| Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
| Joseph Trumah Bayel | |
| Office1: | Member of Parliament for Sawla/Kalba Constituency |
| Term Start1: | 7 January 1993 |
| Term End1: | 6 January 1997 |
| President1: | Jerry John Rawlings[1] |
| Term Start2: | 7 January 1997 |
| Term End2: | 6 January 2000 |
| President2: | Jerry John Rawlings |
| Office3: | Member of Parliament for Sawla/Kalba Constituency |
| Term Start3: | 7 January 2000 |
| Term End3: | 6 January 2004 |
| President3: | John Agyekum Kufuor |
| Birth Date: | 20 June 1954 |
| Nationality: | Ghanaian |
| Party: | National Democratic Congress |
| Profession: | Politician |
Joseph Trumah Bayel (born 20 June 1954) is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the 3rd parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana and a former member of parliament for Sawla/Kalba district of the Northern Region of Ghana.[2] [3]
Bayel was born on 20 June 1954. He attended St John Bosco's Training College.[4]
Bayel is a teacher by profession. He is also a Ghanaian politician.
He is a member of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. His first appearance in parliament was in 1992 when he contested as a parliamentary candidate for the Sawla/Kalba constituency on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[5] [6] [7] [8] Even though, information about his 1992 victory is not scarce to get, he was again reelected into parliament in the 1996 election which he won with a total of 17,876 valid vote cast making 59.40%.[9] [10] He contested again in the 2000 Ghanaian general election[11] and maintained the seat for the National Democratic Congress for the third term. He won with 10,286 votes making 57.50% of the total valid vote cast. His political with the National Democratic Congress ended but he resurfaced in 2012 on the ticket.[12]
Bayel is a Christian. He is a teacher by profession. He graduated from St. John Bosco's College of Education.