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2025 Polish presidential election
2025 Polish presidential election (wybory prezydenckie 2025): two-round election, 18 May and 1 June 2025, won by PiS-backed historian Karol Nawrocki with 50.89% over Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski (49.11%), succeeding Andrzej Duda on 6 August 2025.
2025 Portuguese legislative election
2025 Portuguese legislative election (18 May 2025): snap election, third in three years, after Montenegro lost a confidence vote. AD won 89 of 230 seats; Chega became second force with 60, PS fell to 58.
2025 Romanian presidential election
Repeat Romanian presidential election held 4 and 18 May 2025 after the Constitutional Court annulled the 2024 vote. Nicușor Dan beat George Simion 53.6 to 46.4 percent in the run-off and took office in June 2025.
2025 Runcorn and Helsby by-election
2025 Runcorn and Helsby by-election: UK parliamentary by-election of 1 May 2025 won by Sarah Pochin (Reform UK) by six votes over Labour's Karen Shore, triggered by Mike Amesbury's resignation after assault conviction; Reform's first by-election win.
2025 San Antonio mayoral election
2025 San Antonio mayoral election: 27 candidates, first open-seat race in 16 years after Ron Nirenberg's term limit; Gina Ortiz Jones defeated Rolando Pablos 54-46 in the June 7 runoff.
2025 Seattle mayoral election
2025 Seattle mayoral election: nonpartisan November 4, 2025 race in which organizer Katie Wilson defeated incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell by 2,011 votes; Wilson led the August primary and funded her campaign largely with Democracy Vouchers.
2025 South Korean presidential election
The 2025 South Korean presidential election (제21대 대통령선거), a snap election held June 3, 2025, after Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment over martial law; Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party won 49.42% of the vote.
2025 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
2025 Speaker election: on January 3, 2025, the 119th House reelected Mike Johnson (R-La.) as its 56th Speaker on the first ballot with the minimum 218 votes, after two Republican holdouts flipped and Trump intervened.
2025 Syrian parliamentary election
2025 Syrian parliamentary election, People's Assembly election of 5 October 2025, Syria's first since Assad's fall: indirect vote by electoral colleges for 140 of 210 seats, 70 president-appointed, excluded Sweida, Hasakah, Raqqa.
2025 Tanzanian general election
Tanzania's seventh multiparty general election, held 29 October 2025. President Samia Suluhu Hassan (CCM) was declared winner with 97.66% after CHADEMA boycotted; observers criticized turnout claims and unrest followed.
2025 Tasmanian state election
2025 Tasmanian state election, House of Assembly general election held 19 July 2025 under Hare-Clark; triggered by Dean Winter's no-confidence motion; returned hung parliament of 14 Liberal, 10 Labor, 5 Greens, 5 independents, 1 SFF; Jeremy Rockliff reappointed Premier 6 August 2025.
2025 Tennessee's 7th congressional district special election
December 2, 2025 special election in Tennessee's 7th congressional district; Republican Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn 53.9%-45% to replace resigned Rep. Mark Green, an 8.9-point margin in a Trump +22 district.
2025 Texas redistricting
Mid-decade 2025 redraw of Texas' 38 U.S. House districts (H.B. 4, PlanC2333), passed August 23, 2025, to flip up to five Democratic seats; blocked by a federal panel November 2025, then restored by a Supreme Court stay.
2025 United Kingdom local elections
The 2025 United Kingdom local elections were held in England on 1 May 2025, electing 1,637 councillors and six mayors, with Reform UK winning 677 seats and ten councils.
2025 United States elections
2025 United States elections: off-year contests on November 4, 2025, in which Democrats won the Virginia and New Jersey governorships (Spanberger, Sherrill), the New York City mayoralty (Mamdani), and a California redistricting measure, with above-normal off-year turnout.
2025 United States mayoral elections
The 2025 United States mayoral elections were contests for city mayor held across the US in 2025, including 27 of the 100 largest cities, with Zohran Mamdani winning New York City.
2025 United States state legislative elections
The 2025 United States state legislative elections covered New Jersey's 80 Assembly seats and Virginia's 100 House seats on November 4, 2025, plus special elections. Democrats expanded the Virginia House from 51 to 64 seats, held the New Jersey trifecta, and broke Republicans' Mississippi Senate supermajority, with an 18-seat net gain.
2025 Vancouver City Council by-election
2025 Vancouver City Council by-election, held April 5, 2025, filled two council seats vacated by Christine Boyle and Adriane Carr. Sean Orr (COPE) and Lucy Maloney (OneCity) won; turnout was 15.09 percent of 450,492 registered voters.
2025 Venezuelan parliamentary election
2025 Venezuelan parliamentary election, held 25 May 2025 alongside regional votes; the opposition boycotted after the disputed 2024 presidential election, and Maduro's PSUV-led coalition won 256 of 285 National Assembly seats and 23 of 24 governorships with 70–90% abstention.
2025 Virginia elections
2025 Virginia elections: November 4 contests in which Democrat Abigail Spanberger beat Winsome Earle-Sears for governor (57.58%-42.22%), becoming Virginia's first female governor, as Democrats swept lieutenant governor, attorney general, and expanded their House of Delegates majority to 64 seats.
2025 Virginia House of Delegates election
2025 Virginia House of Delegates election: all 100 House districts up November 4, 2025, after June 17 primaries; Democrats turned a narrow majority into their largest House majority since 1989 alongside Spanberger's 14.4-point gubernatorial win.
2025–2026 Massachusetts legislature
The 194th General Court, Massachusetts' 2025–2026 legislature: Democratic-dominated 200-member body that adopted its first joint rules since 2019, passed a $60.9 billion FY2026 budget, and fought the voter-approved legislative audit.
2025–26 Central African general election
The 2025–26 Central African general election (28 December 2025) combined presidential, legislative, regional, and first-since-1988 municipal ballots; Touadéra won a third term with 77.9% validated, amid an opposition BRDC boycott and fraud claims.
2025–26 Maharashtra local elections
2025–26 Maharashtra local elections: cycle of polls to 29 municipal corporations, 246 councils, 42 nagar panchayats, 32 zilla parishads and 336 panchayat samitis, held December 2025 to early 2026 after the OBC reservation litigation stall; Mahayuti won 207 of 288 council presidencies and the BJP 1,425 of 2,869 corporation seats.
2025–26 Republika Srpska presidential election
Early presidential election in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, held 23 November 2025 and completed by a repeat vote 8 February 2026 after annulment; SNSD's Siniša Karan defeated SDS's Branko Blanuša following Milorad Dodik's removal.
2025–26 Texas's 18th congressional district special election
Two-round special election in Houston's Texas 18th Congressional District to replace Sylvester Turner, who died March 5, 2025. Christian Menefee led the November 4, 2025 jungle primary at 28.9% and won the January 31, 2026 runoff against Amanda Edwards with about 68%.
2026 Abbotsford-Mission provincial by-election
2026 Abbotsford-Mission provincial by-election: BC by-election called August 29, 2026 after Conservative MLA Reann Gasper's resignation, scheduled for September 26, and cancelled September 22, 2026 when the October 24 general election was called; ballots cast did not count.
2026 Aberdeen South by-election
2026 Aberdeen South by-election, held 18 June 2026 after Stephen Flynn's resignation; Douglas Lumsden (Conservative) gained the seat from the SNP with 49.5% of the vote, a 6,050 majority and 38% turnout.
2026 Alabama elections
2026 Alabama elections: May 19 primary, June 16 runoff, August 11 special congressional primary, November 3 general. Tuberville vs Jones for governor and Senate; districts 1, 2, 6, 7 postponed over redistricting; all 140 legislative seats up.
2026 Alabama lieutenant gubernatorial election
2026 Alabama lieutenant gubernatorial election: open seat with term-limited Will Ainsworth retiring; Republican John Wahl beat Wes Allen in a June 16 runoff after Trump's January endorsement, facing Democrat Phillip Ensler November 3, 2026.