The Electoral Commission (EC) is in the process of adding 45 new constituencies to the existing 230, raising the total number of parliamentary areas to 275.
Of the increase, the Volta and Greater Accra regions would get four constituencies each.
The hint was dropped by the Chairman of the EC, Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan, yesterday when he addressed the media at the Ghana International Press Centre.
The increase for other regions, he told his audience, would be released in due course.
The EC Chairman said the decision was informed by the release of the final figures of the population and census figures in the country.
Speaking on the theme 'Electoral Commission's (EC) Strategies for Addressing Key Challenges of the 2012 Elections', Dr. Afari-Gyan, who tackled various segments of the preparation for the December polls, said the creation would be guided by the newly created districts, each of which was a distinct administrative jurisdiction.
Explaining further, Dr. Afari-Gyan said the commission noticed from the creation of the constituencies that the Volta Region would exceed its quota, a situation which called for the creation of additional constituencies in the region.
'In Volta Region, four new districts have been created, so automatically, the constituencies in the region move from 22 to 26.
'If Volta Region is being given additional constituencies, the Commission therefore should compensate all the other regions in the country,' he added.
The Greater Accra Region would also get additional four constituencies, he said, explaining that 'what I want Ghanaians to understand is that there is a formula that the Commission has to apply for the creation of the new constituencies'.
He stressed that since automatically all the regions had to be compensated and the commission could not increase the number from 230 to 250, the compensation would take the number to 275.
'We have to assemble all the districts, their land size and population and assign a weight. After that, we would know where the constituencies would go. That is why we keep saying to Ghanaians that we do not apply for constituencies.
'If one needs a constituency badly, he or she should go and speak to the government to create a district for him or her,' he added.
He also confirmed that the verification system would be used during the forthcoming elections, adding that what Ghanaians should understand was that there was a difference between the verification machine and the registration kit.
He explained that the registration kit consisted of computer, fingerprint machine, scanner and camera, saying that all were put into one component.
Dr. Gyan stressed that if one of the components went wrong, the whole system would go wrong.
'But the verification machine consists of only one component, making it much more durable,' he stated.
Dr. Gyan announced that about 2,400 people had been cited for multiple registrations, explaining that 'most of the problems were caused by our own officials'.
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