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2022 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election
August 16, 2022 ranked-choice special election for Alaska's sole U.S. House seat, triggered by Don Young's death; Mary Peltola beat Sarah Palin and Nick Begich, becoming the first Alaska Native in Congress.
2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine
September 2022 votes organized by Russia in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia to justify annexation; UN General Assembly condemned them 143-5 and declared the annexations illegal.
2022 Arizona elections
2022 Arizona elections: November 8, 2022 midterms in which Democrat Katie Hobbs beat Kari Lake for governor and Adrian Fontes beat Mark Finchem; marked by a delayed Maricopa County count, recounts, Cochise certification disputes, and sanctions against Lake's lawyers.
2022 Arizona gubernatorial election
2022 Arizona gubernatorial election: Democrat Katie Hobbs, secretary of state, defeated Republican Kari Lake on November 8, 2022, 50.18% to 49.51%, in a race defined by abortion, the economy, and 2020 election claims.
2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election
2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election (November 8, 2022): Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) defeated Chris Jones (D) and Ricky Dale Harrington Jr. (L) for the open seat of term-limited Asa Hutchinson; Sanders was sworn in January 10, 2023 as Arkansas's 47th governor and first woman in the office.
2022 Auckland mayoral election
2022 Auckland mayoral election, held 8 October 2022 within New Zealand local elections; Wayne Brown (Fix Auckland) beat Efeso Collins 181,810 to 124,802 votes after Phil Goff retired; turnout 35.5 percent.
2022 Australian federal election
2022 Australian federal election, held 21 May 2022: Labor under Anthony Albanese ended nine years of Coalition rule with 77 of 151 House seats, a record 16-member crossbench, six teal independents, and four Greens seats.
2022 Brazilian general election
2022 Brazilian general election (2 and 30 October 2022): Lula defeated incumbent Bolsonaro 50.90% to 49.10% in a runoff; 79.41% runoff turnout; TSE-administered electronic voting, OAS and Carter Center found the election fairly conducted.
2022 California gubernatorial election
2022 California gubernatorial election: November 8, 2022 general in which incumbent Governor Gavin Newsom won a second term against Republican Brian Dahle after surviving the 2021 recall; top-two primary June 7, 51% turnout, 87.52% mail ballots, certified December 16, 2022.
2022 Cardiff Council election
2022 Cardiff Council election, held 5 May 2022 for all 79 seats across 28 wards: Welsh Labour won 55 seats (39.1% turnout), Conservatives and Liberal Democrats 10 each, Plaid/Green/Common Ground 2, Propel 1, Ceidwadwyr Cymreig 1.
2022 Colombian presidential election
The 2022 Colombian presidential election (elecciones presidenciales de Colombia de 2022) elected Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first leftist president, over Rodolfo Hernández in a June 19, 2022 runoff, 50.42% to 47.35%.
2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election
2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election, triggered by Erin O'Toole's February 2022 ouster; Pierre Poilievre won September 10, 2022 with 68.15% of points on the first ballot, defeating Charest, Lewis, Baber, and Aitchison under a 338-riding points system.
2022 Danish general election
2022 Danish general election (Folketingsvalget 2022), snap vote on 1 November 2022 triggered by the mink cull affair; Social Democrats won 27.5% and 50 of 179 seats, producing the cross-bloc SVM coalition of Social Democrats, Venstre, and Moderates on 15 December 2022.
2022 Delhi Municipal Corporation election
The 2022 Delhi Municipal Corporation election, also called the MCD election 2022, was held for 250 wards of the unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi. AAP won 134 wards with 42.05% vote share, ending the BJP's 15-year rule; the BJP took 104 wards and 39.09%, Congress 9.
2022 Fijian general election
2022 Fijian general election (14 December 2022): third election under the 2013 Constitution, 55 seats, 68.3% turnout. FijiFirst (Bainimarama) won 26 of 55 seats; a PAP-NFP-SODELPA coalition made Rabuka prime minister.
2022 Florida gubernatorial election
2022 Florida gubernatorial election (November 8, 2022): incumbent Republican Ron DeSantis and Jeanette Nuñez defeated Democrats Charlie Crist and Karla Hernandez 59.4% to 40.0%, won Miami-Dade for the first Republican gubernatorial candidate since 2002, and were certified before the November 20 deadline.
2022 French legislative election
The 2022 French legislative election, held 12 and 19 June 2022, elected all 577 members of the Assemblée nationale and left Macron's coalition short of a majority.
2022 French presidential election
2022 French presidential election: two-round election, 10 and 24 April 2022, in which incumbent Emmanuel Macron beat Marine Le Pen 58.55% to 41.45%, becoming the first French president re-elected since 2002.
2022 Georgia gubernatorial election
2022 Georgia gubernatorial election, November 8, 2022; Republican incumbent Brian Kemp reelected over Democrat Stacey Abrams by 7.5 points in their rematch, after beating Trump-backed David Perdue in the primary.
2022 Georgia state elections
The 2022 Georgia state elections were a series of contests in Georgia, culminating in a December 6 U.S. Senate runoff that Raphael Warnock won over Herschel Walker.
2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election
2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election, held 14 February 2022, also called the Eighth Vidhan Sabha poll: BJP won 20 of 40 seats (33.31% votes), one short of majority, and retained power with MGP and independent support under Pramod Sawant; Congress won 11, AAP 2, TMC 0 despite a 5.21% vote share.
2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election
2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election: state election for all 182 Gujarat seats, held in two phases on 1 and 5 December 2022 with counting on 8 December; 92 seats needed for majority; BJP, Congress, and AAP contested.
2022 Hawaii gubernatorial election
2022 Hawaii gubernatorial election, held November 8, 2022: Democrat Josh Green beat Republican Duke Aiona 261,025 to 152,237 votes for the open seat left by term-limited Governor David Ige, with Sylvia Luke elected lieutenant governor.
2022 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
2022 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, the 14th Vidhan Sabha poll held 12 November 2022: Congress won 40 of 68 seats, defeating the incumbent BJP's Jai Ram Thakur government and continuing the state's anti-incumbency pattern.
2022 Hungarian parliamentary election
Hungarian parliamentary election held 3 April 2022 for the 199-seat National Assembly (Országgyűlés). Fidesz–KDNP won a fourth two-thirds supermajority with 135 seats and 54.13% of the list vote; United for Hungary took 57 seats; OSCE found no level playing field.
2022 Illinois gubernatorial election
2022 Illinois gubernatorial election, November 8, 2022: incumbent Democrat J.B. Pritzker defeated Republican state Senator Darren Bailey 54.9% to 42.4% (margin +12.5, 4,104,636 votes) after a $136 million primary in which Democrats boosted Bailey over Richard Irvin.
2022 Indian presidential election
The 2022 Indian presidential election (16th presidential election) elected Droupadi Murmu over Yashwant Sinha on 18 July 2022; she became India's 15th President, first from a Scheduled Tribe, sworn in 25 July 2022.
2022 Iowa State Auditor election
The 2022 Iowa State Auditor election: incumbent Democrat Rob Sand narrowly re-elected over Republican Todd Halbur, 600,719 to 597,826 votes, recounts in two counties, and Sand as the only Democrat to win statewide office that year.
2022 Israeli legislative election
The 2022 Israeli legislative election, held November 1, 2022, elected the 25th Knesset. Netanyahu's bloc of Likud, Religious Zionism, Shas, and United Torah Judaism won 64 of 120 seats after Meretz and Balad fell below the 3.25 percent threshold, restoring Netanyahu as prime minister on December 29, 2022.
2022 Italian general election
2022 Italian general election (elezioni politiche 2022): snap election of 25 September 2022 after Draghi's government fell; centre-right coalition won 237 of 400 Chamber seats, Brothers of Italy led with 26%, and Giorgia Meloni became Italy's first female Prime Minister.