Abstract
During the Fourth Republican electioneering era in Ghana, starting in November 1992, presidential elections are conducted every four years. The 2000 and 2012 elections closely coincided with the national population censuses of 2000 and 2010, respectively. We constructed meso-level models, based on the concept of “average district voter”, to analyse factors influencing voter turnout rates. The results of the analysis indicated that voting was a normal good based on the estimated inelastic price and income elasticities of demand for this good. As expected, the cost of voting incurred by an individual negatively influenced turnout. The other significant negative factors influencing turnout rates included increasing male/female sex ratio (gender), increasing age-based dependency ratio (poverty burden), and disability.
Highlights
1.1 BackgroundGhana, with an earlier name of Gold Coast, is situated in the western part of Africa
Both models had no significant heteroscedasticity as measured by the Gleijser (1969) and the Lagrangean Multiplier (LM) tests
The results of the 2000 turnout regression analysis are presented in Tables 4 and 5, using the turnout rate from the official registered voters, and the turnout rate based on the citizens in the district aged 10 and above, as the two alternative dependent variables
Summary
With an earlier name of Gold Coast, is situated in the western part of Africa It achieved its independence from Great Britain on 6 March 1957 after the Gold Coast had been a quasi-colony of Great Britain for 113 years, since 6 March 1844, when 17 traditional states signed a defence treaty with the British government. The 1874 colonial arrangement included the original 17 traditional states which signed the 1844 treaty, plus traditional states in the current southern Volta region (such as Anlo, Keta, Peki and Tongu), Eastern and Western regions. These other traditional states were added to the 1844 entity through various security agreements. The Trans-Volta Togoland became part of the Gold Coast in 1956, after a United Nations-organized referendum (Amenumey, 1968)
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