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ELECTION 2020: NPP is preferred choice of Ghanaian electorate – CDD Survey projects

A pre-election survey by CCD Ghana, projects that majority of the voting population will choose NPP over the NDC in 2020 elections

A pre-election survey by the Centre for Democratic Development (CCD) Ghana, projects that majority of the Ghanaian electorate prefer the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its election 2020 Presidential candidate, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo above all other candidates contesting in the 7 December 2020 general elections.

The CDD survey conducted between 28 September to 16 October 2020, was aimed at picking early warning signals by tracking citizens’ opinion on the overall level of the country’s preparedness for elections; public confidence in the competence, integrity and neutrality of election-relevant state and quasi-state bodies; and voter behaviour, expectations, priorities and potential turn-out.

According to the report released by CDD on their survey, the methodology employed for their work ensured that every adult citizen had an equal chance of being selected for the 2020 pre-election survey. They further indicated that a national representative sample of 2,400 adult citizens were randomly chosen for their survey.

The sample the CDD indicated was distributed across regions and urban-rural areas in proportion to their share in the national adult population and face-to-face interviews were conducted in the language of the respondent’s choice (a standard English questionnaire was translated into Twi, Ewe, Ga, Dagbani and Dagaare). Sample size of 2,400, the CDD also says yields a margin of error of +/-2 percentage points at a 95% confidence level.

Campaign Promises

According to the findings of the pre-election survey, 65% of respondents believe that the NPP has the ability to deliver on their campaign promises as compared to 32% who don’t believe same.

On the NDC, 50% of respondents believe that they are capable of delivering on their promises as against 47% who say the NDC are not capable of fulfilling their promises.

By extension, the NPP per the survey, is enjoying a significant advantage (15 percentage points) over the NDC when it comes to public confidence in the ability to deliver on campaign promises.

Confidence in Elected Officials

The survey also revealed that 70% of respondents indicated that President Akufo-Addo as an elected official of the state has discharged himself creditably in office as compared to 28% who say he has not.

In the same category of the survey, 68% of respondents indicated that the chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Jean Mensa, has also discharged her duties with distinction.

Realistic Campaign Promises

The findings of the CDD survey additionally shows that 69% of respondents believe that the promises of the NPP are more realistic with 27% saying that they are not. 58% of respondents, when it came to the NDC, believe that their promises are realistic as compared to 39% who point out that their promises are not realistic.

In this regard, the NPP enjoys an 11 percentage point lead of its main contender, the NDC, in the 7 December 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections.

 

Wilberforce Asare / Asaase Radio

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