1927 Liberian general election

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Registered

<15,000

Turnout

>1,590%

Presidential election


Nominee	Charles D. B. King	Thomas J. R. Faulkner
Party	TWP	People's Party
Popular vote	229,527	8,992
Percentage	96.23%	3.77%

President before election

Charles D. B. King
TWP

Elected President

Charles D. B. King
TWP

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General elections were held in Liberia in 1927. In the presidential election the result was a victory for Charles D. B. King of the True Whig Party, who was re-elected for a third term after defeating Thomas J. R. Faulkner of the People's Party.^[1]^[2]

The elections have been referred to as "the most rigged ever" by Frances Johnson-Morris, a modern head of the country's National Elections Commission,^[3] and were listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most fraudulent election in history.^[4]^[5] Despite there being fewer than 15,000 registered voters, according to the official results King received around 230,000 votes to Faulkner's 9,000,^[6] theoretically resulting in a voter turnout in excess of 1,590%.

Results


Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Charles D. B. King	True Whig Party	229,527	96.23
	Thomas J. R. Faulkner	People's Party	8,992	3.77
Total			238,519	100.00

Source: Saye Guannu^[6]

Aftermath

Following the elections, Faulkner accused members of the True Whig Party government of using slave labor and selling slaves to the Spanish colony of Fernando Po, as well as involving the army in the process.^[7] Despite the government's denials and a refusal to cooperate, the League of Nations established the "International Commission of Inquiry into the Existence of Slavery and Forced Labor in the Republic of Liberia",^[7] under the chairmanship of British jurist Cuthbert Christy, to determine the extent of the problem.^[7] U.S. president Herbert Hoover briefly suspended relations to press Monrovia into compliance.^[8] In 1930 the committee's report was published, and although it could not substantiate charges of slavery and forced labor, it implicated government officials, including both King and vice president Allen Yancy of profiting from forced labor, which it equated to slavery.^[9] There were also suggestions about putting Liberia into trusteeship.^[10] As a result, the House of Representatives began impeachment procedures against King, who quickly resigned.^[7] He was succeeded by Edwin Barclay. Faulkner contested the 1931 elections, but lost again.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Elections in Liberia". African Elections Database.
^ Schuyler, George (2001). Leak, Jeffrey B. (ed.). Rac(e)ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. University of Tennessee Press. p. 28. ISBN 9781572331181. Archived from the original on 25 September 2023. Retrieved 25 September 2023 – via Google Books.
^ "Elections Chief Hints Slashing Numbers of Mushrooming Parties for 2005 Polls". New Democrat. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27.
^ "The 1927 Presidential Elections". Liberia Past and Present. Archived from the original on 2017-11-20.
^ "Academic Report on The Grass-roots of Conflict in Liberia". Senegambia News. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16.
^ ^a ^b Guannu, Joseph Saye (1985). A Short History of the First Liberian Republic. p. 45.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Forced Labor Scandal". Liberia Past and Present. Archived from the original on 2017-12-31.
^ "Liberia: A Casualty of the Cold War's End". AllAfrica. 2000-10-24.
^ "History of Liberia". GlobalSecurity.
^ "Liberia Country Studies: Liberia and the League of Nations". GlobalSecurity.

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