electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-election-data-2008-presidential-election-results-8ed8c57e

Election Data - 2008 Presidential Election Results | Africa (Ghana official open data)

255 rows - 1 Africa country - 2008 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Ghana as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Election Data - 2008 Presidential Election Results
• Publisher: Official government open data portal
• Resource: 2008 Presidential Results Data Sheet - Ashanti Region
• Format: CSV
• License: Open Data Commons Open Database License
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
GHA	255	2008	2008	Ghana

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	40ca08cc-c63f-49cd-b8d1-dbe019841e61:0
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	GHA
country_name	string	Country name.	Ghana
year	Int64	Observation year.	2008
doctype_html_public_w3c_dtd_xhtml_rdfa_1_0_en	string	Source column.	"https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd">
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2008
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2008
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2008
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Official government open data portal
source_dataset	string	Source package title.	Election Data - 2008 Presidential Election Results
source_resource	string	Source resource title.	2008 Presidential Results Data Sheet - Ashanti Region
source_package_id	string	CKAN package UUID.	504049c6-3dec-444b-bab4-dbef00e00d38
source_resource_id	string	CKAN resource UUID.	40ca08cc-c63f-49cd-b8d1-dbe019841e61
source_url	string	Original source resource URL.	http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/2008%20Presidential%20Results%20D
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	odc-odbl
retrieved_at	string	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-07-18T20:11:31Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-election-data-2008-presidential-election-results-8ed8c57e")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "GHA"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_ghana_election_data_2008_presidential_election_results_8ed8c57e_2008,
  title        = {Election Data - 2008 Presidential Election Results | Africa (Ghana official open data)},
  author       = {Official government open data portal},
  year         = {2008},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/election-data-2008-presidential-election-results},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-election-data-2008-presidential-election-results-8ed8c57e}}
}

License

Released under Open Data Commons Open Database License.

Original data (c) Official government open data portal. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-07-18 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/2008%20Presidential%20Results%20Data%20Sheet%20-%20Ashanti%20Region.csv