Английская Википедия:Abraham Kofi Asante

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Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Abraham Kofi Asante is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the 2nd and 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.[1] He is a former member of Parliament for the Amenfi West constituency in the Western Region a member of the National Democratic Congress political Party in Ghana.[1][2]

Early life and education

Asante is a product of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.[3] He acquired a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the said university.[3] He is also a product of the University of Ghana where he acquired a Master of Business Administration Degree.[3] He later acquired a Master of Science Degree from the Ghana Telecom University College.[3]

Politics

Asante was a member of the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.[1] He is a member of the National Democratic Congress and a representative of the Amenfi West constituency of the Western Region of Ghana.[4] His political career began when he contested in the 1996 Ghanaian General elections and won on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[5][6] He polled 16,085 votes out of the 24,396 valid votes cast representing 46.70% over his opponent Sanuel Alberto Tekyi who polled 8,311 votes.[6]

2000 Elections

Asante was elected as the member of parliament for the Amenfi West constituency in the 2000 Ghanaian general elections.[1][5] He won the elections on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[5] His constituency was a part of the 9 parliamentary seats out of 19 seats won by the National Democratic Congress in that election for the Western Region.[7][8][4] The National Democratic Congress won a minority total of 92 parliamentary seats out of 200 seats in the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.[7] He was elected with 10,848 votes out of 21,704 total valid votes cast.[1] This was equivalent to 49.4% of the total valid votes cast.[5][1] He was elected over Samuel Alberto Tekyi of the New Patriotic Party and Kwasi Dankama Quarm of the Convention People's Party.[5][1] These obtained 9,493 and 937 votes respectively out of the total valid votes cast.[1] These were equivalent to 44.6% and 4.4% respectively of total valid votes cast.[5][1]

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