The National Elections Commission (NEC) on Thursday announced the full results of the October 10 general elections and confirmed a run-off vote between the two top candidates for the presidency.
According to NEC, George Weah of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) will face incumbent vice-president, Joseph Boakai of the ruling Unity Party (UP) in a bid to succeed Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Per the final result from all the 5390 polling stations across the country, Weah, George Manneh of CDC polled 596,037 votes (38.4%), followed by Unity Party’s Boakai, Joseph Nyuma with 446,716 votes (28.8%). Brumskine, Charles Walker of LP polled 149,495 votes (9.6%) Johnson, Prince Y. of MDR polled 127,666 votes (8.2%), Cummings, Alexander B. of ANC polled 112,067 votes (7.2%) whereas Urey, Benoni Wilfred of ALP polled 24,246 votes (1.6%).
The remaining 14 candidates all got less than one percent of the total valid votes cast. NEC gave the voter turnout as 1,641,922 voters representing 75.2%.
Out of a total 2.1 million registered voters, only 1.6 million cast their votes in the first round of Liberia’s historic presidential and legislative elections.
Liberia, a nation of 4.1 million inhabitants only registered 2.1 million voters in March but the total number of voters who actually cast their ballots last week was a mere 1,641,922, meaning 542,000 did not cast their votes.
The National Elections commission voter registrants statistics show that 2,183,683 registered, with females: 1, 062,733 (49%) males: 1, 120,950 (51%), 18 year-old 1 08,485 while the average age of 35.
As it stands now, no candidate obtained 50 percent + 1 of the votes, and therefore a run-off will have been scheduled for November 7 between the top two contenders.
Meanwhile, George Weah in 2005 elections won in the first run but lost the run-off to incumbent Johnson Sirleaf.
George Weah, according to sources has reached out to Liberty Party’s Charles Walker Brumskine and Alexander Cummings of the Alternative National Congress.
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