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NPP will secure 53% votes if elections are held today -Legon polls

kencitymediagh
Jan 11, 2018
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The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) will garner 52.7% of the total votes cast while the opposition NDC will obtain 33.1% if elections were to be held today, a research conducted by the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, Legon has revealed.

The research which covered a sample of 5000 respondents across the country indicated that the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), Convention Peoples Party (CPP), Peoples National Convention (PNC) and National Democratic Party (NDP) will obtain 2.1%, 1.1%, 0.2% and 0.1% respectively.

The head of the Political Science department of the University of Ghana, Dr Bossman Asare said of the 5000 respondents 56% of them voted for the NPP and 36% for the NDC in the 2016 elections which means there is some reduction of votes a year after the NPP reign and a similar reduction in votes as well for the NDC

“Interestingly, among this same group, 56% voted for the NPP in 2016 meaning the NPP has lost some support among those who voted for them in the last election. For the NDC, also reduced by about 1 percentage point. This is a clear indication that the governing party, NPP, has lost some grounds among its base and certainly independent voters who voted for them in 2016,” the report said.

Key issues that informed the choice of who or which party to vote for, by the respondents were the economy, jobs, education, health care, and perception of corruption.

On government policies such as the implementation of the Free SHS, a whopping 85.4% declared support for Free SHS policy.