The following elections occurred in the year 1918. Many of these were disrupted by the

1918 Influenza Pandemic The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...

, and the First World War.

Europe

1918 Danish Folketing election Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 22 April 1918,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 the first in which women could vote. The result was a victory for Venstre, which won 45 of the 140 se ...

1918 Danish Landsting election Landsting (Denmark), Landsting elections were held in Denmark on 11 May 1918, with the exceptions that the seats elected by the resigning parliament were elected on 20 March 1918, the Faroese member was elected on 13 May, and the electors that ele ...

1918 Dutch general election General elections were held in the Netherlands on 3 July 1918.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1395 They were the first elections held after a series of reforms that introduced universal male suff ...

1918 Icelandic sovereignty referendum A referendum on the Act of Union with the Kingdom of Denmark was held in Iceland on 19 October 1918. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p961 Voters were asked whether they approved of the Act, which would lea ...

1918 Norwegian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 21 October 1918, with a second round between 4 and 11 November.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1438 The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, w ...

1918 Portuguese general election General elections were held in Portugal on 28 April 1918, following a coup by Sidónio Pais in December 1917.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1542 The elections were boycotted by the Democratic ...

1918 Romanian National Assembly election Elections for 680 of the 1,228 delegates to the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia took place in Transylvania and neighbouring regions of the Hungarian Democratic Republic inhabited by Romanians between November 20 and December 1, 1918. Called ...

1918 Ukrainian Constituent Assembly election Elections to the Ukrainian Constituent Assembly ( uk, Вибори до Українських Установчих Зборів) were never finished as a result of events in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the following. Organization There wer ...

1918 Estonian Constituent Assembly election Elections to the Estonian Constituent Assembly were held on 3–4 February 1918. In some electoral districts, the elections were postponed until 9–10 February. During the October revolution, the Bolsheviks also took power in parts of Estonia, ...

United Kingdom

1918 Banbury by-election The Banbury by-election, 1918 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Banbury, sometimes also referred to as North Oxfordshire' on 24 September 1918. The seat had become vacant upon the appointment of t ...

1918 Clapham by-election The 1918 Clapham by-election was a by-election held on 21 June 1918 for the British House of Commons constituency of Clapham in South London. The by-election was triggered by the elevation to the peerage of the serving Conservative Party Member of ...

1918 Elgin Burghs by-election The 1918 Elgin Burghs by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of the Elgin Burghs in the north-east of Scotland on 25 October 1918. Vacancy The by-election was caused by the death of the sitting Lib ...

1918 Finsbury East by-election The 1918 Finsbury East by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of East Finsbury in north London on 16 July 1918. Vacancy The by-election was caused by the death on 3 July 1918 of the sitting Liberal ...

1918 United Kingdom general election The 1918 United Kingdom general election was called immediately after the Armistice with Germany which ended the First World War, and was held on Saturday, 14 December 1918. The governing coalition, under Prime Minister David Lloyd George, sent ...

1918 Irish general election The 1918 Irish general election was the part of the 1918 United Kingdom general election which took place in Ireland. It is now seen as a key moment in modern Irish history because it saw the overwhelming defeat of the moderate nationalist Iris ...

* List of MPs elected in the 1918 United Kingdom general election *

1918 Manchester North East by-election The 1918 Manchester North East by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Manchester North East on 16 July 1918. Vacancy The by-election was caused by the appointment of the sitting Labour MP, J. ...

* 1918 Newcastle-upon-Tyne by-election *

January 1918 Prestwich by-election The January 1918 Prestwich by-election was a by-election held on 31 January 1918 for the British House of Commons constituency of Prestwich in Lancashire. Vacancy The election was caused by the elevation to the peerage of the sitting Liberal MP, ...

October 1918 Prestwich by-election The Prestwich by-election, 1918 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Prestwich on 28 October 1918. The seat had become vacant upon the death in action near Merville of the sitting Liberal MP, the H ...

1918 South Shields by-election This year is noted for the end of the World War I, First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Belo ...

1918 Wansbeck by-election The 1918 Wansbeck by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Wansbeck in Northumberland on 28 May 1918. Vacancy The by-election was caused by the death on 20 April 1918 of the sitting Liberal MP R ...

1918 Wilton by-election The 1918 Wilton by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Wilton in Wiltshire on 6 November 1918. The seat had become vacant when the Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Charles Bathurst ...

Americas

1918 Argentine legislative election The Argentine legislative elections of 1918 were held on 3 March. Voters chose their legislators and numerous governors, and with a turnout of 56.4%. Background President Hipólito Yrigoyen, elected in 1916 in the nation's first, free elections, ...

1918 Brazilian general election General elections were held in Brazil on 1 March 1918. Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p173 The presidential elections were won by former President Rodrigues Alves, who received 99.1% of the vote.Noh ...

* 1918 Nicaraguan parliamentary election

Canada

1918 Edmonton municipal election The 1918 municipal election was held December 9, 1918 to elect a mayor and six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council, three trustees to sit on the public school board, and four trustees to sit on the separate school board. There were ten alderm ...

1918 Toronto municipal election Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1918. Mayor Tommy Church was elected to his fourth consecutive term in office. Toronto mayor Church had first been elected mayor in 1915 and had been reelected every year sin ...

United States

1918 United States elections This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events ...

* United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1918 * 1918 California gubernatorial election *

1918 Minnesota gubernatorial election The 1918 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1918. The incumbent Republican Party of Minnesota governor J. A. A. Burnquist defeated Farmer–Labor Party challenger David H. Evans. This is the first gubernatorial election ...

1918 New York state election The 1918 New York state election was held on November 5, 1918, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the secretary state, the state comptroller, the attorney general, the state treasurer and the state engineer, as well as all members ...

* United States Senate special election in South Carolina, 1918 *

United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1918 The 1918 South Carolina United States Senate election was held on Tuesday, November 5, simultaneously with the special senate election to elect the United States Senator for a six-year term from South Carolina. Nathaniel B. Dial won the Demo ...

* United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1918 *

1918 South Carolina gubernatorial election The 1918 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1918, to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Robert Archer Cooper emerged from the crowded Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the one-party state's gener ...

1918 United States House of Representatives elections The 1918 United States House of Representatives elections were held November 5, 1918, which occurred in the middle of President Woodrow Wilson's second term. With the country in World War I (contrary to previous promises by Wilson), and Wilson's ...

1918 United States Senate elections The 1918 United States Senate elections were held throughout 1918, the midpoint of Woodrow Wilson's second term as President of the United States. Republicans gained a slim 2-seat control after picking up a net 6 seats (4 in general elections an ...

United States Senate

* United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1918 *

* United States Senate special election in South Carolina, 1918 *

Panama

* 1918 Panamanian parliamentary election * 1918 Panamanian presidential election

Oceania

Australia

1918 South Australian state election State elections were held in South Australia on 6 April 1918. All 46 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Union government led by Premier of South Australia Archibald Peake defeated the o ...

1918 Swan by-election The 1918 Swan by-election was a by-election for the Division of Swan in the Australian House of Representatives, following the death of the sitting member Sir John Forrest. Held on 26 October 1918, the by-election led to the election of the younges ...

New Zealand

1918 Grey by-election The Grey by-election of 1918 was a by-election during the 18th New Zealand Parliament. It was held on the 29 May 1918. The seat had become vacant due to the imprisonment of sitting member Paddy Webb who was jailed on the issue of his vocal oppo ...

1918 Palmerston by-election The Palmerston by-election of 1918 was a by-election held in the electorate during the 19th New Zealand Parliament, on 19 December 1918. The by-election was won by the sitting Mayor of Palmerston North, Jimmy Nash with a majority of 315. Backg ...

* 1918 Taranaki by-election *

1918 Wellington Central by-election The Wellington Central by-election of 1918 was a by-election held in the electorate during the 19th New Zealand Parliament, on 3 October 1918. It was caused by the death of incumbent MP Robert Fletcher (politician), Robert Fletcher of the New Ze ...

* 1918 Wellington North by-election *

1918 Wellington South by-election The Wellington South by-election of 1918 was a by-election held in the electorate during the 19th New Zealand Parliament, on 19 December 1918. It was caused by the death of incumbent MP Alfred Hindmarsh, the leader of the Labour Party and was ...