Parliamentary appointments were held in Ghana in 1965. As the country was a one-party state at the time, no parties except PresidentKwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party (CPP), were allowed to participate. All candidates were appointed by the President and his party.
Due to a constitutional amendment passed by the CPP majority and a referendum the previous year, the CPP had become the sole legal party. All other parties were banned. It was the first vote for the country's parliament since the pre-independence 1956 legislative elections; Nkrumah's victory in the 1960 constitutional referendum was taken by the President and his party as a fresh mandate from the people and the terms of National Assembly members were extended for another five years.
Results
As Ghana was now a one-party state, all 198 MPs representing the CPP were appointed by the president and elected unopposed.[1]
Aftermath
Nkrumah was overthrown in a coup in February 1966, the CPP was dissolved, and the constitution suspended. The conversion of the country's governance system was one of the major reasons for the 1966 coup. Multi-party politics was restored by the time of the next elections in 1969.
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