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The following elections occurred in the year 1928.


Africa

* 1928 Southern Rhodesian general election


Asia

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1928 Japanese general election General elections were held in Japan on 20 February 1928,Thomas T Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) ''The International Almanac of Electoral History'', Macmillan, p281 the first after the introduction of universal male suffrage. The ruling Rikken Sei ...
* 1928 Persian legislative election *
1928 Philippine House of Representatives elections Elections for the members of the House of Representatives were held on June 5, 1928 pursuant to the Philippine Organic Act of 1902 which prescribed elections for every three years. The ruling Nacionalista Consolidado retained their majority in ...
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1928 Philippine Senate elections Legislative elections happened on June 5, 1928, in the Philippines under the Jones Law provisions. Electoral system In a staggered election, the seats of the senators who were first disputed in 1922 were up for election. The Philippines is d ...
* 1928 Philippine legislative election


Europe

* 1928 Danish Landsting election *
1928 French legislative election Legislative elections in France to elect the 14th legislature of the French Third Republic were held on 22 and 29 April 1928. These elections saw the restoration of the two-round system that had been abolished in 1919. The result was a victor ...
* 1928 German federal election *
1928 Greek legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 19 August 1928.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p829 The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 178 of the 250 seats.Nohlen & Stöver, p8 ...
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1928 Swedish general election General elections were held in Sweden between 15 and 21 September 1928. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1858 The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 90 of the 230 seats i ...
* 1928 Luxembourgian legislative election * 1928 Norwegian local elections * 1928 Polish legislative election * 1928 Swiss federal election


United Kingdom

* 1928 Ashton-under-Lyne by-election * 1928 Carmarthen by-election * 1928 Cheltenham by-election * 1928 Halifax by-election * 1928 Lancaster by-election *
1928 Middlesbrough West by-election The 1928 Middlesbrough West by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Middlesbrough West (UK Parliament constituency), Middlesbrough West on 7 March 1928. Vacancy The by-election was caused ...
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1928 St Ives by-election The 1928 St Ives by-election was a by-election held on 6 March 1928 for the British House of Commons constituency of St Ives in Cornwall. Vacancy The by-election was caused by the resignation of the sitting Unionist Party Member of Parliamen ...


United Kingdom local


=English local

= * 1928 Southwark Borough election


North America


Canada

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1928 British Columbia general election The 1928 British Columbia general election was the seventeenth general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on June 7, 1928, and ...
* 1928 Edmonton municipal election * 1928 Newfoundland general election *
1928 Nova Scotia general election The 1928 Nova Scotia general election was held on 1 October 1928 to elect members of the 39th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal-Conservative party. Results Results by party Retiring incumbe ...
* 1928 Sudbury municipal election *
1928 Toronto municipal election Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1928. Sam McBride was elected mayor, defeating incumbent Thomas Foster by a wide margin. Toronto mayor Thomas Foster had first been elected to city council in 1891 and was ...
* 1928 Yukon general election


United States

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1928 United States presidential election The 1928 United States presidential election was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928. Republican Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover defeated the Democratic nominee, Governor Al Smith of New York. After ...
* United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1928 * 1928 Louisiana gubernatorial election * 1928 Minnesota gubernatorial election *
1928 New York state election The 1928 New York state elections were held on November 6, 1928, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the state comptroller, the attorney general, a U.S. Senator and a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all member ...
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Pineapple Primary The Pineapple Primary was the name given to the primary election held in Illinois on April 10, 1928. The campaign was marked by numerous acts of violence, mostly in Chicago and elsewhere in Cook County. In the six months prior to the primary ele ...
* United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1928 * 1928 United States House of Representatives elections


United States Senate

* 1928 United States Senate elections * United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1928


South America

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1928 Argentine general election The Argentine general election of 1928 was held on 1 April, with a turnout of 80.9%. Background Former President Hipólito Yrigoyen's differences with his successor and erstwhile ally, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, persuaded him to campaign for t ...
* 1928 Honduran general election * 1928 Nicaraguan general election * 1928 Panamanian general election * 1928 Salvadoran legislative election


Oceania


Australia

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1928 Australian federal election The 1928 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 17 November 1928. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Nationalist–Country coalition, led by Prime M ...
* 1928 Australian referendum *
1928 Tasmanian state election The 1928 Tasmanian state election was held on Wednesday, 30 May 1928 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 30 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The election used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system1928 New Zealand general election The 1928 New Zealand general election was held on 13 and 14 November in the Māori and European electorates, respectively, to elect 80 MPs to the 23rd session of the New Zealand Parliament. 1928 was the year postal voting was introduced for ce ...


See also

* :1928 elections {{Electoral calendar navigation
1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...
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 ...