Politics of Monday, 3 December 2012
Source: GNA
More than 1,300 candidates to contest 275 seats in parliament
The Electoral Commission (EC) accepted the nominations of 1,332 candidates to contest the December 7 parliamentary election when nominations closed, but some candidates have since pulled out.
According to statistics from the EC, 1,198 candidates are men while 134 are women.
Upper West Region has the lowest number of women candidates with only five of them being nominated while Greater Accra has the highest number of women with 34.
Ashanti Region has the highest number of candidates at 228 while Upper West has the lowest at 60 candidates.
Ashanti Region has the highest number of constituencies at 47 while the Upper West has the least at 11.
The following is the breakdown of candidates and the number of the constituencies and candidates.
Region Constituencies Male Female Total
Central 23 92 15 107
Western 26 99 12 111
Brong Ahafo 29 123 6 129
Eastern 33 140 12 152
Upper East 15 57 6 63
Greater Accra 34 168 34 202
Volta 26 114 11 125
Ashanti 47 202 26 228
Northern 31 148 7 155
Upper West 11 55 5 60
National Total 275 1,198 134 1,332
