Lydia Seyram Alhassan is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency in the Greater Accra Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.

She was born on January 31 1970 in Attiavi, Ghana.

She holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Ghana Business School, Legon, and a Bachelor of Administration degree from Ghana the Institute of Management and Public. Replacing her late husband, in January 2019 she contested and won the parliamentary seat for the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency.

She won the 2019 Ayawaso West by-election with 68.80 percent of the valid votes cast while the other candidates, Kwasi Delali Brempong of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) polled 30.52 percent, William Kofi Dowokpor of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) and Clement Boadi of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) polled 0.58 and 0.10 percent respectively Administration.

In 2020, she successfully contested in the general elections on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party and won against Ghanaian celebrity and NDC candidate John Dumelo, polling 9,851 of the valid votes cast.

She was married to the late politician Emmanuel Boakye Agyarko until he died in 2018.

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