The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by PM Sanae Takaichi, won a landslide, securing 316 of 465 seats together with coalition partner Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation Party) — a two-thirds supermajority and the largest single-party seat count in postwar Japan. The main opposition Centrist Reform Alliance won 49 seats. Takaichi was re-elected prime minister.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Tarique Rahman, won a decisive two-thirds majority in the 13th parliamentary election. In the simultaneous referendum, voters approved the July Charter constitutional reform package, 68.3% to 31.7%.

The opposition Tisza Party, led by Péter Magyar, won a landslide with 141 of 199 seats (a two-thirds supermajority), ending Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule. Fidesz-KDNP fell to 52 seats. Magyar was sworn in as prime minister in May 2026.

The military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) won an overwhelming majority in the three-phase election, taking 739 of 1,025 seats across both chambers, amid a boycott by major opposition groups and condemnation from the UN and rights groups as a sham vote to entrench military rule.

President Yoweri Museveni won a seventh term with 71.65% of the vote, his strongest result since 1996, extending his rule to 40 years. Main challenger Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine) of the National Unity Platform received 24.72%. The vote was held amid an internet blackout and post-election violence.

The Bhumjaithai Party of PM Anutin Charnvirakul surged to 192 of 500 House seats (from 71), the largest party but short of a majority. The People's Party fell to 120 seats and Pheu Thai to 74. In the simultaneous referendum, 58.64% of voters backed replacing the 2017 military-era constitution.

The newly formed Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), led by Kathmandu mayor Balen Shah, won a landslide with 182 of 275 seats — up from 20 — following the 2025 Gen Z protests that toppled the Oli government. Nepali Congress fell to 38 seats and CPN-UML to 25, its worst-ever result.

Right-wing outsider Abelardo de la Espriella narrowly defeated leftist senator Iván Cepeda in a 21 June runoff, 49.66% to 48.70% — becoming the most-voted presidential candidate in Colombian history and continuing a rightward trend across Latin America. President Petro alleged fraud but ultimately recognized the result.

Voters approved a new constitution by 89.86% in a 15 March referendum, replacing the bicameral parliament with a unicameral Kurultai and reinstating the vice-presidency. In the first Kurultai election on 23 August, the new pro-presidential Adilet party (successor to Amanat) won 71.17% of the vote and 110 of 145 seats.

A near dead-heat: PM Robert Golob's governing Freedom Movement narrowly remained the largest single party (29 seats) ahead of Janez Janša's Slovenian Democratic Party (28 seats), but Janša's SDS assembled a broader 43-seat coalition with NSi–SLS–Fokus and Democrats, and Janša was elected prime minister.

In a snap election called amid the Greenland/Trump standoff, PM Mette Frederiksen's 'red bloc' won a narrow 84–77 seat lead over the 'blue bloc' but fell short of the 90-seat majority — the Social Democrats' worst result since 1903. The centrist Moderates (14 seats) became likely kingmakers in coalition talks.

Keiko Fujimori (Popular Force) narrowly won the 7 June runoff against left-wing lawmaker Roberto Sánchez, 50.48% to 49.52%, after leading a fragmented first-round field of 35 candidates with just 17% of the vote. The election was marred by vote-counting delays that forced the electoral chief's resignation.

In Bulgaria's seventh snap election since 2021, former president Rumen Radev's new Progressive Bulgaria coalition won decisively with 43.91% of the vote and 131 of 240 seats, ending a five-year political crisis. Boyko Borisov's GERB-SDS fell to second place with 39 seats.

In Guinea's first legislative election since the 2021 coup, junta leader Mamady Doumbouya's Generation for Modernity and Development (GMD) coalition won a large majority with 64% of the vote and 93 of 147 seats (over 100 with allies). Major opposition parties were dissolved before the vote and observers noted low turnout amid a broader democratic-transition process widely criticized as tightly controlled.

PM Abiy Ahmed's ruling Prosperity Party won a landslide, taking 438 of 486 contested seats (about 90%) in the House of Peoples' Representatives, the National Election Board announced. Voting could not take place in the Tigray region, and the vote occurred amid persistent security concerns in Amhara and continued criticism of shrinking political space for the opposition.

PM Nikol Pashinyan's Civil Contract party won outright with 49.89% of the vote and 64 of 101 seats (including minority-reserved seats), enabling it to form a government alone. Samvel Karapetyan's pro-Russian Strong Armenia alliance placed second with 29 seats, and Robert Kocharyan's Armenia Alliance won 12 — the first general election since Armenia's 2023 military defeat by Azerbaijan.

In Kosovo's third general election in 16 months, PM Albin Kurti's Vetëvendosje again finished first with roughly 47% of the vote and 53 of 120 seats, but again fell short of a majority, extending the country's prolonged government-formation deadlock. PDK placed second (22 seats), followed by LDK (18) and AAK (7).

President Tebboune's allied parties (FLN, RND and the Future Front) won a combined working majority in the 407-seat People's National Assembly, with the FLN alone taking 91 seats, on the lowest turnout (around 21%) in Algeria's history, held amid an ongoing cost-of-living crisis.

President Hakainde Hichilema won re-election outright with 61.4% of the vote, against 38% for challenger Brian Mundubile, avoiding a runoff. The vote was marred by a temporary nationwide suspension of counting after attacks on election officials and theft of ballot papers, and the post-election period saw arrests of opposition figures.

Voters approved a new constitution expanding presidential powers by roughly 70% to 30% in an 30 August referendum called by the military junta that seized power in a November 2025 coup. The main opposition party, PAIGC, boycotted the vote. The referendum precedes presidential and legislative elections scheduled for 6 December 2026, which had not yet taken place as of this writing.

Red-Green bloc wins 175–174 seats; Social Democrats 28%, Moderates 20%. Magdalena Andersson expected as PM. Preliminary results.

Centre-left Socialist António José Seguro won the presidential runoff by a landslide, 66.84% to 33.16%, over far-right Chega leader André Ventura — the first runoff in a Portuguese presidential election since 1986, and the widest margin ever recorded.

Right-wing populist Laura Fernández, the outgoing president's chosen successor, won the presidency outright in the first round with 48.53% of the vote, avoiding a runoff. Her party (PPSO) also won a plurality of 31 of 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly.

Commonwealth observers praised the election as peaceful and credible.

PM Mia Mottley's Barbados Labour Party won all 30 seats in the House of Assembly for a third consecutive landslide (69.83% of the vote), sweeping the opposition Democratic Labour Party entirely out of parliament again.

In a one-party election not considered free or fair, the ruling Lao People's Revolutionary Party won 169 of 175 National Assembly seats, with the remainder going to independents.

Of the four referendum dates in 2026: on 8 March, voters rejected a strict 'right to cash' initiative (54.4% No) but approved a softer counter-proposal (73.4% Yes); on 14 June, voters rejected the SVP's population-cap 'No to 10 million Switzerland' initiative (54.8% No) and approved a tightening of civilian-service rules (52.5% Yes). The September and November votes cover separate, later ballot questions.

In a single-candidate-per-constituency 'show election', the Workers' Party of Korea and allies won all 687 seats with a reported 99.93% of votes cast, on a reported 99.99% turnout.

President Denis Sassou Nguesso, in power since 1997 (and earlier 1979–1992), was re-elected to a fifth term with 94.9% of the vote amid an opposition boycott, arrests of activists and a nationwide internet blackout on election day.

The Communist Party of Vietnam and allied Fatherland Front candidates won 482 of 500 National Assembly seats on a reported 99.7% turnout; Lê Minh Hưng was elected prime minister by the new assembly.

Italians rejected PM Giorgia Meloni's constitutional justice reform (separating judicial/prosecutorial careers) by roughly 53.6% to 46.4%, on turnout of about 59% — Meloni's first major political defeat since taking office in 2022.

Voters rejected, 68.7% to 31.3%, President Mohamed Muizzu's proposed constitutional amendment to hold presidential and parliamentary elections concurrently from 2028 — widely read as a mid-term rebuke of his administration.

President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, in power since 1999, was re-elected to a sixth term with 97.81% of the vote against a single token challenger, after age limits on the presidency were scrapped in 2025.

Commonwealth Observer Group found the election was conducted in a peaceful, orderly and transparent manner.

PM Gaston Browne's Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party won a fourth consecutive term in a landslide, taking 15 of 17 House of Representatives seats — a larger majority than its 2023 win.

PM Philip Davis's Progressive Liberal Party won a second consecutive term, 33 of 41 House of Assembly seats, making Davis the first Bahamian PM to win back-to-back terms since 1997.

The opposition African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV) unseated the ruling Movement for Democracy, winning 37 of 72 National Assembly seats (48.0%); PAICV leader Francisco Carvalho became prime minister-designate. A separate presidential election was scheduled for 15 November.

DISY remained the largest party (17 of 56 contested seats, 27.2%) ahead of AKEL (15 seats), but the far-right ELAM surged to 8 seats (+4) and new anti-establishment parties ALMA and ADK each won 4, fragmenting parliament further and weakening parties aligned with President Christodoulides.

PM Robert Abela's Labour Party won a historic fourth consecutive term (51.77% of the vote), the first party to do so since universal suffrage began in Malta in 1921, though its margin over the Nationalist Party (44.68%) narrowed sharply from 2022.

Voters overwhelmingly backed both referendum questions (abolishing lifetime pensions for former leaders, ~94%; restoring the Special Prosecutor's Office, ~92%), but the result was not legally binding because turnout was only 16.1%, far short of the required 50%.

Incumbent President Carlos Vila Nova, running as an independent after splitting with the party that first elected him, won a second term outright in the first round with 55.94% of the vote, defeating his former ally Nito Abreu. Legislative and local elections followed on 27 September.

Icelanders voted 52.8% to 47.2% against resuming EU accession negotiations suspended since 2013, a setback for Brussels and likely closing the question until at least 2028. Iceland remains in the European Economic Area and Schengen regardless.

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