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General News of Tuesday, 9 December 2008

Source: GNA

Mills Captures Six Regions

Trails Akufo-Addo by 124,225 Votes

Accra, Dec. 9, GNA - Former Vice President John Evans Atta Mills, Presidential Candidate of National Democratic Congress (NDC), is leading in six out of 10 regions after the Electoral Commissions (EC) certified Presidential Election results from 211 Constituencies on Tuesday. However, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Presidential Candidate of New Patriotic Party (NPP), is leading Former Vice President Mills by 124,225 votes with the declaration of the results of 211 out of the 230 constituencies.

The regions Former President Mills has captured are: Greater Accra where he polled 870,011 votes out of 1,669,518 valid votes; Volta, 551,046 votes out of 664,888 valid votes; Northern, 422,821 votes out of 732,769 valid votes; and Central, 326,639 votes out of 649,464 valid votes.

The rest are: Upper East Region, 188,405 votes out of 336,060; and the Upper West Region 42,105 votes out of 75,487 valid votes. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, Presidential Candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) leads in four regions. The regions are: Ashanti 1,157,553 votes out of 1,604,593 valid votes; Eastern 488,452 votes out of 840,703 valid votes; Western 335,039 votes out of 679,160 valid votes and Brong Ahafo 332,118 votes out of 656,187 valid votes.

In the Greater Accra Region, Former Vice President Mills beat Nana Akufo-Addo by 101,546 votes; in Volta Region by 452,462 votes; Northern Region by 149,034 votes; Central Region by 26,091 votes; Upper East Region 69,951 votes and in the Upper West Region by 14,068 votes. In Ashanti Region Nana Akufo-Addo beat Former Vice President Mills by 734,368 votes; in Eastern Region by 150,000 votes; in Western Region by 31,376 votes and in the Brong Ahafo Region by 19,695. From the figures, Nana Akufo-Addo needs to win 104,756 additional votes while all the other presidential candidates gets none in the remaining 19 constituencies to be able to win at "one touch".