This is a list of elections held in the British colony of the Gold Coast, which later expanded to include the Northern Territories, Ashanti Region and the Trans-Volta Togoland prior to becoming the Republic of Ghana.
In the 1927 Gold Coast general election, four of the nine Africans elected on the Legislative Council were J. E. Casely Hayford[3] (Sekondi), John Glover Addo[4] (Accra), Kobina Arku Korsah[5] (Cape Coast) and Nana Ofori Atta[2] for the Western Province.
[8] The three municipal elected members of the Legislative Council in 1944 were Tufuhin Moore[4] (Cape Coast), Akilagpa Sawyerr (Accra) and Charles William Tachie-Menson (Sekondi).
[10][11] Kwame Nkrumah who was then in prison on a three years sentence for sedition[12] was released from jail by Charles Noble Arden-Clarke, the Governor of the Gold Coast and invited in order to become the Leader of Government Business.
In 1956, the Legislative Assembly was dissolved and elections were held to test the popular support for the call by the CPP for independence.
[17] The National Liberation Council military government organised the 1969 Ghanaian parliamentary election which brought the Progress Party into power with a large majority.
[10] Following the military coup d'état of 1966, the National Liberation Council organised a general election on 26 August 1969.
The president was directly elected, unlike in 1969 when the leader of the largest party in parliament became prime minister.
[10] Akwasi Afrifa, a former military head of state and a candidate for the Mampong seat, was executed by firing squad on 26 June 1979, eight days after the election.
[10] History was made after the 2000 Ghanaian general election as the country experienced the first change of government through the ballot box.
In the run-off elections between the first two candidates, Kufuor beat John Atta Mills with 56.9 per cent of the votes.
[32] Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP went to the Supreme Court of Ghana to challenge the validity of the result of the election.
[35] In October 2016, the Electoral Commission disqualified 12 presidential aspirants from contesting the 2016 Ghanaian general election citing irregularities with their registration documentation.
[36] Papa Kwesi Nduom of the Progressive People's Party successfully overturned his disqualification in an Accra High Court.
[41] The revamped Electoral Commission then announced that it will compile a new voters register and replace the biometric voting system with an entirely new one as the old one was not fit for purpose.