Ghanaian presidential election, 2000

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The Ghanaian presidential elections were held on 7 December 2000 with a second ballot on 28 December 2000.
Parliamentary elections were held on 7 December 2000.

There were seven candidates in the first round of elections on 7 December 2000. The second round was contested between the first two candidates from the first round as no one had the minimum of 50% votes required for outright victory.

These were the first elections held in Ghana that led to change of government through the ballot box.

[edit] Results

Summary of the 7 December 2000 and 28 December 2000 Ghana presidential election results

		December 7		December 28
Candidates	Parties	Votes*	%*	Votes	%
John Kufuor	New Patriotic Party	3,104,393	48.4	3,631,263	56.9
John Atta-Mills	National Democratic Congress	2,871,051	44.8	2,750,124	43.1
Edward Mahama	People's National Convention	158,419	2.5	-	-
Dr. George Hagan	Convention People's Party	104,531	1.8	-	-
Augustus Obuadum "Goosie" Tanoh	National Reform Party	71,595	1.1	-	-
Dan Lartey	Great Consolidated Popular Party	66,439	1.1	-	-
Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby	United Ghana Movement	21,803	0.3	-	-