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1960 Ghanaian presidential election

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Field	Value
country	Ghana
type	presidential
next_election	1979 Ghanaian general election
next_year	1979
election_date	27 April 1960
image1	Kwame Nkrumah (JFKWHP-AR6409-A).jpg
nominee1	Kwame Nkrumah
party1	Convention People's Party
popular_vote1	1,016,076
percentage1	89.07%
image2	3x4.svg
nominee2	J. B. Danquah
party2	United Party
popular_vote2	124,623
percentage2	10.93%
title	President
after_election	Kwame Nkrumah
after_party	Convention People's Party

Presidential elections were held for the first time in Ghana on 27 April 1960. The elections were held alongside a referendum on creating a republic with an executive presidency. The winner of the elections would become the country's first president if the new republican constitution was passed, which it did.

Candidates

There were only two candidates:

Kwame Nkrumah, incumbent prime minister and leader of the Convention People's Party
J. B. Danquah, United Party leader and one of the Big Six

Results

Aftermath

After winning the election, and the passing of the new constitution in the simultaneous referendum, Nkrumah was inaugurated on 1 July 1960, replacing Governor-General William Hare as head of state. Danquah was imprisoned the following year under the Preventive Detention Act, but only held for a year. On his release, he was elected President of the Ghana Bar Association. He was imprisoned again in 1964 and died in jail.

Four years later, another referendum strengthened Nkrumah's powers and turned the country into a one-party state (with an official result of 99.91% in support).

References

[http://africanelections.tripod.com/gh.html#1960_Presidential_Election African Elections Database]

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