Normally this page would include the elections due to be held over the next 12 months. But the Covid-19 pandemic means that any list is likely to be wrong. My friends at IFES have the best guide as to where the electoral calendar is at the moment. What follows is my best guess at an official list. Many of those with a date attached have simply not yet been postponed. And as we have seen with the Presidential election in Poland, the decision to postpone can come at the very last minute.

May

• 20 May: Burundi, President and National Assembly
• 25 May: Suriname, Parliament
• 30 May: Niue, Parliament

June

• 20 June: Sri Lanka, Parliament
• 21 June: Serbia, Parliament
• 24 June: Mongolia, Parliament
• 27 June: Iceland, President

July

• 2 July: Malawi, President
• 5 July: Dominican Republic, President, Chamber of Deputies and Senate
• 19 July: Syria, Parliament

August

• 29 August: Ethiopia (Tigray Region), House of Representatives
• Belarus, President
• Falkland Islands, Referendum

September

• 6 September: New Caledonia, Independence Referendum
• 11 September: Iran, Parliament (2nd round)
• 19 September: New Zealand, Parliament and Referendums on Cannabis and Euthanasia
• 27 September: Switzerland, Referendum
• Hong Kong, Legislative Council

October

• 4 October: Kyrgyzstan, Parliament
• 11 October:
  • Lithuania, Parliament (1st round)
  • Northern Cyprus, President
• 13 October: Liberia, Constitutional Referendum and Senate
• 25 October:
  • Chile, Referendum
  • Lithuania, Parliament (2nd round)
• 31 October: Côte d’Ivoire, President
• Czech Republic, Senate
• Georgia, Parliament
• Guinea, President
• Kuwait, Parliament
• Montenegro, Parliament
• Tanzania, President and Parliament

November

• 1 November: Belize, House of Representatives
• 3 November:
  • American Samoa, Governor and House of Representatives
  • Guam, Parliament
  • Northern Mariana Islands, House of Representatives and Senate
  • Puerto Rico, Governor, House of Representatives and Senate
  • United States, President, House of Representatives and Senate
  • U.S. Virgin Islands, Legislative
• 22 November: Burkina Faso, President and Parliament
• 29 November: Switzerland, Referendum
• Egypt, House of Representatives and Senate (1st phase)
• Moldova, President
• Myanmar, House of Representatives and House of Nationalities
• Palau, President, House of Delegates and Senate
• Tajikistan, President

December

• 7 December: Ghana, President and Parliament
• 13 December: Chad, Parliament
• 23 December: Croatia, Parliament
• 27 December:
  • Central African Republic, President and Parliament
  • Niger, President and Parliament
• Somalia, House of the People

Unknown date

• Anguilla, Parliament (by 11 September)
• Armenia, Constitutional Referendum
• Bolivia, President, Chamber of Deputies and Senate (by 6 September)
• Burkina Faso, Constitutional Referendum
• Egypt, House of Representatives and Senate (2nd phase)
• Ethiopia, House of Representatives (by 1 October)
• Haiti, Chamber of Deputies and Senate
• Iraq, Council of Representatives
• Italy, Constitutional Referendum
• Jamaica, House of Representatives
• Jordan, House of Representatives
• Kiribati, President (by 1 July)
• Libya, President and Parliament
• North Macedonia, Parliament
• Poland, President (by 21 July)
• Qatar, Parliament
• Romania, Chamber of Deputies and Senate
• Russia, Constitutional Referendum
• Saint Kitts and Nevis, Parliament (by 1 August)
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Parliament
• Seychelles, President (by 1 November)
• Singapore, Parliament
• Somaliland, House of Representatives
• Transnistria, Parliament
• Trinidad and Tobago, House of Representatives (by 23 December)
• Turks and Caicos Islands, Parliament
• Vanuatu, Constitutional Referendum
• Venezuela, National Assembly