In 1943, William Tubman was elected President of Liberia, peacefully replacing President Edwin Barclay. According to the National Elections Commission (NEC), the final results of the election will be announced on October 25. But for the presidential election, if no candidate gets 50 percent +1 vote of the total votes cast, there will be a run-off as it occurred in the 2005 and 2011 presidential elections. All Liberia Party (ALP)Businessman Benoni Urey is one candidate who has vowed to join forces to dethrone the ruling Unity Party from power, even if he does not win. In the elections held on July 19, 1997, the UPP presidential candidate Gabriel Baccus Matthews won 2.51 percent of the vote.

Source: Daily Observer October 09, 2017 02:26 UTC