A total of 47,019 Registered Voters are expected to exercise their Franchise to elect a successor of Mercy Adu Gyamfi Bello popularly known as AmaSey in the Akwatia Constituency of the Eastern Region.
The Constituency has 177 Polling Stations and only two Political Parties are in the Parliamentary Race, namely, New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress.
The New Patriotic Party candidate is Mr. Ernest Yaw Kumi, a 35-year-old Security and Compliance Expect and a 51-year-old Businessman, Mr. Henry Boakye Yiadom.
Mercy Adu Gyamfi Bello popularly known as AmaSey who is the first female Member of Parliament in the Constituency won the seat for the NPP in 2016 with 21,433 votes against NDC’s Lawyer Mohammed Ahmed Baba Jamal who pulled 15,905 votes.
Below are Parliamentary Election results from 1996 to 2016:
1992
Akwatia -MP Gilbert Kwasi Agyei – NDC
1996
Mohammed Erzuah Siam (NDC) 22,140 – 52.90%
Francis A.Y. Agyare-Bray (NPP) 12,815 – 30.60%
Ernest Kwame Ampofo (PNC) 2,240 – 5.30%
Joseph Kofi Asiedu (NCP) 1,506 – 3.60%
2000 Parliamentary election results, Akwatia
Kinston Akomeng Kissi (NPP)13,805 – 48.90%
Baba Jamal Mohammed Ahmed (NDC) 12,069 – 42.80%
Mary Adwoa Buabeng (IND) 1,524 – 5.40%
Christian Addo (NRP) 397 – 1.40%
SAMUEL AGYEI (CPP) 272 – 1.00%
Kwame Kwarkoh Dickson (PNC) 162 – 0.60%
Presidential:
John Atta Mills (NDC) 12,702 – 70.30%
John Agyekum Kuffour (NPP) 4,643 – 25.70%
2004 Parliamentary election results, Akwatia
Kinston Akomeng Kissi (NPP) 19,386 – 52.20%
Baba Jamal Mohammed Ahmed (NDC) 17,484 – 47.10%
Samuel Agyei (CPP) 185 – 0.50%
Eric Totimeh Nomotey – (EGLE) 80 – 0.20%
2012 Parliamentary election, Akwatia
BABA JAMAL MOHAMMED AHMED (NDC) 20,471 – 50.44%
Dr. KOFI ASARE (NPP) 19,914 – 49.07%
FELIX SETH LARBI (PPP) 201 – 0.50%
Presidential:
Nana Akufo-Addo (NPP) 20,678 – 51.61%
John Mahama (NDC) 19,118 – 47.72%
2016 Parliamentary election, Akwatia
ADU – GYAMFI MERCY (NPP) 21,433 – 57.21%
BABA JAMAL MOHAMMED AHMED (NDC) 15,905 – 42.45%
JOYCE SAKYI (CPP) 127 – 0.34%
2016 Presidential Election Results, Akwatia
Nana Akufo-Addo (NPP) 21,436 – 56.93%
John Mahama (NDC) 15,925 – 42.29%
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
