Member of Parliament for Tamale South recently declared that he was going to ensure that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential flagbearer gets 90,000 votes from his constituency in the 2024 general elections.
Speaking at the launch of his campaign in Tamale, the former Minority Leader tasked the rank and file of the NDC to do all it takes to ensure that Mahama returns to the presidency and the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is kicked out of office.
In this analysis piece, Iqra Today will interrogate the numbers from the constituency over the last two electoral cycles. The question begging for answers being: can John Mahama realistically poll 90,000 votes?
| Candidate | 2016 | Voter population | 2020 | Voter population |
| John Mahama | 51,839 – 71.95% | 100, 015 | 52,235 – 68.41% | 113,781 |
| Nana Addo | 19,047 – 26.44% | 25,454 – 30.46% |
a. From the above, it is evident that over the last two elections, the voter population has increased by a little over 13,000 votes.
How high can the figure get? Let us give a conservative increase of 20,000 which will put the voter population at about 132,000.
b. Mahama’s votes has hovered around 50,000 (i.e. the 70% mark). To poll 90,000 votes means Mahama needs some 40,000 votes from his 2020 outing.
Time as they say, will tell.