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2023 Thai general election
2023 Thai general election, held 14 May 2023, elected Thailand's 500-seat House of Representatives. Move Forward won 151 seats but the appointed Senate blocked Pita Limjaroenrat; Pheu Thai's Srettha Thavisin became prime minister.
2023 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
2023 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, held 16 February 2023, elected all 60 seats of the Tripura Vidhan Sabha. BJP won 32 of 60 (38.97%), Tipra Motha 13, CPI(M) 11, Congress 3; turnout 89.95%.
2024 Bangladeshi general election
The 2024 Bangladeshi general election (12th National Assembly, 7 January 2024) returned Sheikh Hasina's Awami League to a fourth term with 223 of 299 seats and 40.81% turnout after the BNP boycotted over the caretaker government demand; the US and UK called it neither free nor fair, and Hasina fell in August 2024.
2024 Indian general election in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
The 2024 Indian general election in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands elected the union territory's single Lok Sabha member on 19 April 2024; BJP's Bishnu Pada Ray won the lone seat, unseating Congress sitting MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma, with 12 candidates and about 63.9% turnout.
2024 Indonesian general election
The 2024 Indonesian general election (Pemilu 2024), held February 14, 2024, elected Prabowo Subianto president with 58.58% over Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo, with Gibran Rakabuming Raka as vice president; turnout 81.48%.
2024 Indonesian local election law protests
Nationwide Indonesian protests of 22 August 2024 (Indonesian: aksi 22 Agustus) against parliamentary revision of the 2016 Regional Elections Law after a Constitutional Court ruling lowered nomination thresholds; parliament shelved the changes.
2024 Pakistani general election
Pakistan's 12th general election, held 8 February 2024 after a delay. PTI-backed independents led with 92 seats but the PML-N-PPP coalition under Shehbaz Sharif formed government amid rigging disputes.
2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election
Snap parliamentary election held 14 November 2024 in Sri Lanka, in which President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's National People's Power won 159 of 225 seats, a two-thirds majority, while the SLPP fell from 145 to 3 seats.
2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election
The 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election (Bihar Vidhan Sabha chunav 2025) elected all 243 seats in two phases on 6 and 11 November 2025. The NDA won 202 seats (BJP 89) against Tejashwi Yadav's Mahagathbandhan; turnout hit 67.13%, the highest since 1951.
2025 Indian electoral controversy
2025 Indian electoral controversy: dispute over the Election Commission of India's Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls, Rahul Gandhi's vote chori fraud allegations, EVM/VVPAT disputes, and protests demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar's resignation.
2025 Kerala local elections
2025 Kerala local body elections, held 9 and 11 December 2025 across 1,199 local bodies; UDF won four of six corporations, NDA took Thiruvananthapuram Corporation for the first time, ending 45 years of Left rule; counting 13 December.
2025 Philippine general election
The 2025 Philippine general election (12 May 2025 midterm) filled half the Senate, all 317 House seats, and local posts; turnout hit 83.4%, Duterte allies won 5 Senate seats, and overseas online voting debuted.
2025 Philippine House of Representatives elections
The 12 May 2025 Philippine House of Representatives elections, part of the midterms, elected all 317 members; Marcos's Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas won a majority, Lakas-CMD took 103-104 seats, and turnout hit a record 81.65%.
2025 Philippine Senate election
2025 Philippine Senate election (May 12, 2025 midterm): 12 of 24 Senate seats filled; turnout 81.65%. Bong Go led; Marcos's Alyansa won 6 seats, DuterTEN 3, KiBam opposition upset in 2nd and 5th.
2025–26 Maharashtra local elections
2025–26 Maharashtra local elections: cycle of polls to 29 municipal corporations, 246 councils, 42 nagar panchayats, 32 zilla parishads and 336 panchayat samitis, held December 2025 to early 2026 after the OBC reservation litigation stall; Mahayuti won 207 of 288 council presidencies and the BJP 1,425 of 2,869 corporation seats.
2026 Azad Kashmiri general election
The 2026 Azad Kashmiri general election, held July 27 to August 10, 2026 in three phases for AJK's 45-seat Legislative Assembly, was won by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz amid JAAC protests and boycott over 12 refugee seats; Iftikhar Gillani became prime minister.
2026 Bangladeshi general election
The 2026 Bangladeshi general election (Jatiya Sangsad, 12 February 2026): BNP under Tarique Rahman won 210 of 300 seats, Jamaat-e-Islami second, Awami League banned, turnout 59.44%, July Charter referendum approved.
2026 Bangladeshi presidential election
The 2026 Bangladeshi presidential election, held 20 August 2026, elected BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir president with 255 votes to 88 for Jamaat's Oli Ahmed, the first contested presidential vote since October 1991, after Mohammed Shahabuddin's July 2026 resignation.
2026 Cavite's 4th congressional district special election
Special election held August 29, 2026 in Cavite's 4th legislative district (Dasmariñas City) to replace expelled Rep. Kiko Barzaga; his mother, Mayor Jenny Austria-Barzaga, won with 201,893 votes at 57.75% turnout.
2026 Greater Bengaluru Authority elections
First civic elections under Karnataka's Greater Bengaluru Authority: 369 wards across five corporations, Supreme Court-ordered for December 2026 after delays since the last 2015 BBMP polls and SIR electoral-roll revision.
2026 Gujarat local elections
2026 Gujarat local elections, April 26 local body polls won by BJP. BJP swept all 15 municipal corporations, 33 of 34 district panchayats, 78 of 84 municipalities; Congress second, AAP third; first polls after SIR.
2026 Johor state election
16th Johor state election (Pilihan Raya Negeri ke-16), held 11 July 2026: Barisan Nasional won 48 of 56 seats, Pakatan Harapan 8, Perikatan Nasional 0; turnout 69.57%.
2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
2026 Kerala Legislative Assembly election, held 9 April 2026 for all 140 seats; the Congress-led UDF won 92 seats (INC 63) and defeated the CPI(M)-led LDF (34), ending Left rule; V D Satheesan became chief minister.
2026 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election
2026 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election: civic polls for Kolkata's KMC, expected November 2026 after Durga Puja. Follows completed delimitation and the BJP's 2026 takeover of the West Bengal state government from the TMC.
2026 Malacca state election
16th Malacca state election (PRN Melaka ke-16), polling 14 November 2026 after the 15th assembly dissolved 23 September 2026; 28 seats, 687,697 voters, BN-PN alliance against PH, cost RM28.45 million.
2026 Myanmar presidential election
The 2026 Myanmar presidential election was the April 2026 indirect vote by the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw that made coup leader Min Aung Hlaing president, following the junta's three-phase December 2025 to January 2026 general election, which ASEAN and UN experts rejected as neither free nor fair.
2026 Negeri Sembilan state election
16th Negeri Sembilan state election (PRN N9 2026), held 1 August 2026 for 36 seats after a royal-institution crisis; BN-PN alliance won 25 seats, ousting Pakatan Harapan (11 seats) with 72.64% turnout among 889,490 voters.
2026 Nepalese general election
The 2026 Nepalese general election was a snap election held on 5 March 2026 to elect all 275 members of Nepal's House of Representatives after youth-led protests in 2025.
2026 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections
2026 Philippine Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE 2026), village and youth-council polls set for November 2, 2026, postponed by RA 12326 to November 13, 2028 with five-year terms, challenged before the Supreme Court.
2026 Pune Municipal Corporation election
The 2026 Pune Municipal Corporation election, held January 2026 after a nine-year gap since 2017, elected 165 councillors in 41 wards; a largely BJP versus NCP contest, with NCP factions' joint free public transport manifesto.