After beating long-time opponent John Mahama, Akufo-Addo of the centre-right New Patriotic Party (NPP) received 6,730,413 or 51.59 percent of votes while Mahama of the centre-left National Democratic Congress (NDC) received 6,214,889 or 47.36 percent of votes, the commission’s chairperson Jean Adukwei Mensa said.
Parliamentary results for the country’s 275 constituencies are yet to be announced, but are expected to be very close.
More than 13 million ballots were cast out of a total electorate of 17 million and across 38,000 polling stations throughout the country.
Voters also chose 275 lawmakers for the national parliament. Both of those elections were determined by small margins.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, turnout was high on Monday, with 13,434,574 people voting or 79 percent of registered voters, according to the electoral commission.
Police said that five people were killed in election-related violence, casting a shadow over a country hailed for its stable democracy.
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