Running as the RULP presidential candidate in the 11 October 2005 elections, Tubman placed 10th out of 22 candidates, receiving 1.6% of the vote. His platform embraced some developments that had occurred since 1971 while seeking to restore some of his father's policies; for example, he proposed attempting to heal the wounds of the recently concluded civil war with a renewal of his father's Unification Policy, which sought to break barriers between Americo-Liberians and natives.