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The former soccer star George Weah appears to have won a landslide victory in a Senate race that pitted him against the president’s son, Robert Sirleaf. Mr. Weah won 79.7 percent of the vote in Montserrado County, which includes the capital, Monrovia, while Mr. Sirleaf received 11.2 percent, according to provisional results released Monday. Mr. Sirleaf said he would not challenge the official results. The elections on Saturday were the first in the region since the recent Ebola outbreak. Only 27.9 percent of all registered voters turned out to vote. More results will be released Wednesday, and the final results will be released in January. The elections were delayed for months because of the Ebola outbreak and legal challenges. The former soccer star George Weah appears to have won a landslide victory in a Senate race that pitted him against the president’s son, Robert Sirleaf. Mr. Weah won 79.7 percent of the vote in Montserrado County, which includes the capital, Monrovia, while Mr. Sirleaf received 11.2 percent, according to provisional results released Monday. Mr. Sirleaf said he would not challenge the official results. The elections on Saturday were the first in the region since the recent Ebola outbreak. Only 27.9 percent of all registered voters turned out to vote. More results will be released Wednesday, and the final results will be released in January.