Palestinian Authority Legislative Elections: May 22, 2021 and Presidential Election: July 31, 2021 (Postponed)

Palestinian Authority elections

The chamber of the Palestinian Legislative Council, which has not met in years. Palestinian Authority elections are long overdue. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Jasmine Halki (CC BY 2.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Not Free Government Type Semi-Presidential Republic Population… Read More

Morocco Legislative, Provincial, and Local Elections: September 8, 2021

Morocco elections

Morocco’s parliament building in Rabat, the capital. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Pilecka (CC BY-SA 3.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Partly Free Government Type Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy Population 35.6 million UPCOMING ELECTIONS Legislative, Provincial, and Local Elections September 8, 2021… Read More

Algeria Snap Parliamentary Elections: June 12, 2021

Algeria elections

Protesters in Algeria’s capital Algiers on March 22, 2019 – the fifth Friday of protests that would continue for over a year. Demonstrators called for reforms, including democratic elections in Algeria. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Anistmz (CC BY-SA 4.0) KEY… Read More

Brazil Local Elections: November 15, 2020 (Second Round: November 29, 2020)

Brazil elections

A view of São Paolo. With a population of more than 12 million, Sao Paolo is the biggest city in both the western and southern hemispheres. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Rodrigo.Argenton (CC BY-SA 4.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Free… Read More

Canada Provincial and Municipal Elections: Various Times

Canada elections

A polling station during the 2015 elections in Canada. Photo credit: Flickr/ishmael n. daro (CC BY 2.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Free Government Type Federal Parliamentary Democracy (Parliament of Canada) under a Constitutional Monarchy; a Commonwealth Realm… Read More

Czech Republic Parliamentary Elections: October 8-9, 2021

Czech Republic elections

Voters in Olomouc, in the country’s east, in the 2016 regional and Senate elections in the Czech Republic. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Jan Kameníček (CC BY-SA 4.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Free Government Type Parliamentary Republic Population 10.7 million… Read More

Libya Presidential and Parliamentary Elections: Postponed (will possibly take place in June 2022)

Libya elections

A protest against dictator Muamar Ghaddafi in Bayda, Libya, in July 2011. Photo credit: Wikimedia/ليبي صح (CC0 1.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Not Free Government Type In Transition Population 6.9 million UPCOMING ELECTIONS Presidential and Parliamentary Elections… Read More

Zambia General Elections: August 12, 2021

Zambia elections

A voter displays her voting card during Zambia’s 2011 elections. Photo credit: Flickr/DFID/Louise Mellor (CC BY-SA 2.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Partly Free Government Type Presidential Republic Population 17.4 million UPCOMING ELECTIONS General Elections August 12, 2021… Read More

South Africa Local Elections: Between August 3 and November 3, 2021 (due)

South Africa elections

Young South Africans registering to vote in 2014, 20 years after the country’s first multiracial elections. Photo credit: Wikimedia/HelenOnline (CC BY-SA 3.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Free Government Type Parliamentary Republic Population 56.5 million UPCOMING ELECTIONS Local… Read More

São Tomé and Príncipe Presidential Election: July 2021 (due)

São Tomé and Príncipe elections

São Tomé’s Forte de São Sebastião National Museum. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Helena Van Eykeren (CC BY 2.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Free Government Type Semi-Presidential Republic Population 211,000 UPCOMING ELECTIONS Presidential Election July 2021 (due) Parliamentary and Local… Read More