Essikado-Ketan (Ghana parliament constituency)

Ghana constituency infobox
Name = Essikado-Ketan
Map1 =
Map2 = Ghana-Western
Year = 2004
District = Shama Ahanta East Metropolitan District
Region = Western Region (Ghana)|Western Region
MP = Joe Ghartey
Party = New Patriotic Party

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 Shama Ahanta East Metropolitan district of the Western Region of Ghana.

Boundaries

The seat is located within the Shama Ahanta East Metropolitan District 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. [cite web |url=http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/ghana/03610.pdf |title=The 2004 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections |accessdate=2007-08-14 |author=Electoral Commission of Ghana |date=November 2005 |pages=Page 11|work=Elections 2004:Ghana's Parliamentary and Presidential Elections |publisher=Electoral Commission of Ghana,with support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Accra]

Members of Parliament

Elections

Election box candidate
party = New Patriotic Party
candidate = Joe Ghartey
votes = 24,078
percentage = 71.4
change = "N/A" Election box candidate
party = National Democratic Congress
candidate = David Mensah
votes = 8,976
percentage = 26.6
change = "N/A" Election box candidate
party = Convention People's Party
candidate = Frank Noble Ankomah
votes = 652
percentage = 1.9
change = "N/A" Election box majority
votes = 15,102
percentage = 44.8
change = "N/A" Election box turnout
votes = 34,198
percentage = 82.3
change = "N/A" Election box end

ee also

*List of Ghana Parliament constituencies

References