:1927 Liberian general election

{{short description|Fraudulent election}}

{{Infobox election

| country = Liberia

| previous_election = 1923 Liberian general election

| previous_year = 1923

| next_election = 1931 Liberian general election

| next_year = 1931

| election_date = 3 May 1927

| module = {{Infobox election

| embed = yes

| election_name = Presidential election

| type = presidential

| image1 = 1927 Charles Dunbar Burgess King.jpg

| nominee1 = Charles D. B. King

| party1 = True Whig Party

| popular_vote1 = 229,527

| percentage1 = 96.23%

| image2 = 3x4.svg

| nominee2 = Thomas J. R. Faulkner

| party2_name = no

| party2 = People's Party

| color2 = DDDDDD

| popular_vote2 = 8,992

| percentage2 = 3.77%

| title = President

| before_election = Charles D. B. King

| before_party = True Whig Party

| after_election = Charles D. B. King

| after_party = True Whig Party

}}}}{{Politics of Liberia}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://africanelections.tripod.com/lr.html|title=Elections in Liberia|website=African Elections Database}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f1awli7vIrAC&pg=PA28 |title=Rac(e)ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler |author-first=George |author-last=Schuyler |author-link=George Schuyler |editor-first=Jeffrey B. |editor-last=Leak |year=2001 |publisher=University of Tennessee Press |isbn=9781572331181 |page=28 |via=Google Books |access-date=25 September 2023 |archive-date=25 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925111454/https://books.google.com/books?id=f1awli7vIrAC&pg=PA28 |url-status=live}} Faulkner had previously served as the mayor of Monrovia, and ran a campaign based on reform of labor laws.{{Cite book |last=Nelson |first=Harold |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA159331.pdf |title=Area Handbook Series. Liberia: A Country Study |date=September 1984 |publisher=American University |pages=43}}

The elections have been referred to as "the most rigged ever" by Frances Johnson-Morris, a modern head of the country's National Elections Commission,{{cite web|archive-date=2011-07-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727120702/http://www.newdemocrat.org/other/1MayNEC.html|url=http://www.newdemocrat.org/other/1MayNEC.html|title=Elections Chief Hints Slashing Numbers of Mushrooming Parties for 2005 Polls|website=New Democrat}} and were listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most fraudulent election in history.{{cite web|archive-date=2017-11-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171120205806/http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/1927ElectionsMF.htm|url=http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/1927ElectionsMF.htm|title=The 1927 Presidential Elections|website=Liberia Past and Present}}{{cite web|archive-date=2011-07-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716041012/http://www.senegambianews.com/article/Education/Education/Academic_Report_on_The_Grassroots_of_Conflict_in_Liberia/2151|url=http://www.senegambianews.com/article/Education/Education/Academic_Report_on_The_Grassroots_of_Conflict_in_Liberia/2151|title=Academic Report on The Grass-roots of Conflict in Liberia|website=Senegambia News}} Despite there being only 19,000 registered voters, according to the official results, King received around 230,000 votes to Faulkner's 9,000.{{Cite journal |last=Akingbade |first=Harrison Ola |date=1997 |title=The Liberian Problem of Forced Labor 1926-1940 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40761169 |journal=Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell'Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=261–273 |jstor=40761169 |issn=0001-9747}}