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constituency. He has been elected as the member of parliament for this constituency in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh parliaments of the fourth
Republic of Ghana. He was re-elected in the 2020 General election to represent in the 8th Parliament of the Fourth Republic. Hammond is a member
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I was mandated to travel all over the world to look for entrepreneurs, companies and to see if they could make sense of our potential. Mr. speaker, it was i, KT Hammond, in May 2004 who signed MOU which eventually led to KOSMOS discovering that oil in Ghana. That was the big achievement," Hammond
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won a minority total of 109 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats. He was elected with 13,659 votes out of 24,524 total valid votes cast equivalent to 55.7% of total valid votes cast. He was elected over Alhaji Abdul-Lateef
Madjoub of the
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won a majority total of 99 parliamentary seats out of 200 seats. He was elected with 10,306 votes out of 19,407 total valid votes cast. This was equivalent to 54.4% of the total valid votes cast. He was elected over
Theresa Mensah of the
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won a majority total of 128 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats. He was elected with 15,176 votes out of 24,112 total valid votes cast equivalent to 62.9% of total valid votes cast. He was elected over Seidu S. Adams of the
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Hammond for consideration by Parliament as Minister for Trade and Industries. In March 2023, Parliament approved his nomination and he was subsequently sworn into office.
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Patriotic Party. His constituency was a part of the 36 parliamentary seats out of 39 seats won by the
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January 2024, his party confirmed him as its parliamentary candidate for the general election in December 2024.
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K. T. Hammond also served as Deputy Energy Minister in the
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