Ghana 2012

[minionofmidas]

Beat me by seconds.

[minionofmidas]

And note that Ghanaian politics is less violent, less ethnic based, and more issue based than in other countries.

While the first claim is very true - and the elections were pretty clean IIRC - I would have to be remembering very wrongly for there to be a shred of truth to the second claim.

(checks)

Ah, here goes. Courtesy Gael the-Stoat-in-Winter-Fur, of course.

[minionofmidas]

All I am claiming that both candidates have an >70 - in one case >80 region, of not that many regions. Looks pretty ethnic (or at least sectional) based to me; though I don't know the country well enough. (Just off the top of my head, in many countries ridiculous ethnic bloc voting might not even show up to its full extent on a map like this, you'd have to compare results village-by-village for that as there are no huge ethnic enclaves. It is entirely possible that those - predominating - 50ish regions on this map did not come about in this way.)