Counting is currently underway in Ghana's 2012 Presidential and legislative elections held December 7 . Some of the provisional results from some polling stations are:
49.87% Ndc / 48.31% Npp
Member of Parliament
- Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram Constituency E T Mensah has retained his seat, albeit with a small margin. The Works and Housing Minister polled 21,178 with the NPP candidate Sylvester Tetteh polling 17,122.
- CPP’s only parliamentary candidate Samia Yaba Nkrumah is reported to have lost the Jomoro constituency seat to the NDC.
- NPP's Catherine Afeku lost the Evalue Gwira seat by polling 11,651 votes. The NDC's Kweku Tamekyi Kessie polled 14,096 votes to win the seat.
- NPPs Yaw Owusu-Boateng beat NDC’s Richard Roland Acquah to win the Asene Akroso-Mamfo seat in the Eastern region. The constituency was one of the new 45 constituencies created by the Electoral Commission ahead of the general elections.
- Deputy Water Resources Works and Housing Minister, Dr. Hannah Bissiw won the Tano South seat in the Brong Ahafo region.
- Baba Jamal is also reported to have won the Akwatia seat after his fourth attempt.
- Nii Lantey Vanderpuije is reported to have won the hotly contested Odododiodoo seat in the Greater Accra region.
- MP of the Efutu constituency in the Central Region, Mike Hammah who is also the Minister of Natural Resources has lost his seat. NPP candidate Alexander Afenya-Markin polled 19,062 votes as against 16,977 for Hammah.
- Information Minister, under the Kufuor administration, Asamoah Boateng (aka Asabee) has failed in his bid to return to Parliament. He lost the Mfantsiman West seat to the incumbent Tawiah Aquinas
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