This region was carved out of the Volta Region in December 2018 by the New Patriotic Party, The Volta region was formed by the state union of the former British Togoland which was part of the German protectorate of Togoland. Madam Anti assured and promised that as the leading waste management company in Ghana and Africa at large, ZGL will continue to contribute their quota to make this laudable vision of the President a reality. Ketu South, which encompasses the sprawling border community of Aflao recorded, 125,386, the second highest figure, followed by Hohoe Municipal, 102,206, Keta Municipal, 100,894, North Tongu, 87,084 and Ketu North,60,800. Akufo-Addo does not respect Human Rights in Ghana but there are local and International laws, rules and conventions that guarantee our Human Rights in Ghana. They are not electoral officers, but they are peacekeeping forces. The same advice goes once again to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo and Jean Mensah to be wary of the voter register tinderbox they are setting in the Volta Region. It introduced the NO VERIFICATION, NO VOTE system in which every individual could only vote after his/her fingerprint was verified by the system. Send your news stories to Ghana Area and Population Density. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. This is the official page for the 2020 Population & Housing Census (Volta Region). A total of 1,147,128 people registered in the Volta Region during the recent four-phase 40-day Biometric Voter Registration Exercise across the country.

They all have the rights of Ghanaian citizens as enshrined in the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana. NPP MP Kennedy Agyapong recently said the NPP is leading, in an election yet to take place, with a margin of 1.5 million votes. Yet governments in the world are far distant from the ideals envisioned in this Declaration and Ghana under Akufo-Addo is no exception. This is a list of Ghanaian regions by population, ranked according to the latest census, which took place on 26 September 2010.Past census data (1960, 1970, 1984, and 2000) is included for comparison. [38][39], Recently, a campaign for the cessation of some part of the Volta Region from Ghana to be known as "Western Togoland" is being led by a group calling itself Homeland Study Group Foundation. site = "ghanaweb.com"; [3][4] It is located west of Republic of Togo and to the east of Lake Volta. document.write('');

It is located west of Republic of Togo and to the east of Lake Volta. and features to [36][37], There was vocal opposition to the incorporation of Togoland into modern Ghana, from the Ewe people who voted (42%) against in British Togoland, as the Ewe wanted the unification of the Ewe people in British Togoland and French Togoland as a separate Ewe state (modern Togo). [8], The current Regional Minister, Archibald Letsa was appointed in February 2017.[9]. Before the regional demarcation in December 2018[10], the region had 25 districts consisting of 5 municipal and 20 ordinary districts with all the administrative changes as of December 2012. They are; the Greater Accra Region, the Northern Region and the Central Region. Nevertheless, strong 'ethnic block voting' in these two main regions has persisted in the Ashanti and Volta regions. Are they not Ghanaians? [7], The Volta region is run by a Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) and a District Assembly. The Electoral Commission's Provisional Code Book 2019 has registered voters of 996,370 for the Volta Region.