Article 47 — Constituencies

(1) Ghana shall be divided into as many constituenc ies for the purpose of election of members of Parliament as the Electoral Commission may presc ribe, and each constituency shall be represented by one member of Parliament. (2) No constituency shall fall within more than one region. (3) The boundaries of each constituency shall be su ch that the number of inhabitants in the constituency is, as nearly as possible, equal to th e population quota. (4) For the purposes of clause (3) of this article, the number of inhabitants of a constituency may be greater or less than the population quota in order to take account of means of communication, geographical features, density of po pulation and area and boundaries of the regions and other administrative or traditional are as. (5) The Electoral Commission shall review the divis ion of Ghana into constituencies at intervals of not less than seven years, or within t welve months after the publication of the enumeration figures after the holding of a census o f the population of Ghana, whichever is earlier, and may, as a result, alter the constituen cies. (6) Where the boundaries of a constituency establis hed under this article are altered as a result of a review, the alteration shall come into effect upon the next dissolution of Parliament. (7) For the purposes of this article, “population q uota” means the number obtained by dividing the number of inhabitants of Ghana by the number of constituencies into which Ghana is divided under this article.