user: ### NOW ANSWER:
Question: What is the number of the votes of the election before 2004 with Edward Mahama as the candidate with 3.0% share of votes?
Columns: ['Election', 'Candidate', 'Number of votes', 'Share of votes', 'Outcome of election']
Types: ['real', 'text', 'text', 'text', 'text']
Sample row: [2008.0, 'Edward Mahama', '73,494', '0.9%', 'Minority']
SQL:

assistant: SELECT "Number of votes" FROM "Table" WHERE "Candidate" = 'Edward Mahama' AND "Election" < 2004.0 AND "Share of votes" = '3.0%';