Benjamin Osei Kuffour is a Ghanaian politician and was the member of parliament for the Asunafo North constituency in the Brong Ahafo region of

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. He was the member of parliament in the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.

Politics

Kuffour was elected as the member of parliament for the Wenchi East constituency in the

2000 Ghanaian general election General elections were held in Ghana on 7 December 2000, with a second round of the presidential election on 28 December. He was elected on the ticket of the

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. His constituency was a part of the 14 parliamentary seats out of 21 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Brong Ahafo Region. The New Patriotic Party won a majority total of 100 parliamentary seats out of 200 seats in the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. He was elected with 20,784 votes out of 36,814 total valid votes cast. This was equivalent to 57.5% of the total valid votes cast. He was elected over Christiana Atakora Mensah of the National Democratic Congress, Francis Amofah of the

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, Michael Mahama Nabila of the People's National Convention, Yeboah Kwasi Eric of the

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and Asare Bediako of the

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, These obtained 14,326, 359, 245, 207 and 200 votes respectively out of the total valid votes cast. These were equivalent to 57.5%, 39.7%, 1.0%, 0.7%, 0.6% and 0.6% respectively of total valid votes cast.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kuffour, Benjamin Osei Living people Ghanaian MPs 2001–2005 New Patriotic Party politicians 21st-century Ghanaian politicians Year of birth missing (living people)