Akwasi Dante Afriyie is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the 2nd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana. He served as a member of parliament for the Atwima Mponua Constituency in the

Ashanti Region The Ashanti Region is located in southern part of Ghana and it is the third largest of 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of or 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. In terms of population, however, it is the mo ...

of Ghana.

Politics

Akwasi Dante Afriyie took seat firstly during the 1997 Ghanaian general election. In 2000, he won with a majority of 8,153 votes on the ticket of the

New Patriotic Party , logo = , colorcode = #132f7a , founder = , founded = 28 July 1992 , dissolved = , leader = Nana Akufo-Addo , chairman = Stephen Ayensu Ntim Stephen Ntim elected NPP National Chairman on fifth attempt http://www.gna.org.gh/1.2152672 ...

. He lost the seat during the 2004 Ghanaian general election to

Isaac Kwame Asiamah Isaac Kwame Asiamah (born 24 December 1975) is a Ghanaian politician of the Republic of Ghana. He is the Member of Parliament of Atwima Mponua constituency. He has been the member of parliament for the constituency in the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and ...

of NPP.

Elections

In the year 2000, Afriyie won the general elections as the member of parliament for the Atwima Mponua constituency of the

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

. He won on the ticket of the

. His constituency was a part of the 31 parliamentary seats out of 33 seats won by the

in that election for the

. The

won a majority total of 100 parliamentary seats out of 200 seats. He was elected with 20,245 votes out of 33,726 total valid votes cast. This was equivalent to 61.1% of the total valid votes cast. He was elected over Kwaku A. Mensah of the National Democratic Congress, Osei S. Bossman of the

Convention People's Party The Convention People's Party (CPP) is a socialist political party in Ghana based on the ideas of the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The CPP was formed in June 1949 after Nkrumah broke away from the United Gold Coast Convention (UG ...

and Edwina C. Quist of the National Reformed Party. These won 12,092, 453 and 319 votes out of the total valid votes cast respectively. These were equivalent to 36.5%, 1.4% and 1% respectively of total valid votes cast.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Afriyie, Akwasi Dante Ghanaian MPs 2001–2005 Living people New Patriotic Party politicians Ghanaian MPs 1997–2001 Politicians from Ashanti Region Year of birth missing (living people)