 votes were rejected, with a total of 33,819 votes cast.
The only official from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who was present at the Collation Centre at the time the EC declared the results was the Eastern Regional Secretary of the party.
