Talk:1927 Liberian general election

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Did King 'win' 243,000, or 24,000? There seems to be a lot of evidence that 24,000 was in fact the correct figure. -143.234.1.111 (talk) 12:24, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Actually scratch that, 243,000 seems the correct figure. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cTwXDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT50&lpg=PT50&dq=liberia+elections+1931&source=bl&ots=VBPfGX6ijU&sig=EMf07RnqpO0DgRIOP2VgQ6zQ3Vw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_zoWo6r_UAhUDPBoKHVSgDRsQ6AEIVTAI#v=onepage&q=liberia%20elections%201931&f=false -143.234.1.111 (talk) 12:33, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

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Number of votes
According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on 10 May 1927:

The currently represented margin of 231,000 (171,000 off from the contemporary number) comes from the commission head "recalling" them in 2004, 77 years after the fact. In a book compiling works by the journalist George Schuyler, the number mentioned is 243,000. Is there any more direct source for the number of votes King is supposed to have received? IceWelder &#91; &#9993; &#93; 11:10, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Per Charles S. Johnson's Bitter Canaan pp. 149-150 (written 1930, revised 1948, published 1987): I guess I probably wouldn't put much stock in whatever wire was sent to the Eagle; it was also clearly fabricated, but not considered official. Perhaps court records have survived in some form? That may be the likeliest place to find whatever the official tally was. Star Garnet (talk) 15:37, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I have also seen some sources stating King received 24,000 votes (not 240,000), but figures around 240,000 (particularly 243,000) seem to be the most common. Interestingly Joseph Saye Guannu's A Short History of the First Liberian Republic gives some actual figures – 229,527 for King and 8,992 for Faulkner (p45), but these do not seem to be repeated in any other publication available online from what I can see. Number   5  7  19:08, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Actually, I've found some more sources with those exact figures, including this journal. Number   5  7  20:33, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Good stuff. I wanted to look these numbers up on Newspapers.com but the Wikipedia Library proxy seems down right now. When I was still looking into this a few days ago, I found this 1929 article that first mentions that "250,000, more or less" votes were officially cast. This was then expanded on in 1931:
 * I do wonder why sources oscillate between 243,000, 240,000, 235,000, and 229,527 votes for King, as well as the original 60,000 margin. How should we handle this? Use the most accuracte number and state the rest in an efn-note? IceWelder  &#91; &#9993; &#93; 16:55, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately it's all too common that sources give significantly difference results for elections... However, I would imagine a source that has exact numbers may be more likely to be reliable than heavily rounded ones? Cheers, Number   5  7  21:10, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately it's all too common that sources give significantly difference results for elections... However, I would imagine a source that has exact numbers may be more likely to be reliable than heavily rounded ones? Cheers, Number   5  7  21:10, 27 September 2023 (UTC)