2022 national electoral calendar
This national electoral calendar for 2022 lists the national/federal elections held in 2022 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included.
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January
- 16 January: Serbia, Constitutional Referendum[1]
- 19 January: Barbados, House of Assembly[2]
- 23 January: Northern Cyprus, Parliament[3]
- 30 January: Portugal, Parliament[4]
February
- 6 February: Costa Rica, President (1st round) and Parliament[5]
- 13 February: Switzerland, Referendums[6]
- 27 February: Belarus, Constitutional Referendum[7]
March
- 9 March: South Korea, President[8]
- 12 March:
- 13 March: Colombia, House of Representatives and Senate[11]
- 19 March: East Timor, President (1st round)[12]
- 26 March:
- 27 March: Uruguay, Referendum[15]
April
- 3 April:
- 9 April: The Gambia, Parliament[19]
- 10 April:
- 19 April: East Timor, President (2nd round)[23]
- 24 April:
May
- 8 May: South Ossetia, President (2nd round)[25]
- 9 May: Philippines, President, House of Representatives and Senate[26]
- 15 May:
- 21 May: Australia, House of Representatives and Senate[29]
- 29 May: Colombia, President (1st round)[30]
June
- 1 June: Denmark, Referendum[31]
- 5 June: Kazakhstan, Constitutional Referendum[32]
- 12 June:
- 19 June:
- 22 June: Jersey, Parliament[37]
- 23 June: Grenada, House of Representatives[38]
- 26 June: Liechtenstein, Referendum[39][citation needed]
July
- 4–22 July: Papua New Guinea, Parliament[40][41]
- 10 July:
- 25 July: Tunisia, Constitutional Referendum[45]
- 31 July:
August
- 1 August: Cook Islands, Parliament[48] and Referendum[49]
- 5 August: Saint Kitts and Nevis, Parliament[50]
- 9 August: Kenya, President, National Assembly and Senate[51]
- 24 August: Angola, President and Parliament[52]
September
- 4 September: Chile, Constitutional Referendum[53]
- 11 September: Sweden, Parliament[54]
- 18 September: Liechtenstein, Referendum[55]
- 23–24 September: Czech Republic, Senate[56]
- 23–27 September:
- Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic, Russian annexation referendums[57][58][59]
- Russian Armed Forces-occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts, Russian annexation referendums[60][61]
- 24 September: Nauru, Parliament[62][63]
- 25 September:
- 29 September: Kuwait, Parliament[67]
October
- 1 October: Latvia, Parliament[68]
- 2 October:
- 7 October: Lesotho, National Assembly[72]
- 9 October: Austria, President[73]
- 13 October: Vanuatu, Parliament[74][75][76]
- 23 October: Slovenia, President (1st round)[77]
- 30 October: Brazil, President (2nd round)[78]
November
- 1 November:
- 8 November: United States, House of Representatives and Senate[81]
- 9 November: Pitcairn Islands, Mayor[82]
- 12 November: Bahrain, Parliament[83]
- 13 November: Slovenia, President (2nd round)
- 19 November: Malaysia, House of Representatives
- 20 November:
- 26 November: Taiwan, Constitutional Referendum[88]
- 27 November: Slovenia, Referendum[89]
December
- 6 December: Dominica, Parliament
- 8 December: Faroe Islands, Legislature[90]
- 14 December: Fiji, Parliament[91]
- 17 December: Tunisia, Parliament (first round)[45]
Indirect elections
The following indirect elections of heads of state and the upper houses of bicameral legislatures took place through votes in elected lower houses, unicameral legislatures, or electoral colleges:
- 1 November 2021 – 13 April 2022: Somalia, House of the People[92]
- 24–29 January: Italy, President[93]
- 26 January: Nepal, National Assembly
- 5 February: Algeria, Council of the Nation[94]
- 13 February: Germany, President[95]
- 3 March: Armenia, President[96]
- 10 March: Hungary, President[97]
- 24 March and 3 June: India, Council of States
- 8 May: Hong Kong, Chief Executive[98]
- 15 May: Somalia, President[99]
- 16 May – 4 June: Albania, President[100]
- 18 July: India, President[101]
- 20 July: Sri Lanka, President[102]
- 21–23 July: Vanuatu, President[103][104]
- 6 August: India, Vice President
- 23 August: Samoa, Head of State[105][106]
- 28 September: Nauru, President[107]
- Since 29 September: Lebanon, President[108][109]
- 2 October: Bosnia and Herzegovina, House of Peoples[110]
- 13 October: Iraq, President[111]
- 7 December: Switzerland, Federal Council[112]
See also
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