The following elections occurred in the year 2014. * 2014 United Nations Security Council election 16 October 2014

Africa

2014 Algerian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Algeria on 17 April 2014. Incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was re-elected with 82% of the vote. Issues in the campaign included a desire for domestic stability after the bloody civil war of the 1990s, t ...

17 April 2014 *

2014 Botswana general election General elections were held in Botswana on 24 October 2014. The result was an eleventh straight victory for the Botswana Democratic Party, which won 37 of the 57 elected seats. Incumbent President Ian Khama was sworn in for a second term on 28 O ...

24 October 2014 * 2014 Comorian presidential election 21 February and 10 April 2014 *

2014 Egyptian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Egypt between 26 and 28 May 2014. There were only two candidates, former Egyptian List of Ministers of Defence of Egypt, defence minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Egyptian Popular Current candidate Hamdeen Sab ...

26–28 May 2014 *

2014 Egyptian constitutional referendum A constitutional referendum was held in Egypt on 14 and 15 January 2014 and with Egyptians abroad voting between 8 and 12 January. The new constitution was approved by 98.1% of voters. Turnout was 38.6%. Background President Mohamad Morsi was ...

14–15 January 2014 *

2014 Guinea-Bissau general election General elections were held in Guinea-Bissau on 13 April 2014, with a second round for the presidential elections held on 18 May since no candidate received a majority in the first round. Several logistic problems and delays caused the elections t ...

13 April and 18 May 2014 * 2014 Libyan Constitutional Assembly election 20 February 2014 *

2014 Malawian general election General elections were held in Malawi on 20 May 2014. They were Malawi's first tripartite elections, the first time the president, National Assembly and local councillors were elected on the same day.2014 Mauritanian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Mauritania on 21 June 2014, with a second round planned for 5 July if no candidate received more than 50% of the vote. The result was a first round victory for incumbent President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of t ...

21 June 2014 * 2014 Mozambican general election 15 October 2014 * 2014 Namibian general election 28 November 2014 *

2014 São Tomé and Príncipe legislative election Fourteen or 14 may refer to: * 14 (number), the natural number following 13 and preceding 15 * one of the years 14 BC, AD 14, 1914, 2014 Music * 14th (band), a British electronic music duo * ''14'' (David Garrett album), 2013 *''14'', an unrele ...

12 October 2014 *

2014 South African general election General elections were held in South Africa on 7 May 2014, to elect a new National Assembly and new provincial legislatures in each province. It was the fifth election held in South Africa under conditions of universal adult suffrage since ...

7 May 2014 *

2014 Tunisian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Tunisia on 26 October 2014. Campaigning started on 4 October 2014. They were the first free regular legislative elections since independence in 1956, and the first elections held following the adoption of the n ...

26 October 2014 *

2014 Tunisian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Tunisia on 23 November 2014, a month after parliamentary elections. They were the first free and fair presidential elections since the country gained independence in 1956, and the first direct presidential ele ...

23 November and 21 December 2014

Asia

2014 Afghan presidential election Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan on 5 April 2014, with a second round held on 14 June. Incumbent President Hamid Karzai was not eligible to run due to term limits. The registration period for presidential nominations was open from ...

5 April and 14 June 2014 *

2014 Bangladeshi general election General elections were held in Bangladesh on 5 January 2014, in accordance with the constitutional requirement that elections must take place within the 90-day period before the expiration of the term of the Jatiya Sangshad on 24 January 2014. ...

5 January 2014 *

2014 Indonesian legislative election Legislative elections were held in Indonesia on 9 April 2014 to elect 136 members of the Regional Representative Council (DPD), 560 members of the People's Representative Council (DPR) and members of regional assemblies at the provincial and rege ...

9 April 2014 * 2014 Indonesian presidential election 9 July 2014 * 2014 Indian general election 7 April to 12 May 2014 * 2014 North Korean parliamentary election 9 March 2014 * 2014 Taiwanese municipal elections 29 November 2014 *

2014 South Korean local elections The 6th local elections were held in South Korea on 4 June 2014. Provincial level elections Metropolitan mayoral and gubernatorial elections Metropolitan mayoral election winners Gubernatorial election winners Provincial legislative elections ...

4 June 2014 *

2014 Syrian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Syria on 3 June 2014. There is a scholarly consensus that the elections were not democratic. The result was a landslide victory for Bashar al-Assad, who received over 90% of the valid votes. He was sworn in ...

3 June 2014

Europe

* 2014 Belgian federal election 25 May 2014 * 2014 Belgian regional elections 25 May 2014 *

2014 Bosnian general election General elections were held in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 12 October 2014. They decided the makeup of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Presidency as well as national, entity, and cantonal governments. Voter turnout was 54.4%. The elections for the House ...

12 October 2014 * 2014 Bulgarian parliamentary election 5 October 2014 * 2014 Czech Senate election 10-11 and 17–18 October 2014 * 2014 Czech municipal elections 10–11 October 2014 *

2014 Dutch municipal elections The Dutch municipal elections of 2014 were held on 19 March in most municipalities in the Netherlands. This election determines the composition of the municipal councils for the following four years. Background Municipal elections are, unle ...

19 March 2014 *

2014 French Senate election The 2014 French senate election was held on 28 September 2014 and featured results which saw the senate being reclaimed by the centre-right party Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). The right-wing conservative victory reversed the results which ...

28 September 2014 * 2014 Georgian local elections 15 June 2014 *

2014 Hungarian parliamentary election The 2014 Hungarian parliamentary election took place on 6 April 2014. This parliamentary election was the 7th since the 1990 first multi-party election. The result was a victory for the Fidesz–KDNP alliance, preserving its two-thirds majority, ...

6 April 2014 *

2014 Lithuanian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Lithuania on 11 May 2014, with a second round held on 25 May between the top two candidates from the first round. In the second round, incumbent President Dalia Grybauskaitė was re-elected with 58% of the vote ...

11 and 25 May 2014 * 2014 Moldovan parliamentary election 30 November 2014 *

2014 Romanian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Romania in 2014. In the first round on 2 November, the top two of the fourteen candidates qualified in a run-off on 16 November. Victor Ponta, Prime Minister and leader of the Social Democratic Party won around ...

2 and 16 November 2014 *

2014 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 16 March 2014, with nineteen electoral lists competing for 250 members of the National Assembly. The election was called early, after tensions in the coalition led by the ruling Serbian Progressive P ...

16 March 2014 *

2014 Slovak presidential election Presidential elections were held in Slovakia on 15 March 2014, with a second round on 29 March 2014. After a first round, in which no candidate secured majority, Robert Fico and Andrej Kiska qualified to second round. On 29 March 2014, Kiska won t ...

15 and 29 March 2014 *

2014 Swedish general election General elections were held in Sweden on 14 September 2014 to elect all 349 seats in the Riksdag, alongside elections for the 21 county councils, and 290 municipal assemblies. The centre-right Alliance for Sweden coalition (comprising the Mode ...

14 September 2014 *

2014 Turkish local elections Local elections (formal: local authority general elections, Turkish: ''Mahalli İdareler Genel Seçimi'' or simply ''Yerel Seçimleri'') were held in Turkey on 30 March 2014, with some repeated on 1 June 2014. Metropolitan and district mayors as ...

30 March and 1 June 2014 *

2014 United Kingdom local elections Fourteen or 14 may refer to: * 14 (number), the natural number following 13 and preceding 15 * one of the years 14 BC, AD 14, 1914, 2014 Music * 14th (band), a British electronic music duo * ''14'' (David Garrett album), 2013 *''14'', an unre ...

22 May 2014 *

2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Verkhovna Rada took place on 26 October 2014. Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election in May.2014 Ukrainian presidential election 25 May 2014 *

2014 Kyiv local election Local elections in Kyiv for the post of Mayor and members of Kyiv City Council took place on 25 May 2014, as part of the 2014 Ukrainian local elections.2014 European Parliament election The 2014 European Parliament election was held in the European Union, from 22 to 25 May 2014. It was the 8th parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first in which the European political parties fielded candid ...

22–25 May 2014

San Marino

* 2014 Sammarinese local elections 30 November 2014

North America

Canada

* 2014 New Brunswick general election 22 September 2014 * 2014 Ontario municipal elections 27 October 2014 *

2014 Ontario general election The 2014 Ontario general election was held on June 12, 2014, to elect the members of the 41st Parliament of Ontario. The Liberal Party won a majority of seats in the legislature, allowing its leader, Kathleen Wynne, to continue as premier, movin ...

12 June 2014 * 2014 Quebec general election 7 April 2014

Costa Rica

2014 Costa Rican general election General elections were held in Costa Rica on Sunday, 2 February 2014 to elect a new president, two vice presidents, and 57 Legislative Assembly lawmakers. In accordance with Article 132 of the constitution, incumbent President Laura Chinchilla ...

2 February 2014

Panama

* 2014 Panamanian general election 4 May 2014

United States

2014 United States elections The 2014 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, in the middle of Democratic President Barack Obama's second term. Republicans retained control of the House of Representatives and won control of the Senate. Republicans ...

4 November 2014 **

2014 United States Senate elections The 2014 United States Senate elections were held on November 4, 2014. A total of 36 seats in the 100-member U.S. Senate were contested. Thirty-three Class 2 seats were contested for regular six-year terms to be served from January 3, 2015 to J ...

4 November 2014 ** 2014 United States House of Representatives elections 4 November 2014 **

2014 United States gubernatorial elections United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 4, 2014, in 36 states and three territories, concurrent with other elections during the 2014 United States elections. The Republicans defended 22 seats, compared to the Democrats' 14. T ...

4 November 2014

South America

Brazil

2014 Brazilian general election General elections were held in Brazil on 5 October 2014 to elect the president, the National Congress, and state governorships.

5 and 26 October 2014

Colombia

* 2014 Colombian parliamentary election 9 March 2014 * 2014 Colombian presidential election 25 May and 15 June 2014

Uruguay

2014 Uruguayan general election General elections were held in Uruguay on 26 October 2014, alongside a constitutional referendum. As no presidential candidate received an absolute majority in the first round of voting, a runoff took place on 30 November. Primary elections to ...

26 October 2014

Oceania

Australia

2014 South Australian state election The 2014 South Australian state election elected members to the 53rd Parliament of South Australia on 15 March 2014, to fill all 47 seats in the House of Assembly (lower house) and 11 of 22 seats in the Legislative Council (upper house). The 12- ...

15 March 2014 *

2014 Victorian state election The 2014 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 29 November 2014, was for the 58th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and 40 seats in the Victorian Legislative Council were up for election. The incumb ...

29 November 2014 *

2014 Tasmanian state election The 2014 Tasmanian state election was held on 15 March 2014 to elect all 25 members to the House of Assembly. The 16-year incumbent Labor government, led by the Premier of Tasmania Lara Giddings, sought to win a fifth consecutive term against t ...

15 March 2014

Fiji

* 2014 Fijian general election 17 September 2014

New Zealand

2014 New Zealand general election The 2014 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 20 September 2014 to determine the membership of the 51st New Zealand Parliament. Voters elected 121 members to the House of Representatives, with 71 from single-member electorates ( ...

20 September 2014

Tonga

* 2014 Tongan general election 27 November 2014