David Yaw Mensah

Mensah was elected into the first parliament of the fourth republic of Ghana on 7 January 1993 after emeging winner at the 1992 Ghanaian parliamentary election held on 29 December 1992

He was elected as the member of parliament for the Atebubu North constituency in the 1996 Ghanaian general election. He won the poll with 22,140 votes which is equivalent to 47.40% of the total vote.[3] He also contested for the same office in the 2000 Ghanaian general elections.[4] He was elected on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[4] His constituency was a part of the 7 parliamentary seats out of 21 seats won by the National Democratic Congress in that election for the Brong Ahafo Region.[5][6][7] The National Democratic Congress won a minoirity total of 92 parliamentary seats out of 200 seats in the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.[5] He was elected with 13,229 votes out of 29,893 total valid votes cast. This was equivalent to 44.6% of the total valid votes cast.[8] He was elected over Joseph Kwabena Manu an independent candidate, Winston Samuel Binabiba of the National Reform Party, Mahama Ikunjoony. of the New Patriotic Party, Francis Kwabena Dorkoseh of the People's National Convention and Niekuu Bayor Franklin of the Convention People's Party[8][9] These obtained 10,563, 533, 529 and 177votes respectively out of the total valid votes cast. These were equivalent to 39.5%, 2.0%, 2.0% and 0.7% respectively of total valid votes cast.[8][9]