List of annulled elections

This is a list of political elections that had their results cancelled or decertified after they were held, sometimes legally, sometimes following a coup or revolution. Partial cancellations (one or some districts) are omitted.

National elections

20th century

• 1918 Estonian Constituent Assembly election
• May 1925 Bolivian general election (won by José Gabino Villanueva)
• 1930 Brazilian general election (won by Júlio Prestes, followed by Brazilian Revolution of 1930)
• 1931 Ecuadorian presidential election (won by Neptalí Bonifaz Ascásubi)
• 1934 Bolivian general election (won by Franz Tamayo)
• 1936 Peruvian presidential election (won by Luis Antonio Eguiguren)
• 1948 Costa Rican general election (won by Otilio Ulate Blanco, followed by Costa Rican Civil War)
• 1957 Guatemalan general election (won by Miguel Ortiz Passarelli)
• 1958 Cuban presidential election (won by Andrés Rivero Agüero, followed by Cuban Revolution)
• 1960 Iranian legislative election ^[1]
• 1962 Argentine legislative election (annulled by a coup 10 days later)
• 1962 Peruvian general election (won by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre)
• 1967 Sierra Leonean general election (Siaka Stevens took the oath of office as prime minister but was overthrown the same day)
• May 1968 Dahomeyan presidential election (won by Basile Adjou Moumouni)
• 1970 Dahomeyan presidential election (won by Justin Ahomadegbé)
• 1970 Lesotho general election (won by the Basotho Congress Party)
• 1978 Bolivian general election
• 1982 Guatemalan general election (won by Ángel Aníbal Guevara, followed by a coup d'état)
• 1986 Philippine presidential election (won by Ferdinand Marcos, followed by the People Power Revolution)
• 1989 Panamanian general election (won by Guillermo Endara, nullified before voting was complete, followed by United States invasion of Panama)
• 1990 Burmese general election (won by the National League for Democracy)
• 1991 Algerian legislative election (won by the Islamic Salvation Front, followed by Algerian Civil War)
• 1992 Central African general election
• 1993 Nigerian presidential election (won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola)
• April 1997 Malian parliamentary election
• 2000 Peruvian general election

21st century

• 2003 Georgian legislative election (followed by Rose Revolution)
• September 2003 Papua New Guinea vice-regal election (parliamentary vote won by Sir Albert Kipalan)
• December 2003 Papua New Guinea vice-regal election (parliamentary vote won by Sir Pato Kakaraya)
• 2004 Abkhazian presidential election
• The original second round results of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election (won by Viktor Yanukovych, followed by Orange Revolution)
• 2005 Kyrgyz parliamentary election (followed by Tulip Revolution)
• April 2006 Thai legislative election (followed by 2006 Thai coup d'état)
• 2010 Icelandic Constitutional Assembly election
• 2011 Kosovan presidential election (parliamentary vote won by Behgjet Pacolli)
• 2011 South Ossetian presidential election (won by Alla Dzhioyeva; Leonid Tibilov elected in 2012)
• 2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election
• 2012 Guinea-Bissau presidential election (second round canceled after a coup d'état )
• February 2012 Kuwaiti general election
• December 2012 Kuwaiti general election
• 2013 Maldivian presidential election (first round re-run)
• 2014 Thai general election (followed by the 2014 Thai coup d'état)
• 2015 Haitian presidential election
• The original second round results of the 2016 Austrian presidential election
• 2017 Kenyan general election (only the presidential election which was initially called for Uhuru Kenyatta)
• 2019 Malawian general election
• 2019 Bolivian general election (followed by the 2019 Bolivian political crisis)
• 2019 Abkhazian presidential election
• 2020 Malawian presidential election
• October 2020 Kyrgyz parliamentary election (caused by mass protests)
• 2020 Myanmar general election (followed by the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état)
• 2023 Gabonese general election (followed by the 2023 Gabonese coup d'état)
• 2024 Romanian presidential election (first round won by Călin Georgescu, followed by 2025 Romanian presidential election)

Local elections

Argentina

• April 1931 Buenos Aires provincial election
• 1943 Entre Ríos provincial election (annulled by a coup)
• 1962 Argentine provincial elections (annulled by a coup)
• 1966 Mendoza provincial election (annulled by a coup)
• 1992 Corrientes provincial election

United States

• New York State Congressional election of 1812. State awarded an additional 10 districts after comparing 1790 census to 1810 census results. New election held in December 1812.
• 1974 United States Senate election in New Hampshire
• 1974-75 Louisiana's 6th congressional district election (original election invalidated after voting machine malfunctions; Henson Moore elected in rematch over Jeff LaCaze)
• 2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election (won by Mark Harris; Dan Bishop elected in 2019)
• 2020 Paterson, NJ, election ^[2]
• 2023–24 Bridgeport, Connecticut mayoral election ^{[3] [4]}
• 2023–24 Caddo Parish sheriff election rerun ^[5]

Other

• 2000 Molise regional election
• 2003-2019 had 507 elections annulled and rerun in Nigeria ^[6]
• 2010 election in Västra Götaland ^[7]
• 2011 Molise regional election
• 2011 Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election ^[8]
• September 2018 Primorsky Krai gubernatorial election
• March 2019 Istanbul mayoral election
• 2021 Berlin state election
• 2023 Gabonese departmental elections and 2023 Gabonese local elections (followed by the 2023 Gabonese coup d'état)

Elections where the winning candidate died before taking office

See also: List of deaths of candidates during general elections of the United Kingdom

• 1908 Argentine Chamber of Deputies election in Santiago del Estero (Mariano Santillán Jr. elected, assassinated)
• 1916 Argentine Chamber of Deputies election in San Luis (Miguel B. Pastor elected)
• 1918 Brazilian general election (won by Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves)
• 1928 Mexican general election (won by Álvaro Obregón, assassinated)
• 1946 Santa Fe provincial election (won by Leandro Meiners)
• 1946 La Rioja provincial election (won by Leovino Martínez)
• 1946 Georgia gubernatorial election (won by Eugene Talmadge)
• 1967 South African presidential election (won by Theophilus Dönges)
• 1972 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska (won by Nick Begich)
• 1972 United States House of Representatives election in Louisiana's 2nd congressional district (won by Hale Boggs)
• August 1982 Lebanese presidential election (won by Bashir Gemayel, assassinated)
• 1985 Brazilian presidential election (won by Tancredo Neves)
• 2000 United States Senate election in Missouri (won by Mel Carnahan)
• 2002 United States House of Representatives election in Hawaii's 2nd congressional district (won by Patsy Mink)
• 2011 Argentine Chamber of Deputies election in Santiago del Estero (Jorge Raúl Pérez elected)
• 2019 Argentine Senate election in Neuquén (Horacio "Pechi" Quiroga elected)

Referendums

• 1990 Cordillera Autonomous Region creation plebiscite
• 2006 Shariff Kabunsuan creation plebiscite
• 2017 Slovenian railway referendum
• One of the 2016 Swiss referendums on taxation, overturned in 2019 by the Federal Supreme Court. ^{[9] [10]}

References

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3. Haigh (2023-09-20). "Surveillance video prompts Connecticut elections officials to investigate Bridgeport primary". AP. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
4. Haigh, Susan (2023-11-01). "Connecticut judge orders new mayoral primary after surveillance videos show possible ballot stuffing". AP. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
5. Douraghy, Darian (2023-12-05). "Louisiana Judge orders NEW ELECTION for county sheriff after Democrat wins close race, voting irregularities cited". Post Millenial. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
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7. Lundmark, Sebastian; Oscarsson, Henrik; Weissenbilder, Marcus (2020-10-01). "Confidence in an election authority and satisfaction with democracy: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of a failed election in Sweden" . Electoral Studies. 67: 102216. doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102216. ISSN   0261-3794.
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10. "Court overturns referendum result as voters were poorly informed". The Independent. 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2022-08-06.