Cecilia Gyan Amoah
Member of the Ghana Parliament
for Asutifi South
In office
7 January 2001 – 7 January 2005
Preceded byCollins Dauda
Succeeded byCollins Dauda
Personal details
Born (1947-10-26) 26 October 1947
NationalityGhanaian
Political partyNew Patriotic Party
SpouseDr. Philip Kofi Adjapong Amoah (deceased)
Children3
ProfessionTeacher, Politician

Cecilia Gyan Amoah (born 26 October 1947) is a Ghanaian educator, diplomat and politician who represented the Asutifi South Constituency in the Parliament of Ghana from 2001 to 2005.

Politics

She won the Asutifi South Constituency during the 2000 parliamentary elections on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), defeating incumbent Collins Dauda of the National Democratic Congress.[1]

Amoah was the member of parliament for the Asutifi South Constituency from January 2001 to January 2005.[2] This was following the death of her husband in 2000, who had previously stood for the party in that district.[3] She left the ticket after a loss in the primary for the party in late 2004 to Thomas Broni, deputy Minister for the Interior. She was the first female MP of the NPP to be voted off a ticket.[2]

She also served as Ghana's ambassador to Cuba,[4] becoming High Commissioner to Barbados afterwards.[5] On 13 June 2015, Amoah won the Asutifi South constituency New Patriotic Party parliamentary primaries to represent the party again in the Ghanaian general election in 2016. However, one member of her late husband's family (a distant cousin) did not support her attempt to return, calling the incumbent Collins Dauda "dangerous".[3] Amoah had accused her opposition party of using intimidation tactics after claiming they sent men to assault NPP polling agents.[6] Amoah and several others were later attacked by unknown assailants, who destroyed several bicycles in their care.[7]

2000 Elections

Amoah was elected as the member of parliament for the Asutifi South constituency in the 2000 Ghanaian general elections.[8] She was elected on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.[8] Her constituency was a part of the 14 parliamentary seats out of 21 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Brong Ahafo Region.[9][10][11] The New Patriotic Party won a majority total of 100 parliamentary seats out of 200 seats in the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.[9] She was elected with 8,220 votes out of 16,089 total valid votes cast. This was equivalent to 51.6% of the total valid votes cast.[12] She was elected over Collins Dauda of the National Democratic Congress, Alfred Osei Nkrumah of the National Reform Party, Alex Osei Amankwaa of the Convention People's Party, and Kwabena Yeboah of the People's National Convention.[12][13] These obtained 14,326, 359, 245, 207 and 200 votes respectively out of the total valid votes cast. These were equivalent to 57.5%, 39.7%, 1.0%, 0.7%, 0.6% and 0.6% respectively of total valid votes cast.[12][13]

References

  1. ↑ "Alhaji Dauda goes unopposed in Asutifi South". Ghana News Agency. 13 September 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Broni Defeats Mrs. Gyan-Amoah". GhanaWeb. 2 September 2004. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  3. 1 2 "NPP Asutifi South Parliamentary Candidate Under Pressure To Bow Out Of Contest". Peace FM Online. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "Ghanaian Embassy Donates Toys to Children's Hospital in Havana". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba. 1 March 2007. Archived from the original on January 6, 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "CPAA Director Wants to See Student Exchange Programmes with Universities in Africa". Barbados Government Information Service. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "You Want Our Vote...& You're Already Violating Laws...What If You Gain Power? - Pratt". Peace FM Online. 3 May 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "I Am And Still Remain An Agent Of Peace – Nana Akufo Addo". GLA News. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  8. 1 2 Electoral Commission of Ghana Parliamentary Result-Election 2000. Ghana: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. 2007. p. 16.
  9. 1 2 "Statistics of Presidential and Parliamentary Election Results". Fact Check Ghana. 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  10. ↑ "Reports". Archive IPU.
  11. ↑ FM, Peace. "Ghana Election 2000 Results - Brong Ahafo Region". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  12. 1 2 3 Electoral Commission of Ghana -Parliamentary Result-Election 2000. Ghana: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. 2007. p. 11.
  13. 1 2 FM, Peace. "Ghana Election 2000 Results - Asutifi South Constituency". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
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