The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced that a total of 18,774,159 eligible registered voters are expected to partake in the upcoming December 7 elections.
With barely 25 days to the election, the EC has said the participants include those on the biometric register, special voters, and individuals without biometric data.
This was contained in the EC’s summary of the certified 2024 voter register, signed by the Deputy Chairman of Operations, Samuel Tettey.
According to the EC’s statistics, 18,640,811 voters have biometric data, while special voters number 131,478.
Additionally, there are 1,870 voters on the roll without biometric data.
The figure reflects an increase of 1,746,518 voters compared to the 2020 election, when the total number of registered voters was 17,027,641.
Eligible Ghanaian voters will go to the polls to elect a president and 276 Members of Parliament on December 7, 2024.
Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission (EC) has decided to keep the positions on the presidential ballot paper unchanged, despite the disqualification of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) candidate.
In an emergency meeting with political parties in Accra on Tuesday, the EC announced that Mr. Philip Appiah Kubi, also known as Roman Fada, had been disqualified due to “errors and illegalities” in his nomination forms.
The EC had previously suspended the printing of the presidential ballot papers following the death of Madam Akua Donkor, the GFP’s presidential candidate, on October 28, 2024.

Addressing the representatives of the political parties on Tuesday, Mrs. Jean Mensa, Chairperson, EC, said the disqualification of Mr. Appiah Kubi was warranted by some “errors and illegalities” found in his nomination forms.
Mrs. Mensa said the name, image, and party logo of Madam Akua Donkor would be maintained on the ballot paper, but any vote for the deceased candidate would be annulled.
The EC said printing of the presidential ballot papers was about 90 percent complete and thus printing would resume immediately.