Action Congress Party

{{Short description|Political party in Ghana}}

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| leader = Frank Bernasko

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| founder = Frank Bernasko

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| founded = 1979

| dissolved = {{End date|1981|12|31}}

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| seats1_title = 1979 National Assembly Election

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The Action Congress Party (ACP) was a political party in Ghana during the Third Republic (1979-1981).

In elections held on 18 June 1979, ACP presidential candidate, Frank Bernasko, won 9.4% of the vote{{cite web |url=http://africanelections.tripod.com/gh.html#1979_Presidential_Election |title=Elections in Ghana - June & July 1979 Presidential Election |accessdate=2010-08-26 |work=African Elections Database |publisher=Albert C. Nunley}} and the party won 10 of 140 seats in the National Assembly.{{cite web |url=http://africanelections.tripod.com/gh.html#1979_National_Assembly_Election |title=Elections in Ghana - 18 June 1979 National Assembly Election |accessdate=2010-08-26 |work=African Elections Database |publisher=Albert C. Nunley}}

Following the coup d'état of 31 December 1981, the Provisional National Defence Council took over government and banned all political parties including the ACP.