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2015 Assembly election records 39% voter turn out

Turn out for this year’s district level election was about 39 per cent, according to the Electoral Commission

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This year’s district level elections has recorded the lowest voter turn out of thirty-nine percent (39%) since the introduction of the elections in 1988, the Electoral Commission has announced.

There has been a record of low voter turnouts, participation and interest in the national exercise over the period.

For instance in 1998, 41.6 per cent of the population turned out to vote. It declined in 2002 to 33.1 per cent voter turnout.

It, however, increased slightly to 39.28 per cent in 2006 and reduced again to 37.25 per cent in 2010.

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According to Mrs Charlotte Osei, she said the turn out could rise to about 40 per cent if the outstanding elections were held.

She said five districts across the country had legal challenges and therefore, the EC was waiting for the court ruling before it could hold elections in those areas.

Mrs Osei said the EC had scheduled elections in those areas to the end of October, this year.

This constant decline, therefore, affects the country’s drive to consolidate the decentralisation process, especially, when representations of Assembly Members and Unit Committee Members were determined by a small percentage of voters.

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