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Blue: Countries that held presidential elections in 2012

The elections and referendums listed here took place in nation states in 2012 .

Far from all of the elections listed were conducted according to internationally recognized democratic standards. This list also includes bogus elections in dictatorships with no alternative candidates or elections that have come about through massive electoral fraud or without fair, equal access of the competing candidates or parties to the mass media. 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.

Events

country	date	Election 2012	last choice	comment
Egypt	Jan. 3	Parliamentary elections in Egypt	2010	Last of three stages of the election, which began on November 28, 2011
Kiribati	Jan. 13	Presidential election in Kiribati
Taiwan	Jan. 14	Legislative yuan and presidential elections	2008 and 2008
Kazakhstan	Jan. 15	Parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan		Early parliamentary election
Finland	Jan. 22	Presidential election in Finland	2006	Runoff election on February 5th
Croatia	Jan. 22	Referendum as part of Croatia's accession negotiations with the EU
Egypt	Jan. 29	Election to Shura in Egypt	2010	1st ballot. The Majlis al-Shura is the upper house of Egypt. The election date was brought forward as a result of the 2011 revolution in Egypt .
Kuwait	Feb 2	Parliamentary elections in Kuwait	2008
Finland	Feb 5	Presidential election in Finland	2006	Runoff
India	5th - 3rd March	Regional elections in Uttar Pradesh
Egypt	Feb 14	Election to Shura in Egypt	2010	2nd ballot. Initially, three ballots were planned; the shortening to two ballots was announced on January 1, 2012.
Turkmenistan	Feb 12	Presidential election in Turkmenistan
	14.-15. Feb	Referendum in northern Kosovo
Latvia	Feb 18	Language referendum in Latvia
Yemen	Feb 21	Presidential election in Yemen	2006	The date was announced on November 27, 2011 after President Ali Abdullah Salih signed an agreement to transfer power.
Senegal	Feb 26	Presidential election in Senegal	2007	Runoff election on March 25th
Syria	Feb 26	Constitutional referendum in Syria		Because of the uprisings in Syria , Bashar al-Assad announced a referendum on a new constitution
Iran	2nd March	General election in Iran	2008
Russia	4th of March	Russian presidential elections	2008
Belize	7th March	General election in Belize	2008
Slovakia	March 10th	Parliamentary election in Slovakia	2010
El Salvador	March 11	General election in El Salvador	2009
East Timor	17. March	Presidential elections in East Timor	2007	1st ballot, runoff possible in April
Guinea-Bissau	March 18th	Presidential elections in Guinea-Bissau		Early new election due to the death of the previous President Malam Bacai Sanhá , 1st ballot. After a military coup on April 12, it was questionable whether the second ballot would take place on April 29 as planned.
Germany	March 18th	Election of the Federal President	2010	New election after Christian Wulff's resignation on February 17, 2012
Gambia	March 24th	Parliamentary elections in Gambia	2007
Germany	25th March	State election in Saarland	2009	early elections
Senegal	25th March	Presidential election in Senegal	2007	Runoff
Spain	25th March	Regional council elections in Andalusia
Myanmar	April 1st	Myanmar by-elections	2010	45 of 664 seats will be filled
South Korea	11 April	General election in South Korea	2008
France	April 22	French presidential election	2007	1st ballot, runoff on May 6th
Mali	April 22	Presidential election in Mali (canceled)		April date canceled after military coup
United Kingdom	May 3rd	Local elections and mayoral elections London
Iran	May 4th	Runoff election of the parliamentary election in Iran	2008
Armenia	May 6th	Parliamentary elections
Germany	May 6th	State election in Schleswig-Holstein	2009	early elections
France	May 6th	French presidential election	2007	Runoff between François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy
Greece	May 6th	General election in Greece	2009	early elections after the resignation of the Papandreou government in November 2011; Initially scheduled for February 19th, then held on May 6th.
Serbia	May 6th	Parliamentary elections in Serbia	2008
Serbia	May 6th	Presidential elections in Serbia	2008	early elections after the resignation of President Boris Tadić on April 5, 2012
Italy	6-7 May	Partial local elections in Italy
Syria	May 7th	General election in Syria	2007	The date for the new election of the Syrian People's Council was announced on March 8, 2012 by President Bashar al-Assad .
Algeria	10th of May	Parliamentary election in Algeria	2007
Germany	May 13th	State election in North Rhine-Westphalia	2010	Early election after the state parliament's dissolution on March 14, 2012.
Dominican Republic	May 20th	Presidential election in the Dominican Republic	2008
Serbia	May 20th	Runoff election of the presidential election in Serbia	2008	early elections after the resignation of President Boris Tadić on April 5, 2012
Egypt	23. May	Presidential election in Egypt	2005
Madagascar	May 24th	General election in Madagascar	2006	Date postponed 2012
Madagascar	May 24th	Presidential election in Madagascar	2006	originally planned for 2011, 2012 postponed
Lesotho	May 26	General election in Lesotho	2007
Ireland	31. May	Referendum on the European Fiscal Compact
United States	June 5th	Wisconsin gubernatorial election	2010
Japan	June 10th	General election in Okinawa Prefecture
France	June 10th	General election in France	2007	1st round of voting
Egypt	16.-17. June	Egyptian presidential election		Runoff election between Mohammed Morsi ( Freedom and Justice Party ) and the independent candidate Ahmad Schafiq , former Prime Minister and Minister under the ousted President Husni Mubarak
France	17th of June	French parliamentary elections	2007	2nd round of voting
Greece	17th of June	General election in Greece	May 2012	Early elections only six weeks after the election on May 6, 2012, which did not result in a governable majority
Papua New Guinea	June 24th	Parliamentary elections in Papua New Guinea
Mongolia	June 28th	Parliamentary election in Mongolia ( s )	2008
Iceland	June 30th	Presidential election in Iceland	2008
Mexico	July 1	General election in Mexico	2006	Elections to the Senate and the House of Representatives
Mexico	July 1	Presidential election in Mexico	2006
Senegal	July 1	Parliamentary elections in Senegal	2007
Libya	7th of July	Election to the Constituent Assembly of Libya
East Timor	7th of July	Parliamentary elections in East Timor
Republic of the Congo	15th of July	Parliamentary elections in the Republic of the Congo	2007
India	July 19	Presidential election in India	2007
	July 19	Presidential election in Nagorno-Karabakh
Romania	29th of July	Referendum on the impeachment of Romanian President Traian Băsescu ( en )		State crisis in Romania in 2012
Angola	31 Aug	General election in Angola
Hong Kong	Sep 9	Parliamentary elections in Hong Kong
Somalia	Sep 10	Presidential elections in Somalia
Netherlands	Sep 12	Dutch parliamentary elections	2010	early parliamentary elections after the government resigned on April 23, 2012
Belarus	23 Sep	Parliamentary election in Belarus	2008
Georgia	Oct. 1	Parliamentary elections in Georgia	2008
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Oct 7	Local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Austria	Oct 7	Municipal council elections in Burgenland
Venezuela	Oct 7	Presidential election in Venezuela	2006	The election was brought forward by 2 months
Czech Republic	12-13 Oct	Partial elections to the Czech Senate	2010	Regular election of a third of the Senate - 1st round
Belgium	Oct 14	Local and provincial council elections in Belgium
Lithuania	Oct 14	Parliamentary election in Lithuania	2008
Lithuania	Oct 14	Referendum on the construction of a nuclear power plant
Montenegro	Oct 14	Parliamentary election in Montenegro	2009
Russia	Oct 14	Russia : gubernatorial election and votes on new regional parliaments and mayors
Czech Republic	19. – 20. Oct	Partial elections to the Czech Senate	2010	Regular election of a third of the Senate - runoff elections
Palestine	Oct. 20	Local elections
Spain	Oct 21	Regional elections in Galicia and early elections to the regional parliament in the Basque Country
Brazil	Oct 28	Mayoral elections in 50 major Brazilian cities by a total of 32 million people
Chile	Oct 28	Local elections in Chile
Finland	Oct 28	Local elections in Finland	2008
Italy	Oct 28	Regional elections in Sicily
Lithuania	Oct 28	Runoff election of the parliamentary elections in Lithuania	2008
Ukraine	Oct 28	Ukrainian parliamentary elections	2007
Austria	Nov 4	Runoff election for direct mayor elections in Burgenland
Palau	Nov 6	Presidential election in Palau
United States	Nov 6	Presidential election in the United States	2008
United States	Nov 6	Election to the United States House of Representatives	2010
United States	Nov 6	Senate elections in the United States	2010	Choice of 33 Class I seats
United States	Nov 6	United States gubernatorial elections	2008	11 states, plus Puerto Rico and American Samoa
Nicaragua	Nov 5	Local elections in Nicaragua
United States	Nov 6	Status referendum in Puerto Rico
Turks and Caicos Islands	Nov 9	Elections in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Ireland	Nov 10	Referendum on new children's rights
San Marino	Nov 11	General election in San Marino	2008
Slovenia	Nov 11	Presidential election in Slovenia
England and Wales	Nov 15	Election of police and detective officers
Sierra Leone	Nov 17	Presidential election in Sierra Leone	2007
Sierra Leone	Nov 17	Parliamentary election in Sierra Leone
Japan	Nov 18	Gubernatorial elections in Tochigi
Spain	Nov 25	Early elections to the regional parliament in Catalonia	2010
Algeria	Nov 29	Local elections in Algeria
Kuwait	Dec 1	Parliamentary elections in Kuwait	2008
Burkina Faso	Dec 2	Parliamentary and local elections in Burkina Faso	2010
Slovenia	Dec 2	Runoff election for the presidential election in Slovenia
Ghana	7th Dec	General election in Ghana	2008
Ghana	7th Dec	Presidential election in Ghana	2008
Romania	9 Dec	Parliamentary elections in Romania	2008 ( en )
Egypt	Dec 15	Constitutional referendum
Japan	16 Dec	General election in Japan	2009
Venezuela	16 Dec	Regional elections in Venezuela
South Korea	19 Dec	Presidential election in South Korea	2007
Egypt	22 Dec	2nd round of the constitutional referendum
Switzerland		Elections in several cantons		Vaud , Schwyz , St. Gallen , Uri , Thurgau , Aargau , Basel-Stadt , Schaffhausen
Japan		Gubernatorial elections in at least eight prefectures, mayoral elections in the government-designated city of Kyoto		Kumamoto , Kagoshima , Yamaguchi , Niigata , Toyama , Okayama , Tochigi , Tokyo

See also

• Elections in the United States in 2012

Web links

Commons : Elections in 2012  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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9. ^ Trial of strength in northern Kosovo
10. ^ Arab Spring - Yemen Gets Transitional Government , Spiegel Online, November 28, 2011
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13. ↑ Iran . aussaertiges-amt.de
14. ^ Military coups in Guinea-Bissau . Zeit Online , April 13, 2012
15. ^ Runoff elections in Senegal - permanent President Wade admits defeat , Spiegel Online, March 26, 2012
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29. ↑ The Schleswig-Holstein State Constitutional Court ruled on August 30, 2010 - LVerfG 1/10 - ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) ordered that the state election law is to be revised by May 31, 2011 and then a new election is to be brought about by September 30, 2012. 
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40. ↑ afri-russ-archiv.blog.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
41. ↑ nachrichten.yahoo.com ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
42. ^ Adrian Lobe: Referendum: The Fiscal Compact divides Ireland. In: Zeit Online. May 21, 2012, accessed May 24, 2012 . 
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44. ↑ AFP  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
45. ↑ DPA ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
46. ^ Dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH: Papua New Guinea votes in political chaos. In: welt.de . June 23, 2012, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
47. ^ Elections in Papua New Guinea started off peacefully. In: derStandard.at. June 23, 2012, accessed December 4, 2017 . 
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55. ↑ Election date set for September 12th. Department of General Affairs, Department of Internal Affairs and Kingdom Relations, April 27, 2012, accessed April 28, 2012 . 
56. ↑ Rutte tenders government's resignation. Department of General Affairs, April 23, 2012, accessed April 28, 2012 . 
57. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education .
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59. ↑ dw.de
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80. ↑ electionguide.org
81. ↑ be24.at ( Memento of the original dated November 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
82. ↑ Dead in civil unrest in Nicaragua
83. ↑ gaelnet.de ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
84. ↑ SanMarinoNotizie Elezioni San Marino 2012 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
85. ↑ ^{a b} Presidential election in Slovenia has started. In: news.orf.at. November 10, 2012, accessed November 15, 2018 . 
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105. ↑ were elected Chamber of Deputies and Senate .
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