Sierra Leones election results ready soon
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by emmanuel oloniruha8 in the election of chairs and mayors 19 chairs contested to head the 19 local councils into which sierra leone is sub divided nan1 in readiness for the announcement the national electoral commission nec on friday conducted officials of political parties and some observer groups round its results management facilities and tally centre in freetown1 the sierra leone nec chairman mohamed alie-conteh had promised that the commission would produce and announce elections results that are credible and acceptable1 mr paul ejime the spokesman of ecowas network of electoral commission econec and a member of the ecowas observer mission noted that the inspection of the facilities was to address issues raised by parties on the processing of the results1 observer groups represented at the meeting were ecowas au eu and the national elections watch new1 ecowas head of mission prof. amos sawyer was represented by commissioner for political affairs peace and security gen. francis behanzin and head of un office for west africa and the sahel dr mohamed chambas 1 results of the general elections conducted on march 7 in sierra leone will be released any moment from now1 if no candidate was able to score 55 per cent the two candidates with the most votes will participate in a runoff or second round1 in this case the runoff is concluded according to a simple majority or first past the post fptp system1 this means that the candidate who receives the majority of valid votes in the second round is declared the winner1 in all other types of elections the simple majorityfttp system is used to determine winners1 in parliamentary elections there are 112 constituencies in the country and one member is elected from each constituency1 they may run either as members of any of the registered political parties or as independent candidates1 a presidential candidate must receive 55 per cent of the total valid votes cast to win the elections1