Essikado-Ketan (Ghana parliament constituency)

Essikado-Ketan is one of the constituencies represented in the Parliament of Ghana. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Essikado-Ketan is located in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly of the Western Region of Ghana. The current Member of Parliament is Hon. Joe Ghartey.

Essikado-Ketan
constituency for the Parliament of Ghana
District	Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly
Region	Western Region of Ghana
Current constituency
Created	2004
Party	New Patriotic Party
MP	Joe Ghartey

Boundaries

The seat is located within STMA of the Western Region of Ghana. It was formed prior to the 2004 December presidential and parliamentary elections by the division of the old Sekondi constituency into the new Essikado-Ketan and Sekondi constituencies.^[1]

Members of Parliament

Election	Member	Party
2004	Joe Ghartey	New Patriotic Party
2008	Joe Ghartey	New Patriotic Party
2012	Joe Ghartey	New Patriotic Party
2016	Joe Ghartey	New Patriotic Party
2020	Joe Ghartey	New Patriotic Party

Elections

2004 Ghanaian parliamentary election:Essikado-Ketan
Source:Electoral Commission of Ghana

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Patriotic Party	[JOE GHARTEY]]	24,078	71.4	N/A
	National Democratic Congress	David Mensah	8,976	26.6	N/A
	Convention People's Party	Frank Noble Ankomah	652	1.9	N/A
Majority			15,102	44.8	N/A
Turnout			34,198	82.3	N/A

See also

• List of Ghana Parliament constituencies

References

1. Electoral Commission of Ghana (November 2005). "The 2004 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections" (PDF). Elections 2004:Ghana's Parliamentary and Presidential Elections. Electoral Commission of Ghana, with support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Accra. p. 11. Retrieved 2007-08-14.