Electoral calendar 2004

Last updated March 29, 2019

This electoral calendar 2004 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2004 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states and their dependent territories. Referendums are included, although they are not elections. By-elections are not included.

A referendum is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is invited to vote on a particular proposal. This may result in the adoption of a new law. In some countries, it is synonymous with a plebiscite or a vote on a ballot question.

January

January 4: Georgia, president
January 20: Faroe, parliament

February

March

March 7: Greece, parliament
March 14: Russia, president
March 14: Spain, house and senate
March 20: Taiwan, president
March 21: El Salvador, president
March 21: Malaysia, parliament
March 23: Antigua and Barbuda, Parliament
March 28: Georgia, parliament
March 28: Guinea-Bissau, parliament
March 21 and March 28: Guadeloupe, parliament
March 21 and March 28: Martinique, parliament
March 21 and March 28: French Guiana, parliament
March 21 and March 28: Reunion, parliament
March 21 and March 28: Mayotte, parliament

April

April 2: Sri Lanka, parliament
April 5: Indonesia, parliament
April 8: Algeria, President
April 14: South Africa, parliament
April 15: South Korea, parliament
April 3 and April 17: Slovakia, president
April 21: Guernsey, parliament
April 18 and April 25: Comoros, parliament
April 25: Austria, president
April 25: Equatorial Guinea, parliament
April 14 and April 28: Macedonia, president

Algeria elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people. People's National Assembly has 462 members, elected for a five-year term in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation. Eight seats in the national assembly are reserved for Algerians abroad. The Council of the Nation has 144 members, 96 members elected by communal councils and 48 members appointed by the president. Algeriawesh alors has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. According to a US Embassy cable, the 2009 presidential elections were "carefully choreographed and heavily controlled", with the official turnout figure "exaggerated" by at least 45%.

May

May 2: Panama, president and parliament
February 20 and May 7: Iran, parliament
May 9: New Caledonia, parliament
April 20, April 26, May 5 and May 10: India, parliament
May 10: Philippines, president, house and senate
May 16: Dominican Republic, president
May 18: Malawi, president and parliament
May 23: French Polynesia, parliament
May 23: South Ossetia, parliament

June

June 10, June 11 and June 13: European Union, parliament
June 13: Luxembourg, parliament
June 13 and June 27: Lithuania, president
June 13 and June 27: Serbia, president
June 26: Iceland, president
June 27: Mongolia, parliament
June 28: Canada, parliament

Elections in Lithuania gives information on elections and election results in Lithuania.

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a union of Serbia and Montenegro which had existed between 1992 and 2003. It was reconstituted as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003. In 2006, the state broke up into the two independent states of Serbia and Montenegro.

July

July 6: Vanuatu, parliament
July 11: Japan, senate

September

September 7: Cook Island, parliament
July 5 and September 20: Indonesia, president

October

September 19 and October 3: Kazakhstan, parliament
October 3: Abkhazia, President
October 3: Slovenia, parliament
October 9: Afghanistan, President
October 9: Australia, Legislative
October 11: Cameroon, president
October 17: Belarus, Parliament and referendum
October 20: Norfolk, parliament
October 23: Kosovo, parliament
October 23: Nauru, parliament
October 10 and October 24: Lithuania, parliament
October 24: Tunisia, president and parliament
October 25: Saint Kitts and Nevis, parliament
October 30: Botswana, parliament
October 31: Ukraine, president
October 31: Uruguay, president and parliament

November

November 2: United States, President, every member of the House of Representatives, and one-third of the Senate
November 2: Puerto Rico, Governor, House and Senate
November 2: US Virgin Islands, legislature
November 2: American Samoa, Governor and Legislature
November 2: Palau, President, House and Senate
November 5–November 6: Czech Republic, senate
November 13 and December 4: Niger, president and parliament
November 15–November 16: Namibia, president and parliament
November 28: Romania, President, Senate and Chamber

December

December 1–December 2: Mozambique, president and parliament
December 7 and December 28: Ghana, president and parliament
December 11: Taiwan, parliament
December 12: Romania, president 2nd round
December 19: Turkmenistan, parliament
December 21, 2004 and January 4, 2005: Croatia, president
December 24: Pitcairn Islands, parliament
December 26: Uzbekistan, parliament

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