Patrick Boakye-Yiadom

Dr Patrick Boakye-Yiadom is a Ghanaian medical doctor and politician born on 2 November 1976 in Obuasi who serves as the Member of Parliament for the Obuasi East constituency in the Ashanti Region. A member of the New Patriotic Party who first assumed office on 7 January 2021 and retained his seat in December 2024 following a re-collation process that resolved one of the election's most closely contested results, he represents a constituency in the Obuasi Municipal District, the gold-mining city where AngloGold Ashanti operates one of West Africa's largest gold mines.

Professional background

Boakye-Yiadom is a medical doctor, a professional qualification that makes him part of the small cohort of medical professionals in Ghana's Parliament whose clinical experience informs their advocacy on health policy, medical infrastructure and the healthcare needs of their constituencies. His medical background gives him specialist insight into the health service delivery challenges facing Obuasi East's communities, where the occupational health demands of a mining community, the environmental health implications of large-scale gold extraction and the general healthcare access challenges of an Ashanti Region urban constituency all require informed parliamentary engagement.

Parliamentary career

He was first elected Member of Parliament for Obuasi East in the December 2020 general election, assuming office on 7 January 2021. In December 2024, he retained the seat through a contested process: following the initial counting, the Electoral Commission conducted a re-collation of results for the constituency, and the re-collation returned a final result of 18,558 votes for Boakye-Yiadom against 18,539 votes for the NDC's Samuel Aboagye, a majority of just 19 votes. The 19-vote margin made Obuasi East one of the narrowest individual parliamentary results in the 2024 election, confirming his retention by a margin that required the formal re-collation process to determine.

Political Legacy

Dr Patrick Boakye-Yiadom's medical career, his representation of Ghana's premier gold-mining city constituency, and his dramatic 19-vote majority in the 2024 re-collation give his continued parliamentary service a professional health advocacy foundation and a competitive constituency mandate from one of the Ashanti Region's most economically distinctive urban seats.