The National Democratic Congress (NDC) will host its sixth elective delegates congress on May 13 since it was founded in 1992.

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The party unanimously settled on Jerry John Rawlings as its candidate in the processes leading to the 1992 and 1996 elections.

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JJ went on to handpick his then vice, John Evans Atta Mills as candidate for the party’s 2000 election in the famous Swedru Declaration. Mills lost the 2000 election.

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Mills will go on to contest for three primaries, winning each by a landslide even though the third victory did not lead to an election because he died before the 2012 polls were held.

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When Mills died, his Vice President at the time, John Dramani Mahama was elected by the party with months to the 2012 elections. Mahama pulled over 95% of the votes and went on to win the presidential elections.

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As an incumbent in the lead up to the 2016 elections, Mahama was not contested instead the party opted for a system where all registered members of the party participated in an acclamation that returned over 93% ‘YES.’

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Mahama’s biggest test in a flagbearer race was in 2019 in the run up to the 2020 elections.

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He came up against five party stalwarts and one outsider in the race to be on the ballot paper. In the end, Mahama prevailed with a landslide 95% win as the others scrambled with less than 5% of total votes cast.

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