General News of Monday, 29 December 2008

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Results Upper East

Complete Certified Results from the Upper East Region as
Declared by the
EC

Bolgatanga, Dec. 29, GNA - With the last two results received from
the Talensi and Nabdam constituencies a while ago, certified results of
Sunday's Presidential Election from all 13 rpt 13 constituencies of the
Upper East Region now stand as follows:

Talensi
NPP - 6,666
NDC - 14,475
Rejected - 476
Total - 21,617

Nabdam
NPP - 4,105
NDC - 6,546
Rejected - 236
Total - 10,882

Bolgatanga Central
NPP -15,498
NDC - 35,746
Rejected - 689
Total - 51,933

Bawku Central
NPP -18,540
NDC - 23,800
Rejected - 642
Total - 42,982

Builsa South
NPP - 2,607
NDC - 7,429
Rejected - 223
Total - 10,259

Builsa North
NPP - 5,863
NDC - 12,808
Rejected - 319
Total - 18,990

Garu-Tempane
NPP - 11,881
NDC - 21,572
Rejected - 823
Total - 34,281

Binduri
NPP - 5,449
NDC - 13,139
Rejected - 511
Total - 19,099

Navrongo Central
NPP - 14,092
NDC - 16,863
Rejected - 488
Total - 31,443

Chiana-Paga
NPP - 8,355
NDC - 18,698
Rejected - 550
Total - 27,603

Zebilla
NPP - 9,975
NDC - 20,651
Rejected - 703
Total - 31,329

Pusiga
NPP - 4,399
NDC - 12,996
Rejected - 663
Total - 18,058

Bongo
NPP - 10,047
NDC - 19,276
Rejected - 587
Total - 29,910

From the above Professor John Evans Atta Mills obtained a total of
234,633 votes being 46,228 votes more than what he got in the 7 December
2008 Presidential Election, while Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo garnered a
total of 117,706 votes being 748 votes less than what he got in the
General Election.
This concludes the results list of the Region's 13 constituencies
as released by the Regional Office of the Electoral Commission
29 Dec. 08