{"id":62575,"date":"2023-12-19T06:51:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T06:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/district-level-elections-77-candidates-to-contest-in-keta"},"modified":"2023-12-19T07:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T07:28:18","slug":"district-level-elections-77-candidates-to-contest-in-keta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/district-level-elections-77-candidates-to-contest-in-keta","title":{"rendered":"District Level Elections: 77 candidates to contest in Keta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span><b>A total of 77 candidates have filed to contest in the District Level Election (DLE) in the Keta Municipality on Tuesday, December 19.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The figure consists of 73 males and four females from 22 electoral areas.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Erasmus Kpodo, the Returning Officer for the Keta Central Electoral Area, told that they were prepared to execute their mandate on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EC office is fully prepared for Tuesday\u2019s task and I believe the candidates and voters will live up to expectation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just finished organising a successful platform mounting for all candidates across the entire municipality, and we hope people will come out in their numbers to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The four females would contest at the Kedzikofe, Dzelukofe Amugo, and Dzelukofe Afugo electoral areas.<\/p>\n<p>For the unit committee elections, 169 candidates would be contesting, comprising 149 males and 20 females.<\/p>\n<p>This DLE is to elect assembly members and their unit committee members into the various metropolitan, municipal, and district assemblies across the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. A total of 77 candidates have filed to contest in the District Level Election (DLE) in the Keta Municipality on Tuesday, December 19. The figure consists of 73 males and four females from 22 electoral areas. Mr Erasmus Kpodo, the Returning Officer for the Keta Central Electoral Area, told that they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":62574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[5092,5096,429],"class_list":["post-62575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-ghana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>District Level Elections: 77 candidates to contest in Keta - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A total of 77 candidates have filed to contest in the District Level Election (DLE) in the Keta Municipality on Tuesd ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/district-level-elections-77-candidates-to-contest-in-keta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"District Level Elections: 77 candidates to contest in Keta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A total of 77 candidates have filed to contest in the District Level Election (DLE) in the Keta Municipality on Tuesd ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/district-level-elections-77-candidates-to-contest-in-keta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-12-19T06:51:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-19T07:28:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/12\/sm_1702958156.120237.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/district-level-elections-77-candidates-to-contest-in-keta#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/district-level-elections-77-candidates-to-contest-in-keta\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"District Level Elections: 77 candidates to contest in Keta\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-12-19T06:51:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-19T07:28:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/district-level-elections-77-candidates-to-contest-in-keta\"},\"wordCount\":177,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/district-level-elections-77-candidates-to-contest-in-keta#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/12\/sm_1702958156.120237.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Ghana\",\"ghana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/district-level-elections-77-candidates-to-contest-in-keta#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/district-level-elections-77-candidates-to-contest-in-keta\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/district-level-elections-77-candidates-to-contest-in-keta\",\"name\":\"District Level Elections: 77 candidates to contest in Keta - 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