Sierra Leoneans have cast their votes in presidential and parliamentary elections amid a cost-of-living crisis that led to deadly riots last year. Incumbent Julius Maada Bio is vying for re-election against 12 other candidates, including his rival from the 2018 election, Samura Kamara. The high cost of living, inflation and concerns over the economy have dominated the campaign. A third of the candidates must be women under a new law. The country has been electing its president since the late 1990s, with Bio himself a member of a group of officers who seized power by force in 1992.

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