1927 Liberian general election: Difference between revisions

{{short description|noneFraudulent election}}

| image1 = CBD1927 KingCharles ofDunbar LiberiaBurgess King.jpg

| percentage1image2 = ~96%3x4.svg

| running_mate2color2 = DDDDDD

| popular_vote2 = ~98,000992

| percentage2 = ~43.77%

| before_party = [[True Whig Party|True Whig]]

| after_party = [[True Whig Party|True Whig]]

'''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.<ref name=AED>[{{cite web|url=http://africanelections.tripod.com/lr.html |title=Elections in Liberia] |website=African Elections Database}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f1awli7vIrAC&pg=PA28 |title=Rac(e)ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler |author-first=George |author-last=Schuyler |author-link=George Schuyler |editor-first=Jeffrey B. |editor-last=Leak |year=2001 |publisher=[[University of Tennessee Press]] |isbn=9781572331181 |page=28 |via=[[Google Books]] |access-date=25 September 2023 |archive-date=25 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925111454/https://books.google.com/books?id=f1awli7vIrAC&pg=PA28 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The elections werehave been referred to as "the most rigged ever" by Francis[[Frances Johnson-Morris]], a modern head of the country's [[National Elections Commission (Liberia)|National Elections Commission]],<ref name=ND>{{cite web|archive-date=2011-07-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727120702/http://www.newdemocrat.org/other/1MayNEC.html|url=http://www.newdemocrat.org/other/1MayNEC.html|title=Elections Chief Hints Slashing Numbers of Mushrooming Parties for 2005 Polls|website=New Democrat}}</ref> and alsowere madelisted it intoin the ''[[Guinness World Records|Guinness Book of Records]]'' as the most fraudulent election ever reported in history.<ref>[{{cite web|archive-date=2017-11-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171120205806/http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/1927ElectionsMF.htm |url=http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/1927ElectionsMF.htm|title=The 1927 Presidential Elections] |website=Liberia Past and Present}}</ref><ref>[{{cite web|archive-date=2011-07-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716041012/http://www.senegambianews.com/article/Education/Education/Academic_Report_on_The_Grassroots_of_Conflict_in_Liberia/2151 |url=http://www.senegambianews.com/article/Education/Education/Academic_Report_on_The_Grassroots_of_Conflict_in_Liberia/2151|title=Academic Report on The Grass-roots of Conflict in Liberia] |website=Senegambia News}}</ref> Despite there being fewer than 15,000 registered voters, according to the official falsified results, King received around 240230,000 votes, compared to Faulkner's 9,000 for Faulkner,<ref name=ND>[https:SG//web.archive.org/web/20110727120702/http://www.newdemocrat.org/other/1MayNEC.html Elections Chief Hints Slashing Numbers of Mushrooming Parties for 2005 Polls] New Democrat</ref> officiallytheoretically resulting in a [[voter turnout]] that was in excess of 1,660590%.

|cand1=[[Charles D. B. King]]|party1=[[True Whig Party]]|votes1=240000229527

|cand2=Thomas J. R. Faulkner|party2=People's Party|votes2=90008992|color2 = #DDDDDD

Following the electionelections, Faulkner accused members of the True Whig Party government of using slave labor at home and selling slaves to the Spanish colony of [[Bioko|Fernando Po]], as well as involving the [[Liberian Army|Armyarmy]] in the process.<ref name=LPP"LPP2">{{cite web |title=Forced Labor Scandal |url=http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/ForcedLabourScandal.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231105138/http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/ForcedLabourScandal.htm |archive-date=2017-12-31 |website=Liberia Past and Present}}</ref> 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",<ref name=GS>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/liberia/history.htm"LPP2" History of Liberia] GlobalSecurity.org</ref> under the chairmanship of British jurist [[Cuthbert Christy]], to determine the extent of the problem.<ref name=LPP"LPP2" /> AmericanU.S. Presidentpresident [[Herbert Hoover]] briefly suspended relations to press [[Monrovia]] into compliance.<ref>[{{cite web|url=http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/34/042.html |title=Liberia: A Casualty of the Cold War's End] |website=AllAfrica.com, |date=2000-10-24 October 2000}}</ref> 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.<ref name=GS"GS2">{{cite web |title=History of Liberia |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/liberia/history.htm |website=GlobalSecurity}}</ref> There were also suggestions about putting Liberia into [[League of Nations mandate|trusteeship]].<ref>[{{cite web |title=Liberia Country Studies: Liberia and the League of Nations |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1985/liberia_1_liberia_leagueofn.htm Liberia Country Studies: Liberia and the League of Nations] |website=GlobalSecurity.org}}</ref> As a result, the [[House of Representatives of Liberia|House of Representatives]] began impeachment procedures against King, who quickly resigned.<ref name=LPP>[http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/ForcedLabourScandal.htm"LPP2" Forced Labor Scandal] Liberia Past and Present</ref> He was succeeded by [[Edwin Barclay]]. Faulkner contested the [[1931 Liberian general election|1931 elections]], but lost again.<ref name=AED/>

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