2012–2024 · 4 elections · GHA
SAGE has legislative and presidential election results for Ghana from 4 elections between 2012 and 2024: 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024. The smallest unit is the parliamentary constituency. The 2024 election has 276 parliamentary constituencies, and 100% of them have a location. Unit boundaries are available for every election.
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Units are the smallest units in the data, and located units are those with coordinates. A year with several rows has several contests or votes; filter on them before you add up votes.
| Year | Election type | Vote type | Round | Units | % located | Votes | Polygons | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Legislative (unicameral) | 275 | 100% | 10,973,706 | yes | [map] | ||
| Presidential | 275 | 100% | 11,008,170 | yes | ||||
| 2016 | Legislative (unicameral) | 275 | 100% | 10,787,608 | yes | [map] | ||
| Presidential | 275 | 100% | 10,761,641 | yes | ||||
| 2020 | Legislative (unicameral) | 275 | 100% | 13,243,420 | yes | [map] | ||
| Presidential | 275 | 100% | 13,060,739 | yes | ||||
| 2024 | Legislative (unicameral) | 276 | 100% | 11,854,381 | yes | [map] | ||
| Presidential | 275 | 100% | 11,700,316 | yes |
csv opens in Excel, Stata, R, or Python. gpkg has the unit boundaries
for QGIS, ArcGIS, R, or Python. parquet has the vote rows as Parquet.
rds is the native R sf object. Each ZIP has a README with the columns.
All years: [csv 276 KB] [gpkg 1.8 MB] [parquet 763 KB] [rds 6.1 MB] [codebook 93 KB]
| Year | Downloads |
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| 2024 | [csv 71 KB] [gpkg 434 KB] [parquet 75 KB] |
| 2020 | [csv 69 KB] [gpkg 462 KB] [parquet 67 KB] |
| 2016 | [csv 66 KB] [gpkg 462 KB] [parquet 68 KB] |
| 2012 | [csv 73 KB] [gpkg 462 KB] [parquet 72 KB] |
In R or Python:
R: install.packages("sage")
sage::sage_load("Ghana", years = 2024)
Python: import sage
sage.sage_load("Ghana", years=[2024])
Dasanaike, Noah. “The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset.” Scientific Data (2026). Paper · Harvard Dataverse
Some of these data come from other researchers’ collections; see please also cite.
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