Suame (Ghana parliament constituency)

Suame (// ) 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. Suame was formerly located in the Kumasi Metropolitan district but now it is a municipal assembly of the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

Suame
constituency for the Parliament of Ghana
District	Kumasi Metropolitan District
Region	Ashanti Region of Ghana
Current constituency
Created	2004
Party	New Patriotic Party
MP	Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu

This seat was created prior to the Ghanaian parliamentary election in 2004 when the Old Tafo-Suame constituency was split into the Old Tafo and Suame constituencies respectively.

Boundaries

The seat is located within Kumasi metropolitan assembly and shares boundaries with tafo nhyiaso, afigya Kwabre South, bantama and

History

The constituency was first created in 2004 by the Electoral Commission of Ghana along with 29 other new ones, increasing the number of constituencies from 200 to 230.

Members of Parliament

Election	Member	Party
2004	Constituency created
2004	Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu	New Patriotic Party

Elections

2004 Ghanaian parliamentary election:Suame
Source:Ghana Home Page

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Patriotic Party	Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu	48,500	82.1	N/A
	National Democratic Congress	Paul Richard Yeboah	8,448	14.3	N/A
	Convention People's Party	Frederick Antwi	1,157	2.0	N/A
	People's National Convention	Young Sampson Agonno	934	1.6	N/A
Majority			40,052	67.8	N/A

See also

• List of Ghana Parliament constituencies