Pres. Tubman Casts Ballot

May 4, 1971 Congotown, Monrovia.

After a day of heavy voting (Tuesday, May 4) throughout Liberia to elect a President and seventy-one Senators and Representatives, the incumbent President Dr. William Tubman was re-elected for a seventh consecutive term. Also re-elected, Vice-President Dr. William Tolbert, Jr. All the candidates standing for election belong to the TrueWhig Party which has ruled Liberia for more than a century.

Seventy-five-year-old Dr. Tubman, who first came to power in 1944, had earlier this year indicated that he wished to stand down from his office--but, it is reported, he has accepted the mandate again because of his "love for his fellow citizens and his dedication to their development and advancement."
An early afternoon voter in Monrovia was President Dr. William Tubman himself. All the candidates for the Presidency, Vice-Presidency and seventy-one Senate and Representative seats, were from the True Whig Party which has ruled Liberia for more than a Century.
Mrs. Antoinette Tubman accompanied her husband and cast her vote in the Congotown booth in the suburbs of the Capital.

By the time the votes were counted in the evening, Dr. Tubman had been re-elected for the seventh consecutive term, with a total of seven hundred and fourteen thousand votes in his favour--that is two-thirds of the total population of the country. Also re-elected on the same ballot, was Vice-President Dr. William Tolbert junior.

After voting, Dr. and Mrs. Tubman drove off amid cheerful supporters. Earlier in the day the Head of State and his family had toured several polling stations throughout the Capital and the surrounding area.

(P.S.) There are no publicly known Voters Registration List in Liberia from 1847 to 1980.
The first publicly documented Voters Registration List in Liberia was in 1985.

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