2025 national electoral calendar

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2025 national electoral calendar

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This national electoral calendar for 2025 lists the national/federal elections scheduled to be held in 2025 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included. Specific dates are given where these are known.

January

• 12 January:
  • Comoros, Parliament ^[1]
  • Croatia, President (2nd round) ^[2]
• 16 January: Vanuatu, Parliament ^[3]
• 26 January: Belarus, President ^[4]

February

• 7 February: Turks and Caicos Islands, Parliament ^[5]
• 9 February:
  • Ecuador, President (1st round) and Parliament ^[6]
  • Kosovo, Parliament ^[7]
  • Liechtenstein, Parliament ^[8]
  • Switzerland, Referendums ^[9]
• 15 February: Abkhazia, President (1st round) ^[10]
• 18 February: Bermuda, House of Assembly ^[11]
• 23 February: Germany, Bundestag ^[12]
• 26 February: Anguilla, Parliament ^[13]

March

• 1 March: Abkhazia, President (2nd round) ^[14]
• 2 March: Tajikistan, Assembly of Representatives ^[15]
• 5 March: Tristan da Cunha, Chief Islander and Parliament ^[16]
• 11 March: Greenland, Parliament ^[17]
• 12 March: Belize, House of Representatives ^[18]
• 21 March: Curaçao, Parliament ^[19]

April

• 12 April: Gabon, President ^[20]
• 13 April: Ecuador, President (2nd round) ^[6]
• 25 April: Marshall Islands, Constitutional Referendum ^[21]
• 28 April:
  • Canada, House of Commons ^[22]
  • Trinidad and Tobago, House of Representatives ^[23]
• 30 April: Cayman Islands, Parliament and Referendum ^{[24] [25]}

May

• 3 May:
  • Australia, House of Representatives and Senate ^[26]
  • Singapore, Parliament ^[27]
• 4 May: Romania, President (1st round) ^{[28] [29]}
• 11 May: Albania, Parliament ^[30]
• 12 May: Philippines, House of Representatives and Senate ^[31]
• 18 May:
  • Poland, President (1st round) ^[32]
  • Portugal, Parliament ^[33]
  • Romania, President (2nd round) ^[29]
• 25 May:
  • Suriname, Parliament ^{[34] [35]}
  • Venezuela, Parliament ^[36]

June

• 1 June:
  • Mexico, Judicial ^[37]
  • Poland, President (2nd round) ^[38]
• 3 June: South Korea, President ^[39]
• 5 June: Burundi, National Assembly ^[40]
• 8–9 June: Italy, Referendum ^[41]
• 18 June: Guernsey , States of Guernsey ^[42]

July

• 3 July: Ascension, Island Council ^[43]
• 20 July: Japan, House of Councillors ^[44]

August

• 4–5 August: Egypt: Senate (1st round) ^[45]
• 17 August: Bolivia, President (1st round), Chamber of Deputies and Senate ^[46]
• 23 August: Taiwan, Referendum ^[47]
• 27–28 August: Egypt: Senate (2nd round) ^[48]
• 29 August: Samoa, Parliament ^[49]

September

• 1 September: Guyana, President and Parliament
• 3 September:
  • Jamaica, House of Representatives
  • Saint Helena, Legislative Council ^[50]
• 8 September: Norway, Parliament
• 14 September: Macau , Parliament
• 16 September: Malawi, President and Parliament ^[51]
• 21 September: Guinea, Constitutional Referendum ^[52]
• 27 September:
  • Gabon, National Assembly (1st round) ^[53]
  • Seychelles, President (1st round) and Parliament
• 28 September:
  • Moldova, Parliament ^[54]
  • Switzerland, Referendums

October

• 3–4 October: Czech Republic, Chamber of Deputies
• 11 October:
  • Gabon, National Assembly (2nd round)
  • Nauru, Parliament and Referendum ^[55]
  • Seychelles, President (2nd round)
• 12 October: Cameroon, President
• 19 October:
  • Bolivia, President (2nd round)
  • Northern Cyprus, President
• 24 October: Ireland, President
• 25 October: Ivory Coast, President ^[56]
• 26 October: Argentina, Chamber of Deputies and Senate
• 29 October:
  • Netherlands, Parliament
  • Tanzania, President and Parliament

November

• 5 November: Pitcairn Islands, Mayor and Island Council ^[57]
• 10–11 November: Egypt: House of Representatives (1st round) ^[58]
• 11 November: Iraq, Parliament ^[59]
• 16 November: Chile, President (1st round), Chamber of Deputies and Senate ^[60]
• 20 November: Tonga, Parliament ^[61]
• 23 November: Guinea-Bissau, President and Parliament ^[62]
• 30 November:
  • Honduras, President and Parliament ^[63]
  • Kyrgyzstan, Parliament ^[64]
  • Switzerland, Referendums ^[65]
  • Transnistria, Parliament ^[66]

December

• 3–4 December: Egypt: House of Representatives (2nd round) ^[58]
• 7 December: Hong Kong, Legislative Council ^[67]
• 27 December: Ivory Coast, Parliament ^[68]
• 28 December:
  • Central African Republic, President and Parliament ^[69]
  • Guinea, President ^[70]
  • Myanmar, Parliament ^[71]

Unknown date

• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Parliament ^[72]

Indirect elections

The following indirect elections of heads of state and the upper houses of bicameral legislatures will take place through votes in elected lower houses, unicameral legislatures, or electoral colleges:

• 29 September 2022–9 January: Lebanon, President ^[73]
• 25 January–12 February: Greece, President ^[74]
• 29–30 January: Ireland, Seanad ^[75]
• 15 February: Togo, Senate  [ fr ] ^[76]
• 25 February: Chad, Senate  [ fr ] ^[77]
• 4 March: Isle of Man , Legislative Council ^[78]
• 9 March: Algeria, Council of the Nation ^[79]
• 12 March: Switzerland, Federal Council ^{[80] [81]}
• 28 March: Tajikistan, National Assembly ^{[82] [15]}
• 3 May: Togo, President ^[83]
• 7–8 May: Vatican City, Pope ^{[84] [85]}
• 19 June and 25 October: India, Council of States
• 6 July: Suriname, President  [ fr ] ^[86]
• 23 July: Burundi, Senate  [ fr ] ^[87]
• 9 September: India, Vice President ^[88]
• 5 October: Syria, Parliament ^[89]
• 7 October: Barbados, President ^[90]
• 14 October: Nauru, President ^[91]

See also

• List of elections in 2025

External links

• IFES Election Guide – Elections
• National Democratic Institute – Electoral Calendar

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