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Jirapa (Ghana parliament constituency)

constituency in Ghana

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ6202988 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jirapa 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. Jirapa is located in the Jirapa Municipal of the Upper West Region of Ghana.

Boundaries

The seat is located entirely within the jirapa district of the Upper West Region of Ghana.

Members of Parliament

Elections

7 April 2009 - Edward Salia NDC died after a period of illness necessitating the by-election. Dr. Francis Bawaana Dakurah of the NDC won the seat with a majority of 9,337 (59.0%) beating the NPP candidate and immediate past District Chief Executive, Justin Bayelah Dakurah to second place.

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“Jirapa (Ghana parliament constituency)” enters the record as constituency in Ghana. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jirapa, Ghana and parliament can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jirapa (Ghana parliament constituency)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.