The Electoral Commission (EC) is set to rerun the parliamentary election at Abokobi Women’s Development Centre 2 polling station in the Dome Kwabenya constituency.
This decision comes after the collation process for 367 polling stations concluded with discrepancies in three outstanding results.
The results were filled on a training declaration form instead of the original one, and so because of that, the results from that particular polling station have been rejected on grounds of irregularity.
When polls closed on December 7, 2024 at the Dome Kwabenya constituency, the collation of the parliamentary results was disrupted and led to the destruction of some of the hard copy pink sheets.
When the EC met to resolve the issues, three of the hard copy pink sheets containing the results from three polling stations were missing.
However, when the EC was finally able to resolve the issues and the three polling station results were provided, one of them was detected to have been declared on the wrong pink sheet, that is the declaration form meant for training of presiding officers instead of the actual declaration form.
When the results from the two remaining polling stations were added, it showed a difference of 165 votes, with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate, Elikplim Akurugu leading that of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate, Mike Oquaye Jnr.
The polling station that the results has been rejected, that is the Abokobi Women’s Development Training Centre has a total voter population of about 665.
According to the Electoral Commission, assuming if all the votes were to be declared for the NPP candidate, the results will change considering the difference of 165 votes and therefore the need to re-run the election in that particular polling station alone.
According to the Director of Training at the EC, Dr Serebour Quaicoe, the commission was going to meet to determine when to re-run that election at the polling station.
