Mfantsiman West: Voting moving smoothly

And from the Mfantsiman West Constituency in the Central Region, correspondent Emmanuel J.K Arthur reports that as early as 5.50am, some queues had formed in some polling stations, hours before electoral officials and materials arrived. 

 By 743am, 28 voters had cast their votes at the catholic primary school at Ekurabadze. Registered voters, according to the presiding officer is 591. 

The Abandze Market Shelf polling station has a total of 1032 who vote at three different centers at the cluster. As at 8.32am, 131 persons had cast their votes with no incident recorded.

A misunderstanding between an ailing voter and some other voters in the queue almost marred an otherwise peaceful voting process at the Methodist Primary School A Center where 39 out of the 389 voters had exercised their francise by 8.42am. A timely police intervention resolved the differences. 

At Kormantse, 40 people out of 426 registered voters had cast their ballots by 8.56am. the Presiding Officer, Francis ORbin  told the Graphic Online the exercise had been smooth. 

There was no queue at the Methodist Primary 1 Polling Station at Abonko where some 719 registered voters were expected to cast their ballots. One hundred voters had gone through the exercise by 9.15am.

A total of 92 voters had exercised their franchise at 9.32am when Graphic Online visited the Anglican Church A at Mankessim.

NDC’s Dr. Prince Arhin is contesting against NPP’s incumbent Member of Parliament, Ophilia  Hayford for the parliamentary seat in the Constituency.