Mfantseman

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Mfantseman
constituency
for the Parliament of Ghana
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District Mfantseman Municipal
Region Central Region of Ghana
Current constituency
Created2012
Party New Patriotic Party
MP Ophelia Hayford

Mfantseman 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. Mfantseman is located in the Mfantseman Municipal Assembly of the Central Region of Ghana. It got its new name before the 2012 Ghanaian general election. It was previously known as Mfantseman West Constituency. Concurrently, Mfantseman East Constituency was renamed Ekumfi Constituency.

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Boundaries

The constituency is located within the Mfantseman Municipal District of the Central Region of Ghana.

Members of Parliament

First electedMemberPartyRef
Created 2012
2012 Aquinas Tawiah Quansah National Democratic Congress [1] [2] [3]
2016 Ekow Hayford New Patriotic Party [4] [5] [6]
2020 Ophelia Hayford New Patriotic Party [7] [8] [9]

Elections

Ophelia Hayford won the seat in the 2020 general election. It had been vacant prior to the election due to the death of the incumbent MP, Ekow Hayford, who was also her husband. She resigned from the Ghana Police and successfully contested the seat to replace her husband. [10]

2020 Ghanaian general election: Mfantseman [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Patriotic Party Ophelia Hayford 36,02151.9+5.08
National Democratic Congress James Essuon32,43846.8+1.25
Ghana Union Movement Alijatu Ibrahim9111.3—
Majority3,5835.1—
Turnout —
Registered electors 91,437—

Ekow Hayford the NPP MP for Mfantseman was murdered by armed robbers on the Nkusukum Mankessim-Abeadze Duadze Road on his way from a campaign trip for the 2020 Ghanaian general election. [12] [13] As his death was less than three months before the 2020 election, Article 112 (5) of the 1992 Ghanaian Constitution stipulates that there should not be a by-election in the constituency. [14]

2016 Ghanaian general election: Mfantseman [15] [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Patriotic Party Ekow Hayford 26,74746.82−0.36
National Democratic Congress James Essuon26,02145.55−5.4
Progressive People's Party Kwabena Amuqandoh Okyere4,0437.08+5.73
Convention People's Party Pius Ebo Dughan3180.56+0.32
Majority7261.27−2.5
Turnout 57,90866.00−13.65
Registered electors 88,236
2012 Ghanaian parliamentary election: Mfantseman [16] [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
National Democratic Congress Aquinas Tawiah Quansah 31,83750.95
New Patriotic Party Stephen Asamoah - Boateng29,47647.18—
Progressive People's Party Ernest Kwaminaabaka Baiden8461.35—
Convention People's Party Bonaventure William Appiah1500.24—
United Front Party Eugene Akoto Amanfu1030.16—
National Democratic Party Veronica Esi Adu-boateng690.11—
Majority2,3613.77
Turnout 63,61879.65
Registered electors 79,869

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