Voting in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis is relatively peaceful as there is orderliness at all the polling stations the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited on Friday morning.

Presiding Officers at the polling stations told the GNA that they received all their voting materials on time for the exercise to start at exactly 07.00 hours and have not encountered any problems.

Agents of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) were present at the stations, while those of the other parties were conspicuously absent.

Presiding Officers could however not explain their absence.

In the Shama District, with the exception of the Market Square Lower at Inchaban, Mr William Quansah complained of the absence of a security officer and appealed for one.

As at 08.45 hours, queues had disappeared in some of the polling stations such as the Well Road Primary, 111 out of 419 eligible voters had cast their votes, with 66 out of 988 at the Market Square Lower station having cast their votes.

The Presiding Officers said the voters went to the stations in their numbers very early in the day eager to cast their vote, thus accounting for the absence of the voters.

The Catholic Primary School had recorded 55 out of 1008 eligible voters, 31 out of 371 had cast their votes at the Fort One station, while 25 out of 531 had voted at the GPRTU station.

At 07.27 hours, 19 out of 557 eligible voters had exercised their franchise at the Nkwanta Kessido D/A, while the D/A Forecourt recorded 23 votes out of 394. Mr Julius Bosomtwe, the Presiding Officer said there were three transfers, and one proxy.

Fifty out of 200 voters had voted at the Kweikuma Ridge in Sekondi.