Member of Parliament for Suame Constituency, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, will retire at the end of the present Parliament in January 2025, leaving his seat in the Ashanti Region open for new parliamentary candidates.

John Darko, a Board Member of Ghana Gas Company and a private legal practitioner, emerged as the new candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the primaries after beating his closest contender, Maxwell Osei Boakye, in the January 2024 primaries.

John Darko is contesting against Frank Owusu Ansah of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Mohammed Mubarak of the All Peoples Congress (APC).

Counting and sorting are currently underway in Suame Constituency after polls officially closed at 5:00 pm.

Suame constituents will be electing a new MP for the first time in 28 years after Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu entered chamber in the second Parliament of the Fourth Republic and has maintained his seat since January 1997.

Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu is Ghana's longest-serving lawmaker, representing his constituency in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Parliaments.

The 2024 general elections took place across 276 constituencies.