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2011 South Sudanese independence referendum
The January 2011 Southern Sudan self-determination referendum, held under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, saw 98.83% of valid votes for secession on 97.58% turnout, leading to South Sudan's independence on 9 July 2011.
2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election
The 2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, also called the 14th Tamil Nadu Assembly election, saw Jayalalithaa's AIADMK win 150 of 234 seats on 38.4% of the vote, reducing the incumbent DMK to 23 seats amid the 2G spectrum scandal, with the DMDK becoming the official opposition.
2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum
2011 UK Alternative Vote referendum: 5 May 2011 UK-wide vote on replacing first past the post with AV; rejected 67.9% No to 32.1% Yes, 42.0% turnout, No majority in every region; AV provisions repealed; last UK-wide referendum before the 2016 EU vote.
2011 United Nations Security Council election
The 2011 United Nations Security Council election elected Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan, Togo, and Azerbaijan to two-year terms from 2012, with Azerbaijan's Eastern European seat requiring 17 rounds of voting.
2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election
The 2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election elected the People's Assembly in three stages from 28 November 2011; the FJP won 235 seats, Al-Nur 123, and the Islamist-majority house was dissolved in June 2012.
2012 East Timorese elections
The 2012 East Timorese elections in Timor-Leste comprised a presidential election won by Taur Matan Ruak in April and a July parliamentary election won by Gusmão's CNRT.
2012 French presidential election
The 2012 French presidential election (22 April and 6 May 2012) saw Socialist François Hollande defeat incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy 51.64% to 48.36% in the runoff, after leading the first round over Sarkozy, Marine Le Pen, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
2012 Maine Question 1
2012 Maine Question 1, a Maine citizen initiative on the November 6, 2012 ballot, asked voters to allow the state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, with a religious exemption, making Maine the first state to approve same-sex marriage by referendum.
2012 Mexican general election
The 2012 Mexican general election was a federal election held on July 1, 2012, in which PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto won the presidency with 38.2% of the vote.
2012 Republican Party presidential primaries
2012 Republican presidential primaries: Mitt Romney won the GOP nomination over Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul; Iowa caucuses January 3, 2012, Santorum won Iowa, Gingrich won South Carolina, Romney swept later states.
2012 Russian presidential election
The 2012 Russian presidential election (4 March 2012) returned Vladimir Putin to the presidency with 63.6 percent of the vote against Zyuganov, Prokhorov, Zhirinovsky, and Mironov; OSCE observers found the campaign skewed and counting flawed.
2012 Somali presidential election
The 2012 Somali presidential election was an indirect election held in Mogadishu on 10 September 2012, in which the new Federal Parliament chose Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as president.
2012 United States House of Representatives elections
2012 U.S. House elections, held November 6, 2012: Republicans kept a 234-201 majority despite Democrats winning the national House vote by about 1.37 million, a vote-seat gap driven by 2010-cycle redistricting and voter geography.
2012 United States presidential election
The 2012 United States presidential election, held on November 6, 2012, was won by President Barack Obama, a Democrat, who defeated Republican Mitt Romney 332 to 206 electoral votes.
2012 United States presidential election in Florida
Obama narrowly won Florida's 29 electoral votes in 2012, defeating Romney by 74,309 votes out of 8,474,179; the Cuban vote split 49-47 while Puerto Rican growth in central Florida boosted Obama's Hispanic support.
2012 United States presidential election in Ohio
Obama narrowly won Ohio's 18 electoral votes in 2012, defeating Romney 50.58% to 47.60% (margin 166,272 votes) after one of the most intensively campaigned battleground contests, with heavy early voting litigation and strong black voter support.
2012 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
2012 US presidential election in Pennsylvania: Obama-Biden (Democratic) beat Romney-Ryan, 2,990,274 to 2,680,434 votes, winning all 20 electoral votes by a 309,840-vote margin on November 6, 2012.
2012 United States presidential election in Texas
2012 US presidential election in Texas: Romney/Ryan (Republican) won November 6, 2012 with 4,569,843 votes over Obama/Biden's 3,308,124, taking all 38 electoral votes; primaries were May 29, 2012.
2012 United States Senate election in Texas
2012 Texas U.S. Senate election: Ted Cruz (R) beat Democrat Paul Sadler 56.46% to 40.62% for Kay Bailey Hutchison's open seat, after upsetting Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the Republican runoff, becoming the first Hispanic senator from Texas.
2012 United States Senate elections
2012 United States Senate elections, held November 6, 2012, elected 33 seats; Democrats held the chamber with 53 Democrats, 45 Republicans, and 2 independents, a 55-seat caucus majority.
2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
The 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, held in February and March 2012, chose all 403 members of the state's Sixteenth Vidhan Sabha, with the Samajwadi Party winning a majority.
2013 Australian federal election
The 2013 Australian federal election, held 7 September 2013, gave Tony Abbott's Liberal/National Coalition 90 of 150 House seats over Labor, ended the 2010–13 hung parliament, and produced a crossbench-heavy Senate including the new Palmer United Party.
2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election
2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election (4 December 2013): hung 70-seat assembly vote ending 15 years of Congress rule; debut AAP won 28 seats, Congress fell to 8, Kejriwal beat Sheila Dikshit, and a 49-day minority AAP government followed.
2013 Falkland Islands sovereignty referendum
The 2013 Falkland Islands sovereignty referendum, held 10-11 March 2013, asked voters whether to retain British Overseas Territory status; 99.8% voted Yes (1,513 to 3) on 92% turnout of a 1,650-strong electorate. Argentina rejected the result; the UK called it definitive self-determination.
2013 German federal election
2013 German federal election (Bundestagswahl 2013), 22 September 2013: Merkel's CDU/CSU won 41.5%, FDP fell below 5% for the first time, AfD debuted at 4.7%, leading to a CDU/CSU-SPD grand coalition.
2013 New York City mayoral election
The 2013 New York City mayoral election was held on November 5, 2013 to succeed Michael Bloomberg, the first open mayoral race in more than a decade.
2013 papal conclave
The 2013 papal conclave, held 12–13 March 2013 in the Sistine Chapel after Benedict XVI's resignation, elected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires as Pope Francis, the 266th pope, on the fifth ballot with 85 of 115 electors' votes.
2013 United Nations Security Council election
2013 UN Security Council election: General Assembly vote of 17 October 2013 electing Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia for 2014-2015; Saudi Arabia then refused the seat, and Jordan was elected on 6 December.
2013 Zimbabwean constitutional referendum
The 2013 Zimbabwean constitutional referendum was a national vote held on 16 March 2013 in which Zimbabweans overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, replacing the independence-era Lancaster House Constitution.
2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
The 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, held 30 April and 7 May 2014 after the state's bifurcation, elected 175 seats; the TDP-BJP alliance won 106 seats under N. Chandrababu Naidu, YSRCP took 67, and Congress was wiped out.