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Tema East

constituency in Ghana

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ7697957 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tema East 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. Isaac Ashai Odamtten is the member of parliament for the constituency. Tema East is located in the Tema Municipal District of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

Boundaries

The constituency is located within the Accra Metropolis District of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 73-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tema, East and constituency.
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“Tema East” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tema, East and constituency provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7697957. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tema East” 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.