District Level Elections Rescheduled in parts of Ashanti and Eastern Regions

The Electoral Commission of Ghana has rescheduled the District Level Elections in the Ashanti and Eastern regions scheduled for today to Thursday, 21^st December, 2023. In a press release issued by the commission on Tuesday, December 19, 2023, it explained that the reason for the rescheduling stems from technical challenges.

The Acting Head of Public Affairs, Michael Boadu expressed regret on the commission’s behalf for any inconvenience the new development may cause to the affected electoral areas, assuring the public that the District Elections will proceed as planned on the rescheduled date.

The Local Government Elections in Ghana is taking place today across the country. Voters will elect assembly members and unit committee members in the District Assembly and Unit Committee elections respectively.

Ghana elects its District and Unit committee representatives every four years.

Over 66,000 candidates are contesting for the assembly and unit committee positions according data from the Electoral Commission. The EC’s statistics further indicates there are 18,755 assembly member candidates and 47,502 unit committee member candidates, totaling 66,257 candidates.

The election spans 6,215 electoral areas across 216 metropolitan, municipal, and district assemblies.