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National elections 2017 worldwide

The elections listed below took place in 2017 . The list does not claim to be complete.
Some of the elections listed were not conducted according to internationally recognized democratic standards. Some were bogus elections ; there was also election fraud . Often not all competing candidates or parties had equal access to the country's mass media . The freedom of the press is restricted in many countries around the world (see also the ranking of press freedom ).

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country	date	Election 2017	last choice	comment
European Union	Jan. 17	Election of the President of the European Parliament	2014
Japan	Jan. 22	Yamagata gubernatorial election	2013
Haiti	Jan. 29	second round of the Senate election in Haiti
Japan	Jan. 29	Gifu gubernatorial election	2013
Liechtenstein	Feb 5	State election in Liechtenstein	2013
Austria	Feb 5	Municipal council election in Graz	2012	Early election
Somalia	Feb 8	Presidential election in Somalia
Germany	Feb 12	Election of the Federal President in Germany	2012
Switzerland	Feb 12	Referendum in Switzerland	List of federal referendums
Turkmenistan	Feb 12	Presidential election in Turkmenistan
Indonesia	Feb 15	Jakarta gubernatorial election
Ecuador	19 Feb	Presidential and parliamentary elections in Ecuador	2013
United Kingdom	23 Feb	By-election in England a. a. in Stoke-on-Trent
Northern Ireland	2nd March	Election to the Northern Ireland Assembly	2016	Early election
Micronesia	7th March	Congressional election in the Federated States of Micronesia	2015
Netherlands	March, 15	Parliamentary election in the Netherlands	2012
Switzerland	19th March	Election of the State Council for the Canton of Valais
Bulgaria	26th of March	Parliamentary election in Bulgaria	2014	early election in spring
Germany	26th of March	State election in Saarland	2012
Hong Kong	26th of March	Election of the chief administrator of Hong Kong	2012	Direct election ( s ) for the first time
Japan	26th of March	Chiba gubernatorial election	2013
Somaliland	27th of March	Presidential and parliamentary elections in Somaliland	2005 / 2010
Ecuador	2nd of April	Runoff election of the presidential election in Ecuador	2013
Serbia	2nd of April	Presidential election in Serbia	2012
Armenia	2nd of April	Parliamentary election in Armenia	2012
Japan	9th April	Akita gubernatorial election	2013
Turkey	April 16	Referendum in Turkey	2010	on the Constitution of Turkey ( en )
East Timor	20th of April	East Timor presidential election 2017	2012
France	April 23	Presidential election in France	2012	Runoff election on May 7th
Algeria	May 4th	Parliamentary election in Algeria	2012
United Kingdom	May 4th	Local election in England 2017		( en )
Germany	May 7th	State election in Schleswig-Holstein	2012
Canada	May 9	British Columbia legislative assembly election	2013
South Korea	May 9	Presidential election in South Korea	2012	early choice
Bahamas	10th of May	General election of the Bahamas 2017
Germany	May 14th	State election in North Rhine-Westphalia	2012
Iran	May 19th	Presidential election in Iran	2013
Switzerland	May 21	Referendum in Switzerland on the Energy Strategy 2050	List of federal referendums
Lesotho	3rd of June	Election of the National Assembly in Lesotho
Malta	3rd of June	General election in Malta	2013	Early parliamentary election
Cambodia	June 4th	Local election in Cambodia	2012
United Kingdom	8th June	British General Election	2015
France	June 11th	General election in France	2012
Italy	June 11th	Local election in Italy
Kosovo	June 11th	Parliamentary election in Kosovo	2014	Early election
Puerto Rico	June 11th	Referendum in Puerto Rico		Conversion to US state
France	18th of June	Second round of parliamentary elections in France	2012
United States	20th June	By-elections in Georgia and South Carolina
Papua New Guinea	June 24th - July 8th	General election in Papua New Guinea		( en )
Albania	25th June	Parliamentary election in Albania	2013
Japan	25th June	Shizuoka gubernatorial election	2013
Mongolia	June 26th	Presidential election in Mongolia		( en )
Japan	2nd July	Prefectural parliamentary election in Tokyo	2013
Japan	2nd July	Gubernatorial election in Hyogo	2013
Republic of the Congo	16th of July	1st round of parliamentary elections in the Republic of the Congo		( en )
India	17th July	Presidential election in India	2012	Vote count on July 20, 2017
East Timor	22nd of July	Parliamentary election in East Timor 2017	2012	( en )
Republic of the Congo	30th July	2nd round of parliamentary elections in the Republic of the Congo		( en )
Senegal	30th July	Election of the National Assembly in Senegal		( en , fr )
Venezuela	30th July	Election of the constituent assembly in Venezuela		( en )
Rwanda	4th Aug	Presidential election in Rwanda	2010
Kenya	Aug 8	Parliamentary and presidential elections in Kenya	2013
Angola	23 Aug	Elections to the National Assembly of Angola	2012
Japan	27 Aug	Ibaraki gubernatorial election	2013
Russia	Sep 10	Local elections in Russia
Norway	Sep 11	General election in Norway	2013
Singapore	13 Sep	Presidential election in Singapore	2011
Macau	17 Sep	General election in Macau	2013
New Zealand	23 Sep	New Zealand General Election 2017	2014
Germany	Sep 24	Bundestag election in Germany	2013
Germany	Sep 24	Referendum on the continued operation of Berlin-Tegel Airport
Switzerland	Sep 24	Referendum in Switzerland	List of federal referendums
Iraq	25 Sep	Referendum on the independence of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region	2005
Portugal	Oct. 1	Local election in Portugal
Spain	Oct. 1	Independence referendum in Catalonia
Austria	Oct. 1	Municipal council elections in Burgenland	2012
Luxembourg	Oct 8	Local elections in Luxembourg	2011
Liberia	Oct 10	Presidential election in Liberia	2011
Liberia	Oct 10	General election in Liberia	2014
Kyrgyzstan	Oct 15	1st round of the presidential election in Kyrgyzstan
Austria	Oct 15	National Council election in Austria	2013	Early election
Germany	Oct 15	State election in Lower Saxony	2013	Early election
Czech Republic	20-21 Oct	House election in the Czech Republic	2013
Slovenia	Oct. 22	Presidential election in Slovenia	2012
Argentina	Oct. 22	Parliamentary election in Argentina	2015	Primaries on August 13th
Italy	Oct. 22	Optional referendum in Lombardy
Italy	Oct. 22	Optional referendum in Veneto
Japan	Oct. 22	National general election in Japan	2014
Japan	Oct. 22	Gubernatorial election in Miyagi	2013
Kenya	Oct 26	Repetition of the presidential election in Kenya	August 2017	The election in August 2017 was canceled
Iceland	Oct 28	General election in Iceland	2016	Early election
Germany	Nov 5	Mayoral election in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
Italy	Nov 5	Regional elections in Sicily	2012
Nicaragua	Nov 5	Local elections in Nicaragua
United States	Nov 7	Gubernatorial and legislative elections in New Jersey , Virginia and New York	2013
Equatorial Guinea	Nov 12	General election in Equatorial Guinea
Japan	Nov 12	Hiroshima gubernatorial election	2013
Slovenia	Nov 12	Runoff election for the presidential election in Slovenia	2012
Somaliland	Nov 13	General election and presidential election in Somaliland
Tonga	Nov 16	General election in Tonga
Chile	19 Nov	Presidential election in Chile	2013
Germany	19 Nov	Runoff election for the mayoral election in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
Kyrgyzstan	19 Nov	2nd round of presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan
Denmark	Nov 21	Regional elections in Denmark
Honduras	Nov 26	General election and presidential election
Nepal	Nov 26	1st round of the House of Representatives election
Venezuela	December	Regional elections in Venezuela
Corsica	3 Dec	1st round of the parliamentary elections in Corsica
Nepal	7th Dec	2nd round of the 2017 House of Representatives elections in Nepal
Corsica	Dec 10	2nd round of parliamentary elections in Corsica
United States	Dec 12	Extraordinary election to the United States Senate in Alabama 2017	2014
Chile	17 Dec	Runoff election for the presidential election in Chile	2013
Spain	Dec. 21	General election in Catalonia	2015	Early election
Liberia	26 Dec	Runoff election of the presidential election in Liberia	2011

See also

• List of important election dates and terms in Germany
• List of likely election dates in Germany

Web links

Commons : Elections in 2017  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• electionguide.org
• Maximiliano Herrera elections
• ndi.org/electionscalendar
• aceproject.org
• electionworld.org
• mapsofworld
• 2017 African election calendar
• The African elections you need to keep an eye on in 2017
• Caribbean Elections
• Election dates for Germany
• Swiss voting with content , Swiss voting dates without content
• ostseeparlamentariankonferenz.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Draft agenda - Tuesday, January 17, 2017. In: europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved January 9, 2017 . 
2. ^ Elections in Haiti with low turnout, President Moise relies on Trump . In: amerika21 . ( amerika21.de [accessed October 29, 2017]).
3. ↑ State elections set for February 5, 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Election information: City council election in Graz on February 5, 2017. In: wahlinformation.at. Retrieved January 6, 2017 . 
5. ^ Bernd Dörries: Somalia. Kind of a choice. Sueddeutsche.de . February 8, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
6. ↑ Somalia. Farmajo wins presidential election. FAZ.net . February 8, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
7. ↑ Referendum on February 12, 2017. admin.ch . Retrieved November 22, 2017.
8. ^ Elections in Turkmenistan. For the first time, candidates from three parties for the post of President are in the running. TRT . February 2, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
9. ↑ Turkmenistan in the country information portal. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
10. ↑ Lena Bodewein : Islamic Indonesia. Blasphemy trial against Christian governor. Deutschlandfunk . February 8, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
11. ↑ Kevin Hagen: Labor and the Brexit Frustration: The Yes-No-Don't-Know-Party . 23rd February 2017.
12. ^ By-election in Stoke-on-Trent. Great setback for UKIP. tagesschau.de . February 24, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
13. ↑ New elections in the middle of the Brexit dispute. In: tagesschau.de. January 23, 2017. Retrieved January 16, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Great Britain. Government calls new elections for Northern Ireland. Spiegel Online . January 16, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
15. ^ New election in Northern Ireland on March 2nd. In: orf.at , January 16, 2017, accessed on November 21, 2017.
16. ^ Election for Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia. MARCH 7, 2017. In: electionguide.org. International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), accessed July 19, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Antonio Fumagalli: The Valais sends Oskar Freysinger into retirement . March 19, 2017. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
18. ↑ Freysinger voted out - Schmidt first . Valais messenger . March 19, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
19. ↑ Andrea Kucera: The Surprise of Morals . Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 20, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
20. ^ Interim premier in Bulgaria: new elections on March 26th . DerStandard.at . January 24, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
21. ↑ Nomination period for Chief Executive Election starts on February 14, 2017. Hong Kong SAR Government, December 23, 2016, accessed February 19, 2017 . 
22. ^ Ecuador. The runoff election for the presidency will take place on April 2nd . Development Policy Online. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
23. ^ Kerstin Sack: Runoff election for President in Ecuador on April 2nd . amerika21.de. February 24, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
24. ↑ Serbia elects head of state . RT . April 2, 2014. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
25. ↑ Armenia elects parliament .
26. ^ Rainer Hermann : How Erdogan's striving for omnipotence turns Turkey into a dictatorship . FAZ.net, January 23
27. ↑ Euronews: Algeria to hold parliamentary election on May 4 . Archived from the original on February 6, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2017.
28. ^ Elections in England: News on the British general election . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
29. ↑ May hits out at EU .
30. ↑ merkur.de
31. ^ Bahamas - House of Assembly: Election 2017. Inter-Parliamentary Union, accessed September 13, 2018 . 
32. ↑ The Federal Council: Energy Act (EnG) .
33. ↑ IFES Election Guide - Elections: Lesotho National Assembly .
34. ^ New elections in Malta at the beginning of June . Archived from the original on May 1, 2017. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
35. ↑ Pang Vichea: Date set for 2017 commune elections . May 25, 2016.
36. ^ Defeat for Grillo in local elections in Italy .
37. ↑ Local elections in Italy: 1,000 out of 8,000 municipalities vote - mood test before new elections in autumn. June 11, 2017, accessed June 2, 2019 . 
38. ^ Dorothea Hahn: Georgia and South Carolina: Republicans win by-elections . June 21, 2017.
39. ↑ Republican wins by-election in Georgia . June 21, 2017.
40. ↑ US by-election: Republicans win in Georgia and South Carolina .
41. ^ By-election in Georgia: US Republicans defend important congress seat . June 21, 2017.
42. ↑ tagesschau.de: Republicans triumph in by-elections in USA .
43. ^ Congressional by-elections: Republicans defend contested seats in Congress . June 21, 2017.
44. ↑ By-election in Georgia: Democrats lose Trump test election . June 21, 2017.
45. ↑ By-elections: Republicans pass important mood test . June 21, 2017.
46. ↑ IFES Election Guide - Elections: President Round 1 .
47. ↑ 兵 庫 県: 兵 庫 県 ／ 選 挙 管理 委員会 に つ い て .
48. ^ Ruling bloc-backed candidate wins Ibaraki governor race . ( Memento from August 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) The Mainichi , August 27, 2017 (English)
49. ↑ Christina Hebel: Election in Moscow: Dare to democracy in Russia . 10th September 2017.
50. ↑ Legal violations reported in elections in Russia .
51. ^ Local elections in Russia - complaints about violations of the electoral law .
52. ^ Elections in Russia: Putin's important mood test .
53. ↑ Julian Hans Moscow: Putin's challengers are old friends . 12th September 2017.
54. ↑ "United Russia" clearly ahead in regional elections . 11th September 2017.
55. ^ Norway before the parliamentary elections - refugees as an election campaign topic .
56. ↑ Election in Norway - The little ones as kingmakers .
57. ^ Norway - dispute over headscarf-wearing presenter .
58. ↑ No. 3205 - Presidential Elections Act (Chapter 240A). (PDF) Retrieved November 12, 2017 (English). 
59. ↑ Day of the Bundestag election: referendum on Tegel Airport on September 24th .
60. ↑ Referendum on September 24, 2017 . The Federal Council.
61. ↑ Iraq's head of government shows understanding for the referendum .
62. ↑ Northern Iraq: Kurds want to vote on independence . Archived from the original on June 11, 2017. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
63. ↑ Referendum: Kurds in Northern Iraq want to vote on independence .
64. ↑ Northern Iraq: Kurds want to vote on their own state .
65. ↑ Local elections 2017: Residents have the right to vote . LIP - Living in Portugal.
66. ↑ ^{a b} Regional and local elections in Europe in 2017 .
67. ↑ Britta Kollenbroich: Planned referendum: Can the Catalans get out of Spain? . September 9, 2017.
68. ↑ Julia Macher: Catalonia: Finely calculated rebellion . 11th September 2017.
69. ↑ Is Spain threatened with a coup? Catalonia wants to break away from Spain . Archived from the original on September 12, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
70. ↑ deutschlandfunk.de (only one week online)
71. ↑ There will be new elections on October 15th! In: Krone. Retrieved May 16, 2017 . 
72. ↑ The HAZ Election Trend: Questions and Answers .
73. ↑ 22 parties run for state elections . NDR.
74. ↑ State election in Lower Saxony: 22 parties want to secure the places here . Northwest Newspaper.
75. ↑ Candidate notifications for the gubernatorial election Miyagi Prefectural Election Commission (Japanese)
76. ↑ Kenyatta versus Odinga: Elections in Kenya will be repeated in mid-October. In: Spiegel Online . September 4, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2018 . 
77. ^ Kenya: Presidential election will be repeated on October 17th .
78. ↑ Jelena Ćirić: Elections Confirmed for October 28th ( en ) In: Iceland Review . September 18, 2017. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
79. ↑ ^{a b} Lübeck residents elect a new mayor . NDR.
80. ↑ ^{a b} Greens call for the election of Kathrin Weiher .
81. ↑ deutschlandfunk.de (only one week online)
82. ^ Nicaragua: ruling party consolidates power in local elections .
83. ↑ Governing party in Equatorial Guinea wins almost all mandates - NZZ . 18th November 2017.
84. ↑ Schedule for the 2017 gubernatorial election ( Memento from July 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Hiroshima Prefectural Election Commission (Japanese)
85. ↑ MGoth: Somaliland: State hands over $ 2 million to NEC . June 11, 2017. Archived from the original on July 15, 2017. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
86. ↑ Tonga's general election set for November 16 . 6th September 2017.
87. ↑ see also English Wikipedia
88. ↑ Lübeck's new mayor relies on cooperation , NDR November 20, 2017
89. ^ Kyrgyzstan: More and more candidates for the presidential election . February 28, 2017.
90. ↑ ^{a b} Nepal calls November 26 general election, emerging from upheaval . August 21, 2017.
91. ^ UNO war crimes tribunal judgment against Mladic .
92. ↑ Corsica's separatists hope for triumph in elections
93. ↑ Nepal Communist Alliance benefits from election
94. ↑ The first phase of a historic parliamentary election was held in Nepal on Sunday. ( Memento from February 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
95. ↑ Nepal: Choosing between mountains of garbage and bombs
96. ↑ Corsica's separatists hope for triumph in elections
97. ↑ Catalonia: Do Russian hackers want to influence the election? .
98. ^ Belgian public prosecutor's office demands Puigdemont extradition .
99. ↑ Rajoy calls for “massive” voter turnout in December .
100. ↑ Ex-soccer star in the runoff election for president in Liberia Münchner Merkur December 26, 2017
101. ^ Runoff election in Liberia - Ex-soccer star Weah joins ZDF December 25, 2017
102. ↑ Ex-soccer star in the runoff election for presidential office in Liberia ( Memento from December 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Stuttgarter Nachrichten , December 26, 2017
103. ↑ Fight for president Ex-soccer star Weah can hope for a runoff election in Liberia . Der Tagesspiegel , October 13, 2017