The following elections occurred in 2017.

Africa

* 2017 Somali presidential election 8 February 2017 *

2017 Gambian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in The Gambia on 6 April 2017. They were first parliamentary elections since the inauguration of Adama Barrow as President and resulted in a landslide victory for the United Democratic Party, which won 31 of the ...

6 April 2017 * 2017 Algerian legislative election 4 May 2017 *

2017 Lesotho general election Early general elections were held in Lesotho on 3 June 2017 to elect all 120 seats of the National Assembly (Lesotho), National Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of Lesotho, Parliament. The elections were called more than three years a ...

3 June 2017 *

2017 Republic of the Congo parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in the Republic of the Congo on 16 July 2017, with a second round of voting following on 30 July in constituencies where no candidate secured a majority. Background Following a 2015 referendum on a new constitu ...

16 and 30 July 2017 *

2017 Saint Helena general election General elections were held in Saint Helena on 26 July 2017. A total of 17 candidates contested the elections.2017 Senegalese parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Senegal on 30 July 2017, having originally been planned for 2 July. Background The original election date was chosen on 1 December 2016 after a meeting between the President of Senegal Macky Sall and the Oppo ...

30 July 2017 *

2017 Rwandan presidential election Presidential elections were held in Rwanda on 4 August 2017. The incumbent President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, was re-elected to a third seven-year term with 98.79% of the vote. Background A referendum in 2015 approved constitutional amendments t ...

4 August 2017 *

2017 Kenyan general election General elections were held in Kenya on 8 August 2017 to elect the President, members of the National Assembly and Senate. They coincided with the 2017 Kenyan local elections which elected Governors and representatives in the devolved governmen ...

8 August 2017 *

2017 Angolan legislative election General elections were held in Angola on 23 August 2017 to elect the President and National Assembly, although voting was delayed until 26 August at 15 polling stations due to bad weather on election day. The top candidate of the winning party ...

23 August 2017 *

2017 Liberian general election General elections were held in Liberia on 10 October 2017 to elect the President and House of Representatives. No candidate won a majority in the first round of the presidential vote, so the top two finishers — CDC standard-bearer Amb. George ...

10 October and 26 December 2017 * 2017 Kenyan presidential election 26 October 2017 *

2017 Equatorial Guinean legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Equatorial Guinea on 12 November 2017. The ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea won all but one of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies (Equatorial Guinea), Chamber of Deputies, every seat in the Senate ...

12 November 2017 *

2017 Somaliland presidential election Presidential elections were held in Somaliland on 13 November 2017, the third direct presidential election since 2003. General elections had been scheduled to be held in Somaliland on 27 March 2017 to elect both the President and House of Represe ...

13 November 2017

Asia

*Japan: 2017 Yamagata gubernatorial election 22 January 2017 *Japan: 2017 Gifu gubernatorial election 29 January 2017 *India:

2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election : The Goa Legislative Assembly election, 2017 was held on February 4, 2017 to elect the 40 members of the Seventh Goa Legislative Assembly, as the term of Sixth Legislative Assembly ended on March 18, 2017. VVPAT-fitted EVMs was used in entire ...

4 February 2017 *India:

2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election A Legislative Assembly election was held in the Indian state of Punjab on 4 February 2017 to elect the 117 members of the Fifteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly. The counting of votes was done on 11 March 2017. The ruling pre-election coalition w ...

4 February 2017 *India:

2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election The election to the 17th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly was held from 11 February to 8 March 2017 in 7 phases. This election saw a voter turnout of 61.11% compared to 59.40% in the previous election. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won th ...

11 February 2017 – 8 March 2017 * 2017 Turkmen presidential election 12 February 2017 *India:

2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election The 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election were the 4th Vidhan Sabha ( Legislative Assembly) election of the state of Uttarakhand in India. Elections were held on 15 February 2017 in a single phase for the 69 seats of the Uttarakhand ...

15 February 2017 *

2017 Indonesian local elections Local elections were held in Indonesia on 15 February 2017, with a single 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election, run-off for Jakarta on 19 April 2017. The series of elections was the second time local elections were held simultaneously across the co ...

15 February 2017 **

2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election Two rounds of a gubernatorial election were held in Jakarta as part of the 2017 Indonesian local elections, 2017 simultaneous elections on 15 February and 19 April 2017 to elect the governor of Jakarta to a five-year term. Incumbent governor Basu ...

15 February and 19 April 2017 *Malaysia: 2017 Tanjong Datu by-election 18 February 2017 *India:

2017 Manipur Legislative Assembly election A Legislative Assembly election was held in Manipur on 4 March and 8 March 2017 to elect the 60 members of the Manipur Legislative Assembly, as the term of the previous Assembly was to end on 18 March 2017. Voter-verified paper audit trail (VV ...

4 and 8 March 2017 * 2017 East Timorese presidential election 20 March 2017 *Japan: 2017 Chiba gubernatorial election 23 March 2017 *China:

2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election The 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election was held on 26 March 2017 for the 5th term of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong (CE), the highest office of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Former Chief Secretary for Administration ...

26 March 2017 * 2017 Myanmar by-elections 1 April 2017 *Japan: 2017 Akita gubernatorial election 9 April 2017 *

2017 South Korean presidential election Early presidential elections were held in South Korea on 9 May 2017 following the impeachment and removal of Park Geun-hye. The elections were conducted in a single round, on a first-past-the-post basis, and had originally been scheduled for 2 ...

9 May 2017 *

2017 Nepalese local elections The 2017 Nepalese local elections were held in Nepal in three phases on 14 May, 28 June and 18 September in 6 metropolitan cities, 11 sub-metropolitan cities, 276 municipalities and 460 rural municipalities. It was the first local level election t ...

14 May, 28 June and 18 September 2017 *

2017 Cambodian communal elections Communal elections ( km, ការបោះឆ្នោតជ្រើសរើសក្រុមប្រឹក្សាឃុំសង្កាត់ អាណត្តិទី៤ ឆ្នាំ២០១៧) were held in Cambodia on Sunday, 4 ...

4 June 2017 *Japan: 2017 Shizuoka gubernatorial election 25 June 2017 *Japan: 2017 Shizuoka Prefectural Assembly by-elections 25 June 2017 * 2017 Mongolian presidential election 26 June and 7 July 2017 *Japan: 2017 Hyōgo prefectural gubernatorial election 2 July 2017 *Japan: 2017 Tatsuno and Ibo District by-election 2 July 2017 *Japan: 2017 Tokyo prefectural election 2 July 2017 *

2017 Indian presidential election A Presidential election was held in India on 17 July 2017 with the votes counted and the results announced on 20 July 2017. President of India, President Pranab Mukherjee, whose term of office was due to expire on 24 July 2017, declined to seek ...

17 July 2017 *

2017 East Timorese parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in East Timor on 22 July 2017. Fretilin narrowly emerged as the largest party in the National Parliament, winning 23 seats to the 22 won by the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, which had been the l ...

22 July 2017 *Japan: 2017 Ibaraki gubernatorial election 27 August 2017 *China:

2017 Macanese legislative election Legislative elections were held in Macau on 17 September 2017 according to the provisions of the Basic Law of Macau. Out of a total of 33 seats, 14 were directly elected by universal suffrage under the highest averages method, while 12 were voted ...

17 September 2017 *2017 Singaporean presidential election The 2017 Singaporean presidential election was held to elect the next President of Singapore. Halimah Yacob was elected in an uncontested election due to lack of eligible candidates and she was the only candidate that was granted an eligibilit ...
23 September 2017 (sole candidate acclaimed as President-elect) *

13th National People's Congress The 13th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China was elected from October 2017 to February 2018 and will be in session in the five-year period from 2018 to 2023. It is scheduled to hold five sessions in this period, occurri ...

October 2017 * 2017 Kyrgyz presidential election 15 October 2017 *

2017 Japanese general election General elections were held in Japan on 22 October 2017. Voting took place in all Representatives constituencies of Japan – 289 single-member districts and eleven proportional blocks – in order to appoint all 465 members (down from 475) of t ...

22 October 2017 *Japan: 2017 Miyagi gubernatorial election 22 October 2017 *India:

2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election The Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2017 was held on 9 November 2017 to elect all 68 members of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The term of the previous Legislative Assembly ended on 7 January 2017. Since 2012, the I ...

9 November 2017 *Japan: 2017 Hiroshima gubernatorial election 12 November 2017 *

2017 Nepalese legislative election General elections were held in Nepal in two phases on 26 November and 7 December 2017 to elect the 275 members of the fifth House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament of Nepal. The election was held alongside the first p ...

26 November and 7 December 2017 *India: 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election 9 and 14 December 2017

Middle East

2017 Iranian local elections Local elections were held in Iran on 19 May 2017 to elect members of the City and Village Councils simultaneously with the twelfth presidential election. Registration A total number of 287,425 candidates registered in the elections nationwide, i ...

19 May 2017 *

2017 Iranian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Iran on 19 May 2017, the twelfth such election in Iran. Local elections were held simultaneously. Candidates' registration took place from 11 to 15 April 2017. Incumbent president Hassan Rouhani was eligible to ...

19 May 2017

Europe

2017 Liechtenstein general election General elections were held in Liechtenstein on 5 February 2017 to elect the 25 members of the Landtag. Background In the 2013 elections the Progressive Citizens' Party lost one seat, and the Patriotic Union lost five seats while The Independen ...

5 February 2017 *

2017 German presidential election An indirect presidential election (officially the 16th Federal Convention) was held on 12 February 2017 to elect the 12th President of Germany, President of Germany. Incumbent President Joachim Gauck announced on 6 June 2016 that he would not stan ...

12 February 2017 *United Kingdom:

2017 Copeland by-election There was a by-election in the British parliamentary constituency of Copeland on 23 February 2017 (the same day as the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election), following the resignation of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Jamie Reed. Conservativ ...

23 February 2017 *United Kingdom: 2017 Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election 23 February 2017 *United Kingdom:

2017 Northern Ireland Assembly election The 2017 Northern Ireland Assembly election was held on Thursday, 2 March 2017. The election was held to elect members (Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland), MLAs) following the resignation of First Minister and deputy First Min ...

2 March 2017 * 2017 Abkhazian parliamentary election 12 and 26 March 2017 *

2017 Hungarian presidential election An indirect presidential election was held in Hungary on 13 March 2017. János Áder was elected President of Hungary for a second term. Background Following the outbreak of a controversy surrounding his 1992 doctoral dissertation, President ...

13 March 2017 *

2017 Dutch general election General elections were held in the Netherlands on Wednesday 15 March 2017 to elect all 150 members of the House of Representatives. The incumbent government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte was the first to serve a full term since 2002. The previo ...

15 March 2017 *

2017 Bulgarian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 26 March 2017. They had originally been scheduled for 2018 at the end of the four-year term of the National Assembly. However, following the resignation of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and the fail ...

26 March 2017 *Germany:

2017 Saarland state election The 2017 Saarland state election was held on 26 March 2017 to elect the members of the Landtag of Saarland. The incumbent Grand coalition (Germany), grand coalition of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and ...

26 March 2017 *

2017 Armenian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 2 April 2017. They were the first elections after a constitutional referendum in 2015 that approved reforms for the country to become a parliamentary republic. The result was a victory for the rulin ...

2 April 2017 *

2017 Serbian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Serbia on 2 April 2017. Incumbent president Tomislav Nikolić was eligible to run for a second five-year term, but opted not to do so. Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić was elected president in the first round ...

2 April 2017 *

2017 Finnish municipal elections Municipal elections were held in Finland on 9 April 2017 with advance voting between 29 March and 4 April. The councils in 295 municipalities in Finland (excluding Åland) were elected. Several municipalities altered the size of their councils (ma ...

9 April 2017 *

2017 South Ossetian presidential election Presidential elections were held in South Ossetia on 9 April 2017 alongside a referendum on changing the official name of the state to "Republic of South Ossetia–the State of Alania", or "South Ossetia–Alania" for short. Incumbent President Le ...

9 April 2017 * 2017 Albanian presidential election 19, 20, 27 and 28 April 2017 *

2017 French presidential election The 2017 French presidential election was held on 23 April and 7 May 2017. As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a runoff was held between the top two candidates, Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! (EM) and Marine Le Pen of the Nationa ...

23 April and 7 May 2017 *

2017 United Kingdom local elections The 2017 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 4 May 2017. Local elections were held across Great Britain, with elections to 35 English local authorities and all councils in Scotland and Wales. Newly created combined authority m ...

4 May 2017 *United Kingdom: 2017 Manchester Gorton by-election The Manchester Gorton by-election was a by-election scheduled for 4 May 2017 to elect a Member of Parliament (MP) for the House of Commons constituency of Manchester Gorton. It was cancelled on 20 April following the announcement of the 2017 gen ...
4 May 2017 (cancelled) *Germany:

2017 Schleswig-Holstein state election The 2017 Schleswig-Holstein state election was held on 7 May 2017 to elect the members of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein. The incumbent government was led by Minister-President Torsten Albig, and consisted of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), T ...

7 May 2017 *Germany:

2017 North Rhine-Westphalia state election The 2017 North Rhine-Westphalia state election was held on 14 May 2017 to elect the members of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. The incumbent coalition government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Greens led by Minister-President ...

14 May 2017 *

2017 Croatian local elections The first round of the 2017 Croatian local elections was held on 21 May and the second round, where necessary, on 4 June. All seats of the county prefects, city and municipal mayors and members of county, municipal and city councils were up for el ...

28 May and 4 June 2017 *

2017 Maltese general election General elections were held in Malta on Saturday, 3 June 2017 to elect all members of the House of Representatives.. The elections were contested by the Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, the Nationalist Party, led by oppositi ...

3 June 2017 *

2017 Latvian municipal elections Municipal elections were held across Latvia on 3 June 2017. All 119 municipalities and republican cities of Latvia elected their city councils. In Riga the joint list of the Social Democratic Party "Harmony" and Honor to serve Riga won a majo ...

4 June 2017 *

2017 United Kingdom general election The 2017 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 8 June 2017, two years after the previous general election in 2015; it was the first since 1992 to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections. The governing ...

8 June 2017 *

2017 French legislative election Legislative elections in France were held on 11 and 18 June 2017 (with different dates for voters overseas) to elect the 577 members of the 15th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. They followed the two-round presidential election won by ...

11 and 18 June 2017 *

2017 Italian local elections The 2017 Italian local elections were held on Sunday 11 June. If necessary, a run-off vote was held on Sunday 25 June. The term of mayors and councils will last five years, unless an early election is triggered. In the autonomous regions of Trenti ...

11 and 25 June 2017 *

2017 Kosovan parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Kosovo on 11 June 2017. Background The elections were triggered by a motion of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Isa Mustafa on 10 May 2017 by a vote of 78–34.

11 June 2017 *

2017 Albanian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Albania on 25 June. They had initially been scheduled for 18 June, but after a possible boycott was announced by opposition parties during a political crisis that lasted three months, an agreement was reached b ...

25 June 2017 * 2017 Russian gubernatorial elections 10 September 2017 * 2017 Russian regional elections 10 September 2017 *Russia: 2017 Bryansk by-election 10 September 2017 *Russia: 2017 Kingisepp by-election 10 September 2017 *

2017 Norwegian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 11 September 2017 to elect all 169 members of the unicameral Norwegian Parliament, the Storting. The non-socialist parties retained a reduced majority of 88 seats, allowing Prime Minister Erna Solb ...

11 September 2017 *

2017 French Senate election Senatorial elections have been held on 24 September 2017 to renew 170 of 348 seats in the Senate (France), Senate of the French Fifth Republic. Organization Senators concerned Since 2011, the Senate (France), French Senate has been renewed, ...

24 September 2017 *

2017 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 24 September 2017 to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag. At stake were at least 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 111 overhang and leveling seats determined thereafter. The Christian Democr ...

24 September 2017 * 2017 Portuguese local election 1 October 2017 * 2017 Luxembourg communal elections 8 October 2017 *

2017 Austrian legislative election Legislative elections were held in Austria on 15 October 2017 to elect the 26th National Council, the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament. The snap election was called when the coalition government between the Social Democratic Party o ...

15 October 2017 *

2017 Estonian municipal elections Municipal elections were held in Estonia on 15 October 2017, coinciding with an administrative reform which reduced the total number of municipalities from 213 to 79. The advance voting was held 5–11 October, during which 27.8% of voters cast ...

15 October 2017 *Germany:

2017 Lower Saxony state election The 2017 Lower Saxony state election was held on 15 October 2017 to elect the 18th Landtag of Lower Saxony. The incumbent coalition government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Greens led by Minister-President Stephan Weil was defeated. ...

15 October 2017 * 2017 Macedonian local elections 15 and 29 October 2017 *

2017 Czech legislative election Legislative elections were held in the Czech Republic on 20 and 21 October 2017. All 200 members of the Chamber of Deputies were elected and Andrej Babiš of ANO 2011, also the leader of the resultant government, became the Prime Minister. The ...

20–21 October 2017 *

2017 Georgian local elections The 2017 Georgian local elections ( ka, საქართველოს ადგილობრივი თვითმმართველობის ორგანოების არჩევნები) were held on 21 October 2017 t ...

21 October 2017 * 2017 Kosovan local elections 22 October and 18 November 2017 *

2017 Slovenian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Slovenia on 22 October 2017. Nine candidates ran in the first round of the elections, in which the incumbent independent President Borut Pahor placed first and Marjan Šarec of the List of Marjan Šarec (LMŠ) ...

22 October and 12 November 2017 *

2017 Icelandic parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 28 October 2017. On 15 September 2017, the three-party coalition government collapsed after the departure of Bright Future over a scandal involving Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson's father writ ...

28 October 2017 * 2017 Slovak regional elections 4 November 2017 *Italy:

2017 Sicilian regional election The 2017 Sicilian regional election for the renewal of the Sicilian Regional Assembly and the election of the President of Sicily was held on 5 November 2017. Incumbent President Rosario Crocetta was not his party's candidate due to his low popu ...

5 November 2017 *

2017 Danish local elections The Danish local elections of 2017 were held on 21 November 2017 for Denmark's 98 municipal councils and five regional councils. All 2,432 seats were contested for the 2018–21 term of office, together with 205 seats (a fixed number of 41 sea ...

21 November 2017 *France:

2017 Corsican territorial election The 2017 Corsican territorial elections were held on 3 and 10 December 2017 to elect 63 members of the Corsican Assembly who in turn will determine the composition of the Executive Council of Corsica. The elections, held only two years after the ...

3 and 10 December 2017 *Spain:

2017 Catalan regional election The 2017 Catalan regional election was held on Thursday, 21 December 2017 to elect the 12th Parliament of the autonomous community of Catalonia. All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was called by Spanish prime minist ...

21 December 2017

North America

2017 United States elections The 2017 United States elections were held, in large part, on Tuesday, November 7, 2017. This off-year election featured gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, as well as state legislative elections in both houses of the New Jerse ...

*France:

2017 Saint Pierre and Miquelon legislative election Elections took place on Sunday 19 March 2017 in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France. All 19 seats on the Territorial Council were up for election. The previous elections were held in 2012 F ...

19 March 2017 * Canada: Calgary Heritage by-election, 2017 3 April 2017 * Canada: Calgary Midnapore by-election, 2017 3 April 2017 * Canada: Markham—Thornhill by-election, 2017 3 April 2017 * Canada: Ottawa—Vanier by-election, 2017 3 April 2017 * Canada: Saint-Laurent by-election, 2017 3 April 2017 * Canada:

2017 British Columbia general election The 2017 British Columbia general election was held on May 9, 2017, to elect 87 members (MLAs) to the Legislative Assembly to serve in the 41st Parliament of the Canadian province of British Columbia. In the 40th Parliament prior to this gene ...

9 May 2017 * Canada:

2017 Nova Scotia general election The 2017 Nova Scotia general election was held on May 30, 2017, to elect members to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The Liberals under Premier Stephen McNeil won re-election with a somewhat reduced majority, falling from 34 seats at dissolutio ...

30 May 2017 * 2017 Mexican gubernatorial elections 4 June 2017 * 2017 Bermudian general election 18 July 2017 * 2017 Honduran general election 26 November 2017

Caribbean

* 2016–17 Haitian Senate election 20 November 2016 and 29 January 2017 *France: 2017 Saint Barthélemy Territorial Council election 19 March 2017 *France:

2017 Saint Martin Territorial Council election Territorial Council of Saint-Martin, Territorial Council elections were held in the France, French overseas collectivity of Saint Martin (France), Saint Martin on 20 March 2017. Results References

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19 March 2017 *Netherlands:

2017 Curaçao general election Early general elections were held in Curaçao on 28 April 2017 after the fall of the government led by Hensley Koeiman. Background The previous general elections in 2016 resulted in the formation of a four-party coalition government consisting ...

28 April 2017 * 2017 Bahamian general election 10 May 2017 *

2017 Caymanian general election General elections were held in the Cayman Islands on 24 May 2017. They were the first elections held after electoral reforms approved in a 2012 Caymanian electoral system referendum, 2012 referendum, which introduced single member constituencies. ...

24 May 2017

Oceania

2017 Marshallese Constitutional Convention election Constitutional Convention elections were held in the Marshall Islands on 21 February 2017.Voters stay home
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21 February 2017 * New Zealand:

2017 Mount Albert by-election The 2017 Mount Albert by-election was a New Zealand by-election held in the electorate on 25 February 2017 during the 51st New Zealand Parliament. The seat was vacated following the resignation of David Shearer, a former Leader of the New Zea ...

25 February 2017 *

2017 Micronesian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on 7 March 2017,Federated States O ...

7 March 2017 * Australia:

2017 Western Australian state election The 2017 Western Australian state election was held on Saturday 11 March 2017 to elect members to the Parliament of Western Australia, including all 59 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 36 seats in the Legislative Council. The eight-a ...

11 March 2017 *France: 2017 Wallis and Futuna Territorial Assembly election 26 March 2017 * Australia:

2017 Gosford state by-election A by-election was held in the state electoral district of Gosford on 8 April 2017. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Kathy Smith () due to ill health. It was held on the same day as the North Shore and Manly state by-electio ...

8 April 2017 * Australia:

2017 Manly state by-election A by-election was held in the state electoral district of Manly on 8 April 2017. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Mike Baird () after he also resigned as Premier of New South Wales. It was held on the same day as the North Sh ...

8 April 2017 * Australia: 2017 North Shore state by-election 8 April 2017 * Australia: 2017 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic elections 6 May 2017 * 2017 Niuean general election 6 May 2017 *

2017 Papua New Guinean general election General elections were held in Papua New Guinea between 24 June and 8 July 2017. The writs for the election were issued on 20 April, and candidate nominations closed on 27 April. Michael Somare, the first Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, ret ...

24 June–8 July 2017 * 2017 Vanuatuan presidential elections 3 July 2017 *

2017 New Zealand general election The 2017 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 23 September 2017 to determine the membership of the 52nd New Zealand Parliament. The previous parliament was elected on 20 September 2014 and was officially dissolved on 22 August 20 ...

23 September 2017 * Australia: 2017 Blacktown state by-election 14 October 2017 * Australia: 2017 Cootamundra state by-election 14 October 2017 * Australia: 2017 Murray state by-election 14 October 2017 * Australia:

2017 Pembroke state by-election A by-election was held in the Tasmanian Legislative Council division of Pembroke on 4 November 2017. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting member Vanessa Goodwin, who was diagnosed with brain cancer. Background The electoral division o ...

4 November 2017 *

2017 Tongan general election General elections were held in Tonga on 16 November 2017 to elect 17 of the 26 seats to the Legislative Assembly. King Tupou VI dissolved the Assembly on 25 August 2017 on the advice of its Speaker, Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō, who claimed that ...

16 November 2017 * Australia:

2017 Northcote state by-election A by-election for the seat of Northcote in the Victorian Legislative Assembly was held on 18 November 2017. The by-election was triggered by the death of Labor Party MP Fiona Richardson on 23 August 2017. While the seat historically has firm ...

18 November 2017 * Australia:

2017 Queensland state election The 2017 Queensland state election was held on 25 November 2017 to elect all 93 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, the unicameral Parliament of Queensland. The first-term incumbent Labor government, led by Premier Annastacia P ...

25 November 2017 * Australia:

2017 New England by-election A by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of New England was held on 2 December 2017. Previous incumbent Barnaby Joyce, serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Nationals leader from February 2016 until October 2017 when his s ...

2 December 2017 * Australia:

2017 Bennelong by-election A by-election for the House of Representatives (Australia), Australian House of Representatives seat of Division of Bennelong, Bennelong was held on 16 December 2017. Previous incumbent and Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal candidate John Ale ...

16 December 2017

South America

* 2017 Argentine provincial elections *

2017 Ecuadorian general election General elections were held in Ecuador on 19 February 2017 alongside a referendum on tax havens. Voters elected a new President and National Assembly. Incumbent President Rafael Correa of the PAIS Alliance was not eligible for re-election, havi ...

19 February and 2 April 2017 *

2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election Constituent Assembly elections were held in Venezuela on 30 July 2017 to elect the members of the 2017 Constituent National Assembly ( es, Asamblea Nacional Constituyente; ANC). Unlike the 1999 Constituent National Assembly, which was assembled ...

30 July 2017 * Brazil: 2017 Amazonas gubernatorial election 6 and 27 August 2017 *

2017 Venezuelan regional elections Regional elections were held in Venezuela on 15 October 2017 to elect the executive position of all 23 federal entities. This marked the first state executive election not held on the same date as elections for state legislatures, and the second ...

15 October 2017 *

2017 Argentine legislative election Legislative elections were held in Argentina on 22 October 2017 to elect half of the Chamber of Deputies and one third of the Senate. The result was a victory for the ruling Cambiemos alliance, being the most voted force in 13 of the 24 districts ...

22 October 2017 *

2017 Falkland Islands general election The Falkland Islands general election of 2017 was held on Thursday 9 November 2017 to elect all eight members of the Legislative Assembly (five from the Stanley constituency and three from the Camp constituency) through universal suffrage using ...

9 November 2017 *

2017 Chilean general election General elections were held in Chile on 19 November 2017, including presidential, parliamentary and regional elections. Voters went to the polls to elect: * A President of the Republic to serve a four-year term. * Twenty three of 43 members of ...

19 November and 17 December 2017 *

2017 Venezuelan municipal elections The Venezuelan municipal elections of 2017 were held on 10 December 2017, to elect 335 mayors throughout Venezuela, as well as the governor of the state of Zulia. This was the first municipal election held since 2013, when elections were delayed f ...

10 December 2017