She won the
Asutifi South Constituency during the
2000 parliamentary elections on the ticket of the
New Patriotic Party (NPP), defeating incumbent
Collins Dauda of the
National Democratic Congress. Amoah was the member of parliament for the Asutifi South Constituency from January 2001 to January 2005. She also served as Ghana's ambassador to
Cuba, becoming High Commissioner to
Barbados afterwards. On 13 June 2015, Amoah won the Asutifi South constituency New Patriotic Party parliamentary primaries to represent the party again in the
Ghanaian general election in 2016. However, one member of her late husband's family (a distant cousin) did not support her attempt to return, calling the incumbent
Collins Dauda "dangerous". Amoah had accused her electoral opponent Collins Dauda and his political party of using intimidation tactics after claiming they sent men to assault NPP polling agents. Amoah and several others were later attacked by unknown assailants, who destroyed several bicycles in their care.
2000 Elections Amoah was elected as the member of parliament for the Asutifi South constituency in the
2000 Ghanaian general elections. She was elected on the ticket of the
New Patriotic Party. The New Patriotic Party won a majority total of 100 parliamentary seats out of 200 seats in the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. She was elected over Collins Dauda of the
National Democratic Congress, Alfred Osei Nkrumah of the
National Reform Party, Alex Osei Amankwaa of the
Convention People's Party, and Kwabena Yeboah of the
People's National Convention. These obtained 14,326, 359, 245, 207 and 200 votes respectively out of the total valid votes cast. These were equivalent to 57.5%, 39.7%, 1.0%, 0.7%, 0.6% and 0.6% respectively of total valid votes cast. ==References==