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By Bertha Badu-Agyei, GNA\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Koforidua, Jan 19, GNA \u2013 Fifty-five women were elected as assembly members out of the 165 females who contested in last year\u2019s District Level Elections (DLE) in the 33 districts of the Eastern Region.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, Lower-Manya Krobo, Suhum, Abuakwa North, Fanteakwa South, Kwahu-East and Kwahu-South did not have any elected women, even though some women filed nominations and contested in some of those districts in the DLE.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two of these districts did not have any female candidate contesting, which were Abuakwa North and Lower-Manya Krobo, where the only female contestant withdrew a few days before the elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Statistics the Ghana News Agency obtained from the Eastern Regional Office of the Electoral Commission (EC) indicated that West Akim District had the highest of six women elected.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
This was followed by Asuogyaman with five, Ayensuano, four, and Okere, Achiase, Kwaebibrem, Atiwa East and Afram Plains South, which had three elected females each.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the Unit Committee Elections 561 women were elected across the 33 administrative districts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New Juaben South topped with 39 women, followed by Nsawam-Adoagyiri with 37.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 165 women who contested in the region, represented 6.12 per cent of the total number of candidates, which had 2,530 male candidates (93.88 per cent) contesting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In all the 33 districts, women in the contest recorded very low numbers compared to the males with an average percentage ranging from zero to four percent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the Unit Committee elections, 1,395 females (20.82 per cent) out of 6,701\u00a0\u00a0 filed to contest at that level, with Nsawam-Adoagyiri having the highest figure of 247 Women, followed by Kwahu-South, 192, and Lower-Manya Krobo, 185.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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