List of top NPP MPs who lost their seats to the NDC

The 2024 presidential and parliamentary election will go down as one of a calamity for the NPP. Having ascended to power in 2016 by defeating a sitting president John Dramani Mahama, the NDC has finally reclaimed the ticket to the Jubilee house after two failed attempts.

But the lenses are not on the Presidential results where Vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has already conceded defeat to John Dramani Mahama but on the parliamentary results. The parliamentary results is interesting due to the hung parliament that Ghanaians voted for in the 7th parliament. It ended in a rather bizarre manner as the Legislature and the Judiciary flexed their muscles after the NPP caucus dragged the Speaker to the Supreme Court over a decision he made on October 17, 2024.

Since then, the house has not been sitting but will resume days after the general elections. However, some of the NPP MPs apart from those retiring voluntarily will be going to take part in the last sessions.

Some notable names have become casualties in the Parliamentary race including ministers and deputy ministers. Notable among them are Adansi Asokwa long-serving lawmaker K. T Hammond who has been ousted by the NDC’s Godwin Animli Dorgbadzi Dorani. While Dorani polled 14,229 votes, KT Hammond managed 13,275 votes to lose his precious seat, one he has been holding to since 2000 when he first entered Parliament. The Trade and Industry Minister has been forced out of Parliament, ceding the seat to the NDC for the first time.

In Ablekuma West, Communication and Digitalization Minister, Madam Ursula Owusu-Ekuful lost the seat she has held since 2012 to Rev Kweku Addo of the NDC. She lost by 26,575 votes to Kweku Addo’s 31866 votes.

Not far away from Ursula Owusu’s backyard is the Okaikwei South where Darkoa Newman annexed the seat in 2020 after beating the incumbent in the NPP’s internal elections. The Okaikwei South seat had been a safe one for the NPP since 1996 when Nana Akomea first won it and defended it twice before giving way to Arthur Ahmed in 2016.

Interior Minister Henry Quartey has lost the Ayawaso Central seat to the NDC’s Abdul Rauf Tongym Tubazu who garnered 29,755 to beat the former Greater Accra Regional Minister who amassed 23,345 votes.

Going to Dormaa East, Paul Apreku Twum Barima, lost his seat to the NDC’s Rachel Owusuaa who had 12,310 votes. Twum Barima got 12,050 votes. Meanwhile, Sylvester Tetteh, the Board Chairman of the Ghana Enterprise Agency has lost the seat to the NDC’s Okle Felix Akwetey. Sylvester Tetteh earned 27,888 votes while Okle Akwetey got 37,473 votes.

At Yendi, Farouk Aliu Mahama, son of former Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama lost the Yendi seat to the NDC after totaling 29,819 while Abdul-Fataw Alhassan got 30,707 votes. Also, the Minister of Tourism, Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer lost the Sekondi seat to the Blay Nyameke Armah of the NDC after gathering 11,084 votes to fall short of Armah’s 14,558 votes.

Meanwhile, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the MP for Ofoase-Ayirebi retained his seat after polling  18,601 votes to beat the NDC’s Alfred Osei-Poku who had 13,415 votes.