1927 Liberian general election

Fraudulent election Liberia 1923 Liberian general election 1923 1931 Liberian general election 1931 3 May 1927 19,000 yes Presidential election presidential 1927 Charles Dunbar Burgess King (cropped).jpg Charles D. B. King True Whig Party 229,527 96.23% 3x4.svg Thomas J. R. Faulkner no People's Party DDDDDD 8,992 3.77% President Charles D. B. King True Whig Party Charles D. B. King True Whig Party General elections were held in Liberia in 1927. In the presidential election the result was a victory for Charles D. B. King of the True Whig Party, who was re-elected for a third term after defeating Thomas J. R. Faulkner of the People's Party.http://africanelections.tripod.com/lr.html Elections in Liberia African Elections Database 2010-12-08 2017-12-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20171228171749/http://africanelections.tripod.com/lr.html deadhttps://books.google.com/books?id=f1awli7vIrAC&pg=PA28 Rac(e)ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler George Schuyler George Schuyler Jeffrey B. Leak 2001 University of Tennessee Press 9781572331181 28 Google Books 25 September 2023 25 September 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230925111454/https://books.google.com/books?id=f1awli7vIrAC&pg=PA28 live Faulkner had previously served as the mayor of Monrovia, and ran a campaign based on reform of labor laws.Nelson Harold https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA159331.pdf Area Handbook Series. Liberia: A Country Study September 1984 American University 43 The elections have been referred to as "the most rigged ever" by Frances Johnson-Morris, a modern head of the country's National Elections Commission,2011-07-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20110727120702/http://www.newdemocrat.org/other/1MayNEC.html http://www.newdemocrat.org/other/1MayNEC.html Elections Chief Hints Slashing Numbers of Mushrooming Parties for 2005 Polls New Democrat and were listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most fraudulent election in history.2017-11-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20171120205806/http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/1927ElectionsMF.htm http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/1927ElectionsMF.htm The 1927 Presidential Elections Liberia Past and Present2011-07-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20110716041012/http://www.senegambianews.com/article/Education/Education/Academic_Report_on_The_Grassroots_of_Conflict_in_Liberia/2151 http://www.senegambianews.com/article/Education/Education/Academic_Report_on_The_Grassroots_of_Conflict_in_Liberia/2151 Academic Report on The Grass-roots of Conflict in Liberia Senegambia News Despite there being only 19,000 registered voters, according to the official results, King received around 230,000 votes to Faulkner's 9,000.Akingbade Harrison Ola 1997 The Liberian Problem of Forced Labor 1926-1940 https://www.jstor.org/stable/40761169 Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell'Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente 52 2 261–273 40761169 0001-9747 Results Charles D. B. King True Whig Party 229527 Thomas J. R. Faulkner People's Party 8992 #DDDDDD Saye GuannuJoseph Saye Guannu 1985 A Short History of the First Liberian Republic 45Some sources, such as American University scholar Harold D. Nelson, have suggested that King received 24,000 votes to Faulkner's 9,000. Aftermath Following the elections, Faulkner accused members of the True Whig Party government of using slave labor and selling slaves to the Spanish colony of Fernando Po, as well as involving the army in the process.Forced Labor Scandal http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/ForcedLabourScandal.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20171231105138/http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/ForcedLabourScandal.htm 2017-12-31 Liberia Past and Present Despite the government's denials and a refusal to cooperate, the League of Nations established the "International Commission of Inquiry into the Existence of Slavery and Forced Labor in the Republic of Liberia", under the chairmanship of British jurist Cuthbert Christy, to determine the extent of the problem. U.S. president Herbert Hoover briefly suspended relations to press Monrovia into compliance.http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/34/042.html Liberia: A Casualty of the Cold War's End AllAfrica 2000-10-24 In 1930 the committee's report was published, and although it could not substantiate charges of slavery and forced labor, it implicated government officials, including both King and vice president Allen Yancy of profiting from forced labor, which it equated to slavery.History of Liberia http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/liberia/history.htm GlobalSecurity There were also suggestions about putting Liberia into trusteeship.Liberia Country Studies: Liberia and the League of Nations http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1985/liberia_1_liberia_leagueofn.htm GlobalSecurity As a result, the House of Representatives began impeachment procedures against King, who quickly resigned. He was succeeded by Edwin Barclay. Faulkner contested the 1931 elections, but was again declared the loser. References Liberia General Category:Elections in Liberia Liberia Category:Electoral fraud Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results