FREETOWN, Sierra Leone—Provisional results published Tuesday by
Sierra Leone's election body indicates that the party of
incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma won a majority of seats in
parliament in the Nov. 17 general election.  According to
Christiana Thorpe, chairwoman of the National Electoral
Commission, Koroma's party won 67 of the 112 seats, while the
country's main opposition party, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party,
won 42 seats.  The remaining three seats have not yet been
declared, due to court challenges and the death of one of the
candidates just before the election.  Koroma won re-election
with more than 57 percent of the vote, prompting his main
opponent to say he may challenge the outcome.  The Nov. 17
election is only the third since the end of Sierra Leone's
disastrous civil war in 2002.