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Welcome to Psephos Adam Carr's Election ArchiveThe
largest, most comprehensive and most up-to-date archive of electoral information in the
world, with election statistics from 182 countries. Use the alphabetical index at left to
find information about every country in the world. Follow me on Twitter for (irregular)
updates.
This archive was created by and is maintained by
Dr Adam Carr of Melbourne Australia |
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Recent notes
At the Australia page you can see a pendulum showing
all 150 seats in the House of Representatives for the 14 September Australian general election, and a new
set of election maps showing changed boundaries in two states.
I have added constituency-level figures for both houses, a pendulum, and maps for the 9 March
Western Australia state election, in which the Liberal-National
coalition government of Premier Colin Barnett was re-elected with an increased majority.
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Latest electoral news
 | 5 May: in the
Malaysia legislative election, the governing National Front of Prime Minister
Najib Razak been returned to office with a slightly reduced majority. The opposition coalition led by Anwar Ibrahim polled 50.9% of the
vote, but was deprived of victory by gross rigging of the electoral system. National figures are available.
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Forthcoming elections (six-month outlook)
11 May: Pakistan legislative election
12 May: Bulgaria legislative election
13 May: Philippines legislative election
26 May: Equatorial Guinea legislative election
14 June: Iran presidential election
23 June: Albania legislative election
23 June: Tunisia presidential and legislative elections
26 June: Mongolia presidential election
30 June: Guinea legislative election
7 July: Mali presidential election
24 July: Madagascar presidential election
28 July: Cambodia legislative election
28 July: Mali legislative election
30 August: Japan legislative election (upper house)
7 September: Maldives presidential election
9 September: Norway legislative election
14 September: Australia legislative election
22 September: Germany legislative election
25 September: Madagascar legislative election
29 September: Austria legislative election
6 October: Belize legislative election
16 October: Azerbaijan presidential election
10 November: Honduras presidential and legislative elections
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Elections in April 2013
 | 27 April: In the
Iceland legislative election, the conservative Independence
Party and its ally the Progressive Party have won a large majority, defeating the incumbent left-wing
coalition of the social democratic Alliance and the Left-Green Movement. The likely new Prime Minister
will be Bjarni Benediktsson. National figures are available.
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 | 21 April: in the
Paraguay presidential election, Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara of the
conservative National Republican Association has been elected, ending Paraguay's brief flirtation with
leftist rule. National figures are available.
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 | 14 April: In the
Venezuelan presidential election, interim President Nicolás Maduro
Moros has been narrowly elected following the death of President Chavez, with 50% of the vote, defeating the
liberal opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. National figures are available.
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 | 7 April: in the
Montenegro presidential election, the incumbent president, Filip Vujanovic
of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro, has been re-elected with 51% of the vote. Figures are available.
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Elections in March 2013
 | 9 March: In Australia, in the
Western Australia state election, the Liberal-National
coalition government led by Premier Colin Barnett has been re-elected with an increased majority. Constituency-level
figures and maps are available.
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 | 9 March: in the
Malta legislative election, the Maltese Labour Party under Dr Joseph Muscat has
defeated the incumbent Nationalist Party government of Lawrence Gonzi. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 5 March: In the
Micronesia legislative election, a new legislature has been elected
on a non-partisan basis. Constituency-level figures are available.
 | 4 March: in the
Kenya presidential election, Uhuru Kenyatta, son of Kenya's first president,
has won a narrow outright majority, defeating Prime Minister Raila Odinga. National figures are available.
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Elections in February 2013
 | 24 February: in the second round of the
Cyprus presidential election, Nikos Anastasiades of the
conservative DISI party has defeated Stavros Malas of the communist AKEL party. Figures are available.
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 | 24 February: in the
Italian legislative election, the centre-left coalition led
by Pier Luigi Bersani has won a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, defeating the
conservative People of Liberty party of Silvio Berlusconi. The populist Five Star movement came
a strong third and will hold the balance of power in the Senate. Regional-level figures for the Chamber of Deputies
and national figures for the Senate are available.
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 | 22 February: In the
Djibouti legislative election, President Ismail Omar Guelleh's
party has won a comfortable majority in the country's first election conducted by proportional
representation. Opposition parties have gained representation, but claim the count was falsified. District-level
figures are available.
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 | 17 February: in the first round of the
Cyprus presidential election, Nikos Anastasiades of the
conservative DISI party leads Stavros Malas of the communist AKEL party. A run-off will be held
on 24 February. Figures are available.
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 | 18 February: In the
Armenia presidential election, President Serzh Sargsyan of the Republican Party has been re-elected with 58% of the
vote, defeating Raffi Hovhannisyan of the Heritage party. Figures are available. National figures are available.
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 | 17 February: In the
Ecuador presidential election, left-wing incumbent President Rafael Correa
Delgado has been re-elected with 57% of the vote. National figures are available.
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 | 17 February: In the
Ecuador legislative election, President Correa's PAIS party has won a majority in the
National Assembly. National figures are available.
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 | 10 February: in the
Monaco legislative election, the governing Union for
Monaco has been heavily defeated by the opposition party, Horizon Monaco. Figures are available.
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 | 3 February: In the
Liechtenstein legislative election, the governing coalition of the
Progressive Citizens' Party (FBPL) and the Fatherland Union (VU) has lost seats in the Landtag to the opposition,
but will form a new government under Adrian Hasler of the FBPL. District-level figures are available.
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Elections in January 2013
 | 25 January: In the second round of the
Czech Republic presidential election (the first time the country has
elected its president by direct election), Milos Zeman, a dissident socialist, has defeated Karel Schwarzenberg,
a right-wing populist. National figures are available.
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 | 23 January: in the
Jordanian legislative election, I have so far been unable
to find any published figures.
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 | 22 January: In the
Israel legislative election, the right-wing Likud-Beiteinu party of
Binyamin Netanyahu and its allies have won exactly half the seats in the Knesset, a worse result than expected,
while a range of opposition parties has won the other half. The formation of a new government will depend on
negotiations among the parties. Figures are available.
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 | 11-12 January: In the
Czech Republic presidential election (the first time the country has
elected its president by direct election), renegade candidates from right and left have defeated candidates of
both the governing ODS and the opposition CSSD. Karel Schwarzenberg, a right-wing populist, and Milos Zeman,
a dissident socialist, will contest a run-off on 25 January. National figures are available.
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Elections in December 2012
 | 19 December: in the
Republic of Korea presidential election, Park Geun-hye of the conservative
New World Party has been elected with 51% of vote, defeating Moon Jae-in of the Democratic United Party.
National figures are available.
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 | 16 December: In the
Japanese legislative election, the opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its ally
the Clean Government Party have returned to power after less than four years, with a crushing victory over Prime
Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Democratic Party. The new PM is the LDP's Shinzo Abe. The LDP-CGP coalition won
two-thirds of the seats with 39% of the vote, helped by the fragmenting of the party system. National figures
are available.
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 | 9 December: In the
Romanian legislative election, the Social Liberal Union, a
coalition of centre-left parties supporting Social Democrat Prime Minister Victor Ponta, has won a
sweeping victory, winning large majorities in both chambers of the legislature. County-level figures are available.
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 | 7 December: In the
Ghana presidential election, interim President John Dramani Mahama
of the governing National Democratic Congress has defeated Nana A D Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic
Party. Figures are available.
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 | 7 December: In the
Ghana legislative election, President John
Dramani Mahama's National Democratic Congress has won a small overall majority,
defeating the New Patriotic Party. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 2 December: in the second
round of the Slovenian presidential
election, Borut Pahor, the candidate supported by the Slovenian Social
Democratic Party, has defeated incumbent president Dr Danilo Türk, with 67% of the vote.
Figures are available.
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 | 2 December: In the
Burkina Faso legislative election, the ruling Congress
for Democracy and Progress has retained control of the National Assembly. Province-level figures
and a map are available.
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 | 1 December: In the
Kuwait legislative election, following elections in February which were
annulled, supporters of the government have won all the seats on a very low turnout. Both liberal and
Islamist opposition parties boycotted the elections. Constituency-level figures are available.
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Elections in November 2012
 | 17 November: in the
first round of the Sierra Leone
presidential election, President Ernest Bai Koroma of the
All People's Congress has been re-elected with 58% of the vote.
Figures are available.
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 | 17 November: in the
Sierra Leone legislative election, President
Koroma's All People's Congress has won a majority in the Parliament. Constituency-level
figures are available.
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 | 11 November: In the
San Marino legislative election, the
coalition led by the Christian Democrats has retained a narrow majority.
Figures are available.
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 | 11 November: in the first
round of the Slovenian presidential
election, Borut Pahor, the candidate supported by the Slovenian Social
Democratic Party, leads the incumbent president Dr Danilo Türk. A second round
will be held on 2 December. Figures are available.
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 | 6 November: In the
Palau presidential election, Tommy E Remengesau Jr has
defeated incumbent president Johnson Toribiong in a non-partisan
contest. Figures are available. Figures for the legislative election
held on the same day are also available.
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 | 6 November: In the
United States of America presidential election, the Democratic Party
incumbent, President Barack H Obama of Illinois, has defeated the Republican Party
candidate, former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, with 51.0% of the popular vote
and 332 Electoral College votes. State-level
figures and a map are available.
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 | 6 November: In the
United States of America legislative election, the
Democratic Party has increased its majority in the Senate, while the Republican
Party has retained a reduced majority in the House of Representatives.
Full Senate and House of Representatives figures are available.
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Elections in October 2012
 | 30 October: In the
Vanuatu legislative election, Prime Minister Sato Kilman
of the People's Progress Party has won enough support to form a new coalition government.
Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 28 October: in the
Ukrainian legislative election, President Viktor Yanukhovych's
Russian-dominated Party of the Regions has won the most seats and will have a majority with the support of the
Communists and independents, against a badly divided nationalist and liberal opposition. Constituency-level figures are
available. These are available nowhere else in English!
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 | 14 and 28 October: In the
Lithuanian legislative election, the Social Democrats have emerged as the largest
party, defeating the conservative coalition government. Social Democrat leader Algirdas Butkevicius will form a new
government. National and constituency-level figures, plus a map, are available.
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 | 14 October: In the
Montenegro legislative election, the governing European Montenegro party of
Prime Minister Milo Dukanovic has lost its overall majority, but will retain office with the support of minor
parties. Figures are available.
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 | 12-13 October: In the
Czech Republic Senate election, the opposition Social Democrats have inflicted
a heavy defeat on the ruling Civic Democratic Party, winning an increased majority in the Czech Senate.
District-level figures are available.
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 | 7 October: In the
Venezuelan presidential election, the left-wing President Hugo Chavez has
been re-elected with 55% of the vote, defeating the liberal opposition candidate Henrique Capriles.
Province-level figures are available.
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 | 1 October: In the
Georgia legislative election, opposition leader
Bidzina Ivanishvili's Georgia Dream party has defeated the United
National Movement of President Mikheil Saakashvili and won a large majority in the
legislature. Figures are available.
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Elections in September 2012
 | 12 September: In the
Netherlands legislative election, held early because of
the collapse of the previous government, both the governing liberal People's Party for
Freedom and Democracy and the opposition Labour Party have made gains at the expense of
minor parties of the extreme right and left. They two main parties will form a coalition government.
The election is a victory for pro-EU parties.
National figures are available.
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 | 9 September: In the
Hong Kong SAR legislative election, pro-Beijing and
pro-democracy parties have won approximately equal numbers of votes and seats, although the
pro-democracy camp has become more fragmented among several parties. Constituency-level figures
are available.
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Elections in August 2012
 | 31 August: In the
Angola legislative election, the ruling Popular Movement for
the Liberation of Angola has won a large majority of votes, but has lost ground to opposition parties. Province-level
figures and a map are available.
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 | 25 August: In Australia, in the
Northern Territory election, the Country
Liberal Party led by Terry Mills has defeated the Australian Labor Party government of Chief Minister
Paul Henderson. Figures and a map are available.
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Elections in July 2012
 | 15 July: In the Republic of Congo
legislative election, The Congolese Labour Party of President Denis Sassou N'Guesso has won a
large majority of seats, in elections generally regarded as not free or fair. No figures are
available.
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 | 7 July: In the
East Timor legislative election, President Vasconcelos's
CNRT has improved its position, but has not won a majority of seats. Figures are available.
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 | 7 July: In the
Libyan legislative election, the first free election in the country's
history, the moderate National Forces Alliance has emerged as the dominant party, defeating
the islamist Justice and Construction Party. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 23 June to 6 July: In the
Papua New Guinea legislative election, supporters of
Prime Minister Peter O'Neill have won enough seats to form a government. No useable figures are
available.
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 | 1 July: In the
Mexican presidential election, Enrique Pena Nieto of the
Institutional Revolutionary Party has been elected with 38% of the vote against both conservative
and left-wing candidates. The PRI returns to power after 12 years in opposition. Figures
are available.
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 | 1 July: In the
Mexican legislative election, the
Institutional Revolutionary Party has fallen just short of outright majorities in both the Chamber of Deputies and the
Senate, but will have the support of some minor parties. State-level figures for the Senate and national figures for
the Chamber are available.
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 | 1 July: In the
Senegal legislative election, the United in Hope party
of President Macky Sall has won a majority of votes and seats. Figures are available.
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Elections in June 2012
 | 30 June: In the
Iceland presidential election, President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
has been elected to a record fifth term. Figures are available.
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 | 28 June: In the
Mongolia legislative election, the opposition Democratic
Party has emerged as the largest party thanks to a split in the ruling Mongol People's Party, but does not have a majority.
Figures are available.
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 | 17 June: In the second round of the
Egyptian presidential election, the first free presidential
election in Egyptian history, Mohammed Morsi of the Freedom and Justice Party, a front for the Muslim Brotherhood, has
defeated former prime minister Dr Ahmed Mohammed Shafik. Figures are available.
 | 17 June: In the second round of the
French legislative election, President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party and its allies
the Greens and the Radicals have won a majority of seats, defeating the conservative UMP and its allies. National
figures are available.
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 | 17 June: In the
Greek legislative election, the second in two months, the parties favouring the EU bailout plan,
the conservative New Democracy and the socialist PASOK, have made modest gains, but enough to gain a small majority Greece's weighted
voting system. The left-wing anti-bailout SIRIZA party has emerged as the official opposition, while minor parties of left and right
lost ground. National figures are available.
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 | 10 June: In the first round of the
French legislative election, President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party and its allies
have polled a plurality of votes and are well-placed to win a majority of seats in the second round on 17 June. National
figures are available.
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Elections in May 2012
 | 26 May: In the
Lesotho legislative election, the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy has been defeated by a
new party, the Democratic Congress. Figures are available.
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 | 23 May: In the first round of the
Egyptian presidential election, the first free presidential
election in Egyptian history, the two leading candidates are Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood and
Dr Ahmed Mohammed Shafik, who was Prime Minister under former dictator Hosni Mubarak. A run-off will be
held on 16-17 June. Figures are available.
 | 20 May: In the
Dominican Republic presidential election, Danilo Medina Sánchez of the
Dominican Liberation Party has been elected with 51% of the vote, defeating Rafael Hipólito Mejía Domínguez
of the Dominician Revolutionary Party. Figures are available.
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 | 20 May: in the second round of the
Serbian presidential election, Tomislav Nikolic of the right-wing
Progressive Party has defeated incumbent President Boris Tadic of the Democratic
Party. Figures are available.
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 | 10 May: In the
Algerian legislative election, the ruling National
Liberation Front has gained seats, falling just short of an overall majority in the National Assembly,
despite polling only 17% of the vote. As always in Algeria, the majority of voters did not vote or cast
invalid votes. Figures are available.
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 | 7 May: In the Bahamas
legislative election, the Progressive Liberal Party led by Perry Christie has comfortably defeated the Free National
Movement government of veteran PM Hubert Ingraham. Constituency-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 6 May: In the
Armenian legislative election, the ruling
Republican Party of Armenia has been returned to office, winning an absolute majority in the National Assembly.
Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 6 May: In the second round of the
French presidential election, the Socialist Party's François Hollande
has defeated conservative President Nicholas Sarkozy, polling 52% of the vote. It is the French left's first presidential
election victory since 1988. Regional-level figures are available.
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 | 6 May: In the
Greek legislative election, the governing coalition of the conservative
New Democracy and the socialist PASOK parties which favoured the EU bailout plan has lost heavily, polling
only 35% of the vote and falling two seats short of a majority even under Greece's weighted voting system.
The anti-bailout forces are sharply divided between left and right. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 6 May: in the first round of the
Serbian presidential election, centrist President Boris Tadic of the Democratic
Party has a narrow lead over Tomislav Nikolic of the right-wing Progressive Party. They will contest a run-off on
30 May. Figures are available.
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 | 6 May: in the
Serbian legislative election, the Choice for a Better Life coalition led by
President Boris Tadic's Democratic Party has lost ground, but the right-wing opposition Let's Get Serbia Moving
coalition has failed to make gains. The main winner is the Socialist Party, which has more than doubled its
representation. Figures are available.
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Elections in April 2012
 | 22 April: In the first round of the
French presidential election, President Nicholas Sarkozy trails
the Socialist Party's François Hollande. Both candidates polled less than 30% of the vote, making the second round
on 6 May unpredictable. Regional-level figures are available.
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 | 21 April: In the second round of the
East Timor presidential election, José Maria Vasconcelos (Tuar Matan Ruak)
of CNRT has defeated Francisco Guterres (Lu Olo) of FRETILIN, with 61% of the vote. Figures are
available.
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 | 11 April: in the
Republic of Korea legislative election, the conservative New World Party of
President Lee Myung-bak has defied predictions and won a narrow overall majority. Constituency-level figures
are available. These are not available in English anywhere else. I have also added constituency maps.
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 | 1 April: In 45 by-elections to the
Burmese legislature, the opposition National League for Democracy, which boycotted the
November 2010 elections, has apparently won most of the contests, and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has won a seat in
Rangoon. No figures are yet available.
Read all about it.
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Elections in March 2012
 | 29 March: In the
Gambia legislative election, President Yahya Jammeh's Alliance for Patriotic
Reorientation and Construction has won nearly all the seats after opposition parties boycotted the election.
Figures are available.
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 | 25 March: In the second round of the
Senegal presidential election, Macky Sall of the
Alliance of Progressive Forces has easily defeated long-ruling President Abdoulaye Wade, who was seeking a third term in defiance of the
Constitution. Figures are available.
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 | 24 March: In Australia, in the
Queensland state election, Campbell Newman's Liberal National
Party has won a landslide victory against the Australian Labor Party
government of Premier Anna Bligh. Preliminary figures are available.
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 | 18 March: In the first round of the
Guinea-Bissau presidential election, caused by the death of President
Malam Bacai Sanha, the ruling PAIGC candidate, Carlos Gomes Júnior, leads with 49% of the vote.
A second round will be held on 22 April. Figures are available.
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 | 17 March: In the first round of the
East Timor presidential election, non-party President Jose Ramos
Horta has been defeated. The two leading candidates, Francisco Guterres of FRETILIN and Tuar Matan Ruak
of CNRT, will contest a run-off on 21 April. Figures are available.
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 | 11 March: In the
El Salvador legislative election, the right-wing ARENA party has won a
plurality of seats, ahead of President Mauricio Funes's left-wing FMLN. Department-level figures are available.
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 | 10 March: In the
Slovak Republic legislative election, the Direction - Social Democrats party of
Robert Fico has won an absolute majority, defeating the four-party coalition government led by
Iveta Radicová. National figures are available.
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 | 7 March: in the Belize
legislative election, Prime Minister Dean Barrow's United Democratic Party has been returned with a small
majority. Constituency-level figures and a map are available.
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 | 4 March: In the
Russian presidential election, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
has been elected to a third term as President, with 63% of the vote. The elections were generally
regarded as not free or fair. National figures are available.
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Elections in February 2012
 | 26 February: In the first round of the
Senegal presidential election, President Abdoulaye Wade leads, but has polled
only 35% of the vote against 13 other candidates. He will contest a runoff against Macky Sall of the
Alliance of Progressive Forces on 25 March. Regional-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 21 February: In the
Yemen presidential election, Vice-President Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi has been
elected unopposed as part of a peace deal following the resignation of President Saleh. Figures are available.
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 | 12 February: In the
Turkmenistan presidential election, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov
has been re-elected with a reported 97% of the vote, against only token opposition. No serious opposition to his regime is permitted.
No figures are available.
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 | 5 February: In the second round of the
Finnish presidential election, the conservative candidate Sauli Niinistö has defeated
the Greens candidate Pekka Haavisto with 62% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 2 February: In the
Kuwait legislative election, called early, conservative and Islamist candidates have
strengthened their position. No figures are yet available.
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Elections in January 2012
 | 22 January: In the first round of the
Finnish presidential election, the conservative candidate Sauli Niinistö leads
with 37% of the vote in a field of eight. He will face a runoff in February against the Greens candidate Pekka Haavisto.
The Social Democrats of outgoing President Tarja Halonen polled only 6%. Figures are available.
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 | 15 January: In the
Kazakhstan legislative election, president
Nursultan Nazarbayev's "Light of the Fatherland" party and allied parties have won all the seats, in elections not
regarded as free or fair. Figures are available.
 | 14 January: in the
Taiwan presidential election, Ma Ying Jeou of the conservative Nationalist
Party has elected to a second term with 51% of the vote, defeating Tsai Ing Wen of the Democratic Progressive Party.
Figures are available.
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 | 14 January: in the
Taiwan legislative election, the conservative Nationalist
Party has retained its majority in the legislature, although the opposition Democratic Progressive Party
has made gains. Constituency-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 3 January: Following the third stage of the
Egyptian legislative election, I have now uploaded a complete set of voting
figures for the party-list seats. The Egyptian Election Commission has posted no voting figures for the two-member constituencies,
although the winners are known. I have also updated my maps.
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Elections in December 2011
 | 29 December: In the
Jamaica legislative election, the People's National Party led by
Portia Simpson-Miller has returned to power after one term in opposition, defeating the Jamaica Labour Party
government of Andrew Holness. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 17 December: In the
Gabon legislative election, President Ali Bongo Ondimba's Democratic Party has won
74% of the vote and nearly all the seats after the major opposition parties boycotted the election. Province-level
figures are available.
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 | 15 December: In the
Cote d'Ivoire legislative election, President Alassane Ouattara's
Rally of Republicans party has won just on half the seats, not a great result considering that the main
opposition party boycotted the election. Constituency-level figures are available.
 | 4 December: In the
Croatian legislative election, a coalition led by Zoran Milanovic's Social Democrats
have won an absolute majority in the legislature, defeating the conservative Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ)
government of Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor. National figures are available.
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 | 4 December: In the
Russian legislative election, United Russia, the party of Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin, has suffered a reduction in both votes and seats but has retained its majority in the State Duma.
The elections were generally regarded as not free or fair. National figures are available.
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 | 4 December: In the
Slovenia legislative election, the governing Social Democrats of Prime Minister
Borut Pahor have been heavily defeated by a coalition led by Ljubljana mayor Zoran Jankovic. Figures are available.
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Elections in November 2011
 | 28 November: In the
Democratic Republic of Congo presidential election, President Joseph Kabila has
been re-elected with 49% the vote, defeating Etienne Tshisekedi. The elections were poorly managed and there was
widespread rigging. Figures are available.
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 | 28 November: In the first stage of the
Egyptian legislative election, the first free election in Egyptian history,
two islamist parties, the Freedom and Justice Party and the Party of Light, have won a large majority of
votes and seats in the first nine governorates to vote. The election will continue in stages until January.
Figures are available.
 | 25 November: in the
Moroccan legislative election, the Islamist party, Justice and Development, has
emerged as the largest party. Circumscription-level voting figures are available.
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 | 21 November: in the
Marshall Islands legislative election, voters have elected a new
legislature on a non-party basis. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 28 August: In the
Guyana legislative election, the ruling People's Progressive Party has been
re-elected, but has lost its majority in the legislature and will rely on the support of a minor party.
National figures are available.
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 | 28 November: In the
St Lucia legislative election, the St Lucia Labour Party led by former
Prime Minister Kenny Anthony has defeated the conservative United Workers Party government led by Prime
Minister Stephenson King. National figures are available.
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 | 26 November: In the
New Zealand legislative election, the National Party has been re-elected
with an increased plurality of seats, but just short of a majority. Prime Minister John Key will be able to
form a new government with the support of minor parties. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 24 November: In the
Gambia presidential election, President Yahyah Jammeh has been
re-elected with 71% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 20 November: in the
Spanish legislative election, the People's Party led by Mariano Rajoy has won
a majority in the Congress of Deputies, defeating the Socialist government after seven years in office.
Circumscription-level figures are available.
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 | 8 November: In the second round of the
Liberian presidential election, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of the
Unity Party has been re-elected with 90% of the vote, after the opposition Congress for
Democratic Change decided not to contest the second round. Figures are available.
 | 6 November: in the second round of the
Guatemala presidential election, Otto Pérez Molina of the conservative
Patriotic Party has been elected with 53% of the vote, defeating Manuel Baldizón of the Renewed Democratic Liberty.
Department-level figures are available.
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Elections in October 2011
 | 30 October: In the second round of the
Bulgarian presidential election, the candidate of the governing
GERB party, Rosen Plevneliev, has had a surprisingly narrow win (52%) over Ivailo Kalfin of the
Socialist Party. Figures are available.
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 | 30 October: In the
Kyrgyz Republic presidential election, Atambayev Almazbek of the
Social Democratic Party has been elected with 63% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 27 October: In the
Irish presidential election, the Labour candidate Michael D Higgins has been
elected with 40% of the vote on the first count, defeating six other candidates. It is the first time Labour
has ever won a national election in Ireland. Figures are available.
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 | 23 October: in the
Argentinian presidential election, the Peronist President Cristina Fernández
de Kirchner has been re-elected with 53% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 23 October: In the first round of the
Bulgarian presidential election, the candidate of the governing
GERB party, Rosen Plevneliev, leads with 40% of the vote. He will face a run-off against
Ivailo Kalfin of the Socialist Party on 30 October. Figures are available.
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 | 23 October: in the
Swiss legislative election, the Social Democrats have strengthened their position within
the four-party governing coalition, at the expense of the right-wing Swiss People's Party. Canton-level
figures are available.
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 | 23 October: In the Tunisian
constituent assembly election, the first free election in Tunisia's history, the Islamist Renaissance party
has emerged as the largest party, with 37% of the vote. Governorate-level figures are available.
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 | 11 October: In the first round of the
Liberian presidential election, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of the
Unity Party leads with 43% of the vote. She will face a run-off against Winston Tubman of the Congress for
Democratic Change on 8 November. Figures are available.
 | 9 October: in the
Cameroun presidential election, President Paul Biya, who has been in
power since 1982, has been re-elected with 77% of the vote. The election was not regarded as free or
fair. Figures are available.
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 | 9 October: in the
Polish legislative election, the liberal Citizens' Platform
party led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk has held its position as the largest party, and will form a coalition
government with the People's Party. District-level figures and a map are available.
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 | 1 October: In the
Seychelles legislative election, the People's Party of
President James Michel has won all the seats following a boycott by the main opposition
parties. National figures are available.
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Elections in September 2011
 | 20 September: In the
Zambia presidential election, The Patriotic Front candidate, veteran oppositionist
Michael Sata, has defeated President Rupiah Banda of the ruling
Movement for Multiparty Democracy. Preliminary figures are available.
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 | 17 September: in the
Danish legislative election, the left-wing coalition led by the
Social Democrat Helle Thorning-Schmidt has defeated the liberal-conservative coalition
government of Lars Løkke Rasmussen. Thorning-Schmidt will become Denmark's first female prime
minister. District-level figures and a map are available.
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 | 17 September: In the
Latvian legislative election, called early after a "dissolution referendum," the social-democratic
Harmony Centre party has won the largest number of seats, defeating Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis's
Unity coalition. National figures are available.
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 | 11 September: in the first round of the
Guatemala presidential election, Otto Pérez Molina of the conservative Patriotic Party
leads with 36% of the vote. He will face a run-off against Manuel Baldizón of the Renewed Democratic Liberty
on 6 November. Department-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 11 September: in the
Guatemala legislative election, President-elect Otto Pérez Molina's conservative
Patriotic Party has won the largest number of seats. Department-level figures and a map are available.
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Elections in August 2011
 | 27 August : In the
Singapore presidential election, Tony Tan, an independent but generally seen as
the candidate of the governing People's Action Party, has been
narrowly elected over other independent candidates. Figures are available.
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 | 21 August: In the second round of the
Cape Verde presidential election, Jorge Carlos Fonseca of the
opposition Movement for Democracy has been elected with of the vote, defeating Manuel Inocêncio Sousa of the
ruling PAIGC. Figures are available.
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 | 7 August: In the first round of the
Cape Verde presidential election, Jorge Carlos Fonseca of the
opposition Movement for Democracy leads with 38% of the vote. A second round will be held on 21 August.
Figures are available.
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 | 7 August: In the second round of the
Sao Tome and Principe presidential election, the independent candidate
Manuel Pinto da Costa has been elected with 53% of vote. Figures are available.
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Elections in July 2011
 | 17 July: In the first round of the
Sao Tome and Principe presidential election, the independent candidate
Manuel Pinto da Costa leads with 35% of the vote. A second round will be held on 7 August. Figures are available.
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 | 3 July: in the
Thailand legislative election, the For Thais Party led by
Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of the deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, has won an overall majority.
This is the fifth successive election won by Thaksin or his proxies. Constituency-level figures are
available.
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Elections in June 2011
 | 12 June: In the
Turkish legislative election, the ruling Justice and Development Party of
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been re-elected with a slightly reduced majority. Province-level figures
and maps are available.
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 | 5 June: In the
Macedonia legislative election, the
conservative-nationalist coalition led by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has been re-elected with an
reduced majority. Figures are available.
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 | 5 June: In the second round of the
Peruvian presidential election, the left-wing
candidate Ollanta Humala Tasso has narrowly defeated the right-winger Keiko
Fujimori. Figures are available.
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 | 5 June: In the
Portuguese legislative election, the Socialist government of
Prime Minister José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa has been defeated by the coalition
of conservative parties led by Pedro Passos Coelho. District-level figures are available.
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Elections in May 2011
 | 22 May: In the
Cyprus legislative election, both the conservative
Democratic Allience and the left-wing AKEL party have made gains at the expense of minor
parties. Figures are available.
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 | 19 May: In the
Seychelles presidential election, President James Michel of the
People's Party has been re-elected with 55% of the vote. District-level figures are available.
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 | 7 May: In the
Singapore legislative election, the governing People's Action Party has been
re-elected with its majority somewhat reduced and its share of the vote cut to 60%: the best result ever achieved by the opposition
parties. Constituency-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 2 May: In the
Canadian legislative election, the governing Conservative Party, led by Prime
Minister Stephen Harper, has won an overall majority. The left-wing New Democrats have
become the official opposition, relegating the Liberals to third place. Province-level figures and maps are available.
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Elections in April 2011
 | 25 April: In the
Chad presidential election, President Idriss Deby has been re-elected with 89% of the
vote, after opposition parties boycotted the election. Figures are available.
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 | 17 April: In the
Finnish legislative election, the right-wing populist True Finns party has made
major gains, at the expense of all the other parties, with the Centre Party suffering the biggest losses. A conservative
coalition including the True Finns is the most likely outcome. Figures are available.
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 | 16 April: In the
Nigerian presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan of the governing People's
Democratic Party, who succeeded to office on the death of President Yar'adua in 2010, has been elected to a full term with
59% of the vote. National and state-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 10 April: In the first round of the
Peruvian presidential election, the left-wing candidate Ollanta Humala Tasso
leads the right-winger Keiko Fujimori, while moderate candidates were eliminated. The two leading candidates will
contest a run-off election. Figures are available.
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 | 9 April: In the
Nigerian legislative election, the governing People's Democratic Party of
President Goodluck Jonathan has retained its majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate, although the
opposition has made substantial gains. By all accounts the election was much better conducted and less marred by
corruption than were the 2007 elections. Complete figures are not available, but I have given those which are.
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 | 8 April: In the
Djibouti presidential election, President Ismail Omar Guelleh
has been re-elected with 80% of the vote after opposition parties boycotted the election.
 | 3 April: In the
Andorra legislative election, the Democrats for Andorra led by Antoni Marti have
defeated the incumbent Social Democrats. Parish-level figures are available.
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 | 3 April: In the
Kazakhstan presidential election, president
Nursultan Nazarbayev has been re-elected with 95% of the vote, in elections not
regarded as free or fair. Oblast-level figures are available.
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Elections in March 2011
 | 26 March: In Australia, in the
New South Wales state election, the Australian Labor
Party government has been heavily defeated after 16 years in power. The new Premier is Barry O'Farrell of the
Liberal Party. Figures are available.
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 | 20 March: In the second round of the
Haiti presidential election, the popular singer Michel Joseph Martelly has been
elected with 68% of the vote, defeating former first lady Mirlande Manigat. Preliminary figures are available.
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 | 13 March: In the
Benin presidential election, President Boni Yayi has been re-elected
with 53% of the vote in the first round. Figures are available.
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 | 12 March: In the second round of the
Niger presidential election, Mahamadou Issoufou of the
Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism has been elected with 58% of the vote.
Figures are available.
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 | 6 March: In the
Estonian legislative election, the coalition government led by Prime Minister
Andrus Ansip of the Reform Party has been re-elected. District-level figures are available. I have also uploaded
district-level figures from the 2007 elections.
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 | 4 March: In the
Samoa legislative election, the governing Human Rights Protection
Party has been returned with its majority intact. Constituency-level figures and a map
are available.
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Elections in February 2011
 | 25 February: In the
Irish legislative election, the long-ruling Fianna Fail
party has suffered the worst defeat in its history in the wake of Ireland's economic crisis.
The Opposition Fine Gael and Labour parties will form a coalition government led by Fine Gael's
Enda Kenny. Constituency-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 18 February: In the
Uganda presidential election, President Yoweri Museveni of the
National Resistance Movement has been re-elected with 68% of the vote. Figures are available. No figures are
yet available for the legislative elections held at the same time.
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 | 13 February: In the
Chad legislative election, President Idriss Deby’s Patriotic
Salvation Movement has won a large majority of seats against a fragmented opposition, although
only a small majority of votes. Department-level figures are available. These figures are
available nowhere else in English. This is the first time I have been able to present detailed
election figures from Chad. I have also provided maps.
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 | 6 February: In the
Cape Verde legislative election, the governing
African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde has been re-elected with a slightly reduced
majority. Figures are available.
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Elections in January 2011
 | 31 January: In the first round of the
Niger presidential election, Mahamadou Issoufou of the
Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism leads with 36% of the vote. He will face a run-off in March
against Seyni Oumarou of the National Movement for Society and Development. Figures for the
legislative election held on the same day are also available.
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 | 23 January: In the
Central African Republic presidential election, President
François Bozize has been re-elected with 66% of the vote. Figures are available. No figures are
available for the legislative elections held at the same time.
 | 23 January: In the
Portuguese presidential election, Anibal Cavaco Silva of the conservative
Social Democratic Party has been re-elected with 53% of the vote. Figures are available.
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Elections in December 2010
 | 26 December: In the second round of the
Comoros presidential election, Ikililou Dhoinine, who is supported by outgoing President
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, has been elected with 61% of the vote. National figures are available.
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 | 19 December: In the
Belarus presidential
election, incumbent president Aleksandr Lukashenko has been re-elected with 80% of
the vote against token opposition. No serious opposition to Lukashenko's regime is
permitted. Figures are available.
 | 13 December: In the
St Vincent and the Grenadines legislative
election, the governing United Labour Party has been narrowly re-elected.
Constituency-level figures are available.
 | 12 December: in the
Kosovo legislative election, the first since independence, the Albanian-nationalist
Democratic Party of Kosovo led by Hashim Thaci has retained its position as the largest party. Figures are available.
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Elections in November 2010
 | 28 November: In the second round of the
Cote d'Ivoire presidential election, the opposition candidate, former Prime Minister
Alassane Ouattara, has defeated President Laurent Gbagbo, polling 54% of the vote. Gbagbo is refusing to accept the result.
Figures are available.
 | 28 November: In the first round of the
Haiti presidential election, the opposition candidate Mirlande Manigat leads President
Prevals's chosen successor, Jules Celestin. A runoff will be held on 16 January. Figures are available.
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 | 28 November: In the
Moldova legislative election, the third in two years, the coalition led by
Prime Minister Vlad Filat, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, has been re-elected with an increased majority over the
Communist opposition. Figures are available.
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 | 25 November: In Australia, in the
Victorian state election, the Australian Labor Party
government of John Brumby has been defeated by the Liberal-National coalition led by Ted
Baillieu. Figures are available.
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 | 25 November: In the
Tonga legislative election, the Friendly Islands Democratic Party, which favours a fully democratic system,
has won a majority of elected seats in the legislature (though not a majority of votes), but will still be outnumbered by independent members
and representatives of the aristocracy. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 21 November: In the
Burkina Faso presidential election, President Blaise Compaoré has been re-elected
with 80% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 7 November: In the
Azerbaijan legislative election, President Ilham Aliyev's New Azerbaijan
Party has won a majority of seats against only token opposition. International observers have described the election
as not free and fair. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 7 November: In the
Burmese legislative election, the Union Solidarity and Development Party, which is a front for the military regime, has won two-
thirds of the seats. The elections were generally regarded as fraudulent. National and state-level figures are
available.
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 | 7 November: In the first round of the
Comoros presidential election, Ikililou Dhoinine, who is supported by outgoing President
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, leads the count. A second round will be held on 26 December. National figures are available.
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 | 7 November: In the second round of the
Guinea presidential election, the first free election in the country's
history, veteran opposition leader Alpha Condé has narrowly defeated former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo.
National figures are available.
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 | 2 November: In the
United States of America legislative election, the Democratic Party
has retained its majority in the Senate, but the Republican Party has won a majority in the House of Representatives.
Full Senate and House of Representatives figures are available, plus maps.
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Elections in October 2010
 | 31 October: In the first round of the
Cote d'Ivoire presidential election, the first for ten
years, President Laurent Gbagbo leads the opposition candidate, former Prime Minister
Alassane Ouattara, with 38% of the vote. Gbagbo and Outtara will contest a run-off election.
Figures are available.
 | 31 October: In the
Tanzanian presidential election,
Jakaya Kikwete of the ruling Party of the Revolution has been re-elected with
62% of the vote. Figures are available. The ruling party has also retained a comfortable
majority in the National Assembly. Constituency-level figures for this election are also
available.
 | 30 October: In the second round of the
Brazilian presidential election, Dilma Rousseff of the
governing Workers Party has defeated the conservative candidate José Serra with 55% of the
vote, and will become Brazil's first woman president on 1 January. National and state-level figures are
available, plus maps.
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 | 15-16 October: In the
Czech Republic Senate election, the Social Democrats, recovering strongly from
their defeat in the May elections, have won an absolute majority in the Czech Senate. District-level figures are available.
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 | 10 October: In the
Kyrgyz Republic legislative election, the Kyrgyz nationalist party the Idealistic Democratic Political Party
has won the largest number of seats. Figures are available.
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 | 3 October: In the
Bosnia and Herzegovia presidential election, the three ethnic communities, Bosniaks, Croatians and Serbs, have
elected members of the collective presidency. As in 2006, Social Democrats have won two of the three positions. In the legislative elections
held on the same day, the Social Democrats have retained their position as the largest party. Figures are available.
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 | 3 October: In the first round of the
Brazilian presidential election, Dilma Rousseff of the
governing Workers Party leads the conservative candidate José Serra. They will contest a run-off on
30 October. National and state-level figures are
available, plus maps.
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 | 3 October: In the
Brazilian legislative election, the centre-left coalition led by
the Workers Party has won increased majorities in both houses of the Congress. National and state-level
figures are available, plus a map.
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 | 2 October: In the
Latvian legislative election, Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis's
Unity coalition has won the largest number of seats, and he will probably be able to form a new
government. National figures are available.
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Elections in September 2010
 | 26 September: In the
Venezuela legislative election, President Chavez's United Socialist
Party of Venezuela has won a majority in the National Assembly, but has failed to win a majority of votes or the
two-thirds majority of seats needed to pass "organic" laws. While Chavez has claimed victory, the result is
generally seen as a setback. National, state and constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 19 September: The second round of the
Guinea presidential election, due on this date, has been postponed
to a date yet to be determined following allegations of vote-rigging in the first round.
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 | 19 September: In the
Swedish legislative election, the governing conservative coalition of
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has lost its parliamentary majority, but the opposition Social Democrats have
also lost ground. The balance of power is now held by the extreme right Swedish Democrats. County-level
figures and maps are available.
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 | 18 September: The
Afghanistan legislative election took place on this date, but results
will not be announced until October
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 | 16 September: In the
Tuvalu legislative election, a new non-party legislature has been
elected. Constituency-level figures are available.
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Elections in August 2010
 | 21 August: In the
Australian legislative election, the governing Australian Labor Party of Prime
Minister Julia Gillard has lost its majority in the House of Representatives, but the conservative coalition led
by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has failed to win a majority. Labor will form a minority government with the support
of three independent members and one Greens member. National and state figures for both houses, a pendulum and maps are
available. I will update these pages as final figures become available.
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 | 9 August: In the
Rwanda presidential election, President Paul Kagame has been re-elected with 93%
of the vote, against token opposition and amid violence and intimidation of opponents. National figures are available.
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 | 4 August: In the
Solomon Islands legislative election, the Solomon Islands Democratic
Party has emerged as the largest party, but independents and minor parties hold the majority of seats.
Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 1 August: In the
Sao Tome and Principe legislative election, the opposition Independent Democratic Action
party has won the largest number of seats, almost wiping out President Fradique de Menezes's
Democratic Movement of the Forces for Change. National figures are available.
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Elections in July 2010
 | 23 July: In the
Burundi legislative election, supporters of
President Pierre Nkurunziza have won 81 of the 106 seats in the National Assembly after most
opposition parties boycotted the election. No figures are available.
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 | 11 July: In the
Japanese House of Councillors (upper house) election, the governing Democratic Party
has lost ground to the opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its allies. National figures are available.
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 | 4 July: In the second round of the
Polish presidential election, the centrist candidate Bronislaw Komorowski has defdeated
the right-wing candidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski, with 53% of the vote. National figures are available.
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Elections in June 2010
 | 28 June: In the
Burundi presidential election, President Pierre Nkurunziza has been
re-elected unopposed afer the opposition boycotted the election. National figures are available.
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 | 27 June: In the first round of the
Guinea presidential election, the first free election in the country's
history, former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo leads with 39% of the vote. He will contest a runoff
against veteran opposition leader Alpha Condé on 1 August. National figures are available.
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 | 20 June: In the second round of the
Colombian presidential election, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón,
candidate of outgoing President Uribe's Social Party of National Unity, has defeated the Green Party
candidate Antanas Mockus by a wide margin. National figures are available.
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 | 19 June: In the
Nauru legislative election, the second in three months, all but one member
of the non-party legislature have been re-elected. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 13 June: In the
Belgian legislative election, both the Flemish nationalists and the Socialists have made gains at the expense of the governing liberals of Prime Minister Yves Leterme. National figures are available.
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 | 12 June: In the
Slovak Republic legislative election, the governing Direction party of
Prime Minister Robert Fico has improved its position in the legislature. National figures are available.
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 | 9 June: In the
Netherlands legislative election, the liberal People's Party for
Freedom and Democracy has emerged as the largest party, and the centre-right has increased its overall
majority. National figures are available.
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Elections in May 2010
 | 29 May: In the
Czech Republic legislative election, both the main parties,
the conservative ODS and the Social Democrats, have lost seats to new right-wing populist
parties. A right-wing coalition government is the likely outcome. District-level figures are available.
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 | 25 May: In the
Suriname legislative election, the Mega Combination party of
former dictator and convicted drug dealer Dési Bouterse has emerged as the largest party.
National figures are available.
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 | 24 May: In the
Trinidad and Tobago legislative election, the ruling
People's National Movement pf Prime Minister Patrick Manning has been defeated by a coalition
of opposition parties led by Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who will become the country's first
female Prime Minister. Constituency-level figures and a map are available.
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 | 23 May: In the
Ethiopian legislative election, electoral authorities say that the ruling
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front has won all but two of the 546 seats in the House of
Repesentatives. The opposition claims the election were rigged, and international observers say there were serious irregularities. Official results have not yet been released.
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 | 16 May: In the
Dominican Republic legislative election, the
Dominican Liberation Party of President Leonel Fernandez has won majorities in both houses
of the Congress. National and province-level figures are available.
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 | 10 May: In the
Philippines presidential election, Benigno Aquino III
of the Philippines Liberal Party has been elected with 41% of the vote, defeating former
President Joseph Estrada and other candidates. National figures are available.
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 | 10 May: In the
Philippines legislative election, the LAKAS-CMD party of outgoing
President Gloria Arroyo has fallen just short of a majority in the House of Representatives. National, regional and
constituency-level figures are available. This is the first time I've been able to present detailed figures from
the Philippines.
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 | 6 May: In the
British legislative election, the Labour Party of Prime Minister
Gordon Brown has lost its majority, but the Conservatives led by David Cameron have failed to win a
majority. The Liberal Democrats and other minor parties hold the balance of power and will determine
who can form a government. Constituency-level figures are available, plus maps.
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 | 5 May: In the
Mauritius legislative election, the governing coalition led by the
Mauritius Labour Party under Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam has been returned to office
with an increased majority. Constituency-level figures and a map are available.
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Elections in April 2010
 | 25 April: In the
Austrian presidential election, the incumbent Socialist president,
Dr Heinz Fischer, has been re-elected with 79% of the vote, opposed only by minor party candidates.
National figures are available.
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 | 25 April: In the second round of the
Hungarian legislative election, the conservative
Alliance of Young Democrats led by Victor Orban has completed its crushing victory over the
Socialist Party of Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, winning an absolute majority of seats.
Constituency-level figures are available, plus maps.
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 | 24 April: In the
Nauru legislative election, all members of the non-party
legislature have been re-elected. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 18 April: In the
Northern Cyprus presidential election, Dervis Eroglu of the
Party of National Unity has defeated the incumbent president Mehmet Ali Talat. Figures are available.
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 | 11-15 April: In the
Southern Sudan presidential election, the leader of the
Sudan People's Liberation Movement, Salva Kiir, has been elected President with 93% of the vote.
Southern Sudan will become independent in July. National figures are available.
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 | 11-15 April: In the
Sudanese presidential election, President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir has been elected
with 68% of the vote, according to official figures. Observers described the election as "not meeting
international standards". National figures are available.
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 | 10 April: In the
Sri Lankan legislative election, the left-wing
United People's Freedom Alliance of President Mahinda Rajapaksa has had a very big victory
over the opposition United National Party. District-level figures are available.
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Elections in March 2010
 | 20 March: In Australia, in the
South Australian state election, the Labor government of
Premier Mike Rann has been returned with an only slightly reduced majority, despite a large swing to the opposition
Liberal party. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 20 March: In Australia, in the
Tasmanian state election, the Labor government of
Premier David Bartlett has lost its majority, but will form a minority government with the
support of the Greens. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 14 March: In the
Colombia legislative election, supporters of President
Alvaro Uribe have won large majorities in both chambers of the National Congress. Department-level
figures are available.
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 | 7 March: In the
Iraq legislative election, the Iraqi National Movement of former
Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has won a narrow plurality of seats over Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's
State of Law party. Negotiations with various minor parties will determine the composition of
the new government. Governorate-level figures are available.
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 | 4 March: In the
Togo presidential election, President Faure Gnassingbe has been
re-elected with 61% of the vote, defeating Jean-Pierre Fabre of the United Forces for Change.
The opposition claims there has been electoral fraud, but observers from the European Union and the African
Union say the election was conducted cleanly. Figures are available.
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Elections in February 2010
 | 18 February: In
Niger, a military coup has deposed President Mamadou Tandja. In 2009
Tandja suspended Niger's constitution because he wanted a third term as President. The military
junta headed by Commander Salou Djibo says it wants to turn Niger into "an example of democracy and
of good governance."
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 | 7 February: In the
Costa Rica presidential election, Laura Chinchilla of the governing National
Liberation party has been elected, with 46% of the vote against a divided opposition. She becomes Costa Rica's
first female President. Figures are available.
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 | 7 February: In the second round of the
Ukrainian presidential election, Viktor Yanukhovych of the Party of the
Regions has defeated Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Figures are available.
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Elections in January 2010
 | 26 January: In the
Sri Lanka presidential election, President Mahinda Rajapakse of the Sri Lanka
Freedom Party has been elected to a second term with 54% of the vote, defeating General Sarath Fonseka of the
United National Party. Figures are available.
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 | 25 January: In the
St Kitts and Nevis legislative election, the St Kitts Nevis Labour Party of
Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas has been re-elected with a reduced majority. Constituency-level figures and a map
are available.
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 | 17 January: In the second round of the
Chilean presidential election, Sebastian Pinera of the conservative
National Renovation party has defeated the Christian Democract Eduardo Frei with 51% of the vote. This is
first time Chile has elected a right-wing president since 1958. Figures are available. Constituency-level figures
for the Chamber of Deputies election held on the same day as the first round of the presidential election are also
available.
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 | 10 January: In the second round of the
Croatian presidential election, the Social Democrat candidate,
Ivo Josipovic, has defeated right-wing independent candidate Milan Bandic with 60% of the vote. The
mainstream conservative candidate, Andrija Hebrang, was eliminated in the first round.
Figures are available.
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Elections in December 2009
 | 20 December: In the
Comoros legislative election, supporters of President Ahmed Abdallah
Sambi have won a comfortable majority in the National Assembly. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 18 December: In the
Dominica legislative election, the Dominica Labour Party government of Prime
Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has been re-elected with an increased majority. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 6 December: In the
Bolivian presidential election, President Evo Morales of the Movement
for Socialism has been re-elected with 63% of the vote. Figures are available. Figures are now also available for the legislative
election held on the same day.
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 | 6 December: In the second round of the
Romanian presidential election, President Traian Basescu of the
Democratic Liberal Party has very narrowly defeated Mircea Geoana of the Social Democratic Party. Geoana has not
conceded defeat. Figures are available.
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Elections in November 2009
 | 29 November: In the
Equatorial Guinea presidential election, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has been
re-elected with an officially reported 95% of the vote. Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship and no serious opposition to his
candidacy was permitted. Figures are available.
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 | 29 November: In the
Honduras presidential election, Porfirio Lobo Sosa of the conservative National Party
has been elected with 56% of the vote. Despite calls for a boycott from deposed president Jose Manuel Zelaya, turnout was
only slightly down. In legislative elections held the same day, the National Party
won a majority in the National Assembly. Department-level figures are available.
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 | 29 October: In the second round of the Uruguay
presidential election, the veteran left-winger José Alberto Mujica Cordano has defeated the conservative
Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera with 54% of the vote. Figures are
available.
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 | 27 November: In the
Namibian presidential election, President Hifikepunye Pohamba of the ruling
SWAPO party has been re-elected with 75% of the vote. In legislative elections held on the same day,
SWAPO has retained its large majority in the National Assembly. Figures are available.
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Elections in October 2009
 | 28 October: In the Mozambique
presidential election, President Armando Guebuza of the ruling FRELIMO party has been re-elected
with 75% of the vote. Province-level figures are available. In legislative elections
held on the same day, FRELIMO has won an increased majority of seats.
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 | 25 October: In the Tunisian
presidential election, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has been re-elected with nearly
90% of the vote. No effective opposition to President Ben Ali's rule is allowed. Figures are
available.
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 | 16 October: In the
Botswana legislative election, the ruling Botswana Democratic Party
of President Ian Khama has been re-elected with an increased majority. Figures are available.
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 | 9 October: The legislative elections in the
Czech Republic, set for this date, have been postponed until June 2010
following a court decision that the process for setting the election date was invalid. An interim government
will hold office until the elections.
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 | 4 October: In the
Greek legislative election, the left-wing PASOK party of George Papandreou has
defeated the New Democracy government of Kostas Karamanlis. Papandreou's father and grandfather were also prime
ministers of Greece. District-level figures and maps are available.
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Elections in September 2009
 | 27 September: In the
German legislative election, the Christian Democrat Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has been
re-elected in a stronger position. She will be able to end the "grand coalition" with the Social Democrats, who suffered heavy
losses, and form a coalition with the Free Democrats. Preliminary figures are available.
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 | 27 September: In the
Portuguese legislative election, the Socialist Prime Minister, José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa,
will be able to form a new government with the support of left-wing parties. Preliminary figures are available.
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 | 20 September: In the
Macau legislative election, pro-Beijing candidates have won a majority of the
directly-elected seats, although pro-democracy groups made some gains. Figures are available.
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 | 14 September: In the
Norwegian legislative election, the left-centre coalition of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has been
re-elected with a slightly reduced majority, despite polling substantially fewer votes than the conservative opposition parties.
District-level figures are available.
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Elections in August 2009
 | 30 August: In the
Gabon presidential election, Ali Bongo Ondimba, son of the late President Omar Bongo, has been
elected with 41% of the vote against a divided opposition. Figures are available.
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 | 30 August: In the
Japan legislative election, the opposition Democratic Party of Japan led by Yukio Hatoyama has
achieved the greatest electoral victory in modern Japanese history, winning more than two-thirds of the seats and crushing
the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Prime Minister Taro Aso. National, prefectural and constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 20 August: In the
Afghanistan presidential election, President Hamid Karzai has been
re-elected with 54% of the vote, according to unofficial but apparently final figures. Most observers believe
there was massive vote-rigging in the election. Figures are available.
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Elections in July 2009
 | 29 July: In the
Moldova legislative election, which follows the annullment of the
election held in April, the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova, led by
Prime Minister Zinaida Greceanii, has been defeated after eight years in power. Vlad Filat, leader
of the Liberal Democratic Party, is likely to become Prime Minister. Figures are available.
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 | 23 July: In the
Kyrgyz Republic presidential election, President Kurmanbek Bakiev has been elected with
76% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 18 July: In the
Mauritania presidential election, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of
the Union for the Republic has been elected with 52% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 8 July: In the Republic of Congo
presidential election, President Denis Sassou N'Guesso has been re-elected with 78% of the vote. Figures are
available.
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 | 8 July: In the Indonesia
presidential election, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been re-elected with more than 60% of the vote,
defeating former President Megawati Sukarnoputri and Vice-President Jusuf Kalla. Province-level figures are available.
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 | 5 July: In the
Bulgaria legislative election, the right-wing Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria
led by Sofia Mayor Boyko Borisov has decisively defeated the Socialist government of Sergei Stanishev. Figures are available.
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 | 5 July: In the
Mexico legislative election, the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party has made major
gains, at the expense both of President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party and of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution. Figures are available.
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Elections in June 2009
 | 28 June: In the
Albania legislative election, the Democratic Party of Prime Minister Sali Berisha and its
allies have won 70 seats, one short of a majority, but ahead of the Socialist Party of Edi Rama and its allies, who have 66.
After the election a minor party, the Socialist Movement for Integration, which won four seats, announced that it would support
a Democratic Party government, thus averting a political crisis.
District-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 28 June: In the
Argentina legislative election, the Front for Victory of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
has lost its majority in both houses of the Argentine Congress, although it remains the largest single party. State-level figures are available.
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 | 28 June: In the
Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Malam Bacai Sanha of the ruling PAIGC leads in the
first round. A second round will be held on 26 July. Figures are available.
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 | 12 June: In the
Iran presidential election, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been re-elected with 62% of
the vote, defeating the reformist candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, according to official figures. The legitimacy of this result has
been widely disputed inside and outside Iran. The official figures are available.
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 | 7 June: In the
Lebanon legislative election, the March 14 Alliance of parties supporting Sa'ad al-Hariri and
Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has been returned with its majority unchanged, defdeating an anti-Western alliance led by
Hizbollah. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 4 June: In the
European Union legislative election, the centre-right European People's Party has emerged at the largest
party, gaining seats from the Party of European Socialists. Figures from all member states are available.
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 | 6 June: In the
Luxembourg legislative election, the conservative Christian Social People's Party
government of Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker has been re-elected with an increased majority. Figures are available.
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Elections in May 2009
 | 24 May: In the
Mongolia presidential election, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj of the opposition
Democratic Party has defeated the incumbent President, Nambariin Enkhbayar of the Mongol People's
Revolutionary Party. Figures are available.
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 | 19 May: In the
Malawi presidential election, the incumbent president Bingu wa Mutharika has been
re-elected with 66% of the vote. Figures are available. No figures are available yet for the parliamentary election held on
the same day.
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 | 17 May: In the
Lithuania presidential election, the independent candidate Dalia Grybauskaite has
been elected in the first round with a remarkable 69% of the vote. She will be Lithuania's first
female head of state. Figures are available.
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 | 16 May: In the
Kuwait legislative election, four women have been elected to the
National Assembly, for the first time in the country's history. Apparently liberal candidates generally have done
well, but I have seen no figures giving party identities. Names and vote totals of elected candidates
are available.
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 | 16 April to 13 May: In the
India legislative election, the Indian National Congress led by Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh won an increased number of seats, and will be able to form a new government with the support of
various allies. Both the conservative BJP opposition and the parties of the Left Front suffered losses.
National, state and constituency level figures are available.
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 | 9 May: In the
Maldives legislative election, the first multi-party legislative election ever held in the
country, the Maldives Democratic Party of President Mohamed Nasheed and the Maldivian Peoples Party have won approximately
equal numbers of seats, with the balance held by independents. Constituency-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 3 May: In the
Panama presidential election, Ricardo Martinelli Berrocal of the
conservative Democratic Change coalition has been elected with 60% of the vote. In the legislative election
held on the same day, Martinelli's supporters have won a majority in the National Assembly. District-level figures are available.
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Elections in April 2009
 | 26 April: In the
Ecuador presidential election, left-wing incumbent President Rafael Correa Delgado has
been re-elected with 52% of the vote. Province-level figures are available.
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 | 26 April: In the
Andorra legislative election, the Social Democrats led by Jaume Bartumeu Cassany have defeated the
incumbent Liberals. Parish-level figures are available.
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 | 25 April: In the
Iceland legislative election, the left-wing coalition of the social democratic
Alliance and the Left-Green Movement, led by Johanna Sigurdardottir has defeated the incumbent conservatives.
Constituency-level figures and a constituency map are available.
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 | 22 April: In the
South Africa legislative election, the ruling African National Congress has won
a large majority in the National Assembly, ensuring that Jacob Zuma will be elected President. The ANC has failed,
however, to retain its two-thirds majority in the Assembly. Figures are available.
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 | 19 April: In the
Haiti Senate election, very few voters have taken part following the barring of candidates of
the Lavalas Party of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. No figures are available.
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 | 19 April: In the
Northern Cyprus legislative election, the
opposition Party of National Unity has had a victory over the governing
Republican Turkish Party. Figures are available.
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 | 9 April: In the
Algeria presidential election, Abdelaziz Bouteflika of the ruling
Front for National Liberation has been elected for a third term with 90% of the vote against only token
opposition. Figures are available.
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 | 9 April: In the Indonesia
legislative election, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democrat Party and Vice-President Jusuf Kalla's Golkar
party have polled
about 35% of the vote between them, but but have not won a majority of seats. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 5 April: In the second round of the
Macedonia presidential election, Gjorgje Ivanov of the conservative party VMRO?DPMNE
has defeated the Social Democrat Ljubomir Frckoski with 63% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 5 April: In the
Moldova legislative election, the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova, led by
Prime Minister Zinaida Greceanii, has won an increased majority in the national Parliament.
Figures are available. (These elections have since been annulled. See July 2009.)
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 | 4 April: In the second round of the
Slovakia presidential election, incumbent Social Democratic president Ivan Gasparovic
has defeated Iveta Radicova of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union, with 55% of the vote. Figures are available.
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Elections in March 2009
 | 29 March: In the
Montenegro legislative election, the governing European Montenegro party of
Prime Minister Milo Dukanovic has been returned with an increased majority. Figures are available.
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 | 21 March: In Australia, in the
Queensland state election, the Australian Labor Party
government of Premier Anna Bligh has been re-elected with a reduced majority. Bligh is the first woman to be
elected premier of an Australian state. Constituency-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 15 March: In the
El Salvador presidential election, Mauricio Funes of the left-wing FMLN
has defeated Rodrigo Ávila of the ruling right-wing ARENA: the first time the left has won an election in El Salvador since
the restoration of democracy in 1980.
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 | 12 March: In the
Antigua and Barbuda legislative election, the governing United Progressive Party
of Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has been returned to office with a reduced majority. Constituency-level figures
and a map are available. I have also added constituency-level results for the 2004 election.
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Elections in February 2009
 | 10 February: In the
Israel legislative election, the governing centrist Kadima party led by Tzipi Livni has won the
largest number of seats in the Knesset, closely followed by the right-wing Likud party of Binyamin Netanyahu. Overall, rightist
parties have a majority of seats, but the formation of a new government will depend on negotiations among the parties.
Figures are available.
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 | 8 February: In the
Liechtenstein legislative election, the governing coalition of the
Progressive Citizens' Party (FBP) and the Fatherland Union (VU) has won all but one of the 25 seats in the Landtag, but the VU has
displaced the FBP as the leading party. The new Prime Minister will be the VU's Klaus Tschütscher. Figures are available.
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Elections in January 2009
 | 18 January: In the
El Salvador legislative election, the governing ARENA party has lost seats
in the National Assembly, although the opposition Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front has not gained a
majority. Department-level figures and maps are available.
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Elections in December 2008
 | 28 December: In the second round of the
Ghana presidential election, John Atta-Mills of the opposition National Democratic Congress
has defeated Nana A D Akufo-Addo of the governing New Patriotic Party. Figures are available.
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 | 18 December: In the
Bangladesh legislative election, the first for seven years, the Awami League of Sheikh Hasina Wazed and its allies
have won an overwhelming victory, defeating the Bangladesh Nationalist Party of Khaleda Zia. National, regional and
constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 14 December: In the
Turkmenistan legislative election, members of the ruling Democratic Party of Turkmenistan and
other supporters of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov have won all 125 seats in the Turkmenistan Mejlis.
Human Rights Watch commented: "The conditions are not in place to hold a free and fair election that would be a meaningful reflection of the will of the people."
No figures are available.
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 | 7 December: In the
Ghana legislative election, the opposition National Democratic Congress
has gained a one-seat majority, defeating the governing New Patriotic Party. National, regional and
constituency-level figures are available.
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Elections in November 2008
 | 30 November: In the
Romanian legislative election, the Democratic-Liberal Party and an alliance led by the
Social Democratic Party have won an almost equal number of seats, with minor parties having the balance of power. County-level figures are available.
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 | 16 November: In the
Guinea-Bissau legislative election, the ruling African Independence Party of Guinea and
Cape Verde has won a comfortable majority in the National People's Assembly. Figures are available.
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 | 7 November: In the
New Zealand legislative election, the National party led by John Key
has defeated the Labour Party government of Prime Minister Helen Clark. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 4 November: In the
Palau presidential election, Johnson Toribiong has defeated Elias Chin in a non-partisan
contest. Figures are available. Figures for the legislative elections held on the same day are also available.
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 | 4 November: In the
United States of America presidential election, the Democratic Party
candidate, Senator Barack H Obama of Illinois, has defeated the Republican Party candidate, Senator
John S McCain of Arizona, with 52.4% of the popular vote and 365 Electoral College votes. State-level
figures and a map are available.
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 | 4 November: In the
United States of America legislative election, the Democratic Party
has won increased majorities in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Full Senate and House of Representatives figures are available.
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Elections in October 2008
 | 30 October: In the
Zambia presidential election, Rupiah Banda of the ruling
Movement for Multiparty Democracy has been elected with 40% of the vote, defeating three
other candidates. Figures are available.
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 | 29 October: In the second round of the
Maldives presidential election, the country's first free presidential
election, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who has been in power for 30 years, has been defeated by
Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives Democratic Party. Figures are available.
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 | 24 October: In the
Czech Republic Senate election, the opposition Social Democrats and Communists
have won 24 of the 27 seats up for election, weakening the coalition government of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek.
Figures and maps are available.
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 | 24 October: In the
Lithuanian legislative election, held in two rounds on 12 and 24 October,
the governing Social Democrats appear to have been defeated by a coalition of conservative parties.
Figures are available.
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 | 18 October: In Australia, in the
Australian Capital Territory legislative election, the Australian Labor
Party led by Jon Stanhope has lost its majority in the Legislative Assembly and will be dependent on the Greens to form a
new government. Figures are available.
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 | 15 October: In the
Azerbaijan presidential election, President Ilham Aliyev has been
re-elected with 88% of the vote. International observers have described the election as not free and fair.
Figures are available.
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 | 14 October: In the
Canadian legislative election, the governing Conservative Party, led by Prime
Minister Stephen Harper, has improved its position in the House of Commons, but failed to win an overall majority.
Constituency-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 8 October: In the
Slovenia legislative election, the governing Slovenian Democratic Party of
Prime Minister Janez Jansa hasd been defeated by a coalition led by the Social Democrat leader Borut Pahor. Figures are available.
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Elections in September 2008
 | 28 September: In the
Austrian legislative election, the governing coalition of the Social Democrats and
the People's Party has been re-elected, but has suffered heavy losses to the Freedom Party and the Alliance for the
Future of Austria. Figures are available.
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 | 15 September: In the
Rwanda legislative election, the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front has won a
large majority of votes and seats. Figures are available.
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 | 7 September: In the
Hong Kong SAR legislative election, pro- and anti-Beijing parties have
won approximately equal numbers of votes and seats. Constituency-level figures and a map are available.
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 | 6 September: In Australia, in the
Western Australia state election, the Liberal Party
led by Colin Barnett has defeated the Australian Labor Party government of Premier Alan Carpenter, ending Labor's
six-year monopoly of Australia's state and territory governments. Figures and a map are available.
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 | 5 September: In the
Angola legislative election, the first for 16 years, the ruling Popular
Movement for the Liberation of Angola has won a large majority of votes and seats. Figures and a map are available.
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 | 2 September: In the
Vanuatu legislative election, the Vanaaku Party has won the largest number of seats, but
will need several coalition partners to form a government. Figures are available.
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Elections in August 2008
 | 10 August: In Australia, in the
Northern Territory election, the Australian Labor
Party government of Chief Minister Paul Henderson has been returned with a reduced majority. Figures are available.
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Elections in July 2008
 | 27 July: In the
Cambodia legislative election, the governing Cambodian People's
Party of Prime Minister Hun Sen has been re-elected with an increased majority. Figures are available.
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 | 8 July: In the
Grenada legislative election, the governing New National Party of Prime
Minister Keith Mitchell has been defeated by the National Democratic Congress led by Tillman Thomas.
Constituency-level figures are available.
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Elections in June 2008
 | 29 June: In the
Mongolia legislative election, the governing Mongolian People's Revolutionary
Party has retained its majority in the legislature, the Great People's Khural. No figures are yet available.
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 | 28 June: In the
Iceland presidential election, the incumbent president, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson,
has been re-elected unopposed.
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 | 27 June: in the second round of the
Zimbabwe presidential elections, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has
withdrawn, leaving President Robert Mugabe to be elected unopposed, but lacking any electoral legitimacy.
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 | 1 June: In the
Macedonia legislative election, the conservative-
nationalist coalition led by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has been re-elected with an
increased majority. Figures are available.
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Elections in May 2008
 | 21 May: In the
Georgia legislative election, the United
National Movement of President Mikheil Saakashvili has retained control of the
legislature with a reduced but still large majority. Figures are available.
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 | 16 May: In the
Dominican Republic presidential election, the incumbent President
Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna of the Dominican Liberation Party has been re-elected with
53% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 11 May: In the
Serbia legislative election, the pro-Western and pro-reform parties,
led by Boris Tadic's party For European Serbia, have won an increased majority over the
anti-Western parties. Figures are available.
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Elections in April 2008
 | 26 April: In the
Nauru legislative election, a new legislature has been elected on a non-party basis.
Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 24 April: In the
Tonga legislative election, candidates favouring a fully democratic system
have again won a majority of elected seats in the legislature, but will still be outnumbered by members
representing the aristocracy or appointed by the king. Figures are available.
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 | 20 April: in the
Paraguay presidential election, the leftist candidate Fernando Lugo has defeated the conservative
Blanca Ovelar, ending 60 years of conservative rule. Figures are available. In the
legislative election on the same day parties supportive of President-elect Lugo have won majorities
in both houses of the Congress.
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 | 13 and 14 April: in the
Italian legislative election, the conservative People of Liberty party of Silvio Berlusconi will be
able to form a government with the support of the regionalist Northern League, defeating the new centre-left Democratic Party led by
Walter Veltroni. For the first time since World War II, there will be no communists in the Italian parliament. Figures
are available.
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 | 10 April: in the
Nepal constituent assembly election, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has won the
most seats. District and constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 9 April: in the
Republic of Korea legislative election, the conservative Grand National Party of President
Lee Myung-bak has won a narrow overall majority, and is likely to have the support of several minor parties. Unofficial figures
are available.
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 | 6 April: in the
Montenegro presidential election, the incumbent president, Filip Vujanovic
of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro, has been re-elected with 51% of the vote. Figures are available.
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Elections in March 2008
 | 29 March: in the
Zimbabwe legislative elections, President
Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF has lost its majority of elected members in the national legislature, to a combination of
the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and minor
parties. Figures are available.
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 | 22 March: in the
Bhutan legislative election, the country's first ever election, the
Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party has won a large majority of votes and seats. Constituency-level
figures are available.
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 | 22 March: in the
Taiwan presidential election, Ma Ying-jeou of the conservative Nationalist
Party has defeated Hsieh Chang-ting of the Democratic Progressive Party. Figures are available.
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 | 14 March: in the
Iranian legislative election, supporters of President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are reported to have won a large majority. The elections are generally
regarded as rigged, with no parties allowed and most anti-government candidates being barred. No figures have been
published.
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 | 9 March: in the
Spanish legislative election, the Socialist government of Prime Minister Jos?Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has been
returned to office with its majority intact. Circumscription-level figures are available.
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 | 8 March: in the
Malaysia legislative election, the governing National Front of Prime Minister
Abdullah Badawi been returned to office with a sharply reduced majority, its worst result since 1969. National, state and
constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 8 March: in the
Malta legislative election, the Maltese Labour Party has won the election in terms of seats gained. But
because the Maltese constitution stipulates that the party gaining a plurality of votes must win a majority of seats, and because the
Nationalists polled about 1,500 more votes than Labour (though not a majority), extra seats will be allocated to the Nationalists to give them an
artificial majority. Figures are available.
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 | 2 March: in the
Russian presidential election, Dmitrii Medvedev, the candidate backed by outgoing
President Vladimir Putin, has been elected with 70% of the vote. The elections were generally regarded as fraudulent. Since it is this
archive's view that Russia is no longer a democracy, only a national summary is provided.
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Elections in February 2008
 | 24 February: in the second round of the
Cyprus presidential election, the communist Dimitris Christofias has defeated the conservative Ioannis Kasoulidis,
becoming the first communist ever to win a free national election in an EU country. Figures are available.
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 | 19 February: in the Armenian presidential election,
Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan of the Republican Party has defeated former president Levon Ter-Petrossian. Figures are available.
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 | 18 February: in the Pakistan legislative election,
the PML(Q) party of President Pervez Musharraf has been heavily defeated. The Pakistan People's Party is the largest party, and will be able to form a
coalition government. National, provincial and constituency-level figures, plus constituency maps, are available.
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 | 7 February: in the Belize legislative election,
the opposition United Democratic Party led by Dean Barrow has defeated the governing People's United Party led by Said Musa.
Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 3 February: in the
Monaco legislative election, the governing Union for
Monaco has won most of the seats. Figures are available.
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 | 3 February: in the second round of the
Serbian presidential election, the incumbent president, Boris Tadic of the Democratic Party, has narrowly defeated
Tomislav Nikolic of the Radical Party. Figures are available.
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Elections in January 2008
 | 15 January: in the
Barbados legislative election, the opposition Democratic Labour Party of David Thompson has
defeated the Barbados Labour Party government led by Owen Arthur. Constituency-level figures and a map are available.
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 | 12 January: in the
Republic of China (Taiwan) legislative election, the opposition Nationalist Party
(KMT) has had a landslide victory over the Democratic Progressive Party of President Chen Shui-bian.
Constituency-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 5 January: in the
Georgia presidential election, incumbent President Mikheil Saakashvili has a
small overall lead with counting incomplete. Updated figures are available.
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Elections in December 2007
 | 27 December: in the
Kenya presidential election, incumbent President Mwai Kibaki is claiming a
narrow victory over the opposition candidate, Raila Odinga. The result is the result of massive vote-rigging
and is being hotly disputed. What appear to be official figures are available.
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 | 27 December: in the
Kenya legislative election, the Orange Democratic Movement of opposition
leader Raila Odinga has won the largest number of seats, but not an overall majority. Constituency-level
figures are available.
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 | 23 December: in the
Thailand legislative election, the People's Power Party of Samak Sundaravej has won the
largest number of seats but has not won a majority. Figures and maps are available.
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 | 19 December: in the
Republic of Korea presidential election, Lee Myung-bak of the conservative Grand National Party
has been elected with 48% of vote, defeating Chung Dong-young of the United New Democratic Party with 26%. Province-level figures and maps are
available.
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 | 2 December: in the
Russian legislative election, United Russia, the party backed by President Vladimir Putin,
has won a large majority of votes and seats. The elections were generally regarded as fraudulent. Since it is this
archive's view that Russia is no longer a democracy, only a national summary is provided.
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Elections in November 2007
 | 24 November: in the
Australian legislative election the Australian Labor Party led by
Kevin Rudd has defeated the Coalition government of Prime Minister John Howard.
Preliminary figures are available. My comprehensive pre-election guide remains available
here.
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 | 20 November: in the
Jordanian legislative election, most elected candidates as always are nominal independents and
supporters of the government. District-level figures are available.
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 | 19 November: in the
Marshall Islands legislative election, voters have elected a new
legislature on a non-party basis. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 17 November: in the
Croatian legislative election, the Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ) of Prime Minister
Ivo Sanader has been re-elected, although the opposition Social Democrats have made the biggest gains. District-level
figures are available.
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 | 17 November: in the
Kosovo legislative election, the Albanian-nationalist Democratic Party of Kosovo led by
Hashim Thaci has won the largest number of seats. Figures are available.
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 | 13 November: in the
Danish legislative election, the liberal-conservative coalition
government of Anders Fogh Rasmussen has been returned with a reduced majority. District-level figures are available.
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 | 11 November: in the second round of the
Slovenian presidential election, Dr Danilo Türk, the candidate supported
by the Slovenian Social Democratic Party, has been elected. Figures are available.
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 | 5 November: in the
Trinidad and Tobago legislative election, the People's National Movement of
Prime Minister Patrick Manning has been returned with an increased majority. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 4 November: in the second round of the
Guatemala presidential election, Alvaro Colom Caballeros of the
National Unity of Hope has defeated Otto Fernando Perez Molina of the Patriotic Party. Figures are available.
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Elections in October 2007
 | 28 October: in the
Argentinian presidential election, the Peronist candidate Cristina Fernández
de Kirchner, wife of the outgoing president, has been elected on the first round. Figures are available. Figures are
also available for the Chamber of Deputies and Senate elections held on the same day.
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 | 21 October: in the
Polish legislative election, the liberal Citizens' Platform party led by
Donald Tusk has defeated Jaroslaw Kaczynski's conservative government. District-level figures are available.
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 | 21 October: in the
Swiss legislative election, the right-wing Swiss People's Party has
strengthened its position within the four-party governing coalition. Canton-level figures are available.
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 | 14 October: in the
Togo legislative election, President Faure Gnassingb?s Rally for the
Togolese People has won a majority. Prefecture-level figures are available.
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Elections in September 2007
 | 30 September: in the
Ecuador Constituent Assembly election, supporters of President
Rafael Correa Delgado have won a large majority. Figures are available.
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 | 30 September: in the
Ukrainian legislative election, supporters of President Viktor Yushchenko and
former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko have won a majority. Regional-level figures are available.
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 | 16 September: in the
Greek legislative election the New Democracy government of Costas Karamanlis
has been re-elected with a reduced majority. District-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 9 September: in the
Guatemala legislative election, the social-democratic
National Unity of Hope (UNE) has won the largest number of seats. Figures are available.
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 | 8 September: in the second round of the
Sierra Leone presidential election, Ernest Bai Koroma of the
All People's Congress has been elected with 54% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 7 September: in the
Moroccan legislative election, the Independence Party of Abbas El Fassi has
energed as the largest party. Circumscription-level figures are available.
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 | 3 September: in the
Jamaica legislative election, the Jamaica Labour Party of Bruce Golding
has defeated the incumbent People's National party government, which had been in power for 18 years.
Constituency-level figures are available.
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Elections in August 2007
 | 18 August: In the
Kazakhstan legislative election, president
Nursultan Nazarbayev's "Light of the Fatherland" party has won all the seats, in elections not
regarded as free or fair. Figures are available.
 | 11 August: in the
Sierra Leone legislative election, the All People's Congress has won
the largest number of seats. Constituency-level figures are available.
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Elections in July 2007
 | 30 June to 10 July: Counting in the
Papua New Guinea legislative election is still not concluded, but
I have given up waiting and have posted the constituency figures as they stand.
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 | 29 July: In the
Japanese upper house legislative election, the ruling Liberal Democratic
Party of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has suffered heavy losses to the opposition Democratic Party.
Prefecture-level figures are available.
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 | 22 July: In the
Turkish legislative election, the ruling Justice and Development Party of
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been re-elected with a greatly increased vote and comfortable majority.
Constituency-level figures are available.
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Elections in June 2007
 | 30 June: In the
East Timor legislative election, FRETILIN and CNRT have emerged as the
largest parties, but neither has won a majority of seats. Figures are available.
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 | 24 June: The
Togo legislative election scheduled for this date has been postponed indefinitely.
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 | 17 June: In the second round of the
French legislative election, supporters of President Nicholas Sarkozy
have won a comfortable majority in the National Assembly, but the Socialist opposition has polled better
than was expected after the first round. Constituency-level figures and maps are now available.
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 | 10 June: In the
Belgian legislative election, the liberal-socialist
government of Guy Verhofstadt has resigned after losing ground to the opposition
Christian Democrats. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 3 June: In the
Senegal legislative election, the party of President
Abdoulaye Wade has won almost all the seats after the opposition parties boycotted the
election. Figures are available.
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Elections in May 2007
 | 24 May: In the
Irish legislative election, the Fianna Fail-led government
of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has been returned, although the Opposition Fine Gael party
made the biggest gains. Constituency-level figures are
available.
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 | 17 May: In the
Algerian legislative election, the ruling National
Liberation Front has lost its overall majority in the National Assembly but remains the
largest party. As in 2002, the election was marked by very low turnout. Figures are available.
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 | 14 May: In the
Philippines legislative election, parties opposed to President
Gloria Arroyo have won nine out of twelve Senate seats contested. Figures are available. As usual, no
figures are available for the House of Representatives elections.
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 | 12 May: In the
Armenian legislative election, the ruling
Republican Party of Armenia and its allies have been returned with an increased majority, in elections
generally held to be fair. Figures are
available.
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 | 12 May: In the
Iceland legislative election, the coalition government of Prime Minister Geir
Haarde has been returned with a reduced majority. Constituency-level figures are
available.
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 | 10 May: In the
Seychelles legislative election, the ruling Seychelles People Progressive Front
has been returned with an unchanged majority. Figures are
available.
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 | 8 May: In the second round of the
East Timor presidential election, Jose Ramos Horta, the current Prime Minister, has defeated Francisco Guterres of FRETILIN with 69% of the vote. Figures are
available.
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 | 6 May: In the
Burkina Faso legislative election, the ruling Congress for Democracy and
Progress has retained control of the National Assembly. Figures are available.
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 | 6 May: In the second round of the
French presidential election, Nicholas Sarkozy of the
Union for a Popular Movement has won with 53% of the vote, defeating the Socialist Party's Ségolène Royal.
Department-level figures and maps are now available.
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 | 4 May: In the Bahamas
legislative election, the Free National Movement of Hubert Ingraham has defeated the incumbent
Progressive Liberal Party government. Constituency-level figures are available.
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Elections in April 2007
 | 29 April: In the
Mali presidential election, President
Amadou Toumani Tour?has been re-elected with 71% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 21 April: In the
Nigerian presidential election, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua of the
ruling People's Democratic Party has been elected with 69% of the vote. Figures are available. Full constituency-level
figures are also available for the leglsative elections held on the same day.
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Elections in March 2007
 | 25 March: In the second round of the
Mauritania presidential election, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi has been
elected with 53% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 24 March: In Australia, in the
New South Wales state election, the Australian Labor
Party government of Premier Morris Iemma has been returned with a slightly reduced majority. Figures are available.
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 | 18 March: In the
Finnish legislative election, the conservative National Rally party and the
Greens have made gains at the expense of the Centre Party and the Social Democrats. The National Rally and the
Centre Party are expected to form a new centre-right government. District-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 4 March: In the
Estonian legislative election, the free market Reform Party of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip
made major gains, and will form a new three-party coalition government. Figures are available.
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Elections in February 2007
 | 25 February: In the
Senegal presidential election, President Abdoulaye Wade has been re-elected with
56% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 17 February: In the
Lesotho legislative election, the Lesotho Congress for Democracy has won a majority of votes
and seats. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 11 February: In the
Turkmenistan presidential election, Acting President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has
been elected President with 89% of the vote. Only members of the ruling party were allowed to stand. OSCE
observers described the election as "absolutely not free and fair." Figures are available.
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Elections in January 2007
 | 25 January: In the
Gambia legislative election, President Yahya Jammeh's Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction
has won a large majority. Figures are available.
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 | 21 January: In the
Serbia legislative election, The four pro-Western and pro-reform parties,
led by Boris Tadic's Democratic Party, have won a clear majority over the anti-Western Radicals and
Socialists. Figures are available.
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Elections in December 2006
 | 11 December: In the
St Lucia legislative election, The conservative United Workers Party led by
Sir John Compton (who was first PM of St Lucia in 1964) has defeated the incumbent St Lucia Labour Party government.
Figures are available.
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 | 3 December: In the
Madagascar presidential election, President Marc Ravalomanana has
been re-elected with 55% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 3 December: In the
Venezuelan presidential election, the left-wing President Hugo Chavez Friaz has
been re-elected with 62% of the vote, defeating the opposition candidate Manuel Antonio Rosales Guerrero.
Figures are available.
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Elections in November 2006
 | 26 November: In the second round of the
Ecuadorian presidential election, the left-wing candidate Rafael Correa
has defeated the liberal candidate Alvaro Noboa, polling 56.7% of the vote. Updated figures are available. Updated figures
for the 15 October legislative election are also available.
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 | 25 November: In Australia, in the
Victorian state election, the Australian Labor Party
government of Steve Bracks has been re-elected with a slightly reduced majority. Figures are available.
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 | 22 November: In the
Netherlands legislative election, the conservative Christian Democrats of
Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende have retained their position as the largest party, but will face difficult negotiations to form
a majority coalition government. Figures are available.
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 | 7 November: In the
United States legislative election, the opposition Democratic Party has gained
control of both houses of the Congress from the Republican Party of President George W. Bush. Final figures for the
Senate and House, plus updated maps of House districts, are now available.
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 | 5 November: In the
Nicaragua presidential election, former President Daniel Ortega of the
Sandinist National Liberation Front has returned to office after polling 38% of the vote in a five-candidate
race. Figures are available.
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Elections in October 2006
 | 29 October: In the second round of the
Brazilian presidential election, incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
has been re-elected with 60% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 29 October: In the second round of the
Bulgarian presidential election, the incumbent Socialist candidate Georgy Parvanov
has been re-elected with 76% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 29 October: In the second round of the
Democratic Republic of Congo presidential election, President Joseph Kabila has
been re-elected with 58% the vote, defeating Vice-President Jean Pierre Bemba with 42%. Figures are available.
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 | 7 October: In the
Latvian legislative election, the governing coalition of Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis has
returned to office. Figures are available.
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 | 1 October: In the
Austrian legislative election, the incumbent Austrian People's Party government of
Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel his lost its majority, but the opposition Social Democrats led by Alfred Gusenbauer also
lack a majority. A "grand coalition" between the two parties is a possible outcome. State-level figures are available.
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 | 1 October: In the
Bosnia and Herzegovia presidential election, the three ethnic communities, Bosniaks, Croatians and Serbs, have
elected members of the collective presidency. Social Democrats have won two of the three positions. Figures are available.
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 | 1 October: In the
Brazilian legislative election, parties opposed to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
have won a majority of seats in the Senate and improved their position in the Chamber of Deputies.
State-level figures are available.
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Elections in September 2006
 | 28 September: In the
Zambian presidential election, President Levy P Mwanawasa of the Movement for
Multi-party Democracy has been re-elected with 43% of the vote over Michael C Sata of the Patriotic Front and
Hakainde Hichilema of the United Democratic Alliance. Figures are available.
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 | 24 September: In the
Gambia presidential election, President Yahyah Jammeh has been
re-elected with 67% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 23 September: In the
Yemen presidential election, President Ali 'Abdullah Salih has been
re-elected with 77% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 17 September: In the
Swedish legislative election, the centre-right coalition led by Fredrik Reinfeldt of the
Moderate Party has won a majority over the Social Democrats. District-level figures and maps are available.
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 | 10 September: In the
Montenegro legislative election, the country's first since becoming independent,
the Coalition for European Montenegro of Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic has won a majority. Figures are available.
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 | 9 September: In Australia, in the
Queensland state election, the Australian Labor Party government of
Peter Beattie has been re-elected
with a slightly reduced majority. Preliminary constituency-level figures are available.
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Elections in August 2006
 | 28 August: In the
Guyana legislative election, the ruling People's Progressive Party has been re-elected
with an increased majority and 54% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 3 August: In the
Tuvalu legislative election, a new legislature has been elected on a non-party basis.
Figures are available.
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Elections in July 2006
 | 30 July: In the
Democratic Republic of Congo presidential election, the first free
election in the country since 1960, President Joseph Kabila
has polled 44.8% of the vote, while his nearest rival, Vice-President Jean Pierre Bemba, has polled 20%. A run off will be
held in October. Figures are available. Figures are also available for the legislative election held on the same day.
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 | 30 July: In the
Sao Tome and Principe presidential election, President Fradique De Menzes
of the Independent Democratic Action party has been re-elected with
60% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 28 July: In the
Seychelles presidential election, President James Michel of the
Progressive Front of the Seychelles People has been
re-elected with 54% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 5 July: In the
Macedonia legislative election, the conservative nationalist VMRO-DPMNE coalition of
Nikola Gruevski has defeated the incumbent Social Democratic government. District-level figures and maps are
available.
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Elections in June 2006
 | 2 July: In the
Mexican presidential election, the conservative Felipe de Jesus Calderon
Hinojosa of the National Action Party has
narrowly defeated the leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution. Final figures
are available. Figures for the Senate and Chamber of Deputies elections held on the same day are also available.
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 | 17 June: In the
Slovakia legislative election, the centre-left Direction party of Robert Fico has emerged as the largest party. Figures are available.
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 | 5 June: In the second round of the
Peruvian presidential election, former President Alan García Pérez has
defeated Ollanta Humala Tasso with 54% of the vote. Figures are available. District-level figures for the
legislative elections held on the same day are also available.
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 | 4 June: In the
San Marino legislative election, the Christian Democrats have won the
largest number of seats. Figures are available.
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 | 2 and 3 June: In the
Czech Republic legislative election, the conservative Civic Democratic Union and
its allies have won exactly half the seats, while the ruling Social Democrats and the Communists have retained the other half, creating a deadlock.
Figures are available.
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Elections in May 2006
 | 28 May: In the
Colombia presidential election, Conservative President Alvaro Uribe has been elected to a second term with 62% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 21 May: In the
Cyprus legislative election, supporters of President Tassos Papadopoulos have won a
majority in the legislature. Figures are available.
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 | 16 May: In the second round of the
Comoros presidential election, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi has been elected with 58% of
the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 16 May: In the
Dominican Republic legislative election, the Party of Dominican Liberation of
President Leonel Fernández Reyna has won majorities in both chambers. Figures are available.
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 | 6 May: In the
Fiji Islands legislative election, the governing Fiji United Party, which represents
ethnic Fijians, has been returned with a narrow majority over the Fiji Labor Party, which is dominated by ethnic
Indians. Figures are available.
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 | 6 May: In the
Singapore legislative election, the governing People's Action Party has been
re-elected with its majority intact but some decline in its level of support. Figures are available.
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 | 3 May: In the
Chad presidential election, President Idriss Deby has been re-elected with 64% of the
vote. Figures are available.
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Elections in April 2006
 | 23 April: In the second round of the
Hungarian legislative election, the governing Hungarian Socialist Party and its
allies have defeated the opposition Alliance of Free Democrats. Figures are available.
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 | 9 April: In the
Italian legislative election, the centre-left Olive Tree coalition has won a very
narrow victory over the incumbent
rightist House of Freedom coaliion of Silvio Berlusconi. Figures and maps are available.
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 | 5 April: In the
Solomon Islands legislative election, the Prime Minister, Sir Allen Kemakeza,
has resigned following the loss of many seats. Figures are available.
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 | 2 April: Following the
Thailand legislative election, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has resigned, despite the fact that his Thais Love Thais party won 61% of valid votes and an overwhelming
majority of seats, following a boycott by the opposition
parties. Preliminary figures are available.
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Elections in March 2006
 | 31 March: In the
Samoa legislative election, the governing Human Rights Protection Party has won an
increased majority. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 28 March: In the
Israel legislative election, Acting Prime Minister's Ehud Olmert's Kadima
Party has won enough seats to be able to form a centre-left coalition government with Labour and other parties.
Figures are available.
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 | 26 March: In the
Ukraine legislative election, supporters of opposition leaders Viktor Yanukovitch and
Julia Timoshenko have made major gains, mainly at the expense of the Communists but also at the expense of supporters of
President Viktor Yushchenko. Figures are available.
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 | 26 March: In the
São Tom?and Príncipe legislative election, the Democratic Movement of the Forces for Change has
won a majority of seats. Figures are available.
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 | 19 March: In the
Belarus presidential election, President Aleksandr Lukashenko has been re-elected
with an officially reported 87% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 19 March: In the second round of the
Benin presidential election, independent candidate Boni Yayi has been elected
with 74% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 12 March: In the
South Australian and
Tasmanian state elections, Australian Labor
Party governments have been easily re-elected. Preliminary figures are available.
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 | 12 March: In the
Colombia legislative election, supporters of President Álvaro Uribe have
retained control of both houses of the Congress. Figures are available.
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 | 12 March: In the
El Salvador legislative election, the conservative ARENA party and its allies
have retained control of the Legislative Assembly. Figures are available.
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Elections in February 2006
 | 23 February: In the
Uganda presidential election, President Yoweri Museveni of the
National Resistance Movement has been re-elected with 59% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 12 February: In the
Cape Verde presidential election, President Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires of the
African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde has been re-elected with 51% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 6 February: In the
Haiti presidential election, Rene Preval of the radical Lespwa (Hope) coalition has been declared the winner
with 51% of the vote. Final figures are available. Figures are also available for the Senate election held on the same day.
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 | 5 February: In the
Costa Rica presidential election, Oscar Arias Sanchez of the National Liberation
party holds a narrow lead over Otton Solis Fallas of the Citizen Action party. Figures are available. Figures from the
legislative elections held on the same day are also available.
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Elections in January 2006
 | 29 January: In the second round of the
Finnish presidential election, incumbent Social Democratic President Tarja
Halonen has defeated Sauli Niinisto of the National Rally with 51% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 25 January: In the
Palestinian Territories legislative election, the Islamist party Change and
Reform (Hamas) has defeated the incumbent Fatah Movement government. Figures are available.
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 | 23 January: In the
Canadian legislative election, the Conservative Party led by
Stephen Harper will form a minority government following the defeat of Paul Martin's Liberal
government. Figures are available.
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 | 22 January: In the
Cape Verde legislative election, the governing
African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde has been re-elected with an increased majority. Figures are available.
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 | 22 January: In the
Portuguese presidential election, Anibal Cavaco Silva of the conservative Social Democratic Party has defeated former President Mario Soares. Figures are available.
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 | 18 January: In the second round of the
Chilean presidential election, Michelle Bachelet of the centre-left Democratic
Coalition has defeated Sebastián Piñera of the conservative National Renewal. Figures are available.
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Elections in December 2005
 | 18 December: In the
Bolivian presidential election, Evo Morales of
the left-wing Movement for Socialism has been elected with 54% of the votes.
Figures are available.
 | 18 December: In the
Bolivian legislative election, the left-wing
Movement for Socialism has won the largest number of seats. Constituency-level
figures are available.
 | 15 December: In the
Iraqi legislative election, the Shia-led
Unified Iraqi Coalition has fallen just short of winning a majority of seats.
Governorate-level figures are available.
 | 14 December: In the
Tanzanian presidential election,
Jakaya Kikwete of the ruling Revolutionary State Party has been elected with
80% of the vote. Figures are available. The ruling party has also won almost all the
seats in the National Assembly.
 | 11 December: In the
Chilean legislative election, the ruling
Democratic Concertation of centre-left parties has retained control of both houses of
the Congress. District-level figures are available.
 | 7 December: In the
St Vincent and the Grenadines legislative
election, the governing United Labour Party has been comfortably re-elected.
Constituency-level figures are available.
 | 4 December: In the
Kazakhstan presidential election, president
Nursultan Nazarbayev has been re-elected with 91% of the vote, in elections not
regarded as free or fair. Figures are available.
 | 4 December: In the
Venezuelan legislative election, parties
supporting President Hugo Chavez have won all the seats as a result of an
opposition boycott. District-level figures are available.
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Elections in November 2005
 | 27 November: In the
Gabon presidential election, El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba has
been re-elected with 79% of the vote. Figures are available.
 | 27 November: In the
Honduras presidential election, Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales
of the Liberal Party of Honduras has been elected with just under 50% of the vote.
Figures are available.
 | 26 November: In the
Zimbabwe Senate election, the ruling ZANU-PF has won most of
the seats, since the election was boycotted by the opposition. Constituency-level figures are
available.
 | 17 November: In the
Sri Lanka presidential election, Mahinda Rajapaksa of the
left-wing United Peoples Freedom Alliance has been elected with 50% of the vote. Figures are available.
 | 13 November: In the
Burkina Faso presidential election,
president Blaise Compaore has been re-elected with 80% of the vote. Figures are available.
 | 9 November: In the second round of the
Liberian presidential election, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of the
Unity Party has been elected with 59% of the vote. She is the first woman to be elected president
of an African country. Figures are available. Constituency-level figures are also available for
the legislative election held on the same day.
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Elections in October 2005
 | 23 October: In the
Argentine legislative election, the Peronist Front for
Victory has won the most seats in both chambers of the Congress. Figures are available.
 | 23 October: In the second round of the
Polish presidential election, Lech Kaczynski of the nationalist
Law and Justice party has defeated Donald Tusk of the Citizens' Platform with 54% of the vote.
Figures are available.
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Elections in September 2005
 | 25 September: In the
Macau legislative election, no party has won more then two seats.
Figures are available.
 | 25 September: In the
Polish legislative election, the nationalist Law and Justice party
and the conservative Citizens' Platform have emerged as the largest parties, heavily defeating the
governing Democratic Left Alliance. District-level figures are available.
 | 18 September: In the
Afghanistan legislative election, the country has held its
first ever democratic legislative election. Province-level figures are available.
 | 18 September: In the
German legislative election, The ruling coalition of SPD and
Greens have lost their majority in the Bundestag, but the the centre-right
coalition of the CDU-CSU and FPD is also short of a majority. The Left has the balance of power.
The CDU-CSU and SPD will form a "grand coalition" government. Constituency-level figures are
available.
 | 17 September: In the
New Zealand legislative election, the governing Labour Party of
Prime Minister Helen Clark has been returned with a reduced majority. Constituency-level figures are
available.
 | 12 September: In the
Norwegian legislative election, the Labour Party led by
Jens Stoltenberg and its allies have defeated the incumbent conservative government. District-level
figures are available.
 | 11 September: In the
Japanese legislative election, the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party
under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has been returned with an increased majority. Constituency-level figures are
available.
 | 7 September: In the
Egyptian presidential election, the first contested presidential
election in Egyptian history, President Hosni Mubarak has been re-elected with 88% of the vote.
Figures are available.
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Elections in July 2005
 | 29 July: In the
Burundi presidential election, the
National Council for the Defence of Democracy has won a majority of seats. Figures are available.
 | 24 July: In the
Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Joao Bernardo Vieira
has been elected president with 52% of the vote. Figures are available.
 | 3 July: In the
Mauritius legislative election, the liberal Social Alliance
has defeated the left-wing Militant Socialist Movement. Constituency-level figures are
available.
 | 3 July: In the
Albanian legislative election, the conservative Democratic Party of Albania
of Prime Minister Sali Berisha has defeated the Socialist Party of Albania. Constituency-level figures are
available.
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Elections in June 2005
 | 25 June: In the
Bulgarian legislative election, the Coalition for
Bulgaria, led by the Socialist Party, has defeated the incumbent National Movement for Simeon II.
District-level figures are available.
 | 24 June: In the second round of the
Iranian presidential election, the radical candidate
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has defeated the establishment candidate Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani with
63% of the vote. Figures are available.
 | 19 June: In the
Lebanese legislative election, parties supporting the
anti-Syrian reformist Sa?ad Hariri have won a clear majority of seats. Constituency-level figures are
available.
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Elections in May 2005
 | 25 May: In the
Suriname legislative election, the governing New Front for Democracy
has lost its parliamentary majority. District-level figures are available.
 | 22 May: In the
Mongolian presidential election, Nambariin Enkhbayar of the
Mongol People's Revolutionary Party has been elected with 54% of the vote.
Figures are available.
 | 15 May: In the
Ethiopian legislative election, the governing coalition, the
Ethiopian People?s Revolutionary Democratic Front, has won a majority,
but the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy has for the first time won a significant number of
seats. Constituency-level figures are
available.
 | 8 May: In the
Central African Republic presidential election, the military ruler
François Bozize has been elected president with 64% of the vote. Figures are available. No figures are
available for the legislative elections held at the same time.
 | 5 May: In the
British legislative election, the Labour government of Prime
Minister Tony Blair has been re-elected with a reduced majority. Constituency-level figures are
available.
 | 5 May: In the
Dominican legislative election, the Dominica Labour Party government of
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has been re-elected with an increased majority. Constituency-level figures are
available.
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Elections in April 2005
 | 24 April: In the
Andorra legislative election, the conservative Liberal Party of Andorra
has retained its majority. Constituency-level figures are available.
 | 24 April: In the
Togolese presidential election, President Faure Gnassingbe has been
re-elected wih 60% of the vote. Figures are available.
 | 17 April: In the
Northern Cyprus presidential election, Mehmet Ali Talat of the
Republican Turkish Party has been elected president with 55% of the vote. Figures are available.
 | 8 April: In the
Djibouti presidential election, President Ismail Omar Guelleh
has been re-elected unopposed after opposition parties boycotted the election.
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Elections in March 2005
 | 31 March: In the
Zimbabwe legislative election, the ZANU-PF party of
President Robert Mugabe has increased its majority. Constituency-level figures are available.
 | 17 March: In the
Tonga legislative election, the Human Rights
and Democracy Movement In Tonga has won a majority of the elected seats in the legislature.
Constituency-level figures are available.
 | 13 March: In the
Kyrgyz Republic legislative election, the counting of votes has
been terminated by the violent overthrow of the government. Some figures are available.
 | 13 March: In the
Liechtenstein legislative election, the governing coalition of the
Progressive Citizens' Party and the Fatherland Union have won most of the seats. Figures are available.
 | 8 March: In the
Micronesia legislative election, partial figures are available.
 | 6 March: In the
Moldova legislative election, the Communist Party of the Republic of
Moldova has been returned to power with a reduced majority. Figures are available.
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Elections in February 2005
 | 20 February: In the
Northern Cyprus legislative election, the opposition
Republican Turkish Party has won the largest number of seats, though not a majority. Figures are
available.
 | 20 February: In the
Portuguese legislative election, the Socialist Party led by
Jose Socrates has defeated the incumbent conservative government of Pedro Santana Lopes.
District-level figures are available.
 | 8 February: In the
Danish legislative election, the Liberal Party of Denmark
led by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has
won the largest number of seats and will be able to form a government.
District-level figures are available.
 | 6 February: In the
Thai legislative election, the Thais Love Thais party of
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been returned with a greatly increased majority. Figures are available.
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Elections in January 2005
 | 31 January: In the
Iraqi legislative election, the first free election ever held in the
country, the Shia-led United Iraqi Alliance has won a narrow majority of seats.
Governorate-level figures are available.
 | 22 January: In the
Maldives legislative election, supporters of President
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom have won the largest number of seats. Constituency-level figures are available.
 | 16 January: In the second round of the
Croatian presidential election, President Stipe Mesic has been
re-elected with 66% of the vote. Figures are available.
 | 9 January: In the
Palestinian Territories presidential election,
Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah party has been elected with 67% of the vote. Figures are available.
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Elections in December 2004
 | 26 December: In the re-run of the second
round of the Ukrainian presidential election, the
reformist Viktor Yushchenko has defeated the pro-Russian Viktor Yanukhovych with 54% of the
vote. Figures are available.
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 | 12 December: In the second round of the
Romanian presidential election, Traian Basescu of the
Justice and Truth Alliance has defeated Adrian Nastase of the Social Democratic Party.
Figures are available.
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 | 7 December: In the
Ghana presidential election, President John Agyekum Kufuor
of the New Patriotic Party has been re-elected with 52% of the vote. In legislative elections
held on the same day, the NPP has won a comfortable majority of seats. Figures are available.
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 | 4 December: In the second round of the
Niger presidential election, Mamadou Tandja of the
National Movement for Society and Development has defeated Mahamadou Issoufou of the
Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism, with 65% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 2 December: In the Mozambique
presidential election, Armando Guebuza of the long-ruling FRELIMO party has been elected
with 65% of the vote. Province-level figures are available. In legislative elections
held on the same day, FRELIMO has won an increased majority of seats.
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Elections in November 2004
 | 28 November: In the first round of the
Romanian presidential election, Adrian Nastase of the Social
Democratic Party leads Traian Basescu of the Justice and Truth Alliance. They will contest a
second round on 12 December. Figures are available.
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 | 28 November: In the
Romanian legislative election, the Social
Democratic Party and its allies have won the largest number of seats in the Chamber of
Deputies, but not a majority. Circumscription-level figures are available.
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 | 21 November: In the second
round of the Ukrainian presidential election, the
the pro-Russian Viktor Yanukhovych leads the reformist Viktor Yushchenko with 51.5% of the
vote. Yushchenko has refused to accept the result. Figures are available.
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 | 16 November: In the first round of the
Niger presidential election, Mamadou Tandja of the
National Movement for Society and Development leads Mahamadou Issoufou of the
Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism. Figures are available. Figures for the
legislative election held on the same day are also available.
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Elections in October 2004
 | 31 October: In the
Uruguay presidential election, President Tabaré Vázquez Rosas has been
re-elected with 52% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 21 November: In the first
round of the Ukrainian presidential election, the
the pro-Russian Viktor Yanukhovych and the reformist Viktor Yushchenko have almost equal vote totals, and will
contest a runoff on 21 November. Figures are available.
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 | 30 October: In the
Botswana legislative election, the ruling Botswana Democratic Party
has been re-elected with an increased majority. Constituency-level igures are available.
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 | 25 October: In the
St Kitts and Nevis legislative election, the St Kitts Nevis Labour Party of
Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas has been re-elected with a reduced majority. Constituency-level figures and a map
are available.
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 | 24 October: In the
Lithuanian legislative election, held in two rounds on 10 and 24 October,
the Labour Party and the Working for Lithuania Party have won the largest numbers of seats. Constituency-level
figures are available.
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 | 24 October: In the Tunisian
presidential election, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has been re-elected with 94% of the vote. No effective
opposition to President Ben Ali's rule is allowed. Figures are
available.
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 | 24 October: In the Tunisian
legislative election, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's Constitutional Democratic Rally has won a large majority
of votes and seats. No effective opposition to President Ben Ali's rule is allowed. Governorate-level figures are
available.
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 | 23 October: in the
Kosovo legislative election, the moderate nationalist Kosovo Democratic League
has won the largest number of seats. Figures are available.
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 | 23 October: In the
Nauru legislative election, a new legislature has been elected on a non-party basis.
Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 18 October: In the
Belarus legislative election, so-called independents who are actually supporters
of President Aleksandr Lukashenko have won nearly all the seats. No figures are available, only a list of members
elected.
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 | 11 October: in the
Cameroun presidential election, President Paul Biya, who has been in
power since 1982, has been re-elected with 75% of the vote. The election was not regarded as free or
fair. Figures are available.
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 | 3 October: In the
Slovenia legislative election, the Slovenian Democratic Party has won the largest
number of seats, gaining seats from the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia. Figures are available.
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Elections in September 2004
 | 24 September: In the second round of the Indonesia
presidential election, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of the Democrat Party has defeated President Megawati Sukarnoputri, polling
60% of the vote. Figures are available.
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Elections in July 2004
 | 11 July: In the
Japanese Upper House election, the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party
has maintained its position. Constituency-level figures are
available.
 | 24 September: In the first round of the Indonesia
presidential election, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of the Democrat Party leads President Megawati Sukarnoputri. They will contest
a second round in September. Figures are available.
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 | 5 July: In the
Vanuatu legislative election, the Vanaaku Party has won the largest number of seats, but
will need several coalition partners to form a government. Figures are available.
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Elections in June 2004
 | 28 June: In the
Canadian legislative election, the Liberal Party government of Paul Martin has lost its
majority, and will need the support of minor parties to retain government. Constituency-level figures are available.
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 | 27 June: In the second round of the
Lithuania presidential election, the non-party candidate Valdas Adamkus has defeated the
New Democratic Party candidate, Kazimira Prunskiene, with 52% of the vote. Figures are available.
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 | 27 June: in the second round of the
Serbian presidential election, Boris Tadic of the Democratic Party has defeated
Tomislav Nikolic of the Radical Party. Figures are available.
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 | 13 June: In the first round of the
Lithuania presidential election, the non-party candidate Valdas Adamkus leads with 31% of
the vote, ahead of the New Democratic Party candidate, Kazimira Prunskiene. They will contest a second round on 27 June. Figures are available.
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 | 13 June: In the
Luxembourg legislative election, the conservative Christian Social People's Party
government of Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker has been re-elected with an increased majority. Figures are available.
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 | 13 June: in the first round of the
Serbian presidential election, Tomislav Nikolic of the Radical Party leads Boris Tadic of the
Democratic Party has defeated. They will contest a second round on 27 June. Figures are available.
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