The following elections are scheduled to occur in 2023. The National Democratic Institute also maintains
calendar of elections around the world
* 2023 United Nations Security Council election * 2023 national electoral calendar *

2023 local electoral calendar This local electoral calendar for 2023 lists the subnational elections held in 2023. Referendums, Recall election, recall and retention elections, and national By-election, by-elections (special elections) are also included. January * 19 Januar ...

Africa

2023 Djiboutian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Djibouti on 24 February 2023 to elect the 65 members of the National Assembly. Background Since his election as President in 1999 Ismaïl Omar Guelleh has ruled Djibouti with almost unchecked power and has be ...

, 23 February *

2023 Nigerian general election The 2023 Nigerian general election will be held, in large part, on 25 February and 11 March 2023. The President and Vice President will be elected on 25 February, with incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari ineligible to run, being term-limited. A ...

, 25 February * 2023 Mauritanian parliamentary election, 13 and 27 May * 2023 Puntland municipal elections, 25 May * 2023 Guinea-Bissau legislative election, 4 June * 2023 Sierra Leonean general election, 24 June *

2023 Zimbabwean general election General elections were held throughout Zimbabwe on 23 and 24 August 2023 to elect the President of Zimbabwe, president, legislators and councillors. The main race for presidential office was between two candidates of Kalanga people, Karanga or ...

, 23 August * 2023 Gabonese general election, 26 August * 2023 Liberian general election, 10 October (first round) & 14 November (second round) * 2023 Malagasy presidential election, 16 November * 2023 Egyptian presidential election, 10-12 December *

2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election General elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 20 December 2023. Combined elections were held for the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, President, 484 of the 500 members of the National Assembly of the De ...

, 20-24 December

Americas

*Argentina ** 2023 Argentine provincial elections **

2023 Argentine general election General elections are scheduled to be held in Argentina on 22 October 2023, to elect the president, vice president, members of the national congress and the governors of most provinces. Incumbent president Alberto Fernández, despite being eligi ...

, 22 October (first round) & 19 November (second round) * 2023 Antiguan and Barbudan general election, 18 January *

2023 Cuban parliamentary election Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Cuba on 23 March 2023 to elect members of the National Assembly of People's Power. They will be the first elections since 1976 in which neither Fidel nor Raúl Castro are involved. Miguel Día ...

, 26 March *

2023 Paraguayan general election General elections were held in Paraguay on 30 April 2023 to elect the president, vice president, National Congress, and departmental governors. The incumbent president Mario Abdo Benítez and vice president Hugo Velázquez Moreno, both of the ...

, 30 April * Canada **

2023 Prince Edward Island general election The 67th Prince Edward Island general election is tentatively scheduled for 2 October 2023, as a result of the provincial fixed election-date legislation calling for a general election to be held prior to the first Monday of October in the fourth ...

, 3 April **

2023 Alberta general election The 2023 Alberta general election is scheduled by law to be held on May 29, 2023 to elect the members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Election dates are fixed under Alberta's Election Act but that does not affect the powers of the Lieut ...

, 29 May ** 2023 Manitoba general election, 3 October **

2023 Northwest Territories general election The 2023 Northwest Territories general election was held on November 14, 2023. Nineteen members were elected to the 20th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly. The Assembly is run on a consensus government system, in which all MLAs sit as ...

, 14 November *

2023 Mexican gubernatorial elections The 2023 Mexican local elections, held on 4 June 2022, saw voters electing two governors for six-year terms and deputies for one state congress. In the gubernatorial elections, Morena (political party), Morena flipped one state, while the Institu ...

4 June *

2023 Guyanese local elections The 2023 Guyanese local elections, officially due since 2020, were held on Monday, June 12, 2023, following the latest delay of the officially biennial polls by three years due to lawsuits and vacanies at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) f ...

, 12 June *

2023 Guatemalan general election General elections were held in Guatemala on 25 June 2023 to elect the president and vice president, all 160 seats of the Congress, all 20 members of the Central American Parliament, and mayors and councils for all 340 municipalities in the co ...

, 25 June (first round) & 20 August (second round) * 2023 Trinidadian local elections, 14 August * Ecuador ** 2023 Ecuadorian local elections, 5 February **

2023 Ecuadorian general election Snap election, Snap general elections were held in Ecuador on 20 August 2023 to vote for President of Ecuador, members of the National Assembly (Ecuador), National Assembly and two referendums. Elections followed the invocation of , which 2023 E ...

, 20 August (first round) & 15 October (second round) * 2023 Colombian regional election, 29 October * United States **

2023 United States gubernatorial elections United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 7, 2023, in the states of Kentucky and Mississippi, with an election having occurred in Louisiana on October 14. These elections form part of the 2023 United States elections. The last ...

** 2023 United States state legislative elections

Asia

2023 elections in India The 2023 elections in India are expected to include those to the Rajya Sabha, to Legislative Assembly elections in India, state legislative assemblies of nine states and one union territory, and local bodies. Lok Sabha by-elections State l ...

* 2023 Kazakh legislative election, 19 March *

2023 Turkmen parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Turkmenistan on 26 March 2023 to elect the 125 members of the Assembly. The elections took place after the introduction of a separate constitutional authority. The Assembly ( tk, Mejlis) is since January 2023 ...

, 26 March * 2023 Japanese unified local elections, 9 April *

2023 Thai general election General elections are scheduled to be held in Thailand on 7 May 2023, after the 25th House of Representatives reaches its four-year term limit. Background Following a political crisis in Thailand, the military staged a coup d'état in 201 ...

, 14 May *

2023 East Timorese parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in East Timor on 21 May 2023. The governing coalition going into the election was a four-party government of Fretilin–People's Liberation Party (East Timor), PLP–Kmanek Haburas Unidade Nasional Timor Oan ...

, 21 May * 2023 Uzbek presidential election, 9 July *

2023 Cambodian general election General elections will be held in Cambodia in July 2023 to elect members of the seventh National Assembly. The Cambodian People's Party (CPP) currently holds all seats in parliament. Prime minister Hun Sen will seek another term in office, with h ...

, 23 July *

2023 Malaysian state elections State elections in 2023 were held in Selangor, Kelantan, Terengganu, Negeri Sembilan, Kedah and Penang on 12 August 2023, following the dissolution of their state assemblies between 22 June and 1 July 2023. The state elections were held concur ...

, 12 August *

2023 Singaporean presidential election Presidential elections were held in Singapore on 1 September 2023, the sixth public presidential elections but only the third to be contested by more than one candidate. Incumbent president Halimah Yacob, who had been elected unopposed in 2017 ...

, 1 September * 2023 Maldivian presidential election, 9 September (first round) & 30 September (second round) * 2023 Emirati parliamentary election, 7 October * 2023 Omani general election, 29 October * 2023 North Korean local elections, 26 November * 2023–24 Bhutanese National Assembly election, 30 November (first round) * 2023 Iraqi governorate elections, 18 December

Europe

*Albania ** 2023 Albanian local elections, 14 May *Andorra ** 2023 Andorran parliamentary election, 2 April ** 2023 Andorran local elections, 17 December *Armenia **

2023 Yerevan City Council election Yerevan City Council elections were held on 17 September 2023. The Yerevan City Council comprises 65 members, including the mayor and the first deputy mayor, elected through a proportional electoral system. City Council members are elected for a f ...

, 17 September * Austria ** 2023 Lower Austrian state election, 29 January ** 2023 Carinthian state election, 5 March **

2023 Salzburg state election The 2023 Salzburg state election took place in the Austria, Austrian States of Austria, state of Salzburg (state), Salzburg on 23 April 2023. Incumbent List of governors of Salzburg (state), Governor of Salzburg, Wilfried Haslauer of the Austrian ...

, 23 April * Bulgaria **

2023 Bulgarian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 2 April 2023 to elect members of the National Assembly. These were initially scheduled to be held before November 2026; however, as no government was approved by the 48th Parliament, Bulgarian ...

, 2 April ** 2023 Bulgarian local elections, 29 October * Cyprus **

2023 Cypriot presidential election Presidential elections were held in Cyprus on 5 February 2023. No candidate received a majority of the vote in the first round, so a Two-round system, runoff was held on 12 February. Incumbent president Nicos Anastasiades of the Democratic Rall ...

, 5 February (first round) & 12 February (second round) * Czech Republic **

2023 Czech presidential election Presidential elections will be held in the Czech Republic on 13 and 14 January 2023. Incumbent president Miloš Zeman is not eligible to run due to the two-term limit. As was the case in the last two presidential elections, the vote will be d ...

, 13-14 January (first round) & 27-28 January (second round) * Estonia **

2023 Estonian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections will be held in Estonia on 5 March 2023 to elect all 101 members of the Riigikogu. Electoral system The 101 members of the Riigikogu are elected by proportional representation in twelve multi-member constituencies. Seats ...

, 5 March * Finland **

2023 Finnish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections will be held in Finland on 2 April 2023, or earlier if the parliament is dissolved ahead of schedule, and will elect members of parliament for the 2023–2027 convocation. Background The former prime minister, Antti Ri ...

, 2 April ** 2023 Ålandic legislative election, 15 October * France ** 2023 French Senate election, 24 September * Germany **

2023 Berlin repeat state election The 2023 Berlin repeat state election was held on 12 February 2023 to once again elect the 19th Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin. The 19th Abgeordnetenhaus was originally elected in the 2021 Berlin state election held on 26 September. On 16 November 20 ...

, 12 February **

2023 Bremen state election The 2023 Bremen state election was held on 14 May 2023 to elect the 21st Bürgerschaft of Bremen. Elections to the city councils of Bremen and Bremerhaven, the two municipal entities comprising the Bremen (state), state of Bremen, were held simu ...

, 14 May **

2023 Bavarian state election The 2023 Bavarian state election will probably be held on 8 October 2023 to elect the 180 members of the 19th Landtag of Bavaria. The current government is a coalition of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) and the Free Voters of Bavaria ( ...

, 8 October **

2023 Hessian state election Elections to the Landtag of Hesse are scheduled for 8 October 2023. Election organization Election date Article 79 of the Constitution of Hesse stipulates that the state parliament is elected for five years. The new election must take place ...

, 8 October * Greece ** May 2023 Greek legislative election, 21 May ** June 2023 Greek legislative election, 25 June ** 2023 Greek local elections, 8 October (first round) & 15 October (second round) * Italy **

2023 Italian local elections The 2023 Italian local elections were held in various Italian local communities on 14–15 May 2023, with a run-off round on 28–29 May. Mayors of towns and cities across the country were elected. Direct elections were held in 600 municipaliti ...

, 2-3 April & 17-18 April (Friuli-Venezia Giulia) / 14-15 May (first round) / 21 May (first round in Aosta Valley and Trentino-Alto Adige) / 28-29 May (second round and first round in Sardinia and Sicily) / 11-12 June (second round in Sardinia and Sicily) ** 2023 Italian regional elections *** 2023 Lazio regional election, 12-13 February ***

2023 Lombard regional election The 2023 Lombard regional election took place on 12 and 13 February 2023. The election took place concurrently with the 2023 Lazio regional election, as decided by the Italian government on 9 December 2022. According to the final results, Attili ...

, 12-13 February *** 2023 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election, 2-3 April *** 2023 Molise regional election, 25-26 June *** 2023 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections, 22 October * Lithuania ** 2023 Lithuanian municipal elections, 5 March * Luxembourg ** 2023 Luxembourg communal elections, 11 June ** 2023 Luxembourg general election, 8 October * Moldova ** 2023 Gagauz gubernatorial election, 30 April (first round) & 14 May (second round) **

2023 Moldovan local elections Local elections were held in Moldova on 5 November 2023, with a runoff round for mayors held two weeks after the first round on 19 November 2023. The main electoral contenders were, on the one hand, the pro-European, Atlanticist, centre-right, ...

, 5 November * Montenegro ** 2023 Montenegrin presidential election, 19 March (first round) & 2 April (second round) ** 2023 Montenegrin parliamentary election, 11 June * Netherlands **

2023 Dutch provincial elections Provincial elections are scheduled to be held in the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established ...

, 15 March **

2023 Dutch Senate election An election to the Dutch Senate was held on 30 May 2023. The 75 members of the Senate were elected by members of the provincial councils and electoral colleges elected two months earlier in provincial and electoral college elections. The four ...

, 30 May ** 2023 Dutch general election, 22 November * Norway ** 2023 Norwegian local elections, 11 September * Poland **

2023 Polish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections will be held in Poland in late 2023 to elect members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland, Senate, although they can be held sooner if a snap election is called, which last occur ...

, 15 October * Portugal ** 2023 Madeiran regional election, 24 September * Russia ** 2023 Russian regional elections, 10 September * Serbia ** 2023 Serbian parliamentary election, 17 December ** 2023 Belgrade City Assembly election, 17 December ** 2023 Serbian local elections, 17 December ** 2023 Vojvodina provincial election, 17 December * Slovakia **

2023 Slovak parliamentary election Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Slovakia on 30 September 2023 to elect members of the National Council. The 2020 Slovak parliamentary election resulted in a coalition government led by the Ordinary People and Independent ...

, 30 September * Spain **

2023 Spanish local elections The 2023 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect all 67,031 councillors in the municipalities of Spain and all 1,038 seats in 38 Provincial deputation (Spain), provincial deputations. The elections were held simultaneou ...

, 28 May **

2023 Spanish regional elections Regional elections were held in Spain on 28 May 2023 to elect the regional parliaments of twelve of the seventeen autonomous communities—Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla–La Mancha, Extremadura, ...

2023 Valencian regional election The 2023 Valencian regional election was held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 11th Corts Valencianes, Corts of the Valencian Community. All 99 seats in the Corts were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with 2023 Spanish reg ...

, 28 May ***

2023 Ceuta Assembly election The 2023 Ceuta Assembly election was held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 8th Assembly of the autonomous city of Ceuta. All 25 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelv ...

, 28 May *** 2023 Melilla Assembly election, 28 May **

2023 Spanish general election The 2023 Spanish general election will be held no later than Sunday, 10 December 2023, to elect the 15th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies will be up for election, as well as 208 of 265 seats in th ...

, 23 July * Switzerland ** 2023 Zürich cantonal elections, 12 February **

2023 Swiss federal election The next elections to elect all members of both houses of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland are expected to be held in 2023. Contesting parties The table below lists contesting parties represented in the Federal Assembly before the electi ...

, 22 October * Turkey ** 2023 Turkish presidential election, 14 May (first round) & 28 May (second round) **

2023 Turkish parliamentary election The 2023 Turkish parliamentary election is scheduled to take place on 18 June 2023, as part of the 2023 general election, alongside the presidential election on the same day. Voters from 87 electoral districts will elect 600 Members of Parliame ...

, 14 May *United Kingdom **

2023 United Kingdom electoral calendar This is a list of elections in the United Kingdom scheduled to be held in 2023. Included are local elections, by-elections on any level, referendums and internal party elections. Dates * 9 February: 2023 West Lancashire by-election * 4 May: 20 ...

Oceania

* Australia **

2023 New South Wales state election The 2023 New South Wales state election will be held on 25 March 2023 to elect the 58th Parliament of New South Wales, including all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council. The election will be ...

, 25 March * French Polynesia **

2023 French Polynesian legislative election Elections to the Assembly of French Polynesia are scheduled to be held in 2023 in order to elect 57 representatives to the Assembly of French Polynesia. The last election was in 2018. Background The 2018 French Polynesian legislative election ...

, 16 April (first round) & 30 April (second round) ** * New Zealand **

2023 New Zealand general election The 2023 New Zealand general election to determine the composition of the 54th Parliament of New Zealand is planned to be held on 14 October 2023, after the currently elected 53rd Parliament is dissolved or expires. Voters will elect 120 memb ...

, 14 October * Marshall Islands ** 2023 Marshallese general election, 20 November

References

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