Essikado-Ketan (Ghana parliament constituency)

Essikado-Ketan
constituency
for the Parliament of Ghana
District Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly
Region Western Region of Ghana
Current constituency
Created 2004
Party New Patriotic Party
MP Joe Ghartey

Essikado-Ketan 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. Essikado-Ketan is located in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly of the Western Region of Ghana. The current Member of Parliament is Hon. Joe Ghartey.

Boundaries

The seat is located within STMA of the Western Region of Ghana. It was formed prior to the 2004 December presidential and parliamentary elections by the division of the old Sekondi constituency into the new Essikado-Ketan and Sekondi constituencies.[1]

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
2004 Joe Ghartey New Patriotic Party
2008 Joe Ghartey New Patriotic Party
2012 Joe Ghartey New Patriotic Party
2016 Joe Ghartey New Patriotic Party

Elections

Ghanaian parliamentary election, 2004:Essikado-Ketan
Source:Electoral Commission of Ghana
Party Candidate Votes % ±
New Patriotic Party Joe Ghartey 24,078 71.4 N/A
National Democratic Congress David Mensah 8,976 26.6 N/A
Convention People's Party Frank Noble Ankomah 652 1.9 N/A
Majority 15,102 44.8 N/A
Turnout 34,198 82.3 N/A

See also

References

  1. ↑ Electoral Commission of Ghana (November 2005). "The 2004 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections" (PDF). Elections 2004:Ghana's Parliamentary and Presidential Elections. Electoral Commission of Ghana, with support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Accra. pp. Page 11. Retrieved 2007-08-14.

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