Professor John Evans Atta Mills of National Democratic Congress (NDC) was at exactly 1109 hours on Saturday January 3, 2008 declared the President-Elect of the Republic of Ghana.
The Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan made the declaration based on the following statistics arising out of the conduct of the Presidential Election Runoff held on December 28, 2008 and January 2, 2009.

Number of votes obtained:
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo 4,480,446
Professor John Evans Atta Mills 4,521,032

Total valid votes cast 9,001,478
Total rejected votes 92,886
Total votes cast 9,094,364
Total registered voters 12,472,758
Total percentage turn out 72.91%
Percentage rejected votes 1.02%