People's Action Party | |
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Leader | Imoru Ayarna |
Founder | Imoru Ayarna |
Founded | 1969 |
Dissolved | 1970 |
Merged into | Justice Party with National Alliance of Liberals and United Nationalist Party |
National affiliation | Ghana |
Parliament (1969-1970) | 2 / 140 |
The People's Action Party (PAP) was a political party in Ghana during the Second Republic (1969-1972). In elections held on 29 August 1969, the PAP won 2 out of 140 seats in the National Assembly. The party's leader and founder was Imoru Ayarna. [1] [2]
The party was one of five to contest the 1969 Ghanaian parliamentary election. [3] The party won two seats in the Western Region of Ghana. These were the Nzema West constituency which was won by Francis Asuah Amalemah [4] and the Nzema East seat won by Timothy Amihere Mensah [5] [6] Imoru Ayarna himself also contested the elections but did not win a seat. [2]
Election | Number of PAP votes | Share of votes | Seats | +/- | Position | Outcome |
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1969 | 51,125 | 3.40% | 2 | ![]() | ![]() | Opposition |
In October 1970, the PAP together with the National Alliance of Liberals (NAL) and the United Nationalist Party (UNP) merged to form the Justice Party to provide a unified opposition in parliament. [7]