Sierra Leonean general election, 1996

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General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 26 and 27 February 1996 to elect a president and Parliament of Sierra Leone. A second round of voting in the presidential election was held on 15 March. It was the first election since multi-party politics had been reintroduced following a referendum on a new constitution in 1991.

The parliamentary elections were won by the Sierra Leone People's Party, whilst the All People's Congress (which was the sole legal party between 1978 and 1991) finished fourth. The presidential election was won by the SLPP's candidate, Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. However, he was deposed by a coup led by Johnny Paul Koroma in May 1997. In July 1999, Kabbah signed the Lomé Peace Accord, which returned him to power.

1 Presidential elections
- 1.1 Results
2 Parliamentary elections
- 2.1 Results

[edit] Presidential elections

As no candidate won more than 55% of the vote in the first round, a second round of voting was held.

[edit] Results

Candidates	Parties	First round		Second round
Candidates	Parties	Votes	%	Votes	%
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah	Sierra Leone People's Party	266,893	35.80	608,419	59.50
John Karefa-Smart	United National People's Party	168,666	22.62	414,335	40.50
Thaimu Bangura	People's Democratic Party	119,782	16.07
John Karimu	National Unity Party	39,617	5.31
Edward Turay	All People's Congress	38,316	5.14
Abu Aiah Koroma	Democratic Centre Party	36,779	4.93
Abass Bundu	People's Progressive Party	21,557	2.89
Amadu Jalloh	National Democratic Alliance	17,335	2.33
Edward Kargbo	People's National Convention	15,798	2.12
Desmond Luke	National Unity Movement	7,918	1.06
Andrew Lungay	Social Democratic Party	5,202	0.70
Andrew Turay	National Peoples Party	3,925	0.53
Mohamed Sillah	National Alliance Democratic Party	3,723	0.50
Total		745,511		1,022,754

[edit] Parliamentary elections

The SLPP won the most seats in the elections, but fell well short of a majority, with only 27 of the 68 elected seats.

[edit] Results

Party	% of vote	Seats
Sierra Leone People's Party	36.1%	27
United National People's Party	21.6%	17
People's Democratic Party	15.3%	12
All People's Congress	5.7%	5
National Unity Party	5.3%	4
Democratic Centre Party	4.8%	3
People's Progressive Party	2.9%	0
National Democratic Alliance	2.7%	0
People's National Convention	2.5%	0
National Unity Movement	1.2%	0
Social Democratic Party	0.8%	0
National Alliance Democratic Party	0.6%	0
National People's Party	0.5%	0
Indirectly elected paramount chiefs	-	12
Total	100%	80
Source: African Elections database

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