2024 Global Elections: A Comprehensive Overview of Worldwide Voting Events

2024-01-01 15:54:55

Camille Pagella with AFP Published on January 1, 2024 at 4:54 p.m. / Modified on January 1, 2024 at 4:56 p.m.

Nearly 4 billion people, or almost 50% of humanity, will go to the polls in 2024 for decisive elections while at least 76 countries are due to hold presidential, parliamentary or local elections. Among them are eight of the ten most populous nations in the world: Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia and the United States. Added to this is a major transnational rally: in 2024, like every five years, nearly 400 million Europeans are invited to go to the polls to renew their parliament, which sits in Strasbourg.

The 27 members of the EU are all part of the 43 countries which will hold free and transparent elections in 2024, according to the democracy index developed by the British newspaper group The Economist. The rest of the elections will be held in countries which do not meet all the conditions required for the organization of a democratic vote and where populations could also be subject to a greater or lesser risk of disinformation as well as manipulation. In first place among the countries having recorded the worst results in 2022, the democracy index pinpoints Russia, which has fallen to the bottom of the ranking and finds itself 124th out of 167. And on which all the spotlight will be focused in March.