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Sierra Leone general election 2023

Polling day . 2 races. Counted by Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone. Times are Freetown time; hover for UTC.

President

Final count

CandidatePartyVotesShare
BIO JULIUS MAADASierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP)1,566,932
KAMARA SAMURA MATHEW WILSONAll Peoples Congress (APC)1,148,262
BAH MOHAMED CHERNOHNational Democratic Alliance (NDA)21,620
MARGAI CHARLES FRANCISPeoples Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC)16,012
KAMARA NABIEU HENRYPeace and Liberation Party (PLP)7,717
SACCOH ABDULAI DOUGAKORORevolutionary United Front Party (RUFP)6,796
COKER PRINCEPeoples Democratic Party (PDP)5,981
KAKAY IYEAlliance Democratic Party (ADP)4,336
KABUTA SAA TURAYUnited National Peoples Party (UNPP)4,059
WILLIAMS BERESFORD VICTORRepublic National Independent Party (ReNIP)2,692
JONJO MOHAMEDCitizens Democratic Party (CDP)2,367
SOWA-TURAY MOHAMEDUnited Democratic Movement (UDM)1,665
SANDY JONATHAN PATRICKNational Unity and Reconciliation Party (NURP)1,369
Total votes2,789,808

Votes per candidate as in paragraph 4 of the ECSL statement of 27 Jun 2023 (candidate names as written there, surname first; party names and abbreviations as written, except UDM, taken from the August re-scan). The 13 rows add up to 2,789,808, the 'TOTAL VALID VOTES CAST' in the statement. Invalid votes 10,883 (0.39%); 'national turnout' 2,800,691 (valid plus invalid), which the statement says is '83 % of all registered voters'. The statement gives no registered-voter figure, so electorate is left out. Results of 11,712 of 11,832 polling stations (98.98%); 120 were not entered. Licence: ec.gov.sl has no terms-of-use or licence page (/terms-of-use/, /terms-and-conditions/, /copyright/, /disclaimer/ and /terms/ returned 404 on 3 Oct 2026; /privacy-policy/ says nothing on reuse). The site footer reads '© 2025 ECSL. All Rights Reserved.', and a copy-protection script on its pages appends ' please obtain permission for copyright reason' and the page URL to text copied in a browser. Neither is a statement of reuse terms for the declared results, so, as with the Electoral Commission of Ghana, the counts are copied as an official publication with no reuse terms stated (https://ec.gov.sl/declarations/). The Sierra Leone Copyright Act 2011 was not checked for an exclusion of official documents. Published by Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (National Returning Officer's statement of 27 Jun 2023), 27 Jun 2023: ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023-Presidential-election-result.pdf. Official publication of the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone; no reuse terms stated.

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    Polls closed at 17:00 local, 17:00 UTC (Sierra Leone keeps GMT all year): Public Elections Act 2022 s.50(1), 'The hours of voting in a presidential or parliamentary election shall be from 7 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in the afternoon or such later time as the Electoral Commission may allow'; voters in line at the close may still vote (s.50(2)). No ECSL notice extending the hours nationally was found. The National Returning Officer, ECSL's Chief Electoral Commissioner (Constitution s.45), tallies and declares the result 'as soon as possible' (Act s.51(2)); no deadline is set, so expectedBy is the day of the actual declaration. ECSL's statement dated '27th June, 2023' reads: 'by the powers vested in me as the National Returning Officer by Section 67, 51(2) and 92(4) of the Public Elections Act, 2022 ... I hereby certify that BIO, JULIUS MAADA, having polled 1,566,932 of valid votes cast representing 56.17 % of total valid votes cast in the 24th June, 2023 Presidential election duly elected President of the Republic of Sierra Leone.' The statement gives a date but no time, so observedAt is the end of 27 Jun 2023 local (GMT = UTC). The declaration covered 11,712 polling stations (98.98%); 120 stations were not entered, which the statement says 'cannot materially affect the outcome'. 56.17% passed the 55% threshold (Constitution s.42(2)(e)), so no second round was held. A voter could petition the Supreme Court within seven days (Act s.54(1), as paragraph 6 of the statement says); the Court does not have to confirm the result, so there is no court-validation stage.
    Observed
Results sources 6 pages, 2 can answer a results question
URLRoleKindCan answer a results questionLast check
ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023-Presidential-election-result.pdfresults-finalrace resultsyesnot checked yet
ec.gov.sl/2023-presidential-election-result/results-finalrace resultsyesnot checked yet
ec.gov.sl/declarations/see-alsootherno (no election or results marker)not checked yet
sierralii.gov.sl/akn/sl/act/2022/17/eng@2022-09-20timetableotherno (election page without a results marker)not checked yet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Sierra_Leonean_general_electionsee-alsootherno (election page without a results marker)not checked yet
ec.gov.slauthority-homeemb homeno (site root: cannot answer a results question)not checked yet

Parliament 135 seats

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announced set by law or the authorityprecedent from the last electionestimate our estimateFreetown time. Every window on this chart has passed.
Stage windows and their sources 1 stage, each cited
  1. Final result
    — →
    announced
    Polls closed at 17:00 local, 17:00 UTC (Sierra Leone keeps GMT all year): Public Elections Act 2022 s.50(1), 'The hours of voting in a presidential or parliamentary election shall be from 7 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in the afternoon or such later time as the Electoral Commission may allow'; voters in line at the close may still vote (s.50(2)). No ECSL notice extending the hours nationally was found. 135 ordinary members were elected by district block proportional representation under Constitution s.38A (as amended in 2001), on a presidential direction, with an 11.9% district threshold; the 14 Paramount Chief Members were elected separately on 20 May 2023 and are not part of this race. No deadline is set by law, so expectedBy is the day of the actual declarations. Each of ECSL's 16 district declarations reads: 'In exercise, of the powers conferred on me as the National Returning Officer, by section 38A of the 1991 Constitution (as amended), pursuant to section 92 of the Public Elections Act 2022, I hereby declare the number of seats won by the following political parties for Member of Parliament in [district] district', each 'Dated: 1st day of July, 2023'. They give a date but no time, so observedAt is the end of 1 Jul 2023 local (GMT = UTC). Day 7 after polling. No court must confirm the result, so there is no court-validation stage. No results are recorded here: ECSL publishes votes and seats per district only, with no national total per party (see the race sources).
    Observed
Results sources 7 pages, 3 can answer a results question
URLRoleKindCan answer a results questionLast check
ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RESULTS-FOR-MP-JUNE-24-2023-ELECTIONS.pdfresults-finalrace resultsyesnot checked yet
ec.gov.sl/results-for-mp-june-24-2023-elections/results-finalrace resultsyesnot checked yet
ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SUMMARY-OF-STATEMENT-OF-THE-PARLIAMENTARY-RESULTS-BY-DISTRICT.pdfresults-finalrace resultsyesnot checked yet
ec.gov.sl/declarations/see-alsootherno (no election or results marker)not checked yet
sierralii.gov.sl/akn/sl/act/2022/17/eng@2022-09-20timetableotherno (election page without a results marker)not checked yet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Sierra_Leonean_general_electionsee-alsootherno (election page without a results marker)not checked yet
ec.gov.slauthority-homeemb homeno (site root: cannot answer a results question)not checked yet

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Provenance: researcher agent 2026-10-03: ECSL presidential declaration of 27 Jun 2023 (ec.gov.sl, June and August scans), ECSL district declarations of MP results and district summaries dated 1 Jul 2023 (ec.gov.sl), Public Elections Act 2022 (SierraLII), Constitution of Sierra Leone 1991 as amended; Wikipedia for leads (CC BY 4.0 (Election Index); vote counts official publication of the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone, no reuse terms stated). Last verified 2026-10-03.

Questions and answers

When is the Sierra Leone general election 2023?
Polling day is 2023-06-24 (officially set).
When will the final result of the President race be official?
Expected between polls close and 2023-06-27T23:59:59Z (UTC), confidence announced. Polls closed at 17:00 local, 17:00 UTC (Sierra Leone keeps GMT all year): Public Elections Act 2022 s.50(1), 'The hours of voting in a presidential or parliamentary election shall be from 7 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in the afternoon or such later time as the Electoral Commission may allow'; voters in line at the close may still vote (s.50(2)). No ECSL notice extending the hours nationally was found. The National Returning Officer, ECSL's Chief Electoral Commissioner (Constitution s.45), tallies and declares the result 'as soon as possible' (Act s.51(2)); no deadline is set, so expectedBy is the day of the actual declaration. ECSL's statement dated '27th June, 2023' reads: 'by the powers vested in me as the National Returning Officer by Section 67, 51(2) and 92(4) of the Public Elections Act, 2022 ... I hereby certify that BIO, JULIUS MAADA, having polled 1,566,932 of valid votes cast representing 56.17 % of total valid votes cast in the 24th June, 2023 Presidential election duly elected President of the Republic of Sierra Leone.' The statement gives a date but no time, so observedAt is the end of 27 Jun 2023 local (GMT = UTC). The declaration covered 11,712 polling stations (98.98%); 120 stations were not entered, which the statement says 'cannot materially affect the outcome'. 56.17% passed the 55% threshold (Constitution s.42(2)(e)), so no second round was held. A voter could petition the Supreme Court within seven days (Act s.54(1), as paragraph 6 of the statement says); the Court does not have to confirm the result, so there is no court-validation stage.
When will the final result of the Parliament race be official?
Expected between polls close and 2023-07-01T23:59:59Z (UTC), confidence announced. Polls closed at 17:00 local, 17:00 UTC (Sierra Leone keeps GMT all year): Public Elections Act 2022 s.50(1), 'The hours of voting in a presidential or parliamentary election shall be from 7 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in the afternoon or such later time as the Electoral Commission may allow'; voters in line at the close may still vote (s.50(2)). No ECSL notice extending the hours nationally was found. 135 ordinary members were elected by district block proportional representation under Constitution s.38A (as amended in 2001), on a presidential direction, with an 11.9% district threshold; the 14 Paramount Chief Members were elected separately on 20 May 2023 and are not part of this race. No deadline is set by law, so expectedBy is the day of the actual declarations. Each of ECSL's 16 district declarations reads: 'In exercise, of the powers conferred on me as the National Returning Officer, by section 38A of the 1991 Constitution (as amended), pursuant to section 92 of the Public Elections Act 2022, I hereby declare the number of seats won by the following political parties for Member of Parliament in [district] district', each 'Dated: 1st day of July, 2023'. They give a date but no time, so observedAt is the end of 1 Jul 2023 local (GMT = UTC). Day 7 after polling. No court must confirm the result, so there is no court-validation stage. No results are recorded here: ECSL publishes votes and seats per district only, with no national total per party (see the race sources).
Where are the official President results?
https://ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023-Presidential-election-result.pdf, https://ec.gov.sl/2023-presidential-election-result/
Where are the official Parliament results?
https://ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RESULTS-FOR-MP-JUNE-24-2023-ELECTIONS.pdf, https://ec.gov.sl/results-for-mp-june-24-2023-elections/, https://ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SUMMARY-OF-STATEMENT-OF-THE-PARLIAMENTARY-RESULTS-BY-DISTRICT.pdf