{ "data": { "id": "parliament", "key": "sierra-leone-general-2023/parliament", "name": "Parliament", "body": "legislature-unicameral", "seats": 135, "seats_provisional": false, "polls_close_utc": "2023-06-24T17:00:00Z", "authority": { "id": "sl-ecsl", "name": "Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone", "name_local": null, "role": "electoral-commission", "homepage": "https://ec.gov.sl/", "results_index": null, "open_data": null }, "status": "final-expected", "expected_stage_now": null, "observed": false, "final_observed": { "at": "2023-07-01T23:59:59Z", "source": "https://ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RESULTS-FOR-MP-JUNE-24-2023-ELECTIONS.pdf" }, "final_expected": { "from": null, "by": "2023-07-01T23:59:59Z", "confidence": "announced", "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. 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. ECSL publishes votes and seats per district only, with no national total per party; the results recorded for this race are our sums of the 16 district declarations (see the results note)." }, "last_final": null, "previous": null, "stages": [ { "stage": "final-result", "from": null, "by": "2023-07-01T23:59:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "announced", "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. 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. ECSL publishes votes and seats per district only, with no national total per party; the results recorded for this race are our sums of the 16 district declarations (see the results note).", "source": null, "observedAt": "2023-07-01T23:59:59Z", "observedSource": "https://ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RESULTS-FOR-MP-JUNE-24-2023-ELECTIONS.pdf" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RESULTS-FOR-MP-JUNE-24-2023-ELECTIONS.pdf", "role": "results-final", "kind": "race_results", "kindReason": "election code and results marker", "resolvable": true, "origin": "race", "note": "ECSL, 'Declaration of Results for Member of Parliament Election held on 24th June, 2023', 17 scanned pages, one declaration per district (16 districts), each signed by the Chairperson/National Returning Officer and 'Dated: 1st day of July, 2023'. Each gives the district's polling stations entered, votes cast, turnout, invalid votes, valid votes per party/independent candidate, whether each attained the 11.9% district threshold, and the seats won. The Bombali page's declaration reads 'in XXX district', and the Port Loko, Bonthe and Western Area Rural pages have the district name corrected by hand (they read 'Karene', 'Bo' and 'Western Area Urban'). There is no national total of votes or seats.", "check": { "status": 200, "state": "ok", "at": "2026-10-26T05:17:46Z" }, "figures_in_html": null, "oracle_reads": null, "not_resolvable_because": null }, { "url": "https://ec.gov.sl/results-for-mp-june-24-2023-elections/", "role": "results-final", "kind": "race_results", "kindReason": "election code and results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "ECSL page 'Results for MP June 24 2023 Elections' (posted 23 Aug 2023), linking the declarations PDF.", "check": { "status": 200, "state": "ok", "at": "2026-10-26T05:17:46Z" }, "figures_in_html": false, "oracle_reads": null, "not_resolvable_because": "its HTML shows no count: the figures load by script, or the page only links on" }, { "url": "https://ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SUMMARY-OF-STATEMENT-OF-THE-PARLIAMENTARY-RESULTS-BY-DISTRICT.pdf", "role": "results-final", "kind": "race_results", "kindReason": "election code and results marker", "resolvable": true, "origin": "race", "note": "ECSL, 'Summary of Statement of the Results of the Parliamentary Election' for each district, dated 1 Jul 2023, certified under Public Elections Act 2022 s.92(1): valid votes per party/candidate per district (text PDF, linked from https://ec.gov.sl/summary-of-statement-of-the-parliamentary-results-by-district/). No national totals.", "check": { "status": 200, "state": "ok", "at": "2026-10-26T05:17:46Z" }, "figures_in_html": null, "oracle_reads": null, "not_resolvable_because": null }, { "url": "https://ec.gov.sl/declarations/", "role": "see-also", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "ECSL declarations index.", "check": { "status": 200, "state": "ok", "at": "2026-10-26T05:17:46Z" }, "figures_in_html": null, "oracle_reads": null, "not_resolvable_because": null }, { "url": "https://sierralii.gov.sl/akn/sl/act/2022/17/eng@2022-09-20", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Public Elections Act 2022: s.50(1) (polling hours), s.92 (district results and declaration).", "check": { "status": 200, "state": "ok", "at": "2026-10-26T05:17:46Z" }, "figures_in_html": null, "oracle_reads": null, "not_resolvable_because": null }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Sierra_Leonean_general_election", "role": "see-also", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "check": { "status": 200, "state": "ok", "at": "2026-10-26T05:17:46Z" }, "figures_in_html": null, "oracle_reads": null, "not_resolvable_because": null }, { "url": "https://ec.gov.sl/", "role": "authority-home", "kind": "emb_home", "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question", "resolvable": false, "origin": "authority", "check": { "status": 200, "state": "ok", "at": "2026-10-26T05:17:46Z" }, "figures_in_html": null, "oracle_reads": null, "not_resolvable_because": null } ], "results_page": { "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/sierra-leone-general-2023/parliament", "role": "secondary", "stage": "final-result", "final": true, "published_at": "2023-07-01", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-05T12:00:00Z", "copied_from": "https://ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RESULTS-FOR-MP-JUNE-24-2023-ELECTIONS.pdf", "publisher": "Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (National Returning Officer's 16 district declarations of results for Member of Parliament, 1 Jul 2023)", "note": "Global Election Index's copy of the count. The authority's own page (resolution_sources) is the primary source; use this when it cannot be read." }, "page_activity": [], "government": null, "results": [ { "stage": "final-result", "published_at": "2023-07-01", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-05T12:00:00Z", "source": "https://ec.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RESULTS-FOR-MP-JUNE-24-2023-ELECTIONS.pdf", "publisher": "Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (National Returning Officer's 16 district declarations of results for Member of Parliament, 1 Jul 2023)", "licence": "Official publication of the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone; no reuse terms stated", "total_votes": 2784692, "electorate": null, "ballots": 2795864, "turnout": null, "note": "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/).", "rows": [ { "candidate": "Sierra Leone People's Party", "ballot_name": null, "party": null, "party_id": null, "colour": null, "votes": 1578259, "share": 56.68, "seats": 81, "winner": true }, { "candidate": "All Peoples Congress", "ballot_name": null, "party": null, "party_id": null, "colour": null, "votes": 1113882, "share": 40, "seats": 54, "winner": false }, { "candidate": "Independent candidates (32, in 11 districts)", "ballot_name": null, "party": null, "party_id": null, "colour": null, "votes": 48464, "share": 1.74, "seats": 0, "winner": false }, { "candidate": "National Grand Coalition", "ballot_name": null, "party": null, "party_id": null, "colour": null, "votes": 18169, "share": 0.65, "seats": 0, "winner": false }, { "candidate": "Peoples Movement For Democratic Change", "ballot_name": null, "party": null, "party_id": null, "colour": null, "votes": 17390, "share": 0.62, "seats": 0, "winner": false }, { "candidate": "National Democratic Alliance", "ballot_name": null, "party": null, "party_id": null, "colour": null, "votes": 3819, "share": 0.14, "seats": 0, "winner": false }, { "candidate": "Revolutionary United Front Party", "ballot_name": null, "party": null, "party_id": null, "colour": null, "votes": 1502, "share": 0.05, "seats": 0, "winner": false }, { "candidate": "Peace and Liberation Party", "ballot_name": null, "party": null, "party_id": null, "colour": null, "votes": 1131, "share": 0.04, "seats": 0, "winner": false }, { "candidate": "National Unity and Reconciliation Party", "ballot_name": null, "party": null, "party_id": null, "colour": null, "votes": 1000, "share": 0.04, "seats": 0, "winner": false }, { "candidate": "Republic National Independent Party", "ballot_name": null, "party": null, "party_id": null, "colour": null, "votes": 560, "share": 0.02, "seats": 0, "winner": false }, { "candidate": "People's Democratic Party", "ballot_name": null, "party": null, "party_id": null, "colour": null, "votes": 516, "share": 0.02, "seats": 0, "winner": false } ] } ], "live_count": null, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/sierra-leone-general-2023#parliament" }, "meta": { "dataset_version": "2026-10-26.74f9bab4", "built_at": "2026-10-26T08:01:24Z", "generated_at": "2026-10-26T18:58:02.909Z", "licence": "CC BY 4.0: credit \"Global Election Index (electionindex.org)\" and link to https://electionindex.org", "docs": "https://electionindex.org/docs" } }