Elections in Sierra Leone
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Sierra Leone elects on national level a president and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people. The House of Representatives has 124 members, 112 members elected through plurality vote in single-member constituencies to serve 5-year terms and 12 members are elected by indirect vote to serve 5-year terms.[1]
Sierra Leone has a multi-party system, with two or three strong parties.
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Latest elections
2007 Presidential election
Candidate | Party | 1st round | 2nd round | ||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
Ernest Bai Koroma | All People's Congress (APC) | 815,523 | 44.34% | 950,407 | 54.62% |
Solomon Berewa | Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) | 704,012 | 38.28% | 789,651 | 45.38% |
Charles Margai | People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) | 255,499 | 13.89% | ||
Andrew Turay | Convention People's Party (CPP) | 28,610 | 1.56% | ||
Amadu Jalloh | National Democratic Alliance (NDA) | 17,748 | 0.96% | ||
Kandeh Baba Conteh | Peace and Liberation Party (PLP) | 10,556 | 0.57% | ||
Abdul Kady Karim | United National People's Party (UNPP) | 7,260 | 0.39% | ||
Total: (turnout 75.8%) | 1,839,208 | 100.00% | 1,740,058 | 100.00% | |
Source: National Electoral Commission (first round), National Electoral Commission (second round) |
2007 Parliamentary election
Parties | Votes | % | Seats | ||
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All People's Congress | 728,898 | 40.73% | 59 | ||
Sierra Leone People's Party | 707,608 | 39.54% | 43 | ||
People's Movement for Democratic Change | 275,435 | 15.39% | 10 | ||
National Democratic Alliance | 31,388 | 1.75% | 0 | ||
Convention People's Party | 15,303 | 0.86% | 0 | ||
United National People's Party | 14,078 | 0.79% | 0 | ||
Independents | 10,127 | 0.57% | 0 | ||
Peace and Liberation Party | 6,752 | 0.38% | 0 | ||
Traditional chiefs | — | 12 | |||
Total | 1,789,589 | 100.00% | 124 | ||
Invalid (8.94% of all votes) | 175,606 | ||||
Total including invalid votes | 1,965,195 | ||||
Source: National Electoral Commission (seats and votes per constituency) The traditional chiefs elected twelve MPs independently from the parliamentary |
Past elections
See also
References
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