The 2019 United Nations Security Council election was held on 7 June during the
73rd session of the
United Nations
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General Assembly
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Churches
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, held at
United Nations Headquarters
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in
New York City
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. The elections are for five non-permanent seats on the
UN Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the Organs of the United Nations, six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international security, international peace and security, recommending the admi ...
for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 2020.
In accordance with the Security Council's rotation rules, whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the
various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats are allocated as follows:
*Two for
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
*One for the
Asia
Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an are ...
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Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...
Group
*One for
Latin America
Latin America or
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and the
Caribbean
*One for the
Eastern European Group
The five members will serve on the Security Council for the 2020–21 period.
Notably,
St. Vincent and the Grenadines set a new record as the smallest ever Security Council member. Both
St. Vincent and the Grenadines and
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
were elected to the Council for the first time.
Candidates
African Group
* (withdrawn)
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Asia-Pacific Group
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Eastern European Group
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Latin American and Caribbean Group
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Results
African and Asia-Pacific Groups
Latin American and Caribbean Group
Eastern European Group
See also
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List of members of the United Nations Security Council
Membership of the United Nations Security Council is held by the five permanent members and ten elected, non-permanent members. Prior to 1966, there were six elected members, while the permanent members have in essence not changed since the creat ...
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European Union and the United Nations
The European Union (EU) has had permanent observer status at the United Nations (UN) since 1974, and has had enhanced participation rights since 2011. The EU itself does not have voting rights but it is represented alongside its 27 members, on ...
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2019 in the United Nations
The following lists events that happened with or in collaboration with the United Nations and its agencies in the year 2019.
Leadership
Secretary General of the United Nations
António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres ()
Deputy Secretary Gen ...
References
External links
Results of the election on YouTube
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2019 elections
2019
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Non-partisan elections