Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese (Ghana parliament constituency)

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Abura/Asebu/Kwamankese
constituency
for the Parliament of Ghana
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District Abura/Asebu/Kwamankese District
Region Central Region of Ghana
Current constituency
Party New Patriotic Party (NPP)
MP Elvis Morris Donkoh

Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese is one of the constituencies represented in the Parliament of Ghana. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. [1] Elvis Morris Donkoh is the current member of parliament for the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese constituency. He was elected on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and won with 22,245 votes [2] to become the MP. He succeeded Anthony Christian Dadzie who had represented the constituency in the 4th Republic parliament on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

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References

  1. "Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District Assembly". Aakda. 2023-07-13. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
  2. MPs elected in the Ghanaian parliamentary election, 2016