Jerry John Rawlings Military Hilla Limann

The presidential election resulted in victory for Hilla Limann of the People's National Party, who received 62% of the vote in the run-off,[1] whilst his PNP won 71 of the 140 seats in Parliament.

According to one scholar, the elections were conducted "in as free and fair a manner as might be considered humanly possible under local conditions" and the losing candidates publicly accepted defeat.

[1] The Electoral Commissioner during the elections was Joseph Kingsley-Nyinah, an Appeal Court Judge who was appointed by the Supreme Military Council (SMC).

[3] Although the SMC was overthrown on 4 June 1979, the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council military government which replaced it allowed the elections to proceed just two weeks later.