This time the voters have two candidates: Vice President Joseph Boakai and Senator George Manneh Weah from an exhaustive list of twenty in the first round. Senator Weah obtained nearly 40 percent of the total number of valid votes cast. Weah obtained 276,558 votes or nearly 50 percent of the valid votes cast here, compared to Boakai’s 155,651 votes or over 27 percent. Weah got 46,155 valid votes cast and Boakai 35,677. Cummings showed solidarity to Brumskine alongside Boakai, but Cummings decided not to support Boakai or Weah.

Source: Front Page Africa December 25, 2017 19:41 UTC