{"id":144376,"date":"2024-01-27T21:27:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T21:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/27\/ashanti-region-has-highest-number-of-female-contestants\/"},"modified":"2024-01-27T21:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T21:27:53","slug":"ashanti-region-has-highest-number-of-female-contestants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/27\/ashanti-region-has-highest-number-of-female-contestants\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashanti region has highest number of female contestants"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Available data form the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primary shows that only 38 women contested the elections in 10 out of 15 regions in the elections.<\/p>\n

Only the Oti region was excluded from the primary as the party has no parliamentary representation there.<\/p>\n

And out of the 10 regions that featured ladies, the Ashanti region had the highest number of female aspirants accounting for no fewer than eleven contestants.<\/p>\n

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The Greater Accra and the Eastern regions followed with nine aspirants each.<\/p>\n

Here is a distribution of the female aspirants across the regions.<\/p>\n

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They are followed by the Central and Western regions with two female contesters each.<\/p>\n

The remaining five regions; Bono, Northern, Upper East, North East, and Ahafo- each had one female aspirant each.<\/p>\n

Among all the female aspirants, Awayaso West Wugon MP Lydia Alhassan was the only unopposed candidate.<\/p>\n

See the table below for details:<\/strong><\/p>\n