James Edusei Sarkodie

In 2000, Sarkodie won the general elections as the member of parliament for the Atwima Mponua constituency of the Ashanti Region of Ghana.^[7] He won on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.^[7] His constituency was a part of the 31 parliamentary seats out of 33 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Ashanti Region.^[8] The New Patriotic Party won a majority total of 100 parliamentary seats out of 200 seats.^[9] He was elected with 38,959 votes out of 48,947 total valid votes cast.^[7] This was equivalent to 80.9% of the total valid votes cast.^[7] He was elected over Baffour Osei Wusu of the National Democratic Congress, Alex Addo Kuffour of the People's National Convention, Yaw Boateng of the National Reformed Party and D.D. Boateng of the Convention People's Party.^[7] These won 7,880, 683, 336 and 295 votes out of the total valid votes cast respectively.^[7] These were equivalent to 16.4%, 1.4%, 0.7% and 0.6% respectively of total valid votes cast.^[7]

Edusei was a Parliamentarian from 2001 to 2005 for the Atwima Mponua Constituency.^[1]