Jordan Local and Gubernatorial Elections: August 2021 (due)

Jordan elections

Counting votes during Jordan’s 2016 elections. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Mohammad Hajeer (CC BY-SA 4.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Partly Free Government Type Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy Population 10.8 million UPCOMING ELECTIONS Local Elections August 2021 (due) Parliamentary Elections November… Read More

Iraq Early Parliamentary Elections: October 10, 2021

Iraq elections

Voters in Iraq’s 2005 elections show their ink-stained index fingers – proof that they voted. Photo credit: United States Marine Corps/Staff Sgt. Jim Goodwin (public domain) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Not Free Government Type Federal Parliamentary Republic… Read More

Uganda Presidential and Parliamentary Elections: January 14, 2021

Uganda elections

Campaign posters in Uganda’s 2011 elections. Photo credit: Flickr/Gabriel White (CC BY-SA 2.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Not Free (downgraded from Partly Free in 2019) Government Type Presidential Republic Population 40.9 million UPCOMING ELECTIONS Presidential and Parliamentary… Read More

Somaliland Presidential Election: November 13, 2022

Somaliland elections

Voters in Somaliland’s 2012 municipal elections. Photo credit: VOA/Kate Stanworth (public domain) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Partly Free Government Type De facto independent state (technically part of the Federal Parliamentary Republic of Somalia) Population 3.5 million UPCOMING… Read More

Somalia, Indirect Legislative Elections: Due, Indirect Presidential Election: By February 25, 2022 (tentative – preceded by indirect legislative elections)

Somalia elections

Somali members of Parliament line up in the Mogadishu Airport hangar to vote in the indirect presidential election on February 8, 2017. Photo credit: Flickr/Ilyas Ahmed, UN (public domain) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Not Free Government Type Federal… Read More

Senegal Local Elections: January 23, 2022

Senegal elections

Voters waiting to cast their ballots in Senegal’s 2019 presidential election. Photo credit: VOA/Seydina Aba Gueye (public domain) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Partly Free (down from Free in 2020) Government Type Semi-Presidential Republic Population 3.1 million UPCOMING… Read More

Seychelles Presidential and Legislative Elections: October 22-24, 2020

Seychelles elections

A voter in during the 2015 elections in Seychelles. Photo credit: Seychelles News Agency/Rassin Vannier (CC-BY) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Partly Free Government Type Presidential Republic Population 95,981 UPCOMING ELECTIONS Presidential and Legislative Elections October 2025 (due)… Read More

Nigeria, Edo State Gubernatorial Election: September 19, 2020 and Ondo State Gubernatorial Election: October 10, 2020

Nigeria elections

Voting during Nigeria’s 2015 elections. Photo credit: Flickr/Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (CC BY-SA 2.0) KEY FACTS Freedom House Rating Partly Free Government Type Federal Presidential Republic Population 214 million UPCOMING ELECTIONS Edo State Gubernatorial Election September 19, 2020 Ondo State Gubernatorial… Read More

Niger Presidential Runoff: February 21, 2021

Niger elections

This year will see several sets of elections in Niger. The Agadez Mosque – the tallest adobe structure in the world, built in 1515 – in Agadez, Niger. Photo credit: Flickr/Dan Lundberg (CC BY-SA 2.0) KEY FACTS Freedom… Read More