Edward Michael Ennin

Ennin was elected as the member of parliament for the Obuasi East constituency of the Ashanti Region of Ghana for the first time in the 2004 Ghanaian general elections.^[5][6][7] He won on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.^[6][7] His constituency was a part of the 36 parliamentary seats out of 39 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Ashanti Region.^[8] The New Patriotic Party won a majority total of 128 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats.^[9] He was elected with 43,102 votes out of 74,717 total valid votes cast.^[5][7] This was equivalent to 57.7% of total valid votes cast.^[5][7] He was elected over Michael Carr Aaron of the People's National Convention, Justice Dasah of the National Democratic Congress and Adelaide Borden an independent candidate.^[5][7] These obtained 550, 4,426 and 26,639 votes respectively of the total valid votes cast.^[5][7] These were equivalent to 0.7%, 5.9% and 35.7% respectively of total valid votes cast.^[5][7]

In 2008, he won the general elections on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party for the same constituency.^[10][11] His constituency was part of the 34 parliamentary seats out of 39 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Ashanti Region.^[12] The New Patriotic Party won a minority total of 109 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats.^[13] He was elected with 46,785 votes out of 75,085 total valid votes cast.^[11][10] This was equivalent to 62.31% of total valid votes cast.^[10][11] He was elected over Mohammed Issifu of the People's National Convention, John Alexander Ackon of the National Democratic Congress, Elyass Abdulsalam of the Democratic Freedom Party, David Kenyah of the Convention People's Party and Albert Joseph Ababio of the Reformed Patriotic Democrats.^[10][11] These obtained 331, 26,169, 147, 1,501 and 152 votes respectively out of the total valid votes cast.^[10][11] These were equivalent to 0.44%, 34.85%, 0.20%, 2% and 0.2% respectively of the total votes cast.^[10][11]

In 2012, he won the general elections once again for the same constituency.^[14][15] He was elected with 24,212 votes out of 40,985 total valid votes cast.^[14][15] This was equivalent to 59.08% of total valid votes cast.^[14][15] He was elected over Abdul-Lateef Majdoub of the National Democratic Congress, Frank Aboagye Danyansah of the Progressive People's Party, Hanim Ishaq of People's National Convention and Edward Ahey of the National Democratic Party.^[14][15] These obtained 15,381, 899, 206 and 287 votes respectively of the total valid votes cast.^[14][15] These were equivalent to 37.53%, 2.19%, 0.50% and 0.70% respectively of the total votes cast.^[14][15]

Ennin is married with three children.^[1] He is a Christian (Methodist).^[1][2]