Rulling UP gets nearly 30%
With some 74% of the 5,390 polling places already in, George Weah’s Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) continues to lead with 39.2% of the votes tallied so far, ass the ruling Unity Party (UP) of Vice President Joseph Boakai getting 29.6%, according to the 3rd provisional results released by the National Elections Commission (NEC) on Saturday.
Announcing the results at the commission’s HQ in Monrovia, NEC Chairman Jerome Korkoya said one million 193 thousand votes have so far been tallied from 3, 991 polling places.
The CDC has collected 441,839of the total votes talied so far, while the UP has picked up 334,162 votes.
Twenty candidates contested the October 10 polls.
Charles Brumskine’s Liberty party got 109,345 votes or 9.7%; Alexander Cummings’s Alternative National Congress (ANC) got 77,298 votes or 6.9%; former warlord and Senator Prince Johnson of the Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction (MDR) gathered 74,470 votes or 6.6%.
Benoni Urey’s All Liberian Party (ALP) came next with 17,796 votes or 1.6%; Mills Jones’s Movement for Economic Empowerment has got 9,339 votes or 0.8% followed by the only female candidate in the presidential race, Macdella Cooper’s Liberia Restoration Party (LRP) with 8,915 vortes or 0.8%.
“Tallied results are going on in a transparent manner,” Korkoya has assured.
Meanwhile, out of the nearly 1.2 million votes tallied so far, the NEC Chairman announced that there has been 66,171 invalid votes.