A leadership election is a political contest held in various countries by which the members of a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

determine who will be the

leader Leadership, both as a research area and as a practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual, group or organization to "lead", influence or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations. The word "leadership" often gets vi ...

of their party. Generally, any political party can determine its own rules governing how and when a leadership election is to be held for that party. In the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

, for example: A leadership election may be required at intervals set by party rules, or it may be held in response to a certain proportion of those eligible to vote expressing a lack of confidence in the current leadership. In the UK Conservative Party, for example, "a leadership election can be triggered by a vote of no confidence by Conservative MPs in their current leader".Peter Joyce, ''Politics: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself'' (2015), p. 112. Strictly speaking, a leadership election is a completely internal affair. An intra-party election held to select its candidates for external offices, such as a

president President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

prime minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

or member of a legislature is called a

primary election Primary elections, or direct primary are a voting process by which voters can indicate their preference for their party's candidate, or a candidate in general, in an upcoming general election, local election, or by-election. Depending on the ...

. Leadership elections have great importance in

parliamentary systems A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subordinate entity) where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the support ("confidence") of the ...

, where the chief executive (a

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

) derives their mandate from a parliamentary majority and the party's internal leaders hold

frontbench In many parliaments and other similar assemblies, seating is typically arranged in banks or rows, with each political party or caucus grouped together. The spokespeople for each group will often sit at the front of their group, and are then know ...

positions within the parliament, if not outright serving in a ministerial post – whether as Prime Minister in the case of the leading government party, or another Ministerial post for junior coalition partners. For that reason, most parliamentary systems do not hold dedicated Prime Ministerial primaries at all, but simply select their internal leader as their candidate for Prime Minister. There are exceptions to this: an

electoral alliance An electoral alliance (also known as a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact, electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc) is an association of political party, political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand ...

, which is composed of multiple parties each with its own separate leader and organs, may hold a common Prime Ministerial primary as in the

2021 Hungarian opposition primary An opposition primary was held in Hungary, between 18–28 September 2021 (first round) and 10–16 October 2021 (second round), to select the candidate for Prime Minister of Hungary supported by the opposition parties to form a coalition to comp ...

, or a single party may wish to retain its leader but select someone else as its Prime Ministerial candidate, as the Portuguese Socialist Party has done in 2014. Conversely, in presidential and

semi-presidential systems A semi-presidential republic, is a republic in which a president exists alongside a prime minister and a cabinet, with the latter two being responsible to the legislature of the state. It differs from a parliamentary republic in that it has ...

, the chief executive (the

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

) can only be removed by an

impeachment Impeachment is the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct. It may be understood as a unique process involving both political and legal elements. In ...

procedure, which can only be initiated in specific situations and by a special procedure (typically involving a legislative

supermajority A supermajority, supra-majority, qualified majority, or special majority is a requirement for a proposal to gain a specified level of support which is greater than the threshold of more than one-half used for a simple majority. Supermajority ru ...

, an investigation by a

constitutional court A constitutional court is a high court that deals primarily with constitutional law. Its main authority is to rule on whether laws that are challenged are in fact unconstitutional, i.e. whether they conflict with constitutionally established ...

, or both), and removal entails either a

snap election A snap election is an election that is called earlier than the one that has been scheduled. Generally, a snap election in a parliamentary system (the dissolution of parliament) is called to capitalize on an unusual electoral opportunity or to ...

or automatic succession to office by a

Vice president A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on t ...

. As a result, leadership elections are largely background events, as the ruling party's policies are determined by the President, not by the party's internal leader. However, some systems allow one person to serve as both the President and the leader of the ruling party simultaneously, or even mandate it (such as the

Democratic Progressive Party The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a Taiwanese nationalist and centre-left political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). Controlling both the Republic of China presidency and the unicameral Legislative Yuan, it is the majori ...

in Taiwan).

North America

Canada

2013 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election The 2013 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election was triggered by Michael Ignatieff's announcement on May 3, 2011, of his intention to resign as leader following the party's defeat in the 2011 federal election. On May 25, 2011, Bob Rae was ...

2020 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election The 2020 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election was a leadership election held to elect a successor to Andrew Scheer, who in December 2019 announced his pending resignation as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. The electio ...

2019 Bloc Québécois leadership election The 2019 Bloc Québécois leadership election was initiated by the resignation of party leader Martine Ouellet in June 2018. While originally scheduled to be held on February 24, 2019 on a one member, one vote basis, Yves-François Blanchet, as ...

2017 New Democratic Party leadership election The 2017 New Democratic Party leadership election was won by Jagmeet Singh. The election was triggered by Tom Mulcair having lost a vote on leadership review at the party's federal convention held in Edmonton, Alberta, on April 10, 2016, whic ...

2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election The 2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election took place between September 26 and October 3, 2020, to elect a leader to replace Elizabeth May, who resigned on November 4, 2019, after leading the party for more than a decade and achieving a ...

2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election The 2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election was a leadership election held by the Conservative Party of Canada to elect the successor to Erin O'Toole. He was removed on February 2, 2022, as leader by the party's caucus in the ...

Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated south of ...

2022 People's National Movement internal election The 2022 People's National Movement internal election, the last one for the PNM before the subsequent general election, took place over three days: November 26 and 27 and December 4, 2022. The current party leader and Prime Minister Keith Rowl ...

2022 United National Congress internal election The 2022 United National Congress internal election took place on 26 June 2022. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, political leader of the United National Congress, Leader of the Opposition (Trinidad and Tobago), Leader of the Opposition of Trinidad and Toba ...

Europe

Croatia

Social Democratic Party of Croatia

Elections in the Social Democratic Party of Croatia Since its founding in 1990, elections within the Social Democratic Party of Croatia were held numerous times. 2007 leadership election The Social Democratic Party of Croatia 2007 leadership election following the death of longtime leader Ivica Ra ...

Finland

2017 Finns Party leadership election The 2017 Finns Party leadership election was held in Jyväskylä, Finland, on June 10, 2017, to elect the new chair of the Finns Party. All members of the party who had paid their subscription were allowed to vote in the election. The incumbent p ...

Germany

* 2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election *

2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election The 2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election took place in the autumn of 2019 to elect the new leadership of the Social Democratic Party of Germany following the resignation of the Andrea Nahles on 3 June 2019. Although the lead ...

Greece

2015–16 New Democracy leadership election The 2015–16 New Democracy leadership election refers to the two-round election to determine the next president of New Democracy, after the resignation of Antonis Samaras on 5 July 2015. The first round was held on 20 December 2015 and the secon ...

2017 Greek centre-left leadership election A leadership election was held on 12 November and 19 November 2017 by the centre-left political parties of Greece, with the participation of Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), Greece's main centre-left party and The River (Potami), another p ...

Ireland

1966 Fianna Fáil leadership election The 1966 Fianna Fáil leadership election in the Republic of Ireland began in October 1966 following the decision of Seán Lemass to resign as party leader and Taoiseach. Lemass had occupied both posts for over seven years and, while there was n ...

1979 Fianna Fáil leadership election The 1979 Fianna Fáil leadership election began in December 1979, when Jack Lynch resigned as party leader and Taoiseach. Lynch had been party leader for thirteen years and Taoiseach for over nine years. His successor was elected by the member ...

* 1992 Fianna Fáil leadership election * 1994 Fianna Fáil leadership election * 2008 Fianna Fáil leadership election *

2011 Fianna Fáil leadership election The 2011 Fianna Fáil leadership election was called by party leader Brian Cowen on 22 January 2011, when he announced that he was resigning as president and leader of the party. He remained as Taoiseach until after the 2011 general election. ...

Italy

2013 Lega Nord leadership election The 2013 Lega Nord leadership election took place in November–December 2013. Background and race In September 2013 Roberto Maroni, who had been secretary of the party for just about a year, announced he would soon step down from the party's lea ...

2017 Five Star Movement leadership election The 2017 Five Star Movement leadership election was an Italian online primary election held on 21 September 2017 that determined the M5S candidate to the premiership for the 2018 Italian general election. After the election, the 31 years old Lui ...

* 2017 Italian Left leadership election *

2017 Lega Nord leadership election The 2017 Lega Nord leadership election took place on 14 May 2017. Background and race Under the leadership of Matteo Salvini, who was elected in the 2013 Lega Nord leadership election, 2013 leadership election, the party embraced a very critical ...

* 2019 More Europe leadership election

Democratic Party

2007 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election The 2007 Democratic Party leadership election was held on 14 October 2007 in order to elect the first leader of the Democratic Party, the largest political party in Italy at the time. The election was conducted as an open primary, with all Italian ...

2009 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election The 2009 Democratic Party leadership election was held in July–November 2009, following the resignation of Walter Veltroni in February 2009, after 16 months as secretary of the Democratic Party (PD), a political party in Italy. Pier Luigi Bersa ...

2013 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election The 2013 Democratic Party leadership election was an open primary election held in November–December 2013. After having come first in the vote by party members, Matteo Renzi was elected by a landslide 68% in a three-way primary on 8 December. ...

2017 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election The 2017 Democratic Party leadership election was an open primary election held on 30 April 2017. The three candidates were Matteo Renzi, former Prime Minister and party secretary until February 2017, Michele Emiliano, President of Apulia, and A ...

2019 Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election The 2019 Democratic Party leadership election was an open primary election held on 3 March 2019. The election was triggered by the resignation of Matteo Renzi on 12 March 2018, following the party's defeat at the 2018 general election. Vice Secr ...

Netherlands

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy leadership election, 2006 The 2006 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy leadership election was called to elect the new Leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy after incumbent Jozias van Aartsen announced his retirement from national politics. Mark Rutte ...

* 2020 Christian Democratic Appeal leadership election *

2006 Democrats 66 leadership election The 2006 Democrats 66 leadership election was called to elect the new leader of the Democrats 66 after incumbent Boris Dittrich announced his retirement from national politics. Dittrich, who had been the leader of the party since the resignation ...

2016 Labour Party (Netherlands) leadership election The 2016 Labour Party leadership election was called to elect the new Leader of the Labour Party after incumbent Diederik Samsom announced a leadership election to select the ''lijsttrekker'' (top candidate) for the general election of 2017. Lo ...

Portugal

2020 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election The 2020 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election was held on 11 and 18 January 2020. As no candidate received a majority of all valid votes on the first round, held on 11 January 2020, a Two-round system, second round took place on ...

Spain

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( es, Partido Socialista Obrero Español ; PSOE ) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources: * * * * political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in gov ...

: (

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) * People's Party: (

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) * Podemos: (

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...

)

United Kingdom

2019 Conservative Party leadership election The 2019 Conservative Party leadership election was triggered when Theresa May announced on 24 May 2019 that she would resign as leader of the Conservative Party on 7 June and as prime minister of the United Kingdom once a successor had been el ...

May 2021 Democratic Unionist Party leadership election The May 2021 Democratic Unionist Party leadership election was triggered by Arlene Foster's resignation from leadership. It was the Democratic Unionist Party's first leadership election since the party's founding in 1971. Foster released a sta ...

June 2021 Democratic Unionist Party leadership election The June 2021 Democratic Unionist Party leadership election was triggered by Edwin Poots' resignation from the leadership of the party on 17 June 2021. Poots released a statement on 17 June 2021 announcing his intention to resign as party leade ...

2020 Labour Party leadership election (UK) The 2020 Labour Party leadership election was triggered after Jeremy Corbyn announced his intention to resign as the leader of the Labour Party following the party's defeat at the 2019 general election. It was won by Keir Starmer, who receive ...

2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election The 2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held in August 2020, after Jo Swinson, the previous leader of the Liberal Democrats, lost her seat in the 2019 general election. It was initially set to be held in July 2020, but due to the C ...

* 2014 Scottish National Party leadership election * 2018 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election * 2019 UK Independence Party leadership election

Conservative Party

1965 Conservative Party leadership election The 1965 Conservative Party leadership election was held in July 1965 to find a successor to Alec Douglas-Home. It was the first time that a formal election by the parliamentary party had taken place, previous leaders having emerged through a co ...

* 1975 Conservative Party leadership election *

1989 Conservative Party leadership election The 1989 Conservative Party leadership election took place on 5 December 1989. The incumbent Margaret Thatcher was opposed by the little-known 69-year-old backbencher MP Sir Anthony Meyer. It was the Conservative Party's first leadership electio ...

1990 Conservative Party leadership election The 1990 Conservative Party leadership election was called on 14 November 1990 following the decision of Michael Heseltine, former defence and environment secretary, to challenge Margaret Thatcher, the incumbent Prime Minister of the United K ...

1995 Conservative Party leadership election The 1995 Conservative Party leadership election was initiated when the incumbent leader and prime minister, John Major, resigned on 22 June 1995, in order to face a leadership challenge from his critics within the party. On 4 July 1995, he was re ...

1997 Conservative Party leadership election The 1997 Conservative Party leadership election was triggered when John Major resigned as leader on 2 May 1997, following his party's landslide defeat at the 1997 general election, which ended 18 years of Conservative Government of the United Ki ...

2001 Conservative Party leadership election The 2001 Conservative Party leadership election was held after the party failed to make inroads into the Labour government's lead in the 2001 general election. Party leader William Hague resigned, and a leadership contest was called under new r ...

2003 Conservative Party leadership election The 2003 Conservative Party leadership election was held due to the enforced resignation of incumbent leader Iain Duncan Smith, who lost a confidence vote among his parliamentary party. The causes of Duncan Smith's fall are often cited as his la ...

2005 Conservative Party leadership election The 2005 Conservative Party leadership election was called by party leader Michael Howard on 6 May 2005, when he announced that he would be stepping down as Leader of the Conservative Party in the near future following the party's third succe ...

* 2016 Conservative Party leadership election *

July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election The July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election was triggered by Boris Johnson's announcement on 7 July 2022 that he would resign as Leader of the Conservative Party after a series of political controversies. The leadership ele ...

October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election The October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election was triggered by Liz Truss's announcement that she would resign as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, amid an economic and political crisis. Rishi ...

Labour Party

1922 Labour Party leadership election (UK) The 1922 Labour Party leadership election was the first leadership election for the posts of chairman and leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. Previously the position had been simply the "Chairman of the Parliamentary Lab ...

1931 Labour Party leadership election The 1931 Labour Party leadership election took place after the expulsion of incumbent Leader Ramsay MacDonald from the Labour Party. As Labour leader, MacDonald had been prime minister in 1924 and from 1929 to 1931, until he became head of a Na ...

1932 Labour Party leadership election The 1932 Labour Party leadership election took place after the defeat of the Labour Party in the 1931 general election and the defeat in his own constituency of the party leader, Arthur Henderson. Labour was reduced from 287 members to 46 membe ...

* 1935 Labour Party leadership election * 1955 Labour Party leadership election *

1960 Labour Party leadership election The 1960 Labour Party leadership election was held when, for the first time since 1955, the incumbent leader Hugh Gaitskell was challenged for re-election. Normally the annual re-election of the leader had been a formality. Gaitskell had lost t ...

* 1961 Labour Party leadership election *

1963 Labour Party leadership election (UK) The 1963 Labour Party leadership election was held following the death of Hugh Gaitskell, party leader since 1955. He died on 18 January 1963 and was succeeded (on a temporary basis) by deputy leader George Brown. In 1963 the Labour leader wa ...

* 1976 Labour Party leadership election *

1980 Labour Party leadership election (UK) The 1980 Labour Party leadership election was held following the resignation of James Callaghan, who had been Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979 and had stayed on as leader of the Labour Party for eighteen months in order to oversee an orderly tr ...

1983 Labour Party leadership election (UK) The 1983 Labour Party leadership election was an election in the United Kingdom for the leadership of the Labour Party. It occurred when then leader Michael Foot resigned after winning only 209 seats at the 1983 general election, a loss of 60 ...

* 1988 Labour Party leadership election (UK) * 1992 Labour Party leadership election *

1994 Labour Party leadership election A Labour Party leadership election was held on 21 July 1994 after the sudden death of the incumbent leader, John Smith, on 12 May. Tony Blair won the leadership and became Prime Minister after winning the 1997 general election. The election ...

2007 Labour Party leadership election (UK) A Labour Party leadership election was formally triggered on 10 May 2007 by the resignation of Tony Blair, Labour Leader since the previous leadership contest on 21 July 1994. At the same time that Blair resigned, John Prescott resigned as D ...

2010 Labour Party leadership election (UK) A Labour Party leadership election was triggered by a general election which resulted in a hung parliament; the first since 1974. The previous Labour leader, Gordon Brown, resigned as Leader of the Labour Party on 10 May and as Prime Minist ...

2015 Labour Party leadership election (UK) The 2015 Labour Party leadership election was an internal Labour Party poll which was triggered by the resignation of Ed Miliband as Leader of the Labour Party on 8 May 2015, following the party's defeat at the 2015 general election. Harriet ...

2016 Labour Party leadership election (UK) The 2016 Labour Party leadership election was called when a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party arose following criticism of his approach to the Remain campaign in the referendum on membership of the European Union and q ...

Liberal Party/Social Democrats/Liberal Democrats

1967 Liberal Party leadership election The 1967 Liberal Party leadership election was called following the resignation of Jo Grimond, in the wake of disappointing results in the 1966 general election. Background There were three candidates (Jeremy Thorpe, Emlyn Hooson and Eric Lubbo ...

1976 Liberal Party leadership election The 1976 Liberal Party leadership election was called following the resignation of Jeremy Thorpe in the wake of allegations which would eventually lead to Thorpe's trial and acquittal for conspiracy to murder in 1979. Background There were two c ...

1982 Social Democratic Party leadership election The 1982 Social Democratic Party leadership election was called following the formation of the Social Democratic Party (UK), Social Democratic Party (SDP). The party had been founded by the Social Democratic Party (UK)#Creation of the SDP, Gang o ...

1988 Social and Liberal Democrats leadership election The 1988 Social and Liberal Democrats leadership election was called following the formation of the then Social and Liberal Democrats (later changing their name to ''Liberal Democrats''). It was intended to replace the two interim leaders, David S ...

* 1999 Liberal Democrats leadership election *

2006 Liberal Democrats leadership election In the 2006 Liberal Democrats leadership election, Menzies Campbell, Sir Menzies Campbell was elected to succeed Charles Kennedy as Leader of the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats, the third-largest political party in the United Kingdom. ...

2007 Liberal Democrats leadership election The 2007 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held following the resignation of Sir Menzies Campbell as leader on 15 October 2007, after 19 months as leader of the Liberal Democrats, the third-largest political party in the United Kingdom. ...

2015 Liberal Democrats leadership election The 2015 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held on 16 July 2015 following the resignation of Nick Clegg as leader on 8 May 2015, after almost eight years as leader of the Liberal Democrats, following the party's poor performance at the ...

2017 Liberal Democrats leadership election The 2017 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held following the resignation of Tim Farron as leader on 14 June 2017, after just under two years as leader of the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats. At the close of applications on 20 ...

2019 Liberal Democrats leadership election The 2019 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held following the announcement of the resignation of Vince Cable as leader on 24 May 2019, after just under two years as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom. The two candidat ...

Africa

South Africa

African National Congress

54th National Conference of the African National Congress The 54th National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) took place from 16 to 20 December 2017 at the Johannesburg Expo Centre in Nasrec, Gauteng. At the conference, the ANC elected its National Executive Committee (NEC) and other top ...

Democratic Alliance

2020 Democratic Alliance Federal Congress The Democratic Alliance (DA) held its leadership conference virtually between 31 October and 1 November 2020. It was originally scheduled to be held in May 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The previous congress was held in 2 ...

Asia

Republic of China (Taiwan)

Democratic Progressive Party

2006 Democratic Progressive Party chairmanship election The 2006 Democratic Progressive Party chairmanship by-election was held on January 15, 2006 in Taiwan. It was the tenth chairmanship election conducted by the party. In December 2005, chairperson Su Tseng-chang resigned as a result of failing to w ...

2008 Democratic Progressive Party chairmanship election The 2008 Democratic Progressive Party chairmanship election took place on May 18, 2008. The election date was announced by chairperson Frank Hsieh after losing the presidential election. Candidates Three members expressed their desire to run fo ...

Kuomintang

2001 Kuomintang chairmanship election The 2001 Kuomintang chairmanship election () was held on 24 March 2001 in Taiwan. This was the first direct party leadership election in Kuomintang history in which all registered, due-paying party members were eligible to vote. In previous electio ...

2005 Kuomintang chairmanship election The 2005 Kuomintang chairmanship election () was held on July 16, 2005 in Taiwan between Ma Ying-jeou and Wang Jin-pyng. The election was triggered by the retirement of chairman Lien Chan. This was the second direct election of the chairman in Ku ...

2007 Kuomintang chairmanship election The 2007 Kuomintang chairmanship by-election () was held on 7 April 2007 in Taiwan between Wu Po-hsiung and Hung Hsiu-chu. This was the third direct election of the chairman in the Kuomintang history. All registered, due-paying KMT party members w ...

* 2009 Kuomintang chairmanship election * 2013 Kuomintang chairmanship election * 2015 Kuomintang chairmanship election * 2016 Kuomintang chairmanship election * 2017 Kuomintang chairmanship election *

2020 Kuomintang chairmanship election The 2020 Kuomintang chairmanship by-election () was held on 7 March 2020. This was the ninth direct election of the party leader in Kuomintang history. All registered, due-paying KMT party members were eligible to vote. Background Kuomintang can ...

* 2021 Kuomintang chairmanship election

Israel

Israeli Labor Party

1992 Israeli Labor Party leadership election The 1992 Israeli Labor Party leadership election was held on 20 February 1992 to elect the leader of the Israeli Labor Party. The winner was Yitzhak Rabin, who defeated incumbent Shimon Peres, as well as Yisrael Kessar and Ora Namir. The leadershi ...

2007 Israeli Labor Party leadership election A leadership election was held by the Israeli Labor Party on 12 June 2007, to elect the party's new leader, due to internal dissatisfaction with the incumbent chairman Amir Peretz. The winner was Ehud Barak. History Five candidates ran in the el ...

2011 Israeli Labor Party leadership election Following the departure of Ehud Barak from the membership and leadership of the Israeli Labor Party, a leadership election was called. Election rules Leadership elections in the Israeli Labor Party happen in a two round vote, with the two leadin ...

2013 Israeli Labor Party leadership election As a result of the party failing to enter the government after a poor performance in the 2013 Israeli legislative election, legislative election in the previous January, a leadership election for the Israeli Labor Party was held on 22 November 20 ...

* 2017 Israeli Labor Party leadership election *

2019 Israeli Labor Party leadership election The 2019 Israeli Labor Party leadership election was held following the announcement of the resignation of Avi Gabbay as leader of the Israeli Labor Party, Labor Party on 7 June 2019, after almost two years as leader, which he led into its worst ...

2021 Israeli Labor Party leadership election The 2021 Israeli Labor Party leadership election was held on 24 January 2021 in the lead-up to the 2021 Israeli legislative election. The candidates were Merav Michaeli, Avi Shaked, Yitzhak Taym, Gil Beilin, Navah Katz, David Landsman, and Ofer ...

Kadima

2008 Kadima leadership election An election for the leadership of Kadima was held on 17 September 2008 as a concession to Kadima's coalition partner, Labour, which had threatened to bring down the government if Prime Minister Ehud Olmert didn't stand aside following police inve ...

2012 Kadima leadership election An election for the leadership of Kadima was held on 27 March 2012, pitting Tzipi Livni against Shaul Mofaz. Mofaz won with 62% of the vote. Background In November 2011, the three candidates opposed to Tzipi Livni in 2008 called for a primary to ...

Likud

2012 Likud leadership election An election for the leadership of Likud was held on 31 January 2012. Background Incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu was expected from the beginning, failing a political crisis to run for re-election. Silvan Shalom and Moshe Feiglin were touted as pot ...

2014 Likud leadership election A leadership election was held by the Likud party on 31 December 2014. It was won by incumbent Prime Minister and leader of Likud Benjamin Netanyahu. Background Incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu was expected from the beginning to run for re-electio ...

* 2019 Likud leadership election

Oceania

Australia

Australian Labor Party

* 2019 Australian Labor Party leadership election *

October 2013 Australian Labor Party leadership election A leadership election was held in October 2013 to select Kevin Rudd's replacement as leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition. Bill Shorten was elected party leader, and Tanya Plibersek was later confirmed as deputy lea ...

New Zealand

New Zealand Labour Party

* 2017 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election * 2014 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election

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North America

Canada

Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated south of ...

Europe

Croatia

Social Democratic Party of Croatia

Finland

Germany

Greece

Ireland

Fine Gael

Labour Party

Fianna Fáil

Italy

Democratic Party

Netherlands

Portugal

Spain

United Kingdom

Conservative Party

Labour Party

Liberal Party/Social Democrats/Liberal Democrats

Africa

South Africa

African National Congress

Democratic Alliance

Asia

Republic of China (Taiwan)

Democratic Progressive Party

Kuomintang

Israel

Israeli Labor Party

Kadima

Likud

Oceania

Australia

Australian Labor Party

New Zealand

New Zealand Labour Party

See also

References