The Electoral Commission has announced that it will re-run parliamentary elections in 19 polling stations in the Ablekuma North Constituency on Friday, July 11, 2025.
“After extensive deliberations, the Commission informed the Political Parties that it would proceed to rerun the election in 19 out of the 37 Polling Stations,” the EC said in a statement on Wednesday.
The Ablekuma North Constituency is currently not represented in Parliament due to disputes over the collation of results from the 2024 elections.
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“As part of its commitment to resolve the impasse regarding the Ablekuma North Constituency Parliamentary Election, the Electoral Commission on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, met with representatives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP),” the statement said.
What does this mean for you?
For eligible voters in the constituency, a re-run of the election means citizens would have to come out and vote again in the affected polling stations in order to select their parliamentary candidate.
The EC indicated that the issue revolves around the fact that scanned Pink Sheets—documents used to record polling station-level results—were used in the collation after physical copies were destroyed when political party supporters stormed the collation centre during the 2024 elections.
According to the EC, the NDC held the view that the election should be re-run in all 37 polling stations because scanned pink sheets from these polling stations, which were used to collate the results, were provided by the NPP.
The NPP, on the other hand, asserted that the results from three outstanding polling stations, be collated and a winner declared, since the NDC agents had verified and confirmed the scanned polling station results they presented.
“It is important for the Public to understand that the issue in contention has to do with the fact that 37 Pink Sheets provided by the NPP and used to collate the results were scanned copies,” the statement added.
Find below the EC statement
