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1960 Ghanaian presidential election information


1960 Ghanaian presidential election
1960 Ghanaian presidential election
27 April 1960 1979 →
 
Nominee Kwame Nkrumah J. B. Danquah
Party CPP United Party
Popular vote 1,016,076 124,623
Percentage 89.07% 10.93%

Elected President

Kwame Nkrumah
CPP

Presidential elections were held for the first time in Ghana on 27 April 1960. The elections were held alongside a referendum on creating a republic with an executive presidency. The winner of the elections would become the country's first president if the new republican constitution was passed, which it did.

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