Akwasi Dante Afriyie
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{{Use Ghanaian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| name = Akwasi Dante Afriyie
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| office = Member of Parliament for Atwima Mponua Constituency
| term_start = 7 January 2001
| term_end = 6 January 2005
| president = John Kufuor
| nationality = Ghanaian{{flagicon|GHA}}
| party = New Patriotic Party
| predecessor = Kwame Gyawu-Kyem
| successor = Isaac Kwame Asiamah
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Akwasi Dante Afriyie is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the 2nd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana. He served as a member of parliament for the Atwima Mponua Constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.{{Cite web|title=Ghana MPs - List of 2013 - 2017 (6th Parliament) MPs|url=http://www.ghanamps.com/mps-by-year-group/index.php?group=2463|access-date=2020-09-01|website=www.ghanamps.com}}
Politics
Afriyie took seat firstly during the 1997 Ghanaian general election. In 2000, he won with a majority of 8,153 votes on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. He lost the seat during the 2004 Ghanaian general election to Isaac Kwame Asiamah of NPP.{{Cite web|title=Members of Parliament of Greater Accra Region|url=https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/republic/members_parliament.php|access-date=2020-09-01|website=www.ghanaweb.com|archive-date=2020-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621050058/https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/republic/members_parliament.php|url-status=dead}}
Elections
In the year 2000, Afriyie won the general elections as the member of parliament for the Atwima Mponua constituency of the Ashanti Region of Ghana.{{Cite web|last=FM|first=Peace|title=Ghana Election 2000 Results - Atwima Mponua Constituency|url=http://ghanaelections.peacefmonline.com/pages/2000/ashanti/13/index.php|access-date=2020-09-02|website=Ghana Elections - Peace FM}} He won on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. His constituency was a part of the 31 parliamentary seats out of 33 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Ashanti Region.{{Cite web|last=FM|first=Peace|title=Ghana Election 2000 Results - Ashanti Region|url=http://ghanaelections.peacefmonline.com/pages/2000/ashanti/index.php|access-date=2020-09-02|website=Ghana Elections - Peace FM}} The New Patriotic Party won a majority total of 100 parliamentary seats out of 200 seats.{{Cite web|last=FM|first=Peace|title=Ghana Election 2000|url=http://ghanaelections.peacefmonline.com/pages/2000/index.php|access-date=2020-09-02|website=Ghana Elections - Peace FM}} He was elected with 20,245 votes out of 33,726 total valid votes cast. This was equivalent to 61.1% of the total valid votes cast. He was elected over Kwaku A. Mensah of the National Democratic Congress, Osei S. Bossman of the Convention People's Party and Edwina C. Quist of the National Reformed Party. These won 12,092, 453 and 319 votes out of the total valid votes cast respectively. These were equivalent to 36.5%, 1.4% and 1% respectively of total valid votes cast.
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Category:Ghanaian MPs 2001–2005
Category:New Patriotic Party politicians
Category:Ghanaian MPs 1997–2001