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General elections are due to be held in Haiti in two rounds on 30 August and 6 December 2026. The presidency, all seats in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, and local and municipal offices will be contested. There has not been a president since the assassination of Jovenel Moïse on 7 July 2021 or any legislators since the mandate of the last members of the Senate ended on 10 January 2023.
The elections have been repeatedly delayed starting from 2019, during the presidency of Jovenel Moïse. Acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry led the government from 2021 until his resignation and the establishment of the Transitional Presidential Council in 2024, which pledged to elect and inaugurate a new government before 7 February 2026, when its mandate expires. In January 2025, Leslie Voltaire, the head of the Transitional Presidential Council, announced that two-round elections will be held on 15 November 2025 and in early January 2026. However, in October 2025, the Provisional Electoral Council announced that it would be impossible to hold elections on that schedule because of insecurity during the ongoing gang war and a lack of funding. In November 2025, the council published a new calendar for general elections to be held on 30 August and 6 December 2026, with the inauguration of a new president on 7 February 2027, if public safety and funding are improved.
The most recent Haitian elections were held in 2015 and 2016, which were marred with allegations of widespread fraud. Jovenel Moïse was inaugurated as president on 7 February 2017 after an electoral tribunal had found evidence of "some irregularities" but not enough to change the outcome of the November 2016 election.[1][2] The next parliamentary election had been scheduled for 27 October 2019,[3] but was delayed, and Moïse ruled by presidential decree after dismissing many lawmakers in 2020.[4] Economic conditions remained poor during his presidency, and members of his government were implicated in financial corruption or connections to gangs. In 2021, mass street demonstrations and violent protest marches began across Haiti on 14 January in protest at his plan to stay one more year in power. His five-year term would have ended in February 2021 based on his first election in 2015, which was annulled because of irregularities. He decided that his term ended in February 2022 because it did not start until after the second election in 2016. Hundreds of thousands took part in weekly protests calling for the government to resign. Moïse was assassinated by gunmen at his home in Port-au-Prince on 7 July 2021.[5][6][7]
On 8 July, acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph's office announced that despite the assassination, the parliamentary elections would still be held on the date set by the Provisional Electoral Council and that members of the opposition would be included in election timetable talks, stating that "the head of government promises to hold talks with opposition leaders and other actors in national life to calm the socio-political climate and facilitate inclusive and credible elections according to the timetable set by the Provisional Electoral Council."[8] The United Nations special envoy for Haiti, Helen La Lime, said that acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph would lead Haiti until elections were held later in the year, urging all parties to set aside differences following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.[9] Ariel Henry was appointed as acting prime minister later that month, though he was never confirmed by the parliament.[10] Elections were due to be held on 26 September 2021,[11] before being delayed until 7 November 2021,[12] when wider elections were planned to elect the president and parliament, alongside a constitutional referendum.[13]
Henry dismissed all members of the Provisional Electoral Council, seen by many in the country as politically biased, on 27 September 2021. He stated that a new council would be appointed which would hold the elections in early 2022.[14][15][16] On 8 February 2022, he called for renewed efforts to organize elections.[17] On 11 September 2022, he stated that the government would begin the organization of elections by the end of 2022.[18] On 21 December 2022, Henry signed an agreement with political parties, civil society organizations and private sector members to hold the elections in 2023, with the new government scheduled to be sworn in on 7 February 2024.[19] The last ten Haitian senators left office on 10 January 2023 when their mandate ended, leaving all 30 seats in the Senate and all 119 seats in the Chamber of Deputies vacant. The terms of Haiti's most other legislators and last elected mayors had expired in January 2020, and the Supreme Court had not convened since February 2022. There were no elected officials left in the country after January 2023, leaving all power in the hands of acting Prime Minister Henry.[20][21]
In February 2024, however, Henry stated that the elections will be held when the government was able to control the security situation in Haiti.[22] The Caribbean Community later in the month said that he had committed to holding the elections by 31 August 2025.[23] On 11 March 2024, Henry agreed to resign as the leader of Haiti due to facing pressure following attacks by armed gangs who demanded he step down, once the Transitional Presidential Council was formed, following a meeting in Jamaica with leaders of Caribbean countries and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.[24] The council has a mandate till 7 February 2026, and is expected to hold the presidential election in early 2026.[25] Henry resigned in a letter signed on 24 April in Los Angeles when the council was installed. His outgoing cabinet meanwhile appointed Michel Patrick Boisvert as acting prime minister.[26][27] On 18 September, the council created a provisional electoral council to prepare for the election.[28]
During his visit to France in January 2025, Leslie Voltaire, the president of the Transitional Presidential Council, said that two-round general elections will be held, with the first on 15 November 2025 and the second in early January 2026, to inaugurate a new government on 7 February 2026.[29][2] In August 2025, Laurent Saint-Cyr became the last head of the council's rotating presidency before the planned inauguration of a newly elected government.[30] However, in October 2025, the head of the Provisional Electoral Council, Jacques Desrosiers, announced that holding an election before February 2026 is "impossible" due to the ongoing gang violence and a lack of funding despite pressure from the United States and the Caribbean Community. He also said that the council will continue to work to make elections possible some time later in 2026. As of June 2025, the council had identified 1,300 voting centers in nine of Haiti's ten departments, to serve 6.2 million voters.[31]
The Provisional Electoral Council published a draft election decree on 31 October 2025 that establishes rules for the upcoming elections.[32] On 14 November, the council submitted a new election calendar and a list of steps to be implemented over the following months before presidential, legislative, local, and municipal elections can be held. These include updating voting centers; registering political parties, candidates, and voters; and recruiting polling staff. The election campaign will begin in March 2026, with electoral lists to be published on 31 July 2026, the first round of voting to be held on 30 August 2026, the second round on 6 December 2026, and the inauguration of a new president on 7 February 2027. The council also stated the election calendar depends on achieving increased security, funding, and technical work. The draft electoral decree and calendar were submitted for approval by the executive branch.[33][34]
Electoral system
The President of Haiti is elected using the two-round system, with a second round held if no candidate wins a majority of the vote in the first round.
The 119 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected in single-member constituencies for four-year terms using a modified two-round system; a candidate must receive either over 50% of the vote, or have a lead over the second-placed candidate equivalent to 25% of the valid votes in order to be elected in the first round; if no candidate meets this requirement, a second round is held, in which the candidate with the most votes wins.[35]
One third of the 30-member Senate is elected every two years. The members are elected from ten single-member constituencies based on the departments, also using the two-round system.[36] For the upcoming election, in each department the candidate with the largest number of votes will serve a six-year term, the second place finisher will serve four years, and the third place for two years.[32]
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