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The county�s two major political parties have pitched camp in the Akwatia constituency ahead of the parliamentary election re-run for six polling stations to be conducted by the Electoral Commission (EC) on August 18. The EC is due to conduct a re-run in six polling stations in the Akwatia constituency following a High Court ruling on Wednesday, July 15, 2009. The December 7, 2008 election was inconclusive after thugs seized ballot boxes in the affected stations. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, Baba Jamal and Messrs Basil Ahiable and Samuel Abrokwah, the two independent candidates in the 2008 elections had demanded a total re-run of the elections in the constituency after the incident, while the EC and NPP's Dr. Kofi Asare had said a rerun was necessary only in the six affected centres. The High Court in Koforidua ordered the EC to rerun the entire election, however following an appeal at the Court of Appeal, the latter overturned the lower court's ruling and ordered the rerun for only the six centres. After the 2008 general elections, the NPP Candidate, Dr Kofi Asare had 16,889 votes whiles Mr Baba Jamal of the NDC had 13,810. The NPP Candidate goes into the re-run leading Baba Jamal by 3,079 votes in the 83 out of 89 polling stations counted.