{"id":3612,"date":"2023-06-22T11:57:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T11:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1307007.us31.myftpupload.com\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2023-06-22T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T11:57:27","slug":"sierra-leone-2023-elections-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/sierra-leone-2023-elections-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone 2023 Elections: What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republic of Sierra Leone, a country on the southeast coast of West Africa\u00a0with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statistics.sl\/index.php\/census\/mid-term-population-census.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">population of\u00a07,548,702<\/a>,\u00a0would\u00a0be going to the polls come\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.gov.sl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 24, 2023<\/a>, to elect a new president and government.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 general elections will be the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.gov.sl\/history-of-parliament.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sixth democratic electoral process<\/a>\u00a0since 1996, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.gov.sl\/polling-stations-analysis-for-the-june-24-2023-multi-tier-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3,374,258<\/a>\u00a0total registered voters are\u00a0expected\u00a0to vote\u00a0in\u00a016 Districts, 3,630 polling centres and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.gov.sl\/polling-stations-analysis-for-the-june-24-2023-multi-tier-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11,832 polling stations<\/a>\u00a0across the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3613\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3613 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/salone-ec-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"460\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/salone-ec-1.png 1280w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/salone-ec-1-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/salone-ec-1-1024x368.png 1024w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/salone-ec-1-768x276.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u00a0Western Urban District has\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.gov.sl\/final-voter-registration-figure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highest number<\/a> (598,022) registered voters, and the Falaba District has the lowest number (69,128) of registered voters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3614\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3614 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/salone-ec-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"607\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/salone-ec-2.png 1280w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/salone-ec-2-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/salone-ec-2-1024x486.png 1024w, https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/salone-ec-2-768x364.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.gov.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FAQ_RUNOFF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">constitution<\/a>, the presidential candidate that will emerge as the winner is expected to secure no less than 55% of the valid votes.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u201cin the case of that, no candidate wins 55% of the valid votes, the two candidates with the highest number of votes should compete in a second election, also called a run-off,\u201d the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.gov.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FAQ_RUNOFF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Electoral Commission<\/a> has said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three types of Electoral systems<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone, three types of electoral systems will be used to conduct the 2023 Elections. They include;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Two-rounds system (Run-off): to conduct the Presidential Election<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The First-Past-The-Post (Simple Majority): the system will be used to conduct the Chairperson and Mayoral Election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Proportional Representation (District Block): the system will be used to conduct the Parliamentary and Local elections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Julius Kofi Satsi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republic of Sierra Leone, a country on the southeast coast of West Africa\u00a0with a\u00a0population of\u00a07,548,702,\u00a0would\u00a0be going to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[473],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/salone-1024x672.jpeg",1024,672,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Julius Kofi Satsi","author_link":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/author\/julius-kofi-satsi\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":38,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":38,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8406,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/8406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}