[2] Rodney Sieh of FrontPage Africa wrote that Whapoe "prioritized agriculture on the campaign trail".
[3] On July 11, 2017, Whapoe announced that VOLT had selected former assistant agriculture minister Isaac Flowers of Bomi County as the party's running mate.
On July 6, Whapoe had announced that VOLT had selected Erasmus Daoda Fahnbulleh as his running mate.
[13] After the election, Whapoe claimed that the NEC had intentionally printed the flawed ballots to divert votes from VOLT to the GDM.
[16][17] Gbessie Sonii Feika was elected to the House in the Grand Cape Mount County #3 District.