2020 Polls: Akufo-Addo will win with 51.7% – UG survey

A survey by the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana has predicted a 51.7% victory for the governing New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the upcoming general elections.

According to a survey published by the department, the NDC Presidential candidate will pull gather a little over 40% of the votes while candidate of the Ghana Union Movement (GUM), Christian Kwabena Andrews, placed third.

“When respondents were stretched to indicate the presidential candidate they would vote for in the December 7 elections, 51.7% declared for Akufo-Addo, 40.4% favour John Mahama and 1.4% would vote for Christian Kwabena Andrews, and 1.4 and the undecided are 3.7% (See Table 29),” part of the report reads.

It added: “These voters have taken a firm decision to vote for these candidates in the election. When pushed to indicate how sure they are with the decision to vote for the candidates, a whopping 80.9% said they are extremely/very sure while 11.9% are relatively (somewhat sure) of voting for their candidate”.