Liberia’s 55th Legislature: 30 senators, two per county, and 73 representatives across each county’s districts. This is the foundation for tracking legislative projects, procurement, and attendance, county by county, representative by representative.
Source: liberialegislature.org, the Legislature’s own official site, checked 5 August 2026. This reflects the current sitting roster rather than the original 2023 election results, so it already accounts for any seat that has changed hands since. The National Elections Commission’s site (necliberia.org) does not allow automated access; a manual cross-check against NEC’s own records is planned as a follow-up.
A name and a photo don’t tell you what someone was elected to do. These two explainers come from Liberia’s Constitution itself, not from opinion, so you can hold whoever represents you to what the job is actually supposed to be.
One honest gap: the Constitution requires the President to report to the Legislature every year, but it does not require an individual senator or representative to report back to the people who elected them. That is not a technicality, it is the same gap behind the open case on individual voting records not being published (see it on the Gap Tracker →). Whatever reporting you get from your own representative or senator is what they choose to give you, not what the law requires of them.
There is no official, name-by-name payroll register for Liberia’s 103 sitting lawmakers — that absence is itself an open case (see it on the Gap Tracker →). What follows is what is actually known: one senator’s own disclosure of his pay, an outside watchdog’s estimate the Legislature did not confirm, and the clearest sign of how high pay runs — a 2025 bill to cap it.
Senator Abraham Darius Dillon (Montserrado) publicly disclosed his own compensation at a news conference, fulfilling a campaign promise: a L$29,700 base salary plus US$15,325 in monthly benefits — a US$10,000 special allowance, US$3,175 in transportation reimbursement, and a US$2,150 gasoline allowance — netting to roughly US$12,000 after tax. He also receives a vehicle reported at US$40,000–45,000 for a three-year term. Dillon said he would keep US$5,000 of the monthly total and return the rest, about US$60,000 a year, to Montserrado County.
NAYMOTE, the same Liberian watchdog organization behind the county-development funding gap on this site’s Gap Tracker, estimated in its Legislative Digest that lawmakers take home around US$15,000 a month in total pay and benefits, and that senators and representatives each received roughly US$30,000 toward salary, expenses, and office costs in the 2020/2021 budget year. Reporters said the Legislature’s leadership did not respond to requests to confirm these figures.
Senator Dillon and Representative Musa Hassan Bility (Nimba, District 7) introduced “An Act Fixing the Monthly Remuneration of the Legislature,” proposing a US$5,000 monthly cap on lawmaker pay. Bility went further, calling for the same cap on the President, Vice President, and the heads of every ministry, agency, and state-owned enterprise: “it is morally indefensible for their elected representatives to continue to preside over a wage structure that is generous to officials and cruel to citizens.” That a US$5,000 cap is being proposed as a cut is itself a signal that current pay runs well above it.
Every senator and representative below carries a transparency tag next to their name. It tracks one thing: whether they have filed the asset and liability declaration the law requires of them, and whether that filing has actually been made public. It does not track voting, attendance, or anything else, those are separate, open questions (voting records →).
The law: under Section 10.1 and 10.2(h) of the 2014 National Code of Conduct, and Section 4.1(g) of the 2022 amendment to the LACC Act, every member of the House of Representatives and the Senate must declare their assets and liabilities before taking office and periodically thereafter. In 2024 the House voted, unanimously, to have the Chief Clerk publish members’ declared assets in at least three local newspapers, one month after filing.
Why most names below read “Not yet verified”: neither the Legislature nor LACC publishes a single, searchable, name-by-name record of who has actually filed. LACC has published compliance lists before, but for exiting executive-branch appointees, not lawmakers, and reporters have repeatedly described compliance among legislators as low without naming who specifically is or isn’t compliant. Rather than guess, every tag below starts at “Not yet verified” and only changes when a specific declaration is checked against a primary source: LACC’s own published list, or the newspaper publication the House committed to.
The clock next to each tag: since the law requires the declaration before taking office, not after, each name also shows how many days that lawmaker has held the seat, counting from the day the obligation began, not from today’s check-in date. For 100 of the 103, that is 15 January 2024, the day the 55th Legislature convened and elected its Speaker. Three seats changed hands by special election since: Nya D. Twayen Jr. (Nimba, Senate) and Jeremiah Garwo Sokan Sr. (Grand Gedeh, District 1) were certified 6 May 2024, and Samuel Gongben Kogar (Nimba, Senate) was certified 2 May 2025, so their clocks start from those dates instead. The count updates itself automatically each time the page loads, it is not a fixed number we have to remember to refresh.
Filed & published, Speaker of the House at the time: J. Fonati Koffa (Grand Kru, District 2) declared his assets and had that declaration published in local newspapers ahead of the 31 July 2024 deadline, per the Liberian Observer’s reporting on the day officials’ filings were confirmed. Liberian Observer, 1 Aug 2024 ↗
Confirmed not filed: a Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission report named Majority Bloc Speaker Richard N. Koon (Montserrado, District 11) and Representative James M. Kolleh (Bong, District 2), Chair of Rules, Order and Administration, among lawmakers who had not declared assets as of that report. allAfrica, reporting on the LACC report, 13 Feb 2025 ↗
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This roster is the backbone for a legislative projects page: money allocated to each representative’s district, whether it followed public procurement, how many county or district sittings have been held, and whether the County or District Development Council required by law has actually been constituted. That page is scoped to start with a small pilot, a handful of representatives, not all 73 at once, so nothing is published until it is properly sourced.