Samuel Kwame Amponsah

Amponsah was elected as the member of parliament for the Mpohor-Wassa East constituency in the 2000 Ghanaian general elections.[1][7] He won the elections on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[7] His constituency was a part of the 9 parliamentary seats out of 19 seats won by the National Democratic Congress in that election for the Western Region.[9][10][6] The National Democratic Congress won a minority total of 92 parliamentary seats out of 200 seats in the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.[9] He was elected with 11,674 votes out of 31,515 total valid votes cast.[1] This was equivalent to 33.4% of the total valid votes cast.[7][1] He was elected over Patrick Somiah Ehomah an independent candidate, Peter Nwanwaan of the New Patriotic Party, Abraham Yankson of the Convention People's Party, Stephen Blay of the National Reformed Party, Richard Aduko Raqib of the People's National Convention and Patrick Tandoh Williams of the United Ghana Movement.[7][1] These obtained 10,454, 6,869, 1,263 and 300 votes respectively out of the total valid votes cast.[1] These were equivalent to 34.2%, 22.5%, 4.1% and 1.0% respectively of total valid votes cast.[7][1]