Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
Joycelyn Tetteh | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Constituency Mp: | North Dayi |
Parliament: | Ghana |
Term Start: | 7 January 2017 |
President2: | Nana Akufo-Addo |
Birth Date: | 10 January 1988 |
Birth Place: | Tsyome-Sabadu, Volta Region |
Nationality: | Ghanaian |
Party: | National Democratic Congress |
Alma Mater: | University of Cape Coast |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Administrator |
Joycelyn Tetteh (born 10 January 1988) is a Member of Parliament of the National Democratic Congress party for the North Dayi Constituency.[1] [2] She is one of the 36 female parliamentarians of the seventh parliament of the fourth republic of Ghana.[3] Tettehh is also currently the ambassador for human trafficking in Ghana.[4]
Tetteh was born in Tsyome-Sabadu, Volta Region.[5] She studied Law and BEd in Management Studies at the University of Cape Coast.[6]
In 2016, she contested and won the NDC parliamentary seat for the North Dayi Constituency in the Volta Region.[7]
Tetteh first contested the North Day constituency parliamentary seat on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress during the 2016 Ghanaian general election and won the election with 12,948 votes, representing 78.53% of the total votes. She was elected over Wogbe Kpikpitse of the IND, Samuel Kwesi Anomah of the New Patriotic Party, Christopher Wise Siale of the Convention People's Party and Christopher N.A Dotse of the NDP. They obtained 2,946 votes, 457 votes, 66 votes and 57 votes respectively, equivalent to 17.89%, 2.83%, 0.40% and 0.35% of the total votes respectively.[8]
Tetteh was re-elected as a member of parliament for the North Dayi constituency in the Volta Region on the ticket of National Democratic Congress during the 2020 Ghanaian general election. She was elected with 14,424 votes representing 76.11% of the total votes. She won the election over Kudjoh Edmund Attah of New Patriotic Party who polled 4,455 votes which is equivalent to 23.51% and the parliamentary candidate for the LPG Atteh Kingsely had 72 votes, representing 0.38% of the total votes.[9] [10] [11]
She was honoured in August 2019 by the Chiefs and people of the North Dayi Constituency, who conferred on her the title: Mama Edzeame.[12]
She is single and a Christian.[13]