A little graphc with the text '2024' in blue up top, above red text: 'The Year of Elections'.

If you've enjoyed #Election2024Advent, and you want to catch up on all the #Election2024 action, you'll want to get your hands on the book that comes out next year and collects all the world's elections in one place...

#MerryChristmas! John Mahama and his NDC party staged a remarkable come-back to return to power in #Ghana's #Election2024, thrashing the incumbent VP, who conceded ahead of the official announcement. #IncumbencyCurse, or just better campaigning? Next...the book! #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

#Romania's #Election2024 was full of twists. The parliamentary poll is settled, but after the far-right's shock win in the 1st round, the presidential vote was annulled by the constitutional court, who have ordered a re-run. Remarkable, in a NATO & EU member. #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

Sinn Fein showed promise in #Ireland's #Election2024, but finished 2nd, so the outcome once again hangs on coalition talks, likely between centre-right parties Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, and whoever can get them three more seats. #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

#Election2024's attention-hog, #USElection, saw former president Trump re-gain the top job with a commanding Electoral College lead. Wins elsewhere gave him effective control of #Congress, giving his agenda a theoretically smooth path and resolving his legal woes. #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

Inevitably overshadowed by #USElection, #Palau's #Election2024 was a grudge match between brothers-in-law, in which the incumbent beat the former 4-time president in a comfortable win likely to see the #Pacific islands nation lean closer to the US than to China. #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

#Botswana's #Election2024 delivered another big surprise as #IncumbencyCurse ended the BDP's 58-year rule and saw them trounced by the opposition UDC. Peaceful transition talks began for the first time in this diamond-producing country's existence. #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

#SuperSunday #Oct27th was #Election2024's biggest day, with 5 nations voting: we had new parliaments for #Japan, #Uzbekistan and #Bulgaria, while #Uruguay voted on a parliament & president, and #Lithuania finished up their parliamentary run-offs. Ballots galore! #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

#Georgia's October #Election2024 was subject to dispute before and after voting. The ruling party has been sliding closer to Russian influence, and their suspension of #EU accession talks prompted protests, even from the president. The #EU called for a re-run. #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

A former Marxist insurgent swept away opponents in #SriLanka's #Election2024, but immediately faced a hostile parliament resisting his radical, anti-corruption agenda – so he called a snap election to shake it up. Big changes here, as dynasties struggle to adapt. #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

Far from boosting his legitimacy with a high-turnout election, #Algeria's president Tebboune found himself crushingly re-elected (at 95%!) with turnout barely scraping 25%. A disillusioned electorate remains unimpressed, and restless.#Election2024 #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

Tiny #Commonwealth and #Pacific island #Kiribati was the only #Election2024 event in August. 44 MPs were elected, from whom presidential candidates were chosen, to lead an island caught in a tug-of-war between China and Australia. #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

Providing some home interest for #Election2024 was the #UK #GE2024 which saw the opposition Labour party sweep into a wide but shallow majority, ending 14 years of Tory rule. The resulting parliamentary opposition is more fragmentary and diverse than usual. #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

We're still seeing aftershocks from #France's snap #Election2024, held June-July, which might have been meant to stifle the growth of the far-right RN ahead of 2027, but has instead left parliament caught between 3 roughly equal opposing blocs, with no winner. #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

#Iran had a snap presidential #Election2024, after their earlier legislative one – unhappy voters again protested with their absence, but the most 'moderate' candidate still won the 2nd job. Pezeshkian was launched straight into the ongoing regional turmoil. #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

Not a single national vote, but the #EU's #Election2024 will be consequential. In voting across 27 states, Green gains from 2019 were replaced by the far right, as voters kicked back against net zero targets, and the centre-right just about held their majority. #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

#Mexico made history in #Election2024 with their inevitable first female president (Dr Claudia Sheinbaum), and handed her majorities in both houses of Congress, which should enable her to continue the policies of her popular predecessor, AMLO, as promised. #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

#IncumbencyCurse struck again in #SouthAfrica, where the ANC lost their majority (and formed a controversial coalition) for the first time since the end of apartheid – their place in that struggle now being more story than memory for young voters. #Election2024 #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

The biggest #Election2024, #India needed 7 phases, eventually giving a reduced majority to the Hindu nationalist BJP & 10-year PM Narendra Modi. Suffering some #IncumbencyCurse, he was forced into a coalition in order to continue his slide toward hybrid democracy. #TheWorldVotes #Election2024Advent

#SouthKorea's conservative president Yoon faced corruption scandals, low fertility, contentious medical reforms, + an opposition using green onions to highlight inflation. After April's #Election2024, he also had a liberal parliament making his life more difficult. #TheWorldVotes #Election2024Advent

It was a relief to see #Senegal's delayed presidential #Election2024 finally go ahead in March. The eventual winner had been in jail just a few days earlier, and faced great difficulty running his transformation agenda through a hostile parliament. #Election2024Advent #TheWorldVotes

#Portugal celebrated 50 years of #Democracy by electing a minority centre-right government that kept out the far-right. For libral democracy's supporters, this is either a good news story or the last European gasp before the far-right overwhelms them. #Election2024 #TheWorldVotes #Election2024Advent

#Pakistan's #Election2024 was (and remains) contentious, with popular #ImranKhan in jail and his PTI party barred from running. Despite PTI allies doing well, a military-backed coalition retained power, w/ Shehbaz Sharif back as PM. Protests & crackdowns continue. #TheWorldVotes #Election2024Advent

The world's coolest dictator? So he calls himself, and Bukele took a step closer to earning it with his unconstitutional second term in #ElSalvador's #Election2024. He's cracked down hard on gang crime, and he and his supporters don't care too much how he does it. #TheWorldVotes #Election2024Advent

The first properly consequential #Election2024 event was in #Taiwan. The result, though the outcome most like the status quo, was ironically the one most likely to lead to change, as it brought Taiwan further into conflict with #China, who claim the island. #TheWorldVotes #Election2024Advent

#Election2024 opened in #January in #Bangaldesh: an opposition boycott guaranteed a 5th term for the governing party and long-term PM Sheikh Hasina. But protests brought the government down within months, and we await a re-run. Not the best example of the genre. #TheWorldVotes #Election2024Advent

It's nearly that time of year, full of cheer and good will, so I'll be doing an #Election2024Advent through December. It's a chance to catch up on some of the big #Election2024 events you might have missed (and some of the smaller ones, too). There's something to look forward to, eh? #TheWorldVotes