NDC retains Amenfi West Seat

The National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) candidate, Eric Afful has retained the Amenfi West seat for the ruling party after polling 15,809 of the valid 30,030 votes cast in Tuesday’s by-election.

His closest contender, Mr. Paul Derkyi of the New Patriotic Party polled 13,076 of the lot to place second.

The two other candidates in the race, Messrs Abraham Kwadwo Buadee of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) and Elvis Adjei of the United Freedom Party (UFP) polled 1,032 and 113 respectively in the hotly contested poll which was necessitated by the sudden death of the incumbent, John Gyetuah.

Full results
NDC: (Eric Afful, 41) - 15,809
NPP: (Paul Derkyi, 43) - 13,076
PPP: (Abraham Kwadwo Buadee, 41) - 1,032
UFP: (Elvis Adjei, 30) - 113

The constituency has a voter population of 62,364 and managed only a 49 per cent turnout (30,561) and 531 rejected ballots.

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