{"iso":"SL","name":"Sierra Leone","flag":"\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf1","vote":"Parliament \u00b7 seat projection","model":"seat","updated":"2023-06-24","source":"2023 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling. Shares are the district block party vote at the parliamentary election of 24 June 2023, official results as published by the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone. International observers questioned the transparency of the presidential tally announced the same day, and the opposition APC initially boycotted parliament before a mediated agreement. Parties below one percent are aggregated as others.","shares":{"SLPP":56.7,"APC":40.0,"OTH":3.3},"polls":[],"parties":{"SLPP":{"name":"Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP)","color":"#0F7B3E","name_en":"Sierra Leone People's Party"},"APC":{"name":"All People's Congress (APC)","color":"#C8102E","name_en":"All People's Congress"},"OTH":{"name":"Other parties and independents","color":"#9a9a9a"}},"seats":{"SLPP":79,"APC":56},"seat_meta":{"total":135,"majority":68,"method":"dhondt","threshold":11.9,"chamber":"Parliament","note":"Real system is district-block largest-remainder PR in 16 districts with an 11.9% per-district threshold; the 14 indirectly chosen paramount-chief seats are excluded and the high threshold is applied to the national pool, smoothing smaller lists.","largest":"SLPP"},"primer":{"system":"Presidential republic","head_of_state":"President Julius Maada Bio","legislature":"Parliament, 149 members including 14 paramount chiefs.","electoral_system":"The 2023 election used district block proportional representation for parliament and a presidential vote requiring 55 percent to avoid a runoff.","government_now":"Bio won a second term with an official 56.2 percent, just above the runoff threshold, a figure whose transparency observers including the EU mission questioned.","context":"Politics alternates between the SLPP and APC. An armed attack on armouries and prisons in November 2023 was prosecuted as an attempted coup, and the next general election is due in 2028.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"SLPP":["Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP)","","Centre-left party historically strongest in the south and east; governing party of President Julius Maada Bio, holding a parliamentary majority."],"APC":["All People's Congress (APC)","","Centre-right party historically strongest in the north and west; the main opposition after the disputed 2023 election."],"OTH":["Other parties and independents","","Catch-all for minor parties, independents, and the 14 indirectly elected paramount chiefs who sit as non-partisan MPs."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"Parliament","as_of":"2023 election","total":149,"seats":{"SLPP":81,"APC":54,"OTH":14}},"region_winners":{"Eastern":"SLPP","Southern":"SLPP","Northern":"APC","Western Area":"SLPP"},"region_meta":{"election":"2023 general election (24 June 2023), parliamentary district block PR","source":"Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL), official results as published","note":"Each region shaded by the party that took the most seats and votes under district block PR. SLPP dominated the East (Kailahun, Kenema, Kono) and South, and by the official count, which international observers questioned for transparency, also led the Western Area; APC carried the North (Bombali, Port Loko, Kambia, Koinadugu)."},"has_geo":true,"next_election":{"date":"2028","title":"Sierra Leonean general election","chamber":"Parliament","type":"expected"}}