| Yendi | |
|---|---|
| constituency for the Parliament of Ghana | |
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| District | Yendi Municipal District |
| Region | Northern Region of Ghana |
| Current constituency | |
| Party | New Patriotic Party |
| MP | Farouk Aliu Mahama[1] |
Yendi is one of the constituencies represented in the Parliament of Ghana. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It is located in the Northern Region of Ghana. Sulemana Ibun Iddrisu represented the constituency in the 5th Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana . He was elected on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and won a majority of 617 votes more than candidate closest in the race, to win the constituency.[2] He succeeded Malik Al-Hassan Yakubu who had represented the constituency in parliament from 1997 to 2009 on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Mohammed Habib Tijani of the New Patriotic Party succeeded Ibun Iddrisu, when he won against him in the 2012 Elections.
The current MP for the Yendi Constituency in the 8th Parliament of Ghana is Farouk Aliu Mahama of the New Patriotic Party. He was elected on December 7, 2020, and got sworn into office, a month later on 7 January, 2021.
- ^ "Ghana MP's - MP Details". Archived from the original on 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
- ^ "Results Parliamentary Elections".