Liberian elections in 2005 marked the end of the political transition following Liberia's second civil war. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, former World Bank employee and finance minister, won the presidential contest and became the first democratically-elected female Head of State in the history of the African continent in January 2006.
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf George Weah National Patriotic Party World Bank Union of Liberian Democrats Reformed United Liberia Party Liberian Destiny Party Progressive Democratic Party (Liberia) National Party of Liberia National Vision Party of Liberia Liberian general election, 1997 Liberia Equal Rights Party Labor Party of Liberia Samuel Raymond Divine Free Democratic Party (Liberia) George Kiadii Freedom Alliance Party of Liberia Margaret Tor-Thompson Robert Kpoto David Farhat Joseph Korto John Morlu Joseph Woah-Tee Roland Massaquoi Nathaniel Barnes Alfred Reeves Armah Jallah Togba-Nah Tipoteh Varney Sherman G. V. Kromah Charles Brumskine George Klay Kieh Sekou Conneh Winston Tubman William V.S. Tubman, Jr. Election monitoring Zewditu I of Ethiopia All Liberia Coalition Party New Deal Movement United Democratic Alliance
