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2023 Northern Ireland local elections
2023 Northern Ireland local elections, held 18 May 2023 by STV for 462 seats on 11 councils. Sinn Féin became largest party with 144 seats (30.9% first preferences), ahead of DUP (122) and Alliance (67), during the Stormont boycott.
2023 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections
2023 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE), held October 30, 2023 after the Supreme Court voided RA 11935's postponement of the December 2022 polls; featured first mall voting, an automation pilot, 19 election-related deaths, and about 70 percent turnout.
2023 Polish parliamentary election
Poland's 2023 parliamentary election, held 15 October 2023, elected the Sejm and Senat. PiS won the most votes (35.38%, 194 seats) but lost its majority; Tusk's opposition coalition took power in December 2023.
2023 Port Waikato by-election
2023 Port Waikato by-election, 25 November 2023 New Zealand electorate by-election triggered by the death of the ACT candidate; won by National's Andrew Bayly with 14,296 votes, a 11,432 majority, adding list MP Nancy Lu as the 123rd MP.
2023 Serbian parliamentary election
2023 Serbian parliamentary election, 17 December 2023 snap election for the 250-seat National Assembly; SNS-led "Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Must Not Stop" won 129 seats (46.75%), Serbia Against Violence 65; ODIHR and CRTA found unjust conditions and irregularities.
2023 Singaporean presidential election
The 2023 Singaporean presidential election, held 1 September 2023, elected Tharman Shanmugaratnam as ninth President with 70.41% of votes over Ng Kok Song (15.72%) and Tan Kin Lian (13.87%); first contested race since 2011.
2023 Slovak parliamentary election
Early election to Slovakia's 150-seat National Council on 30 September 2023; Smer-SD under Robert Fico won about 23%, and Smer-SD, Hlas, and SNS formed a 79-seat coalition government confirmed in November.
2023 Spanish general election
Snap Spanish general election of 23 July 2023 (Elecciones generales de España de 2023): PP under Feijóo won 137 of 350 Congress seats but Sánchez formed a PSOE-Sumar minority government, invested 179-171 in November 2023.
2023 Spanish local elections
Municipal elections held across Spain's 8,131 municipalities on 28 May 2023, alongside 12 regional contests. PP won 31.50% ahead of PSOE's 28.11%; turnout was 63.90%, the third lowest ever, triggering Sánchez's July snap election.
2023 Spanish regional elections
2023 Spanish regional elections (28M), held 28 May 2023 in 12 autonomous communities plus Ceuta and Melilla with municipal elections; the PP and Vox won, triggering the 23 July snap general election.
2023 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council election
2023 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council election: all-out election, 4 May 2023, all 63 seats of Stockport Council (21 wards). Liberal Democrats won but fell short of a majority; Conservatives lost every seat, first time off the council since 1973.
2023 Swiss federal election
2023 Swiss federal election (22 October 2023): parliamentary elections in which the SVP/UDC gained nine seats to 62, the SP reached 41, and the Green parties lost ground; turnout 46.6%; followed on 13 December by the Federal Council election, where Beat Jans replaced Alain Berset.
2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election
The 2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election (30 November polling, 3 December counting) elected 119 seats; the Congress won 64 seats (39.40%), ending BRS rule under K. Chandrashekar Rao, with Revanth Reddy becoming chief minister.
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%.
2023 Turkish general election
2023 Turkish general election: parliamentary vote and presidential election on 14 May 2023 with a 28 May run-off in Türkiye. Erdoğan (People's Alliance, AKP) defeated Kılıçdaroğlu (Nation Alliance) 52.2% to 47.8%; ODIHR found a competitive but uneven contest.
2023 Turkish parliamentary election
The 2023 Turkish parliamentary election, held 14 May 2023, elected all 600 Grand National Assembly seats under a new 7% threshold. Erdoğan's People's Alliance (AKP, MHP, YRP, BBP) kept its majority, reduced from 344 to about 322 seats, with 87.1% turnout.
2023 Turkish presidential election
2023 Turkish presidential election, held 14 May and 28 May 2023; incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan beat Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Turkey's first-ever presidential runoff after winning 49.52 percent in round one, with record 88.9 percent turnout and OSCE-criticized media bias.
2023 United Kingdom local elections
2023 UK local elections: held 4 May in 230 English councils and 18 May in Northern Ireland. Conservatives lost 1,063 seats; Labour and Sinn Fein became largest parties in local government; Green Party won Mid-Suffolk, its first council majority.
2023 United States elections
2023 United States elections: off-year contests held mainly November 7, 2023, with governor races in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, Virginia legislative elections, Ohio abortion and marijuana measures, and a Rhode Island congressional special election.
2023 United States gubernatorial elections
The 2023 US gubernatorial elections were three off-year contests in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, with incumbents Andy Beshear and Tate Reeves reelected and Jeff Landry winning Louisiana.
2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court election (April 4, 2023): Janet Protasiewicz beat Dan Kelly 55-44%, flipping the court to a 4-3 liberal majority for the first time since 2008, with record $51 million spending.
2024 Alaska Ballot Measure 2
2024 Alaska Ballot Measure 2, "An Act Restoring Political Party Primaries and Single-Choice General Elections," was a failed initiative to repeal Alaska's top-four open primary and ranked-choice voting system, losing by 743 votes after a recount.
2024 Azerbaijani presidential election
Early presidential election in Azerbaijan, 7 February 2024, in which Ilham Aliyev won 92.12% for a fifth term; first election held across the entire recognized territory; OSCE/ODIHR found no genuine pluralism and counting irregularities.
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 Brazilian municipal elections
Brazil's 2024 municipal elections (Eleições municipais de 2024) elected mayors, deputy mayors and councilors in 5,569 municipalities on October 6 and 27, 2024; the center and center-right, led by the PSD, won most mayoralties.
2024 California Proposition 3
2024 California Proposition 3, the Constitutional Right to Marriage amendment (ACA 5), removed the state constitution's man-woman marriage language from 2008's Proposition 8 and affirmed a fundamental right to marry regardless of sex or race; it passed November 5, 2024.
2024 Conservative Party leadership election
The 2024 Conservative Party leadership election (July-November 2024) replaced Rishi Sunak after the general election defeat. Six candidates ran; Kemi Badenoch beat Robert Jenrick with 56.5% of the members' vote on 2 November, becoming the first Black leader of a major UK party.
2024 Democratic Party presidential candidates
2024 Democratic presidential candidates: incumbent Joe Biden, challenged by Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson, faced an uncommitted protest vote, then withdrew July 21, 2024; Kamala Harris became the nominee with Tim Walz.
2024 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection
2024 Democratic vice presidential selection: Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on August 6, 2024, after a two-week vetting led by Eric Holder, over finalists Josh Shapiro and Mark Kelly; ticket later lost to Trump-Vance.