Sierra Leone general election 2023: Parliament

Final count

National totals are Election Index sums of the 16 ECSL district declarations of 1 Jul 2023 (Constitution s.38A, Public Elections Act 2022 s.92), not a figure the Commission publishes: ECSL gives votes and seats per district only, with no national table. Ordinary members were elected by district block proportional representation in 16 districts with an 11.9% district threshold. Votes per party are our sums of the 'Valid Votes Obtained' in each district declaration; seats are our sums of the 'Number of seats won' declared per district, and add up to 135, the race's seats. Seats by district (APC/SLPP): Kailahun 0/10, Kenema 0/12, Kono 3/7, Bombali 8/0, Falaba 2/2, Koinadugu 3/1, Tonkolili 9/1, Kambia 4/2, Karene 4/1, Port Loko 6/4, Bo 0/12, Bonthe 0/5, Moyamba 1/5, Pujehun 0/7, Western Area Rural 5/5, Western Area Urban 9/7; no other party or candidate won a seat. The 14 Paramount Chief Members were elected separately on 20 May 2023 and are not part of this vote or of these seats. In every district the rows add up exactly to the 'Total Valid Votes' of ECSL's per-district Summary of Statement of the Results (s.92(1), dated 1 Jul 2023; SUMMARY-OF-STATEMENT-OF-THE-PARLIAMENTARY-RESULTS-BY-DISTRICT.pdf), and every party and candidate figure is the same in both documents. totalVotes 2,784,692 is the sum of the 16 district valid-vote totals. ballots 2,795,864 is the sum of the declarations' 'total number of votes cast'. Valid plus invalid matches votes cast in 14 districts; in Karene the declaration's 375 invalid votes would give 75,490 against 75,472 cast, but the Summary of Statement gives 357 invalid, which matches; in Port Loko 170,204 valid plus 831 invalid is 171,035 against 171,036 cast in both documents. Each declaration gives a turnout percentage but no registered-voter figure, so electorate is left out. Results of 11,643 of 11,832 polling stations were entered (the sum of the 16 declarations' counts). Party names as the declarations write them; spellings vary between pages ('Sierra Leone People's Party'/'Sierra Leone Peoples Party', 'People's Movement For Democratic Change'/'Peoples Movement For Democratic Change') and are merged. All 10 parties are listed. The 32 independent candidates, each standing in one district (Kenema 2, Kono 7, Bombali 2, Koinadugu 1, Tonkolili 3, Karene 1, Port Loko 3, Bo 4, Moyamba 1, Western Area Rural 2, Western Area Urban 6), are summed into one row; none won a seat and none passed the threshold. Scan defects, with each district identified by its 'District -' heading and table: the Bombali declaration reads 'in XXX district' and 'the number of seats the Sierra Leone Peoples Party won' above a table giving All Peoples Congress 8; the Port Loko page reads 'Karene' (corrected by hand to 'Port Loko'), Bonthe reads 'Bo' (corrected to 'Bonthe'), Western Area Rural reads 'Western Area Urban' (corrected to 'Rural'), and Falaba's text reads 'Fa District' (completed by hand). Kono's seat table is on a separate page, so the PDF has 17 pages for 16 districts. LICENCE: Official publication of the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone; no reuse terms stated. ec.gov.sl has no terms-of-use or licence page; the footer '© 2025 ECSL. All Rights Reserved.' and the copy-protection script that appends 'please obtain permission for copyright reason' to copied text are generic notices, not reuse terms (as for the president race; https://ec.gov.sl/declarations/). Published by Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (National Returning Officer's 16 district declarations of results for Member of Parliament, 1 Jul 2023), 1 Jul 2023: ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RESULTS-FOR-MP-JUNE-24-2023-ELECTIONS.pdf. Official publication of the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone; no reuse terms stated.