Ayawaso East | |
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constituency for the Parliament of Ghana | |
District | Accra Metropolitan Area |
Region | Greater Accra Region of Ghana |
Current constituency | |
Party | National Democratic Congress |
MP | Hon Naser Mahama TOure |
Ayawaso East 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. The Ayawaso East constituency is located in the Accra Metropolitan Area of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.
The Parliament of Ghana is the legislative body of the Government of Ghana.
The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana's 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres. This is 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the second most populated region, after the Ashanti Region, with a population of 4,010,054 in 2010, accounting for 16.3 per cent of Ghana's total population.
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa. Spanning a land mass of 238,535 km2 (92,099 sq mi), Ghana is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south. Ghana means "Warrior King" in the Soninke language.
The seat is located entirely within the Accra Metropolitan Area of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.
Election | Member | Party |
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1992 | Yahaya Seidu | National Democratic Congress |
1996 | Farouk Braimah | National Democratic Congress |
2000 | Mustapha Ahmed | National Democratic Congress |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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National Democratic Congress | Mustapha Ahmed | 44,655 | 89.8 | — | |
New Patriotic Party | Mohammed Salisu Baba | 2,602 | 5.2 | — | |
Convention People's Party | Amin Abdul Karim Larry | 1,754 | 3.5 | — | |
People's National Convention | Alhaji Mohammed Muftao | 742 | 1.5 | — | |
Democratic Freedom Party | Bernard Anvuur Billy | 0 | 0.0 | — | |
Independent | Allhaji Haruna Bukari Dabre | 0 | 0.0 | — | |
New Vision Party | Samuel Kwesi Gyasi | 0 | 0.0 | — | |
Independent | Daniel Danquah | 0 | 0.0 | — | |
Independent | Mohammed Amin Lamptey | 0 | 0.0 | — | |
Majority | 42,053 | 84.6 | |||
Turnout | — |
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