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Keep up to date with all the polls, propaganda, lies, and statistics surrounding the world's elections here. The most popular entries are found at Best of the elections and the older entries are found in the archives. |
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May 2024
   | 1 |  
KJK frequently says “I never lose.”, but her Party of Women has flopped in the local elections. Three of the five candidates came last, one came fourth and one third with just 161 votes. On the other hand, the anti-TERF feminist Women's Equality Party has gained its first councillor in the borough of Basingstoke and Deane. |
| 4 | Rishi Sunak’s Conservative suffer loses at the local council election, with Labour, the Lib Dem and the Greens all making gains. |
April 2024
| 20 |   Nikki Haley wins 17 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania's Republican presidential primary despite dropping out over a month prior. |
| 19 | US voters rate Biden better on economy than previous months in a couple recent polls. Trump still has about a six or seven percent advantage on the issue. |
| 15 | Meet the people spending $800,000 or more to make Trump the next president |
| 23 |  South Korea's liberal opposition party has trounced the conservative ruling party in a recent parliamentary election. |
| 39 |  Turkey's main opposition party is closing in on victory in the main cities of Istanbul and Ankara |
March 2024
| 17 |  Bassirou Diomaye Faye has been elected as President of Senegal. He's also Africa's youngest president ever. |
| 3 | Jonathan Gullis has been appointed as deputy chairman of the Conservatives. |
| 7 |  Higher Education minister Simon Harris has been been elected unopposed in the Fine Gael's ardfheis [party conference] as the party's new leader. He would be the next taoiseach [prime minister] on the 9th April. |
| 17 |  Bob Menendez announces he will not seek reelection. |
| 9 |  In a shocking turn of events, Vladimir Putin wins another presidential election which, according to independent reporting, had nearly 32 million fake votes, and along with Ukrainian citizens in Russian-occupied territories being forced to vote at gunpoint. |
| 16 | Ireland overwhelmingly rejects proposed constitutional amendments via two referendums. The proposed changes would have removed language in the constitution that defines a family in terms of "marriage" and references women's "duties in the home". Voter turnout was lower than expected, and reportedly the "Yes" campaign had "confusing" messaging, both of which may have helped contribute to the result. |
| 16 |  Center-right Democratic Alliance claims a narrow victory over the governing Socialists. The far-right party Chega ("Enough!" in Portuguese) saw large gains, nearly tripling its vote share and winning 48 seats in Parliament, but according to the Democratic Alliance leader Luís Montenegro they will not rely on Chega to govern. |
| 11 | Former deputy chairman of the Conservatives Lee Anderson has defected to populist far-right Reform UK. |
| 18 | Trump, looking for a way out of his financial troubles to help with his campaign, has gone to Elon Musk, who'd certainly be able to erase his financial worries. Elon has said he doesn't plan on donating to any candidate. |
| 8 |  Mark Robinson has won the North Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. The guy is very far-right, a Holocaust denier, and may actually be a Moon landing denier. |
| 17 | Biden's State of the Union address fueled his best fundraising day out of any since he announced his 2024 campaign. |
| 16 | RFK Jr. defends his association with Jeffrey Epstein by listing other alleged or convicted criminals he associated with. "I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein. I knew Roger Ailes. I knew—OJ Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house." |
| 11 | Another one bites the dust, with former Prime Minister Theresa May said she is to stand down as the MP for Maidenhead at the next general election. |
| 16 | Dean Phillips drops out, endorses Biden. |
| 11 | (Or not.) Nikki Haley expected to drop out of presidential race on March 6. Update: It’s official. |
| 13 |  We're so back, Haleybros: Nikki narrowly wins the Vermont Republican primary. |
| 16 |  In an upset, Joe Biden loses the American Samoa Democratic Primary to someone you've likely never heard of, Jason Palmer (who didn't even have a Wikipedia page before this happened). This also makes Biden the first incumbent president to lose a primary contest since Jimmy Carter in 1980. |
| 26 |  Kyrsten Sinema is not running for reelection. |
| 13 | Polling by Ipsos for the Evening Standard has put the Conservatives approval rating at just 20%, the lowest rating they have had in an Ipsos poll since 1978. Sunak has also seen his rating as Prime Minister reach a record low of 73 percent dissatisfied, 19 percent satisfied, giving a net score of -54. |
| 25 | The Supreme Court voted 9-0 to keep Donald Trump on the ballots. Are you even surprised? |
| 2 |  Shehbaz Sharif has been appointed the new Prime Minister of Pakistan. |
February 2024
| 4 | ‘Gorgeous’ George Galloway returns to Parliament after winning a chaotic by-election. |
| 2 | Ryan Binkley has dropped out of the race. |
| 7 | Marianne Williamson unsuspends her presidential campaign three weeks after she dropped out. |
| 20 |  Mitch McConnell is officially stepping down as Republican Senate leader in November. |
| 7 |  Feleti Teo has been appointed the prime minister of Tuvalu. |
| 14 |  Koch brothers network pulls the plug on contributions to Haley's campaign after loss in South Carolina. |
| -14 | Donald Trump wins the South Carolina primary. |
| 23 |  Wisconsin governor Tony Evers signs new legislative maps, replacing the old gerrymandered ones drawn by Republicans. |
| 24 |  After months of speculation, Senator Joe Manchin says he will not run for president in 2024 as a third-party or independent candidate. |
| 21 | Protests have erupted in Pakistan over election rigging and military interference. |
| 18 | The Conservatives lose 2 more ‘safe’ parliamentary seats to the Labour Party in by-elections. |
| 8 |  The far-right Bethany Mandel is running for the Board of Education in deep blue Montgomery County, Maryland. |
| 26 |  Democrats pick up one seat in the House of Representatives, where Republicans are a majority only by a razor-thin margin. This was a special election triggered by the expulsion of George Santos from the chamber. |
| -7 |  Following Irakli Garibashvili's resignation, Irakli Kobakhidze has been approved as the new prime minister. |
| 5 |  Centre-right former prime minister Alexander Stubb has won narrowly against Green candidate Pekka Haavisto, to be the next president of Finland. |
| 14 |  Marianne Williamson has suspended her 2024 presidential campaign. |
| 11 |  Biden projected to win Nevada's Democratic presidential primary with something like 90% of the vote. |
| 15 | Nikki Haley is projected to lose to the option "None of these candidates" in the symbolic Nevada primary, the first ever candidate from either party to do so. Trump did not appear on the ballot, instead focusing on the Nevada caucus, which actually awards delegates. |
| 10 | Biden won the South Carolina primary with 96 percent of the vote. |
| 7 |  El Salvador's Bukele re-elected as president in landslide win. His New Ideas party is expected to win almost all of the 60 seats in the legislative body, which means Bukele will wield unprecedented power and be able to overhaul El Salvador's constitution, something that his opponents fear will result in scrapping of term limits. |
| 3 | A nationalist SDLP MLA has lost his whip (party affiliation) after he left early during a historic meeting of the Northern Irish Assembly, so he could participate in a GAA football match as a team manager. |
| 25 |  Florida will vote, via a ballot initiative this year on whether to add abortion rights to its state constitution. Similar measures have succeeded in deeply red-leaning states like Kansas and Ohio, so one may expect this to succeed. |
January 2024
| -8 | Proposed bill would give the Arizona legislature the authority to override the popular vote. |
| 13 | A former cabinet minister leads a plot among UK's Tories to oust Rishi Sunak as party leader before the next election. |
| 14 | Trump: anybody who donates to Nikki Haley "will be permanently banned from the MAGA camp." |
| 6 |  Donald Trump wins the New Hampshire Republican primary. Joe Biden also won the Democratic primary despite only being a write-in candidate. |
| 4 |  Azali Assoumani is elected as President of the Comoros for the 4th time. |
| 11 | One Pennsylvania state poll has Biden doing decently, per a pollster FiveThirtyEight rates "B+". Polls for the general presidential election have been somewhat mixed recently. |
| 33 | Ron DeSantis drops out of the Republican primary. |
| 25 |  Support for Japan's ruling LDP has plummeted to 14.6%, some of the worst numbers in the party's entire history. |
| 18 |  Bernardo Arévalo is inaugurated as president of Guatemala after many delays. |
| 9 |  RFK Jr. traveled to Atlanta (MLK Jr's birthplace) for a campaign event the day before Martin Luther King Jr Day. There, he defended the JFK administration wiretapping MLK Jr with authorization from RFK: "My father gave permission to Hoover to wiretap them so he could prove that his suspicions about King were either right or wrong... they had to do it." |
| 24 | Vivek Ramaswamy drops out of the presidential race. |
| 0 |  Donald Trump wins Iowa caucuses. |
| 32 |  William Lai wins the presidential election in Taiwan, which is likely to anger China. |
| 23 |  Rhode Island election officials found the names of several dead people on nomination papers for Vivek Ramaswamy. |
| 16 | John Anthony Castro, the man who filed 33 suits challenging the 2020 US presidential election results, is now the second GOP presidential hopeful to be indicted. Say what you want about the Dems currently on the ballot, but it seems that none of the Dems currently running for POTUS have been criminally indicted. Or, in other words: business as usual in the party of corruption. |
| 2 | Osborne has hinted the date of general election being 14th November 2024, after he said a little birdie in Sunak's government told him. |
| 9 | Chris Christie drops out of the 2024 presidential race. |
| 14 | Former pensions secretary Chris Skidmore has resigned as a MP due to Sunak's backtracking on his green pledges, while another Conservative MP is being investigated over allegedly breaking parliamentary rules by using taxpayer money to fund Conservative Party work. |
| 8 | Andrew Bridgen has left Laurence Fox's Reclaim Party and withdrawn the party whip, allegedly because of "difference in the direction of the party". |
| 16 |  Trump refuses to sign decades-old Illinois ballot agreement in which he would pledge not to "advocate the overthrow of the government". |
| 7 |  The Supreme Court will decide if Trump can appear on the Colorado ballot. |
| 13 | Vivek Ramaswamy has sold stock worth 33 million in preparation for "significant investment" in his bid for the GOP nomination. |
| 10 | Sunak has ruled out a May 2024 general election, but hinted at an election in the latter half of 2024. Election experts point to an October 2024 election. |
| 11 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign has hired noted anti-vaxxer Del Bigtree as communications director. |