A woman in her 40s has died after collapsing in a queue to cast her ballot at Wokumagbe in the Sege Constituency of the Greater Accra Region.
“Nuerkie Tetteh-March complained that she was feeling dizzy and suddenly collapsed so they sent her home. She however died before they could take her to the hospital,” the Assembly member for Wokumagbe Electoral Area, Mr. Fredrick Narteh Dodzi, said.
The family confirmed the incident but refused to give more information on the issue.
After 10 hours of voting, polls have officially closed to mark the start of the counting process across the country.
The process was mostly peaceful and smooth, according to the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers, but for a few cases of queue mismanagement and isolated cases of violence.
Electoral Commission officials and political party agents are at various collating centres across the country where counting is ongoing.
Over 17 million voters are expected to vote in this year’s elections and are expected to elect a President and 275 Parliamentarians. The figure is 2 million more than the number of voters who voted in the previous election in 2016.
