Alban Bagbin

In 1996, he won the Nadowli North seat with 12,605 votes out of the 16,485 valid votes cast, representing 76.46% over NPP's Lawrence Banyen who polled 2,213 votes representing 13.42%, Yuoni Moses Vaalandzeri of the PNC polled 1,490 votes representing 9.04% and Baslide Kpemaal of the NCP polled 177 votes representing 1.07%.[14]

Bagbin was elected as the member of parliament for the Nadwoli North constituency in the Upper West region of Ghana in the 2000 Ghanaian general elections.[15] He therefore represented the constituency in the 4th parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana.[15]

He was elected with 9,004 votes out of the total votes cast.[15] This is equivalent to 58.60% of the total valid votes cast.[16] He was elected over Dr. Anleu-Mwine D.B ,an independent candidate, Clement Kanfuri Senchi of the Peoples National Congress, Ningkpeng Pauline of the New Patriotic Party, John Bayon Boniface Wetol, Domayele Marcel Aston of the National Reform Party of the United Ghana Movement Party. These obtained 3,411 votes, 2,089 votes,718 votes, 145 votes and 0 votes respectively of the total valid votes cast.[15] These were equivalent to 22.20%, 13.60%,4.70%, 0.90% and 0.00% respectively of the total valid votes cast. Bagbin was elected on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[16] The National Democratic Congress won a total of 7 parliamentary seats in the Upper West Region in that elections.[17] In all, the party won a minority total of 89 parliamentary representation out of 200 seats in the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.[17]

Bagbin was elected as the member of parliament for the Nadowli West constituency in the Upper West region of Ghana in the 2004 Ghanaian general elections.[18][16] He therefore represented the constituency in the 4th parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.[19] He was elected with 11,296 votes out of 22,349 total valid votes cast.

This was equivalent to 50.5% of the total valid votes cast.[18][16] He was elected over Clement K. Senchi of the People's National Convention, Daniel Anleu-Mwine Baga of the New Patriotic Party, Sasuu Bernard Kabawunu of the Convention People's Party, Bisung Edward of the Democratic People's Party and Dapilaa Ishak an independent candidate.[18][16]

These obtained 625 votes, 5,297 votes, 152 votes, 188 votes, 4,791 votes respectively. These were equivalent to 2.8%, 23.7%, 0.7%, 0.8% and 21.4% respectively of the total valid votes cast.[18][16] Bagbin was elected on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[18][16][19] The National Democratic Congress won a total of 7 parliamentary seats in the Upper West region in that election.[20]

In all, the National Democratic Congress won a minority total of 94 parliamentary representation out of 230 seats in the 4th parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana.[20]

Bagbin is the Speaker of the 8th Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.[21] He was sworn in on 7 January 2021, after a well drawn out contest, after he was nominated by the Ghanaian Members of Parliament on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[22] Bagbin defeated the incumbent, Mike Oquaye who was nominated by the New Patriotic Party for the position.[23]