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Liberian general election, 2005
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Liberian general election, 2005
The
2005 Liberian general election
was held on 11 October 2005, with a runoff election for the presidency held on 8 November of that year. The
presidency
, as well as all seats in the
House of Representatives
and
Senate
were up for election. The election marked the end of the political transition following
Liberia
's
second civil war
and had been stipulated in the
Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2003
.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
, former
World Bank
employee and Liberian finance minister, won the presidential contest and became the first democratically-elected female
African
head of state
in January 2006.
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