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Prior to independence Ghana was the British Gold Coast colony. Before then it had been divided among a number of states, by far the largest of which was the Ashanti Confederacy, whose leaders were known as the Asantehene.

1 Latest election
2 List of Heads of State of Ghana
3 Affiliations:-
4 Sources
5 See also

[edit] Latest election

Main article: Ghanaian presidential election, 2004

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**Summary of the 7 December 2004 Ghana presidential election results**
Candidates	Nominating parties	Votes	%
John Kufuor	New Patriotic Party	4,524,074	52.45%
John Atta-Mills	National Democratic Congress	3,850,368	44.64%
Edward Mahama	Grand Coalition (People's National Convention)	165,375	1.92%
George Aggudey	Convention People's Party	85,968	1.00%
Total		8,625,785

[edit] List of Heads of State of Ghana

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
Ghana	Unification of Gold Coast and British Togoland upon independence from Britain
6 March 1957 to 1 July 1960	Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II represented by:-
6 March 1957 to 24 June 1957	Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke, Governor-General
24 June 1957 to 1 July 1960	William Francis Hare, Lord Listowel, the 5th Earl of Listowel, Governor-General
Tenure	Incumbent	Affiliation	Notes
Republic of Ghana
1 July 1960 to 24 February 1966	Dr.h.c. Kwame Nkrumah, President	CPP	Deposed in a coup d'état
24 February 1966 to 2 April 1969	Major-General Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Chairman of the National Liberation Council	Mil
2 April 1969 to 3 April 1969	Brigadier Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa, Chairman of the National Liberation Council	Mil	Later General
3 April 1969 to 7 August 1970	Brigadier Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa, Chairman of the Presidential Commission	Mil
7 August 1970 to 31 August 1970	Nii Amaa Ollennu, acting Chairman of the Presidential Commission
31 August 1970 to 13 January 1972	Edward Akufo-Addo, Chairman of the Presidential Commission	n-p	Deposed in a coup d'état
13 January 1972 to 9 October 1975	Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Chairman of the National Redemption Council	Mil	Later General
9 October 1975 to 5 July 1978	GeneralIgnatius Kutu Acheamphong, Chairman of the Supreme Military Council	Mil	Deposed in a palace coup d'état
5 July 1978 to 4 June 1979	Lieutenant-General Frederick Fred William Kwasi Akuffo, Chairman of the Supreme Military Council	Mil	Deposed in a coup d'état
4 June 1979 to 24 September 1979	Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, Chairman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council	Mil
24 September 1979 to 31 December 1981	Dr. Hilla Limann, President	PNP	Deposed in a coup d'état
31 December 1981 to 7 January 1993	Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, Chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council	PNDC
7 January 1993 to 7 January 2001	Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, President	NDC	After retiring from the Armed Forces
7 January 2001 to present	John Agyekum Kufuor, President	NPP	Elected 28 December 2000

[edit] Affiliations:-


PNP	Peoples National Party social democrat, Nkrumah personalist
NDC	National Democratic Congress social democrat
NLM	National Liberation Movement Asante regionalist 1954-1957, 1966-
NPP	New Patriotic Party liberal
PP	Progressive Party
CPP	Convention People's Party authoritarian, socialist, Nkrumah personalist, 1949-1966, 1960-1966 - only legal party
NAL	National Alliance of Liberals 1966-1970
Mil	Military
n-p	non-partisan
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[edit] Sources

http://www.rulers.org/rulg1.html#ghana
Guinness Book of Kings, Rulers & Statesmen, Clive Carpenter, Guinness Superlatives Ltd
African States and Rulers, John Stewart, McFarland
Heads of State and Government, 2nd Edn., John V da Graça, MacMillan Press Ltd, 2000