The Social Democratic Front (SDF) was a
political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...
in
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
during the Third Republic (1979–81).
In the
1979 Ghanaian general election held on 18 June 1979, SDF presidential candidate
Ibrahim Mahama won 3.7% of the vote and the party won three of 140 seats in the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...
.
1979 establishments in Ghana
Defunct political parties in Ghana
Political parties established in 1979
Political parties with year of disestablishment missing
Social democratic parties in Ghana
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