“In exercise of the powers conferred on the returning officer by section 37 of the electoral Laws Act, 2002, I hereby certify that 950,407 valid votes were cast in favour of the candidate Ernest Bai Koroma at that election and Ernest Bai Koroma therefore received the highest number of valid votes cast in that election. Ernest Bai Koroma has been duly elected President of Sierra Leone at the Presidential election of 2007’’. This was how the final elections result was announced on Monday September 17th by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) chairperson, Madam Christiana Thorpe in Freetown.

For more information about the Sierra Leone elections, go to the Sierra Leone Elections Platform