About The Election Atlas

An independent, hand-curated guide to the world’s elections — built as a personal project, not by a newsroom or media company.

The Election Atlas tracks national elections and referendums as they happen through 2026, and increasingly into 2027. The goal is a clear, single place to see when a country votes, what’s actually at stake, and where to find trustworthy sources — without having to dig through scattered news coverage yourself.

National-level elections and referendums: presidential, parliamentary, and constitutional votes. Ordinary local or municipal elections are out of scope — with occasional exceptions, like Germany’s state (Landtag) elections, which carry real national political weight. Territories, indirectly-elected positions, and supranational votes (like the European Parliament) are tracked too, marked with their own categories so it’s clear how they differ from a country’s own national vote.

Tiers are an editorial judgment about likely international significance — not a ranking of how much a country’s own election matters to the people voting in it.

Where possible, each election links to an official source (the country’s own electoral authority), at least one independent English-language source, and its Wikipedia page. Results are recorded with the date they were checked — shown as “last checked” on each election’s page — so it’s clear how fresh the information is. Updating results and sources is currently a manual process; an automated update pipeline is planned but not live yet.

This is a one-person project and mistakes happen. If something looks wrong or out of date, open an issue on the GitHub repository and it’ll get fixed.

Built and maintained by Lars Sandberg as a personal side project — not affiliated with any news organization, political party, or government.