List Of Elections In 2023
The following elections are scheduled to occur in 2023. The National Democratic Institute also maintains calendar of elections around the world * 2023 United Nations Security Council election * 2023 national electoral calendar * 2023 local electoral calendar Africa * 2023 Djiboutian parliamentary election, 23 February * 2023 Nigerian general election, 25 February * 2023 Mauritanian parliamentary election, 13 and 27 May * 2023 Puntland municipal elections, 25 May * 2023 Guinea-Bissau legislative election, 4 June * 2023 Sierra Leonean general election, 24 June * 2023 Zimbabwean general election, 23 August * 2023 Gabonese general election, 26 August * 2023 Liberian general election, 10 October (first round) & 14 November (second round) * 2023 Malagasy presidential election, 16 November * 2023 Egyptian presidential election, 10-12 December * 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, 20-24 December Americas *Argentina ** 2023 Argentine provincial elections ** 2023 Argent ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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National Democratic Institute
The National Democratic Institute (NDI), or National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, is a non-profit American NGO that works with partners in developing countries to increase the effectiveness of democratic institutions. The NDI's core program areas include citizen participation, elections, debates, democratic governance, democracy and technology, political inclusion of marginalized groups, and gender, women and democracy, peace and security, political parties, and youth political participation. The organization's stated mission is to "support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability in government." The NDI was founded in 1983, shortly after the United States Congress created the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The NED's creation was followed by the establishment of three related institutes: the Center for International Private Enterprise, the National Democratic Institute for International ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2023 Argentine General Election
General elections are scheduled to be held in Argentina on 22 October 2023, to elect the president, vice president, members of the national congress and the governors of most provinces. Incumbent president Alberto Fernández, despite being eligible for a second term, has announced he will not seek reelection. Background In the 2019 general election, the Peronist, left-wing Frente de Todos ticket of Alberto Fernández, former Chief Cabinet, and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, National Senator and former president, defeated the center-right Juntos por el Cambio ticket of incumbent president Mauricio Macri and conservative Peronist National Senator Miguel Ángel Pichetto, exceeding the threshold to win the presidency in a single round. Macri became the first incumbent president in Argentine history to be defeated in his reelection bid. The first two years of the Fernández presidency was limited by the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina, during which he imposed strict lockdown mea ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2023 Ecuadorian General Election
Snap election, Snap general elections were held in Ecuador on 20 August 2023 to vote for President of Ecuador, members of the National Assembly (Ecuador), National Assembly and two referendums. Elections followed the invocation of , which 2023 Ecuadorian political crisis, dissolved the National Assembly (Ecuador), National Assembly on 17 May 2023. A run-off election was held on 15 October 2023 to elect the President after candidates were unable to reach the threshold needed to win in the first round. Incumbent president Guillermo Lasso was eligible for a second term, but he announced on 18 May that he would not stand for re-election in response to his impeachment. The officials electedto both the executive and legislative brancheswill serve out the remainder of the current presidential and legislative terms (2021–2025), starting on 25 November 2023. A regular election for a full four-year term is expected to follow in early 2025. 2023 Ecuadorian Yasuní National Park oil exploi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2023 Ecuadorian Local Elections
The 2023 Ecuadorian local elections were held on 5 February 2023, alongside the 2023 Ecuadorian constitutional referendum. These elections determined 23 prefects, 23 vice-prefects, 221 mayors, 868 urban councilors, 437 rural councilors, and 4,084 principal members of the parish councils. The previous elections were held in 2019. The results were widely hailed, alongside the rejection of all constitutional referendum questions, as a rebuke of President Guillermo Lasso, who had won the 2021 Ecuadorian general election. They were also seen as a major victory for leftist politician and former President Rafael Correa, whose Citizen Revolution Movement party won nearly every key race, including the mayoral races in both Quito and Guayaquil, with this last city having been a longtime stronghold of the right (and, most specifically, the Social Christian Party) until then. More generally, the local elections were held during an escalating wave of crime and violence across Ecuador, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2023 Trinidadian Local Elections
The 2023 Trinidadian local elections were held on Monday, August 14, 2023, across all 141 electoral districts in Trinidad's 14 municipal corporation electoral areas. The elections follow a 3-2 ruling on May 18, 2023, from the United Kingdom's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's highest court of appeal, which stated that the government's one-year extension of the mandate of councillors and alderman was unlawful. The matter was brought before the Law Lords of the Privy Council by Ravi Balgobin Maharaj, and his legal team led by Anand Ramlogan, SC. The legal action taken by Ravi Balgobin Maharaj was necessary after the PNM government decided to extend the election by one year, which the Privy Council ruled was inconsistent with the rule of Democracy. The judgement handed down to Ravi Balgobin Maharaj by the Law Lords was a landmark ruling in the Commonwealth and marks the first time that a Court upheld the rights of citizens to vote in a Loca ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2023 Guatemalan General Election
General elections were held in Guatemala on 25 June 2023 to elect the president and vice president, all 160 seats of the Congress, all 20 members of the Central American Parliament, and mayors and councils for all 340 municipalities in the country. Incumbent president Alejandro Giammattei was constitutionally prohibited from running for a second four-year term. As no presidential candidate obtained over 50% of the vote, a second round was scheduled between the top two finishers on 20 August. The official count of the general election by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal indicated that Sandra Torres from National Unity of Hope and Bernardo Arévalo from Semilla would contest the second round. However, the certification of the result by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal was delayed after the Constitutional Court of Guatemala granted an injunction to 10 parties that challenged the result. The court wants to compare the tallies in the electoral system with the tallies from the polling ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2023 Guyanese Local Elections
The 2023 Guyanese local elections, officially due since 2020, were held on Monday, June 12, 2023, following the latest delay of the officially biennial polls by three years due to lawsuits and vacanies at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) following the fallout and misconduct of the 2020 Guyanese general election and the COVID-19 pandemic. All 1,220 council seats within 610 constituencies across Guyana's 80 local authority areas (LAAs), comprising 70 neighbourhood democratic councils (NDCs) and 10 municipalities are being conteted. GECOM has stated that voting is not required in 291 constituencies in which the ruling People's Progressive Party/Civic, People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has won by acclamation due to no other candidates running against them. As a result the PPP/C has retained control and has won allseats in LAAs such as the NDCs of Leguan, La Jalousie/Nouvelle Flanders, Canals Polder, Little Diamond/Herstelling, Ordnance Fort Lands/ No. 38, Kintyre/No. 37 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2023 Mexican Gubernatorial Elections
The 2023 Mexican local elections, held on 4 June 2022, saw voters electing two governors for six-year terms and deputies for one state congress. In the gubernatorial elections, Morena (political party), Morena flipped one state, while the Institutional Revolutionary Party defended its gubernatorial seat. Notably, Delfina Gómez Álvarez () defeated Alejandra del Moral Vela () in the state of Mexico, ending 94 years of PRI rule in the state. Gubernatorial races summary State races Coahuila All 25 seats of the Congress of Coahuila were up for election, where 16 were elected through first-past-the-post voting and 9 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship was up for election. State of Mexico The governorship of the State of Mexico was up for election. References {{Mexican elections 2023 elections in Mexico Gubernatorial elections in Mexico June 2023 events in Mexico ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2023 Northwest Territories General Election
The 2023 Northwest Territories general election was held on November 14, 2023. Nineteen members were elected to the 20th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly. The Assembly is run on a consensus government system, in which all MLAs sit as independents and are not organized into political parties. Due to the Northwest Territories wildfire evacuations in August, territorial chief election officer, Stephen Dunbar, proposed delaying the election one month to November, due to the possibility that some residents of the territory may still be displaced from their homes during the currently scheduled campaign period.Carrie Tait and Alanna Smith"Wildfires could push Northwest Territories fall election back a month" ''The Globe and Mail'', August 21, 2023. Some cabinet ministers expressed support for his proposal, with the Assembly meeting on August 28 to debate rescheduling the election. The election was officially delayed from the original October 3 date to November 14, six weeks ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2023 Manitoba General Election
The 2023 Manitoba general election is scheduled to occur on October 3, 2023 to elect members to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. The incumbent Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba will attempt to win a third term in government, having won the 2016 and 2019 elections. On August 10, 2021, incumbent premier Brian Pallister announced that he will not seek re-election. Heather Stefanson was elected to succeed him. Legislature summary , - !rowspan="2" colspan="2", Party !rowspan="2", Leader !rowspan="2", !colspan="4", Seats !colspan="3", Popular vote , - !2019 ! !Next !+/- !Votes !% !+/- , align=left, Heather Stefanson , – , 21, , 36 , , , 36, , , , , , , , , , , align=left, Wab Kinew , – , 30, , 18 , , 18 , , , , , , , , , , , align=left, Dougald Lamont , – , 6, , 3 , , 3 , , , , , , , , , , , align=left, , – , , – , , – , , –, , –, , , , , , , align=left, Manitoba , align=left, Wayne Sturby , – ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2023 Alberta General Election
The 2023 Alberta general election is scheduled by law to be held on May 29, 2023 to elect the members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Election dates are fixed under Alberta's Election Act but that does not affect the powers of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta to specify a different day in accordance with provisions in the aforementioned Act, the Constitution of Canada and the usual conventions of the Westminster parliamentary system. Background In the 2019 general election, the United Conservative Party under the leadership of Jason Kenney defeated incumbent Premier Rachel Notley and her New Democratic Party. During the ensuing 30th Alberta Legislature the United Conservatives formed a majority government with Kenney as Premier. Notley and the NDP formed the Official Opposition. No other party won a seat even though the Alberta Party had received 9% of the vote. In preparation for the next general election, the government adopted the ''Election Statutes Amendment Act ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2023 Prince Edward Island General Election
The 67th Prince Edward Island general election is tentatively scheduled for 2 October 2023, as a result of the provincial fixed election-date legislation calling for a general election to be held prior to the first Monday of October in the fourth calendar year subsequent to the previous general election. The election may be held before the scheduled date if the Legislature is dissolved earlier by the province's lieutenant governor at the recommendation of the Premier of Prince Edward Island for a snap election. Timeline 2019 *23 April: General election held. The Progressive Conservative Party wins the most seats, while the incumbent Liberal Party fall to third place. The Green Party becomes the Opposition. *26 April: Outgoing Premier Wade MacLauchlan announces intention to resign leadership of the Liberal Party upon appointment of an interim leader. *8 May: Robert Mitchell is appointed interim Liberal leader. *9 May: Dennis King's Progressive Conservative government is sworn ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |