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2024: Year of elections

A look ahead to some of the key votes in a year when elections covering more than 40% of the world's population will be held

7 July 2024

  • Composite image featuring (L-R) Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Claudia Sheinbaum, Shehbaz Sharif, Joe Biden, Marine Le Pen, Vladimir Putin, Maria Corina Machado, Macky Sall, Narendra Modi and Keir Starmer.

    Elections tracker 2024: every vote and why it matters

    More than 80 countries – more than half the world’s population – are voting this year in elections that could be pivotal for democracy

7 June 2024

  • From left to right: Kaja Kallas, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni, Viktor Orbán.

    What are the EU elections and why do they matter?

    Some believe little will change even with a far-right surge, but others say ballot could be defining moment for bloc

21 April 2024

  • From left to right: Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Mexico's opposition presidential candidate, Xóchitl Gálvez, Mariana Mortágua, leader of Bloco de Esquerda, Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Claudia Sheinbaum.

    More people will vote in 2024 than ever before … but where are the female candidates?

    Commitments to gender equality in politics are being tested, with just a handful of countries holding elections in which women have a reasonable chance of becoming leader

18 April 2024

  • Narendra Modi

    Six weeks, 969 million voters, 2,600 parties: India’s mammoth election explained

    The world’s most populous country prepares to go to the polls, with Narendra Modi’s BJP the frontrunner in vote that ends on 1 June

12 March 2024

  • Rigging the vote: how Putin always wins Russia's elections – video explainer

    The Guardian's Russia correspondent Andrew Roth explains the Kremlin science behind Putin's stage-managed victories – and why, despite his certainty of success, holding elections is still so significant

4 March 2024

  • Mariana Mortágua

    The right has no fixes for Portugal’s problems, says Left Bloc leader

    Mariana Mortágua warns victory in Sunday’s election could reverse social gains and mark return of ‘political bankruptcy’

22 February 2024

  • Composite image featuring a computer screen with a close-up on the Synthetic Partys AI-driven chatbot and US president Joe Biden

    AI deepfakes come of age as billions prepare to vote in a bumper year of elections

    Governments and tech companies are locked in debate over how best to police an information ecosystem that is at serious risk of disruption

9 January 2024

  • Supporters of the Taiwan People's party wave flags during a campaign rally

    Cognitive warfare and weather balloons: China accused of using ‘all means’ to influence Taiwan vote

    With Beijing favouring the opposition candidate, the ruling DPP has accused China of interfering in presidential election

8 January 2024

  • A protest banner over election signage for Prabowo Subianto, Indonesian presidential candidate, and his running mate Gibran Rakabuming Raka.

    From military leader to ‘harmless grandpa’: the rebranding of Indonesia’s Prabowo

    As election looms former son-in-law of late dictator Suharto has become popular with young voters thanks to Instagram posts with cats

3 January 2024

  • Georgians with an EU flag celebrate Georgia's EU candidacy during a rally

    Make or break for the EU? Europeans vote in June with far right on the rise

  • Vladimir Putin walks to the left with soldiers on his left and right

    Vladimir Putin will use election to show war-weary Russia he’s still calling the shots

2 January 2024

  • A sign at a Polling Station in London.

    ‘Perilous and chaotic’: why officials are nervy before a likely UK election in 2024

    Paper ballots may act as barrier to cyber attacks, but introduction of voter ID could lead to a host of complications

31 December 2023

  • Narendra Modi’s popularity as a strongman leader, alongside the BJP’s Hindu nationalist agenda, continues to appeal.

    BJP win in India’s 2024 general election ‘almost an inevitability’

    Concerns raised over what a third term for Narendra Modi would mean for the country amid rising Hindu-Muslim tension

30 December 2023

  • Supporters of Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive party at a campaign rally in Kaohsiung city, Taiwan.

    Taiwan prepares to pick new president amid growing threat from China

    Outcome of election scheduled for 13 January could lead to vastly different scenarios with Beijing next year

27 December 2023

  • White House facade illuminated at night, Washington DC, USA<br>2AKBG81 White House facade illuminated at night, Washington DC, USA

    ‘Sitting on a powder keg’: US braces for a year, and an election, like no other

    Amid fears of authoritarianism, oldest US president likely to face off against first president to be criminally charged
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