General elections were held in Liberia

Liberia

Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...

 in 1927. In the presidential election, the result was a victory for Charles D. B. King

Charles D. B. King

Charles Dunbar Burgess King was a politician in Liberia of Freetown Creole descent . He was a member of the True Whig Party, which ruled the country from 1878 until 1980...

 of the True Whig Party, who was re-elected for a third term after defeating Thomas J. Faulkner of the People's Party. However, the vote was referred to as "the most rigged ever" by Francis Johnson-Morris, a modern head of the country's National Election Commission

National Election Commission (Liberia)

The National Elections Commission of the Republic of Liberia is an autonomous agency in Liberia that supervises the national elections of Liberia.-Staff:The following people were part of the election commission as of 2011:...

, and also made it into the Guiness Book of Records

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 as the most fraudulent ever, as despite there being fewer than 15,000 registered voters in the country at the time, King received around 240,000 votes, compared to 9,000 for Faulkner.

Following the election, Faulkner accused members of the True Whig Party government of using slave labour at home and selling slaves to the Spanish colony of Fernando Po

Bioko

Bioko is an island 32 km off the west coast of Africa, specifically Cameroon, in the Gulf of Guinea. It is the northernmost part of Equatorial Guinea with a population of 124,000 and an area of . It is volcanic with its highest peak the Pico Basile at .-Geography:Bioko has a total area of...

, as well as involving the Army in the process. Despite the government's denials and a refusal to cooperate, the League of Nations

League of Nations

The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...

 established the "International Commission of Inquiry into the Existence of Slavery and Forced Labor in the Republic of Liberia", under the chairmanship of British jurist Cuthbert Christy to determine the extent of the problem. American President Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

 briefly suspended relations to press Monrovia into compliance. 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

Allen Yancy

Allen N. Yancy was Vice-President of Liberia from 1928 to 1930 under President Charles D.B. King. He was forced to resign in 1930 following his involvement with forced labor at the Firestone rubber plantations in Liberia.-References:...

 of profiting from forced labor, which it equated to slavery. There were also suggestions about putting Liberia into trusteeship

United Nations Trust Territories

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. As a result, the House of Representatives

House of Representatives of Liberia

The House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the bicameral Liberian Legislature. Legislative elections took place on 11 October 2005, and the elected members took office in January 2006.-Candidate eligibility:...

 began impeachment procedures against King, who quickly resigned. He was succeeded by Edwin Barclay

Edwin Barclay

Edwin James Barclay was a Liberian politician. A member of the True Whig political party, he served as the 18th President of the country from 1930 until 1944. Under his leadership, Liberia was an ally of the United States during World War II....

. Faulkner contested the 1931 elections

Liberian general election, 1931

General elections were held in Liberia in 1931. In the presidential election, the result was a victory for incumbent Edwin Barclay of the True Whig Party, who defeated Thomas J. Faulkner of the People's Party to win a first full term General elections were held in Liberia in 1931. In the...

, but lost again.

Results

Candidate	Party	Votes
Charles D. B. King Charles D. B. King Charles Dunbar Burgess King was a politician in Liberia of Freetown Creole descent . He was a member of the True Whig Party, which ruled the country from 1878 until 1980...	True Whig Party	240,000
Thomas J. Faulkner	People's Party	9,000
Total		249,000