September 18, 2024

A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Europe, usually posted on Wednesdays and occasionally updated throughout the week.

The City Palace in Potsdam, Germany, which houses the Brandenburg state parliament. Brandenburg holds state elections on September 22 amid the rise of the far-right AfD, which one its first state election ever earlier this month (in Thuringia). Photo credit: Wikimedia/Paul Korecky (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Upcoming Europe Elections

Czech Republic Senate and Regional Elections: September 20-21 and 27-28, 2024

Jules Eisenchteter, Balkan Insight (September 18, 2024): Czech Regional Elections: A Foretaste of Heated Campaign Year That Lies Ahead

Germany, State Elections in Brandenburg: September 22, 2024 (next federal elections set for September 28, 2025 – state elections in Saxony and Thuringia were September 1, 2024)

AP (September 17, 2024): Germany’s Christian Democratic Union taps Friedrich Merz as its candidate for chancellor in next national election

Kate Connolly, The Guardian (September 17, 2024): Unease as Russia-friendly ‘queen of the elections’ aims for more German poll success

Chiponda Chimbelu, DW (September 16, 2024): Brandenburg: Black politician takes on German far-right AfD

Euronews with EBU (September 14, 2024): Germany’s far-right AfD party polls strongly before Brandenburg state election

Austria Parliamentary Elections: September 29, 2024

Nigel Jones, The Spectator (September 16, 2024): Is Austria’s far-right Freedom Party heading for victory?

Switzerland Referendums: September 22, 2024

Emily Schultheis, Politico (September 15, 2024): Switzerland’s Unusual Form of Democracy Takes Aim at Eurovision

Lithuania Parliamentary Elections: October 13 and 27, 2024

Milda Seputyte, Bloomberg (September 13, 2024): Antisemitism Row Alarms Lithuanian Leaders Ahead of Election

Romania Presidential Election: November 24, 2024 and Legislative Elections: December 1, 2024

Radu Dumitrescu, Romania Insider (September 17, 2024): Former center-right Romanian prime minister Ludovic Orban to run for president

Iulian Ernst, IntelliNews (September 12, 2024): Ex-Nato deputy secretary general Geoana launches presidential campaign in Romania

Poland Presidential Election: By May 18, 2025 (earlier election possible)

AP (September 14, 2024): Thousands attend an anti-government rally organized by Poland’s main opposition party

Past Europe Elections

France Snap Legislative Elections: June 30 and July 7, 2024

Shi Jiangtao and Finbarr Bermingham, South China Morning Post (September 16, 2024): How will Michel Barnier influence France’s China policy – and is he supposed to?

Kim Willsher, The Guardian (September 16, 2024): Barnier fights to form French government amid no-confidence threats

Le Monde with AFP (September 14, 2024): Le Pen ‘convinced’ there will be new elections next year

Paul Smith, The Conversation (September 11, 2024): Michel Barnier: how Mr Brexit rose from the ashes of Emmanuel Macron’s fire to become French prime minister

European Union, European Parliament: June 6-9, 2024

Politico (September 17, 2024): Meet the commissioners: Class of 2024

United Kingdom General Elections: May 24, 2024

Stephen Daisley, The Spectator (September 17, 2024): Now we know how Keir Starmer will fall

Tim Ross, Politico (September 16, 2024): How Labour let Nigel Farage win

Kosovo Partial Local Elections: April 23, 2023 (general elections scheduled for February 9, 2025)

AP (September 13, 2024): Serbia demands new elections in tense north Kosovo as well as return of Serb police and judiciary

Elections On Deck