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.[1][2]
The elections have been referred to as "the most rigged ever" by Francis Johnson-Morris, a modern head of the country's National Elections Commission,[3] and were listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most fraudulent election in history.[4][5] Despite there being fewer than 15,000 registered voters, according to the official results King received around 230,000 votes to Faulkner's 9,000,[6] theoretically resulting in a voter turnout in excess of 1,590%.
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