The Creation of Districts and Constituencies in Ghana: Some Pertinent Issues in the Current Dispensation
Keywords:
Boundary, Demarcation, District, Constituency
Abstract
The creation of administrative districts and parliamentary constituencies
constitute major aspects of the internal organisation of states. The Ghanaian
Constitution of 1992 invests the creation of districts and constituencies in the
Presidency and the independent Electoral Commission respectively. This
arrangement has created an uneasy relationship between the two institutions
particularly as administrative districts automatically become constituencies on the dissolution of parliament. This paper discusses the constitutional and political issues emanating from the procedures for the creation of districts and constituencies and concludes that they should be streamlined.
