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A total of 112 parliamentary aspirants made up of 107 males and five females have filed their nominations to contest the December 7 elections in the 24 constituencies of the Brong Ahafo Region. Seven of them are standing as independent candidates.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have their candidates in all the constituencies while the Convention People’s Party (CPP) fielded 20 candidates with the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) presenting 13 candidates. The Peoples National Convention (PNC) and the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) have 12 candidates each.
The five female candidates are contesting on the tickets of the DPP in Asutifi North Constituency, CPP in the Tano North, PNC in Sunyani West, another DPP in Dormaa East and one other CPP in the Techiman North Constituency.
According to the list of parliamentary candidates made available to the Daily Graphic in Sunyani by the Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mr Mark Kojo Anyimadu, two of the Independent candidates filed at Kintampo North Constituency and each in the Atebubu/Amantin, Pru, Tain and Jaman North.
The list indicated that the PNC and the DFP did not field any candidate in Asunafo North while the CPP and DPP also did not present any candidate in the Asunafo South Constituency and the list further showed that in Asutifi South, only the NPP, NDC and DPP fielded candidates.
For the Tano South Constituency, the DPP and DFP did not have any representation and again the DPP had no candidate for the Sunyani East Constituency and also did not present any person in the Berekum Constituency, likewise the PNC also did not field any candidate in the Dormaa East Constituency.
For the Jaman North and South constituencies, the DPP and DFP also failed to field candidates while in the Wenchi District the DPP and the PNC did not have representation.
In the Tain Constituency, the DFP and the PNC did not field anyone. The DPP and PNC did not field candidates in Techiman North while the DFP did not present a candidate for the Techiman South Constituency.
The DFP and the PNC again failed to field candidates in the Nkoranza North and Nkoranza South constituencies, with the DPP again, failing to present someone for the Kintampo North area, and in the Kintampo South, only the NPP, NDC and PNC had nominations.
For the Atebubu/Amantin Constituency, only the NPP and the NDC alongside the Independent candidate filed their nominations, with the PNC failing to present a candidate for the Pru area while the DFP also did not have a nominee for the Sene Constituency.