2018 Sierra Leonean general election

2018 Sierra Leonean general election

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Presidential election
7 March 2018 (first round)
31 March 2018 (second round)[1]
 
Nominee Julius Maada Bio Samura Kamara
Party SLPP APC
Running mate Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh Chernor Maju Bah
Popular vote 1,319,406 1,227,171
Percentage 51.81% 48.19%

Results by district
Bio:      80–90%      90+%
Kamara:      50–60%      60–70%      80–90%      90+%

President before election

Ernest Bai Koroma
APC

Elected President

Julius Maada Bio
SLPP

General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 7 March 2018 to elect the President, Parliament and local councils.[2] Incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma did not run for another term, as he was constitutionally ineligible, having served the maximum ten years in office.

No presidential candidate received the 55% of the vote required to win in the first round, meaning a second round of voting was held on 31 March between the top two candidates, opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party and Samura Kamara of the ruling All People's Congress; the two were separated by under 15,000 votes in the first round. Bio was subsequently elected with 51.8% of the vote. International observers hailed the election as being "orderly, free and fair" despite the fact it was "hotly contested."[3][4]

  1. ^ "pic.twitter.com/WANZgunLz5". 26 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  2. ^ President Koroma announces election date – March 7th 2018 The Sierra Leone Telegraph, 15 February 2017
  3. ^ "Sierra Leone heads into hotly contested election runoff | DW | 30.03.2018". Deutsche Welle.
  4. ^ "Sierra Leone Election 2018 – Noslina's Suna Nallo and Kwame Fitzjohn on VOA TV Today". 7 March 2018.

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