Ethnic Gerrymandering and Voter Turnout: Assessing the Impact of Ghana’s Volta-Oti Region Split

• In Event: Electoral Redistricting, Voter Registration, and Voting Reforms

Brief Overview

Examines Ghana’s 2019 creation of Oti Region from Volta. A DiD design shows turnout rose in 2020 from mobilization, then declined in 2024 but stayed above pre-split levels, offering rare causal evidence on ethnic boundary changes and participation.

Author

• John-Paul Adjadeh, University of Texas at Dallas