The New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Abuakwa North, Gifty Twum Ampofo, has secured a comfortable victory in the constituency by-elections held today.<\/p>\n
Her widely expected triumph came over challengers,\u00a0Samuel Frimpong of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) and the United People\u2019s Party\u2019s Isaac Kwarteng.<\/p>\n
Mrs\u00a0Twum Ampofo polled\u00a010,033 votes representing 89.60% the total votes cast.<\/p>\n
Samuel Frimpong and Isaac Kwartey’s 263 votes (2.35%) and\u00a0901 votes (8.05%) respectively.<\/p>\n
There are\u00a040,068 registered voters in the constituency but only\u00a011, 307 constituents turned out to vote, representing a 28.22% turnout.<\/p>\n
This by-election became necessary because of the death of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for the area, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, last month.<\/p>\n
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) pulled out of this by-election\u00a0on sympathy grounds given the circumstance of the death of the late JB Danquah who was murdered at his Shaishie residence<\/p>\n
It however emerged later that their\u00a0Parliamentary nominee, Anthony Osei Gyimah, was not a registered voter in the constituency.<\/p>\n
Abuakwa Parliamentary results<\/strong><\/p>\n The Abuakwa North seat has largely been an NPP seat since the constituency\u2019s creation in 2004.<\/p>\n In the last election in 2012, the late MP beat the NDC\u2019s Victor Smith with\u00a0about 6,000 votes. But the NDC\u2019s result in 2012, was an improvement from the past, considering that in 2004, the NPP won the\u00a0seat by \u00a016, 000 votes as against 7,000 votes for the NDC.<\/p>\n Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n Gifty Twum Ampofo will legally be an MP for less than 8-months since the tenure of the current Parliament will expire after the presidential and parliamentary elections in November this year.<\/p>\n The NDC already has a parliamentary candidate for the main election in November, and thus have not lost much\u00a0by pulling out of the race considering the seat was already held by the NPP<\/p>\n The party may instead, save some money and time, and focus its resources on preparations for the main election in November.<\/p>\n \u2013<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Abuakwa North, Gifty Twum Ampofo, has secured a comfortable victory in the constituency by-elections held today. Her widely expected triumph came over challengers,\u00a0Samuel Frimpong of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) and the United People\u2019s Party\u2019s Isaac Kwarteng. Mrs\u00a0Twum Ampofo polled\u00a010,033 votes representing 89.60% the total votes cast. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":202488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2647,2648,58,10,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n