REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT, (GENERAL JURISDICTION 13), ACCRA EX PARTE THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS & 6 ORS AND THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF GHANA &7 ORS

The National Democratic Congress (NDC), a registered political party, and six parliamentary candidates contested the 7th December 2024 general elections in six constituencies. While collation of polling station results was completed and winners declared in four constituencies, the Electoral Commission (EC) halted collation in all six constituencies without explanation. The 2nd to 7th Interested Parties filed mandamus applications in the High Court to compel the EC to complete collation and declare winners, while the Applicants filed judicial review applications seeking declarations that they had already been declared winners and injunctions restraining further collation.

RULING PWAMANG JSC: My Lords, before the Court is an application for orders of Certiorari and Prohibition by the Applicants. The 1st Applicant is a registered political party that sponsored candidates to contest in the general elections conducted throughout Ghana on 7th December, 2024. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Applicants contested in the general elections as parliamentary candidates on the ticket of the 1st Applicant in the following six constituencies: Okaikwei Central, Ablekuma North, Nsawam-Adoagyiri, Tema Central, Techiman South and Ahafo Ano North. At the close of the poll there were declarations of polling stations results in all of the above constituencies and the election processes advanced to the collation of the polling station results at the constituency levels in order to determine and declare the winner of the parliamentary election in each of the constituencies. According to the Applicants, the collation in four of the above constituencies was carried out ...