As the debate continues to wage around Proportional Representation towards the 2023 elections, it has emerged that the APC has been engaged in electoral fraud over the years; to gain advantage in the share of Members of Parliament. Since 2007, APC has consistently had far more number of Members of Parliament than their total share of the votes cast for Parliamentarians. In 2007 for instance, although the APC got only 40.% of the total votes cast for Parliamentary seats, the party went on to claim 59 seats in Parliament; being 53% of the total seats in Parliament. In 2012, APC got 53% of the total votes cast for Parliamentary seats; but went on field 67 Members of Parliament Parliament; being 60% of the seats in Parliament. In 2018, although APC got only 40% of the votes cast for Parliament, the party went to gain 68 seats in Parliament; being 52% of the Parliamentary seats.
| Year | Party | Votes | % share of votes | Number of MPs | Share of seats in Parliament |
| 2007 | APC | 728,898.00 | 40.73% | 59 | 53% |
| SLPP | 707,608.00 | 39.54% | 43 | 38% | |
| PMDC | 275,435.00 | 15.39% | 10 | 9% | |
| 2012 | APC | 1,149,234.00 | 53.67% | 67 | 60% |
| SLPP | 819,185.00 | 38.25% | 42 | 38% | |
| 2018 | APC | 989,431.00 | 39.93% | 68 | 52% |
| SLPP | 964,659.00 | 38.93% | 48 | 36% | |
| NGC | 215,315.00 | 8.69% | 4 | 4% | |
| C4C | 119,006.00 | 4.8% | 8 | 8% |
The revelation that the APC has been illegally and fraudulently enjoying a high share of seats in Parliament, not proportionate with the number of votes the party gets, came out of a report last week by the Institute for Governance Reform. APC’s Constituency demarcation and census fraud began in 2007; and was further accelerated in 2018 when the party created two new Districts, and tens of new Chiefdoms through the enactment of the rural act of 2017. It was mainly in these new Districts and the numerous new Chiefdoms that the APC created constituencies with voting populations of less than 3,000 voters. The Proportional Representation system that the country is returning to for the 2023 elections is going to end this fraud.
