The National Returning Officer of the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL), Mohamed K. Konneh on Saturday 1st July, 2023 announced the final results of the Saturday 24th June, 2023 multitier elections following the announcement of the presidential results on Tuesday 27th June at the Bintumani International Conference Hall at Aberdeen in Freetown.

According to the results announced for parliamentary results, out of the total seats of 13 in Parliament, the governing Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) won 81 seats in Parliament while the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party won 54 seats respectively.

What came out clearly in the announcement of the parliamentary results is that while the ruling SLPP won seats in all the 16 political districts but Bombali to justify its holistic national support across regions, the main opposition APC failed woefully to secure a single seat in five Southeastern districts – Kailahun, Kenema, Bo, Bonthe and Pujehun districts.

APC’s failure to attract votes in the five districts that are predominantly Mende ethnic group was largely due to the motherly invectives their agent Adebayor had been pelting at the ethnic group, the President and family, and other prominent personalities in the ruling SLPP Government.

While the main opposition APC’s votes were dwindled in the Southeast Regions, the SLPP increased their votes in the APC strongholds including the Western Area Rural, where they had five seats each around the country, and the Western Area Urban, where SLPP had 7 seats and APC 9 seats in Parliament respectively.

The ruling party also increased its votes in Falaba with 2 out of 4 seats, Koinadugu with 1 out of 3 seats, Kambia with 2 out of 6 seats, Karene with 1 out of 5 seats, and Port Loko with 4 out of 10 seats respectively.
Kono which used to be a swing district fell to the ruling SLPP that won 7 out of the 10 seats in the district.

The local council election results announced by the National Returning Officer indicated that the main opposition APC won 10 local councils in its strongholds while the governing SLPP won 9 local councils in its heartlands, 2 in Kono as a swing district and 1 in Falaba District in the Northeast Region of the country, thus making it 12 local councils nationally.

These are all indications that the ruling SLPP made more inroads in the main opposition APC strongholds whilst the latter did extremely poorly in its rivals’ heartland.