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2024 Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden
Donald Trump's October 27, 2024 presidential campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, New York City, nine days before the election; marked by Tony Hinchcliffe's 'floating island of garbage' Puerto Rico joke and comparisons to the 1939 German-American Bund Nazi rally at the same venue.
2024 European Parliament election
The 2024 European Parliament election, held 6-9 June 2024 across 27 EU states, elected 720 MEPs; the EPP led with 188 seats, far-right parties won 178 seats, and turnout was 50.74%.
2024 European Parliament election in Germany
2024 European Parliament election in Germany (Europawahl 2024), held 9 June 2024: CDU/CSU won 30.0% and 29 of 96 seats, AfD second at 15.9%, turnout 64.7%, BSW entered with 6 seats, SPD and Greens fell sharply.
2024 European Parliament election in Greece
The 2024 European Parliament election in Greece (9 June 2024) elected 21 MEPs. New Democracy won 28.31% and 7 seats, SYRIZA took 14.92%, turnout fell to 41.24%, and three far-right parties gained seats.
2024 European Parliament election in Italy
Italian election of 8-9 June 2024 for 76 European Parliament seats; Fratelli d'Italia won 28.75% and 24 ECR seats, PD took 21, turnout fell to 48.31%, and Lega collapsed from 34% to 9%.
2024 European Parliament election in Spain
The 2024 European Parliament election in Spain (9 June 2024) elected 61 MEPs: PP won 34.21% (22 EPP seats), PSOE 30.19%, Vox 9.63%, newcomer SALF 4.58%; turnout 46.39%, below the EU's 50.74%.
2024 Florida Amendment 4
2024 Florida Amendment 4, the Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion, was a citizen initiative protecting abortion before viability; it won about 57% of the vote, short of Florida's 60% requirement, and failed.
2024 Georgian presidential election
2024 Georgian presidential election (14 December 2024), Georgia's first indirect presidential vote, won by sole candidate Mikheil Kavelashvili via a 300-member electoral college controlled by Georgian Dream; inauguration contested amid protests.
2024 Ghanaian general election
Ghanaian general election of 7 December 2024, also called the 2024 general elections: Mahama (NDC) beat Bawumia (NPP) 56.55% to 41.61%, NDC took 183 of 276 seats, amid an economic crisis.
2024 Icelandic presidential election
The 2024 Icelandic presidential election, held 1 June 2024, elected Halla Tómasdóttir as Iceland's seventh president (second woman) with 34.1% of valid votes over Katrín Jakobsdóttir (25.2%) among twelve candidates; turnout 80.8%.
2024 in the United States
2024 in the United States: the November 5 election year in which Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris (312 electoral votes, 77,266,801 popular votes), Republicans took federal control, 11 governorships were elected with none flipping, and voters decided 150 statewide ballot measures including 11 abortion measures.
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 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses
2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, held January 15, 2024: first 2024 GOP nominating contest. Donald Trump won 51.0% (56,243 of 110,272 votes), a record 30-point margin over Ron DeSantis (21.3%), with Nikki Haley third at 19.1%; Trump took 20 of 40 delegates.
2024 Iranian presidential election
The 2024 Iranian presidential election (انتخابات ریاستجمهوری), a snap election on June 28 and July 5, 2024, after Raisi's death in a helicopter crash; reformist Masoud Pezeshkian beat hardliner Saeed Jalili with 53.66% in a runoff at 49.8% turnout.
2024 Joe Biden–Donald Trump presidential debate
The 2024 Biden–Trump debate (June 27, 2024, CNN, Atlanta) was the earliest general-election presidential debate ever and the first between a sitting and a former president; Biden's weak performance preceded his withdrawal.
2024 Jordanian general election
Jordanian parliamentary election of 10 September 2024, also called the 20th House of Representatives election. First under the 2022 party-list law; turnout 32.25%; Islamic Action Front won 31 of 138 seats, its best result since 1989.
2024 Liberal Democratic Party presidential election
The 2024 LDP presidential election (自民党総裁選), held September 27, 2024, chose Shigeru Ishiba over Sanae Takaichi in a 215-194 runoff among a record nine candidates, succeeding Kishida and leading to the October 1 premiership.
2024 London mayoral election
2024 London mayoral election, held 2 May 2024 under first past the post for the first time; Labour's Sadiq Khan won a record third term with 1,088,225 votes (43.8%), beating Conservative Susan Hall (812,397) amid 40.5% turnout.
2024 Mexican general election
The 2024 Mexican general election was held on June 2, 2024, electing 20,708 officials, including Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first woman president, with about 59 percent of the vote.
2024 Michigan House of Representatives election
2024 Michigan House of Representatives election: all 110 state House seats contested November 5, 2024; Republicans won 58-52, ending the Democratic trifecta, in a record $67 million campaign and record 5.7 million-vote turnout.
2024 Missouri Amendment 3
2024 Missouri Amendment 3, the Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment, a citizen initiative passed November 5, 2024, added Article I, Section 36 to the Missouri Constitution, removing the state's abortion ban and protecting abortion until fetal viability.
2024 Moldovan European Union membership constitutional referendum
Binding referendum of 20 October 2024, held with the presidential first round, approving a Moldovan constitutional amendment declaring EU integration a strategic objective; Yes won 50.39% to 49.61%, confirmed by the Constitutional Court on 31 October 2024 amid Russian interference.
2024 New Hampshire House of Representatives election
The 2024 New Hampshire House of Representatives election elected all 400 members on November 5, 2024, with Republicans expanding their majority to 222 seats over 178 for Democrats.
2024 New York's 3rd congressional district special election
The 2024 New York's 3rd congressional district special election was a February 13, 2024 contest to replace the expelled George Santos, won by Democrat Tom Suozzi over Republican Mazi Pilip.
2024 North Carolina gubernatorial election
2024 North Carolina gubernatorial election: Democrat Josh Stein defeated Republican Mark Robinson 54.90% to 40.08% on November 5, 2024, while Trump carried the state for president; certified 5-0 on November 26, 2024.
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 Polish local elections
Polish local elections of 7 and 21 April 2024 (wybory samorządowe 2024), electing voivodeship assemblies, county and municipal councils, and 2,477 mayors; PiS led the vote at 34.27% but the Tusk coalition governed most of the 16 regions.
2024 Puerto Rican general election
The 2024 Puerto Rican general election was held on November 5, 2024, choosing the governor, Resident Commissioner, legislature, and mayors, alongside a nonbinding status plebiscite.