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This page lists useful sources for election-related material.

General

  • Adam Carr - coverage of national elections. Usually very thorough, although often groups minor parties together.
  • Direct Democracy Template:De icon Exhaustive details of almost every referendum ever held. Occasionally references Wikipedia, but most results are sourced from official sites, the media and books.
  • Election Guide - coverage of national elections and referendums. Recent updates have been patchy and results data is often poor (preliminary results are often left as final), but reasonably useful for details of electoral systems.
  • Election Passport Results by constituencies for several countries. Results data generally good, but doesn't always include invalid votes/registered voters etc.
  • Election Resources Details of electoral systems, parties and links to other useful sites
  • IDEA Contains some data, like votes cast, turnout etc.
  • IPU Parline - coverage of national elections. Comprehensive detail on electoral systems. Some basic details about election campaigns. Results data is mixed, but usually restricted to seats won, overall votes cast. Often combines seats won by minor parties.
  • Maximiliano Herrera Electoral Calendar.

Continental

Africa

  • African Elections Database One of the most complete sources on elections. Results data is usually complete where available. Not updated for a couple of years though.
  • EISA Details elections in Africa, predominantly in countries in the south of the continent. Result data is generally good, although minor parties are sometimes combined. A good source for details of election campaigns. No obvious entry point to the data, so needs to be searched via Google (link is to the Botswana archive).

Europe

  • Elections in Europe Template:Fr icon
  • European Elections Database Only details elections since 1990 (national and European) and EU-related referendums. Results data sometimes combines minor parties.
  • Parties and Elections - coverage of national and sub-national elections in Europe. Results data limited to % of votes and seats won and usually combines parties that didn't win seats
  • "The Database" Coverage of post-communist elections in Eastern Europe. Results data is generally excellent and very detailed.

Americas

National

Country Election commission Others
Afghanistan IEC
Albania CEC
Algeria Interior Ministry
American Samoa ASEO
Andorra
Angola CNE
Antigua ABEC
Argentina Argentina Elections
Armenia CEC
Aruba Overheid
Australia AEC Australian Politics and Elections Database
Austria
Azerbaijan CEC
Bahamas
Bahrain DER
Bangladesh ECB
Barbados BEBC
Belarus CCRB
Belgium IBZ
Belize EBD
Benin Benin Elections (official?)
Bhutan ECB
Bolivia OEP
Bosnia CEC
Botswana IEC
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria CIK
Burkina Faso CENI
Burma
Burundi CENI
Cambodia NEC
Cameroon
Canada EC
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia ]CNE
Comoros
Congo
Costa Rica TSE
Croatia SEC
Cuba
Curacao
Cyprus MOI
Czech Republic Volby
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
DR Congo CENI
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Greenland Valg
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel Knesset
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey Vote.je (official?)
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya HNEC
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Macedonia
Madagascar CENI
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova CEC eDemocracy Comprehensive site about post-independence elections and political parties.
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique STAE
Namibia ECN
Nauru
Nepal
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria INEC
North Korea
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestinian Territories
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
St Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa 
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Sint Maarten
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands SIEC
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
South Sudan
Spain 
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland 
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan CEC
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand 
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uruguay CE
US Virgin Islands VI Vote
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe