1926 Elections
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

The following elections occurred in the year 1926.


Africa

*
1926 Egyptian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 24 May 1926.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel (politician), Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) ''Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Erster Halbband'', p294 The result was a v ...
* 1926 Lagos by-election * 1926 Northern Rhodesian general election * 1926 South West African legislative election


Asia

* 1926 Hong Kong sanitary board election * 1926 Madras Presidency legislative council election * 1926 Persian legislative election


Europe

*
1926 Danish Folketing election Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 2 December 1926,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 except in the Faroe Islands where they were held on 20 December. The Social Democratic Party remaine ...
*
1926 Estonian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Estonia between 15 and 17 May 1926. Before the elections, the electoral law was changed to create more stability by introducing a system of bonds and raising the electoral threshold to require a party to win a ...
*
1926 Greek legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 7 November 1926. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p830 The Liberal Union emerged as the largest faction in Parliament with 108 of the 286 seats.Nohlen ...


United Kingdom

*
1926 Darlington by-election The 1926 Darlington by-election was a by-election held on 17 February 1926 for the British House of Commons constituency of Darlington in County Durham. Vacancy The seat had become vacant when the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (M ...
*
1926 Smethwick by-election The 1926 Smethwick by-election was a by-election held on 21 December 1926 for the British House of Commons constituency of Smethwick in Staffordshire (now in the West Midlands county). The by-election was caused by the resignation of the town's L ...


North America


Canada

*
1926 Canadian federal election The 1926 Canadian federal election was held on September 14, 1926, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 16th Parliament of Canada. The election was called after an event known as the King–Byng affair. In the 1925 feder ...
*
1926 Alberta general election The 1926 Alberta general election was held on June 28, 1926, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The United Farmers of Alberta government that had first been elected in 1921 was re-elected, taking a majority of the seats in t ...
* 1926 Edmonton municipal election * 1926 Ontario general election * 1926 Toronto municipal election


Central America

* 1926 Guatemalan presidential election * 1926 Honduran legislative election * 1926 Nicaraguan presidential election * 1926 Nicaraguan parliamentary election


United States

* 1926 California gubernatorial election * 1926 Minnesota gubernatorial election * 1926 New York state election * 1926 South Carolina gubernatorial election * 1926 United States House of Representatives elections ** United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1926 ** United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1926 *
1926 United States Senate elections The 1926 United States Senate elections were elections for the United States Senate that occurred in the middle of Republican President Calvin Coolidge's second term. The Republican majority was reduced by seven seats. Gains and losses Six Repu ...
** United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1926 ** United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 1926


Oceania


Australia

* 1926 Eden-Monaro by-election *
1926 Queensland state election Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 8 May 1926 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government was seeking its fifth continuous term in office since the 1915 election. William McCormac ...
* 1926 Australian referendum


New Zealand

* 1926 Eden by-election


South America

* 1926 Argentine legislative election * 1926 Brazilian presidential election


See also

* :1926 elections {{Electoral calendar navigation
1926 Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz. ** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of V ...
Elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ...