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Political party in Liberia
The
Liberty Party
(
LP
) is a
political party
in
Liberia
. It first fielded candidates in the
2005 elections
.
Its candidate
Charles Brumskine
placed third in the presidential poll, winning 13.9% of the vote. The party won
2
⁄
15
of the half up for election seats in the
Senate
and nine in the
House of Representatives
.
In October 2010, the party was set for a coalition with the
Congress for Democratic Change
(CDC), the largest party in the
Legislature
. The deal would have seen the two field a single list of candidates and presidential candidate in the next year's elections; a shared leadership of Brumskine and the CDC's standard-bearer,
George Weah
.
[1]
This deal fell apart, and party accordingly announced in February 2011 its senator
Franklin Siakor
had been chosen as Brumskine's running mate for the election.
[2]
The 2014 senate elections saw the party take second (or third if including the independents), with 11.47% of the vote, however the third-largest tranche of party political seats – all being geographic – happened to favour the then lesser-polling Unity Party. The LP share of the up for election half of senate seats was
2
⁄
15
. The party has 4 of the 30 senators, the most recently elected being Abraham Darius Dillon in 2019.
In the 2017 two-purpose elections, the party eked out third (or fourth if including the independents), with 9.62% of the presidential vote; 8.57% in the House. In the latter its sum of three seats was surpassed by the lesser-polling PUP, and by the greater-polling independents with 13 of the 73 seats.
It was led by
Charlyne Brumskine
.
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