Simon Osei-Mensah

Early life and education Osei-Mensah was born on 27 May 1961.

Career Osei-Mensah is an economist and banker. He worked as an operations manager at Kuapa Kokoo Credit Union before aspiring to political office. He became a member of parliament from January 2005 after emerging winner in the General Election in December 2004. He was elected as the member of parliament for this constituency in the fourth, fifth and sixth parliaments of the fourth Republic of Ghana.

Elections Osei-Mensah was elected as the member of parliament for the Bosomtwe constituency of the Ashanti Region for the first time in the 2004 Ghanaian general elections. He won on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. The New Patriotic Party won a majority total of 128 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats. He was elected with 28,052 votes out of 34,225 total valid votes cast equivalent to 82% of total valid votes cast. He was elected over Suleiman Mohammed of the People's National Convention, Edward Isaac Boateng of the National Democratic Congress and Paul Adomako Ansah of the Convention People's Party. These obtained 1.0%, 14.3% and 2.8% respectively of total valid votes cast. The New Patriotic Party won a minority total of 109 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats. He was elected with 25,988 votes out of 37,194 total valid votes cast, equivalent to 69.87%, and elected over Suleiman Mohammed of the People's National Convention, Dr. Joseph Oteng Adjei of the National Democratic Congress and Gilbert Adler Alhassan of the Convention People's Party. These obtained 1.46%, 27.67% and 0.99% respectively of the total votes cast.

In 2012, he won the general elections one more time on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party for the same constituency. He was elected with 34,790 votes out of 52,269 total valid votes cast. This was equivalent to 66.56% of total valid votes cast. He was elected over Joe Oteng-Adjei of the National Democratic Congress, Kwame Ofosu Chei of Progressive People's Party and Yaw Wiredu of the People's National Convention. These obtained 32.97%, 0.36% and 0.11% respectively of the total votes cast.

Personal life Osei-Mensah is a Catholic Christian. He is married with five children.