Ernest Yaw Annim, a candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), won the Kumawu by-election with a commanding 15,264 votes, or 70.91% of the total valid votes cast.
Annim's expected victory was also decisive since he took every one of the 76 polling places, leaving the other two candidates vying for the remaining over 20% of the legal votes cast.
Kwasi Amankwaa, a candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), received 3,723 votes, an increase over his predecessor, and 11.51 percent of the valid votes cast, placing him ahead of Kwaku Duah, an independent who left the NPP, who received 2,478 votes.
The uncertainty that was anticipated to affect the votes of the two candidates wearing identical clothing and sharing the same name, Kwaku Duah, did not materialise, as the second independent candidate, whose emblem was a bird, could only garner 62 votes, or 0.29 percent of the total valid votes cast.
Party supporters began celebrating before the results were officially announced as reports from certain polling places began pouring in, showing that their candidate had a sizable lead.
The NPP had no doubts about holding onto the seat left open by the passing of Philip Atta Basoah, who was the party's current member of parliament.
The threat posed by Kwaku Duah, one of the independent candidates, forced the party to put in extra effort to eliminate that threat.
The threat was so serious that the party and the government had to send every employee to the district to assist with the election campaign.
Government officials were required to perform oversight duties as observers and polling station agents even on election day.
winning speech
In a media interview after being named the winner, Mr. Annim claimed that the reason the people had faith in him was because they recognised he was the best candidate to assure unity and spur development in the area.
He declared that he had faith that God would intervene and that he would win handily because the NPP was the party that would lead the nation to "the promised land."
The NPP member-elect promised to guide the party in a way that would honour both it and its presidential contenders.
According to Mr. Annim, the NPP was prepared to break the eight in the general election of 2024 as a result of his triumph.
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