Provisional results released by the National Elections Commission (NEC) on Monday, 16th October,
2023 indicates that the former Vice
President Joseph Boakai has a slim lead with 43.70% of the vote, while
incumbent President George Weah secured 43.65% of total votes cast.
The Chairperson of Liberia’s National Elections
Commission, Madam Davidetta Browne-Lansannah providing an update on the
presidential election indicated that results from 5,467 out of 5,890 polling centres across
Liberia have so far been received, accounting for 92.98% of the total votes
cast with 7.02% of polling centres yet to be counted.
Per results which have trickled in so far, it is increasingly
evident that neither candidate is likely to meet the constitutional requirement
of securing 50% plus 1 vote to be declared winner of the presidential election.
According to the country’s electoral
laws, if no candidate is successful at securing 50% plus
1 vote of the total votes cast, the election proceeds to a run-off. The run-off
is expected to take place 30 days from the day of the main election, which in
this case would be November 15, 2023.
The upcoming presidential run-off in Liberia between
George Weah and Joseph Boakai will be the second time these two leading
candidates will compete against each other, In the 2017 general elections, Weah garnered 38.4% of the vote, while
Boakai garnered 28.8%, leading to a subsequent run-off which saw Weah winning the presidential election with
61.5% of the votes.
Liberia’s 2023 election is the fourth since the second
civil war ended in 2023. 20 presidential candidates were cleared to contest the
election which is evidently becoming a repeat of the 2017 race between the
frontrunners George Weah and Joseph Boakai.
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