A survey of four constituencies in the Greater
Accra Region that have since 1996 voted for the winning party in the
presidential elections indicates that presidential candidate of the New
Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo is likely to win in three of the four
constituencies, with one going for President John Dramani Mahama.The
survey which sampled 480 respondents from the four constituencies, showed that
a larger percentage of voters in Ledzokuku, Krowor, Ablekuma Central preferred
the NPP candidate while incumbent President Mahama led in Klottey
Korle.
54.2 percent for Nana Addo, 36.5% for
Mahama
The survey showed that 54.2 percent of respondents in
the constituencies were likely to vote for NPP while 36 percent said they were
likely to vote for the NDC. 4.7 percent in the December 7 poll.
The data
which was collected in the second week of November, 2016 was evenly balanced
between men and women, with 33 percent being between ages 25-35 and 25 percent
between 36-45.
While 18 percent of the respondents were between ages
18-24, 13 percent were between 46-45.
The survey also shows that
President Mahama and Akufo-Addo has equal name recognition among 23 percent each
of prospective voters, while Dr. Papa Kwasi Nduom had a 19.7 percent name
recognition.
The National Democratic Party’s (NDP) Nana Konadu Agyeman
Rawlings had a 12.7 name recognition among voters while Ivor Greenstreet had
9.6 percent.
When asked who they voted for in 2012, 48.7 of those
surveyed said they had voted for the NDC while 41.6 named the NPP.
120
respondents were drawn from each of the four constituencies for the
survey.
We vote for development
Majority of the
respondents, 379 who may have voted in 2012 general elections said the issue of
development was prominent among the reasons why they voted.
24.6 percent
of them reported that they voted for a particular candidate because they
believed that the person was in the position to bring them
development.
16.7 percent indicated that they voted for a candidate or
party because of their allegiance to that person or party.
10.3 percent
said they voted simply because they wanted to cause a change of
government.
Parliamentary survey results:
Findings Korle
Klottey constituency
In the Korle Klottey constituency, of the
120 respondents involved in the study, 87 percent said they knew the name of at
least one of the 2016 parliamentary candidates for the constituency.
The
significant finding in Korle Klottey was that Zenator Rawlings was the candidate
who was most popular in that constituency with 40.7 percent recognition. She was
followed by Philip Addison who polled 32.9 percent. Nii Noi Nortey ranked third
with 24.8 percent.
About 13 percent also said they did not know the name
of at least one of the parliamentary candidates. Of the number 73. 3 percent
said either they were simply not interested in knowing who the parliamentary
candidates were or they did not pay attention to news or information on the
parliamentary candidates or they had forgotten their name. 20 percent of the
respondents did not give any reason for not knowing the names of their
parliamentary candidates. And 6.7 percent said they did not bother to know the
names of at least one of the parliamentary candidates because they were poised
to vote for whoever represented the political party of their
choice.
Findings from Ledzokuku constituency
In
the Ledzokuku constituency, 72 percent of the respondents reported knowing the
names of at least one of the parliamentary candidates for the
constituency.
The name recognition was evenly split between Sena Okity
with 47.4 percent while the NPP’s Okoe Boye had 46.2 percent. 4.6 percent of
the respondents were able to name Steven Quaye as one of the aspiring
parliamentary candidates of the Ledzokuku constituency.
And 0.6 percent
of the respondents named Grace Ashitey as one of the aspiring parliamentary
candidates.
Ablekuma Central
In the Ablekuma
Central constituency, only 62 percent of the respondents said they knew the name
of at least one of the parliamentary candidates for the constituency.
The
outgoing Member of Parliament had a higher recognition that his party, the NDC’s
candidate with 50.7 percent. He was followed by Eben Nartey, the NPP’s
candidate with 49.3 percent.
This percentage was the lowest recorded
among all the four constituencies which were studied within the Greater Accra
Region
Out of the 62 respondents who were confident that they could name
at least one of the 2016 parliamentary candidates for the Ablekuma Central
constituency, 50.7 percent named the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) while
49.3 percent named the NPP candidate, Eben Nartey.
The survey revealed
that of the 38 percent of the respondents who said they did not know the name of
at least one of the 2016 parliamentary candidates for the constituency, 50
percent reported that they did not know because they were either not interested
in the parliamentary elections, did not pay attention to information on the
parliamentary candidates or they had forgotten the names of the candidates. 21.
6 percent also said it was unnecessary to know their names since they would vote
for whoever represented their preferred political party. And 13.1 percent
indicated that they could not name the 2016 parliamentary candidates because the
candidates were not as popular as the presidential
candidates.
Findings in Krowor
58 percent as
against 42 percent of the respondents said they knew the name of at least one of
the parliamentary candidates for the Krowor constituency.
In Krowor, the
NPP’s Elizabeth Aforley Quaye had a better name recognition of 52.8 percent,
thus making the most popular of the parliamentary candidates than her NDC
opponent, Agnes Naa Momo who secured 41.6 percent. The PPP’s Hubert Hugo
Huppenbauer (5.6 percent).
These were the only three parliamentary
candidates the respondents could name although there were other parliamentary
candidates such as Fanny Amartey.
In 2012, the four constituencies were
won by the NDC with the closest being Ablekuma where the NDC secured 51.8
percent of valid votes cast while the NPP had NPP had 47.5
percent.
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