The Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has retained his seat in Parliament on the ticket of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) after his victory in the December 7 general election.
He polled 46,797 votes to beat his closest contender, Abdullah Hamidu of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who had 12,842 votes whereas Samuel Adusei-Akwaboah, who contested on the ticket of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), scored 200 votes while Eric Osei Boateng of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) polled 152 votes.
The total valid votes was 59,991 and rejected ballots were 393 as the total votes cast was 60,384.
The election, which recorded no incident throughout the constituency, will go down in history as one of the most peaceful to be conducted in the Bosomtwe Constituency.
