Chile Local and Regional Elections: May 15-16, 2021 and Presidential and Legislative Elections: November 21, 2021

Chile elections

Ballot boxes for the 2013 elections in Chile. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Warko (CC BY-SA 3.0)  KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Free Government Type Presidential Republic Population 18.2 million UPCOMING ELECTIONS Local and Regional Elections, Plus Constitutional Assembly Delegate Elections… Read More

Belize Parliamentary Elections: November 11, 2020

Belize elections

Belize’s National Assembly building. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Haakon S. Krohn (CC BY-SA 3.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Free Government Type Parliamentary Democracy under a Constitutional Monarchy; a Commonwealth realm Population 399,600 UPCOMING ELECTIONS Parliamentary Elections November 11, 2020… Read More

Aruba Snap General Elections: June 25, 2021

Aruba elections

Aruba’s Parliament building in Orangestad, the capital. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Coolcaesar (CC BY-SA 4.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Free (Netherlands) Government Type Parliamentary Democracy; part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Population 119,400 UPCOMING ELECTIONS Snap General Elections… Read More

Argentina Midterm Legislative Elections: October 24, 2021

Argentina elections

Argentina’s National Congress building in Buenos Aires. In the 2021 elections in Argentina, voters will elect half of the lower house and a third of the upper house. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Jacobo Tarrío – Congreso Nacional (CC BY 2.0) KEY FACTS… Read More

Vietnam Legislative Elections: May 23, 2021

Vietnam elections

Vietnam’s National Assembly building, where the legislature meets. Legislative elections in Vietnam are due on May 23, 2021. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Grayswoodsurrey (CC BY-SA 4.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Not Free Government Type Communist State Population 99 million… Read More

Thailand Municipal Elections: March 28, 2021 (other local elections to follow)

Thailand elections

Protests in Bangkok on October 15, 2020. Protesters are calling for reform of the monarchy and fresh elections in Thailand. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Milktea2020 (CC BY-SA 4.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Not Free (improved to Partly Free in… Read More

Samoa Parliamentary Elections: April 9, 2021

Samoa elections

The government building in Apia, Samoa’s capital, and the site of controversy ahead of the April 2021 elections in Samoa. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Balou46 (CC BY-SA 4.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Free Government Type Parliamentary Republic Population 203,800… Read More

Micronesia Parliamentary Elections: March 2, 2021

Micronesia elections

Dublon Island, Chuuk, Micronesia. Parliamentary elections in Micronesia are due in March 2021. Photo credit: Flickr/Matt Kieffer (CC BY-SA 2.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Free Government Type Federal Republic in free association with the U.S. Population 102,000… Read More

Maldives Local Elections: April 10, 2021

Maldives elections

A 2012 protest by the Maldivian Democratic Party calling for new elections in Maldives following Nasheed’s (possibly-at-gunpoint) resignation. Photo credit: Flickr/Dying Regime (CC BY 2.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Partly Free Government Type Presidential Republic Population 392,000… Read More

Laos Parliamentary Elections: February 21, 2021

Laos elections

Laos’s parliament building. Photo credit: Flickr/ilf_ (CC BY-SA 2.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Not Free Government Type Communist State Population 7.4 million UPCOMING ELECTIONS Parliamentary Elections March 2026 (due) PAST ELECTIONS Parliamentary Elections February 21, 2021 Laos… Read More