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Mr Hackman Owusu Agyeman, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), parliamentary candidate and incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the New Juaben North constituency had retained his seat.
Uncertified results released at the constituency collation centre in the early hours of Monday indicated that he won with 13,711 votes.
Mr Emmanuel Adu Boateng, of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), polled 4,892, Mr Frank Adu Amankwa of Convention People’s Party (CPP), polled 285, Dr Kwame Twum Agyeman, independent candidate, polled 2,037, while Mr Victor Asare Gyapong, also independent candidate polled 2,783 votes.
Total votes cast were 23,950 with 242 ballots being rejected.
In the presidential elections, NPP had 16, 438 votes, representing 68.6 per cent of the votes cast, NDC had 6,780, CPP had 164.
Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), had 61 votes, Democratic People’s Party (DPP) had 11 votes, Reformed Patriotic Democrat (RPD) had 9 votes, Mr Kwasi Amoafo Yeboah, the independent presidential candidate had 32 votes, with 414 ballot papers rejected.
In 2004, President John Agyekum Kufuor had 17,191 votes representing 73.2 per cent of the votes while Professor John Evans Atta Mills polled 6,042 representing 25.7 per cent of the votes cast in that polls.
Source: GNA
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