Gifty Ohene-Konadu

Gifty is a member of the New Patriotic Party.[1] She became a member of parliament from January 2005 after emerging winner in the general election in December 2004.[8][9] She run for a second term and won in 2008 General Elections.[10][9] She was the MP for Asante-Akim South constituency.[1][8][10][9] She was elected as the member of parliament for this constituency in the fourth and fifth parliaments of the fourth Republic of Ghana.[8][10][9][12] She was the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry in charge of Small and Medium Enterprises in the 4th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana.[11]

Gifty was elected as the member of parliament for the Asante-Akim South constituency of the Ashanti Region of Ghana for the first time in the 2004 Ghanaian general elections.[8][13] She won on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.[8][13] Her constituency was a part of the 36 parliamentary seats out of 39 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Ashanti Region.[14] The New Patriotic Party won a majority total of 128 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats.[15] She was elected with 24,085 votes out of 40,384 total valid votes cast equivalent to 59.6% of total valid votes cast.[8][13] She was elected over Forkuo De-Graft of the National Democratic Congress, George Agyepong of the Convention People's Party and Andrews Frimpong an independent candidate.[8][13] These obtained 30.6%, 1.2% and 8.5% respectively of total valid votes cast.[13][8]

In 2008, she won the general elections on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party for the same constituency.[10][9] Her constituency was part of the 34 parliamentary seats out of 39 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Ashanti Region.[16] The New Patriotic Party won a minority total of 109 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats.[17] She was elected with 23,838 votes out of 38,744 total valid votes cast equivalent to 61.53% of total valid votes cast.[10][9] She was elected over De-Graft Forkuo of the National Democratic Congress and Quao Ebenezer of the Convention People's Party.[9][10] These obtained 36.73% and 2.74% respectively of the total votes cast.[9][10]