2024 national electoral calendar

2024 national electoral calendar

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This national electoral calendar for 2024 lists the national/federal elections held, and scheduled to be held, in 2024 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included. Specific dates are given where these are known, with unknown dates on the bottom.

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2024 has been dubbed the biggest election year in history.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} As of December 2024, the vast majority of incumbent parties worldwide facing election in 2024 lost vote share, including in South Africa, India, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan, though only the incumbents in the United Kingdom and the United States lost power.^[7] Mexico was one of the few countries where the incumbent party improved its vote share.^[8][9]