2007 elections
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The elections and referendums listed here took place in 2007 or were scheduled for the date shown.
Far from all of the elections listed here were conducted according to internationally recognized democratic standards. It also includes sham elections in dictatorships without alternative candidates or elections whose results were achieved through massive electoral fraud or without fair, equal access of the competing candidates or parties to the mass media . The adjacent maps are intended to provide an orientation. It tries to roughly classify the countries of the world in 2007 according to their degree of democracy according to the - in some cases controversial - criteria of the Freedom House Index .
Due to the large number of elections that are held worldwide each year, the list cannot claim to be exhaustive. In any case, the aim is to list all elections of at least national importance. The following elections took place in 2007 :
Africa
- The Gambia 2007 parliamentary elections took place on January 25, 2007 .
- On February 17th the parliamentary elections in Lesotho 2007
- The 2007 presidential elections in Nigeria took place on April 14, 2007 and April 21, 2007 .
- The parliamentary elections in Algeria 2007 took place on May 17, 2007 .
- Parliamentary elections were held in Morocco on September 7, 2007 .
- The 2007 presidential election in Ethiopia took place on October 9, 2007 .
- On December 27th the parliamentary elections in Kenya 2007
- On December 27, 2007 Kenya’s presidential election
- a constitutional referendum in Egypt in 2007
- the 2007 shura election in Egypt
- the 2007 general election in Benin
- the 2007 parliamentary elections in Burkina Faso
- the parliamentary elections in Cameroon 2007
- the 2007 parliamentary elections in the Republic of the Congo
- the 2007 gubernatorial elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- the 2007 Senate elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- the 2007 parliamentary elections in Madagascar
- the 2007 parliamentary elections in Mali
- the 2007 presidential election in Mali
- the parliamentary elections in Mauritania 2007
- the Senate elections in Mauritania in 2007
- the parliamentary elections in Senegal 2007
- the 2007 presidential election in Senegal
- the Senate elections in Senegal in 2007
- the parliamentary elections in the Seychelles 2007
- the parliamentary elections in Sierra Leone 2007
- the 2007 presidential election of Sierra Leone
- the parliamentary elections in Togo 2007
America and the Caribbean
- On September 3, 2007 the parliamentary elections took place in Jamaica .
- On September 9, 2007, Guatemala held the 2007 presidential election .
- The 2007 United States gubernatorial election took place in October 2007 and November 2007 .
Asia
- Uniform regional elections in Japan 2007 on April 8th and 22nd
- On July 29, 2007 was Japan the Sangiin-election in 2007 instead.
- A presidential election was held in East Timor on April 9, 2007 and May 9, 2007 .
- On May 27, 2007, Bashar al-Assad , who has been in power in Syria since June 2000, was confirmed as president in an unopposed referendum .
- A parliamentary election was held in East Timor on June 30th .
- On July 19, 2007, the presidential election took place in India .
- On December 19, 2007, the presidential election took place in South Korea .
Australia and Oceania
- From October 20 to October 24, 2007, the second referendum on Tokelau's self-determination took place in Tokelau .
- On November 24, 2007 the general election in Australia took place in 2007 .
Europe
Germany
- On May 3, 2007 the general election in Bremen took place.
Austria
- The municipal council elections in Burgenland 2007 took place on October 7, 2007 .
Switzerland
- The 2007 Swiss parliamentary elections took place on October 21, 2007 .
- The 2007 Federal Council elections took place on December 12, 2007 .
Rest of Europe
- The parliamentary elections in Serbia 2007 took place on January 21, 2007 .
- The parliamentary elections in Estonia 2007 took place on March 4, 2007 .
- On March 7, 2007, the election for the 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly took place.
- On March 11, 2007, the 2007 French presidential election took place.
- The 2007 parliamentary elections in Finland took place on March 18, 2007 .
- The Madeira 2007 regional elections took place on May 6, 2007 .
- On May 12, 2007 the general election in Iceland took place in 2007 .
- On September 16, 2007 the general election in Greece took place in 2007 .
- The parliamentary elections in Ukraine 2007 took place on September 30, 2007 .
- On October 11, 2007 the parliamentary election in Gibraltar took place in 2007 .
- The parliamentary elections in Poland 2007 took place on October 21, 2007 .
- The two rounds of the presidential election in Slovenia 2007 took place on October 21, 2007 and November 11, 2007 .
- On 13 November 2007 found Denmark the general election in 2007 instead.
- The parliamentary elections in Kosovo 2007 took place on November 17, 2007 .
- The parliamentary elections in Croatia took place on November 25, 2007 .
- The parliamentary elections in Russia 2007 took place on December 2, 2007 .
- The parliamentary elections in Turkey took place on July 22, 2007 .