... Mills won 8 of 10 Regions Professor John Evans Atta Mills, presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has a lead over Nana Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), after EC certified results in 229 constituencies. Statistics by the Electoral Commission said provisional figures of the certified results of Sunday's run-off from 229 constituencies shows that Prof. Atta Mills has 50.13 per cent (4,501,466 votes) while Nana Akufo-Addo has 49.87 per cent (4,478,441 votes).

In the regional breakdown, Prof. Atta Mills won in eight of the 10 regions - Western (51.9%), Central (53.8%), Greater Accra (54.4%), Volta (86.1%), Brong Ahafo (50.4), Northern (61.6%), Upper East (65%) and Upper West (62.3%). Nana Akufo-Addo won in two regions - Eastern (57.5%) and Ashanti Regions (75.0%). National turnout after 229 constituencies is 72.74 per cent. Percentage of rejected votes is 1.01 per cent.

 ------     Akuffo           Mills        
 WESTERN    384,028   48.1  414,144  51.9
 CENTRAL    325,454   46.2  378,975  53.8
 GT. ACCRA  798,556   45.6  953,086  54.4
 VOLTA      102,173   13.9  630,899  86.1
 EASTERN    536,366   57.5  396,277  42.5
 ASHANTI  1,438,820   75.0  479,749  25.0
 B. AHAFO   382,202   49.6  388,463  50.4
 NORTHERN   311,774   38.4  500,953  61.6
 UPPER EAST 117,477   34.4  223,994  65.6
 UPPER WEST 81,561    37.7  134,926  62.3
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 TOTAL    4,478,411   49.9 4,501,466 50.1