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2022 United States Senate elections
2022 United States Senate elections, held November 8, 2022, decided 35 seats (34 Class III plus one special). Democrats held the Senate; every incumbent won re-election, a first, and Pennsylvania was the only party flip.
2022 United States state legislative elections
2022 United States state legislative elections, held November 8, 2022: Democrats flipped four chambers (Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania) but Republicans kept 58 of 98 chambers; seat composition shifted under half a point.
2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
Seven-phase February-March 2022 election for Uttar Pradesh's 403-seat assembly; BJP under Yogi Adityanath won 255 seats, a second consecutive term, defeating Akhilesh Yadav's SP (111) and a collapsing BSP.
2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election
2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election: single-phase poll on 14 February 2022 for all 70 seats; BJP won 47 seats and retained power under Pushkar Singh Dhami, who lost Khatima and later entered via the Champawat by-election; Congress 19, BSP 2, independents 2.
2022 Victorian state election
2022 Victorian state election (26 November 2022): Labor under Daniel Andrews won a third majority term with 37.03% primary vote and 56 of 87 lower house seats; Greens took 4, Liberals 18, Nationals 9; crossbench stayed at 11 in the 40-seat Legislative Council.
2022 Wandsworth London Borough Council election
2022 Wandsworth London Borough Council election, held 5 May 2022: Labour won 35 of 58 seats to the Conservatives' 22 plus one Independent, taking control for the first time since 1978, with 41.24% turnout.
2022 Welsh local elections
2022 Welsh local elections, held 5 May 2022 across all 22 Welsh councils: Labour gained 54 seats to 526, Plaid Cymru took Ynys Môn, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, Conservatives fell 73 to 111 and lost Monmouthshire; turnout 38.7%.
2022 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
2022 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, November 8, 2022: incumbent Democrat Tony Evers and running mate Sara Rodriguez re-elected over Republican Tim Michels and Roger Roth by 3.4 points (~90,000 votes), with independent Joan Ellis Beglinger winning 26,920 votes; abortion and the 1849 ban dominated.
2023 Alberta general election
2023 Alberta general election, held May 29, 2023, Alberta's first fixed-date provincial election: UCP under Danielle Smith won 49 of 87 seats (52.6%) over Rachel Notley's NDP (38 seats, 44.0%), with 1,777,321 votes cast and record advance turnout.
2023 Argentine general election
2023 Argentine general election: three-stage presidential vote (PASO 13 August, first round 22 October, runoff 19 November 2023) won by libertarian Javier Milei of La Libertad Avanza, who beat incumbent economy minister Sergio Massa 55.65% to 44.35% in the runoff.
2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum
The 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum, held 14 October 2023, asked voters to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the Constitution; it failed with 39.94% Yes nationally and no state majority.
2023 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2023 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election was held on 4 May 2023 to elect all 60 councillors, ending with Labour largest and no overall control.
2023 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election
2023 Bracknell Forest Borough Council election, held 4 May 2023: all-out vote for 41 seats in 15 new wards. Labour gained from the Conservatives, winning 22 seats to 10 Con, 7 LD, 2 Green, taking control for the first time since 1997.
2023 Bulgarian parliamentary election
Bulgarian early parliamentary election of 2 April 2023, the fifth since 2021. GERB-SDS won 69 of 240 seats, PP-DB 64; turnout 40.6%; result was the Denkov-Gabriel GERB-PP-DB coalition cabinet of June 2023.
2023 Chicago mayoral election
2023 Chicago mayoral election: nine candidates, February 28 general and April 4 runoff. Brandon Johnson beat Paul Vallas 51.4 percent to become the city's 57th mayor; Lori Lightfoot became the first incumbent mayor to lose in 40 years.
2023 Cypriot presidential election
The 2023 Cypriot presidential election, held in two rounds on 5 and 12 February 2023, chose Nikos Christodoulides, who beat Andreas Mavroyiannis with 51.97 percent of the runoff vote.
2023 Dutch general election
2023 Dutch general election (Tweede Kamerverkiezing 2023): snap election of 22 November 2023 for the 150-seat House of Representatives after the Rutte IV cabinet fell over migration; Geert Wilders' PVV won 37 seats, leading to the 223-day formation of the Schoof cabinet.
2023 Ecuadorian general election
The 2023 Ecuadorian general election was an early presidential and legislative election held August 20, 2023, decided in a runoff won by Daniel Noboa over Luisa González.
2023 Ecuadorian referendum
The 2023 Ecuadorian referendum was a national vote held on 20 August 2023 in which about 59% of voters approved ending oil extraction in Block 43 of Yasuní National Park.
2023 Finnish parliamentary election
2023 Finnish parliamentary election (Eduskunta election, 2 April 2023): National Coalition Party won 20.8% and 48 seats, Finns Party second with 20.1%, ending Sanna Marin's SDP-led government; Petteri Orpo formed Finland's 77th, most right-wing government on 20 June 2023.
2023 Guatemalan general election
Guatemala's 2023 general election (June 25 and August 20, 2023) elected Bernardo Arévalo of Movimiento Semilla president over Sandra Torres, 58% to 37%, amid candidate exclusions, party suspensions, and raids on the electoral tribunal.
2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election
The 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election was held in Karnataka, India, on 10 May 2023, with the Indian National Congress winning a majority of 135 seats.
2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election
2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election, held November 7, 2023: Democratic incumbent Andy Beshear defeated Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron about 53% to 47% in a red state Trump carried by 25.9 points, after a record $70 million race centered on abortion.
2023 Louisiana gubernatorial election
2023 Louisiana gubernatorial election: jungle primary held October 14, 2023, in which Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry won outright with 51.56% over Democrat Shawn Wilson (25.93%), succeeding term-limited John Bel Edwards; inaugurated January 2024 as the 57th governor.
2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, held 17 November 2023: BJP won 163 of 230 seats (49.03%) for a fifth term under Shivraj Singh Chouhan's welfare-led campaign; Congress 66 (40.8%); turnout 77.82%.
2023 New South Wales state election
The 2023 New South Wales state election (25 March 2023) elected the 58th NSW Parliament: Labor under Chris Minns won 45 of 93 Assembly seats on 54.3% two-party preferred, ending 12 years of Coalition government under Dominic Perrottet.
2023 New Zealand general election
The 2023 New Zealand general election (14 October 2023) elected the 54th Parliament under MMP. National won 38.06% and 48 seats, Labour 26.91% and 34; a National-ACT-NZ First coalition under Christopher Luxon formed on 27 November 2023.
2023 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election
2023 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election: caucus vote of 22 January 2023 replacing Jacinda Ardern; sole candidate Chris Hipkins won unanimous backing and became the 41st Prime Minister on 25 January, with Carmel Sepuloni as deputy, and was endorsed again after Labour's October election defeat.
2023 Nigerian general election
The 2023 Nigerian general election: presidential, National Assembly, governorship, and state assembly polls held February-April 2023 under the Electoral Act 2022. Bola Tinubu (APC) won the presidency on 25 February voting, declared 1 March, with 93.4 million registered voters, BVAS/IReV technology, contested IReV failures, and Supreme Court confirmation in October 2023.
2023 Nigerian presidential election
The 2023 Nigerian presidential election was held on 25 February 2023, with Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress declared winner ahead of Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi.