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      "from": "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",
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          "basis": "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."
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            "citation": "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.",
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            "source": "https://ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023-Presidential-election-result.pdf",
            "publisher": "Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (National Returning Officer's statement of 27 Jun 2023)",
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            "total_votes": 2789808,
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            "ballots": 2800691,
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            "note": "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.",
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                "candidate": "BIO JULIUS MAADA",
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                "share": 41.16,
                "seats": null,
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                "candidate": "BAH MOHAMED CHERNOH",
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                "votes": 21620,
                "share": 0.77,
                "seats": null,
                "winner": false
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                "candidate": "MARGAI CHARLES FRANCIS",
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                "votes": 16012,
                "share": 0.57,
                "seats": null,
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                "candidate": "KAMARA NABIEU HENRY",
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                "share": 0.28,
                "seats": null,
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                "share": 0.24,
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                "candidate": "COKER PRINCE",
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                "share": 0.21,
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                "share": 0.16,
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                "share": 0.15,
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                "share": 0.1,
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                "candidate": "JONJO MOHAMED",
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                "share": 0.08,
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                "share": 0.05,
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