Elections in Africa
Algeria
- Presidential: 12 December 2019
- People's National Assembly: 4 May 2017
Angola
- Presidential: 23 August 2017
- National Assembly: 23 August 2017
Benin
- Presidential: 6 and 20 March 2016
- National Assembly: 28 April 2019
Botswana
- Presidential: 23 October 2019
- National Assembly: 23 October 2019
Burkina Faso
- Presidential: 29 November 2015
- National Assembly: 29 November 2015
Burundi
- Presidential: 20 May 2020
- National Assembly: 20 May 2020
- Constitutional Referendum: 17 May 2018
Cameroon
- Presidential: 7 October 2018
- National Assembly: 9 February 2020
Cape Verde
- Presidential: 2 October 2016
- National Assembly: 20 March 2016
Central African Republic
- Presidential: 30 December 2015 and 14 February 2016
- National Assembly: 14 February and 31 March 2016
Chad
- Presidential: 10 April 2016
- National Assembly: 13 February 2011
- Constitutional Referendum: 6 June 2005
Comoros
- Presidential: 24 March 2019
- Assembly of the Union: 19 January and 23 February 2020
Côte d'Ivoire
- Presidential 25 October 2015
- National Assembly: 18 December 2016
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Presidential: 30 December 2018
- National Assembly: 30 December 2018
Djibouti
- Presidential: 8 April 2016
- National Assembly: 23 February 2018
Egypt
- Presidential: 26-28 March 2018
- People's Assembly: 17 October – 2 December 2015 (three stages)
- Constitutional Referendum: 20-22 April 2019
Equatorial Guinea
- Presidential: 24 April 2016
- House of People's Representatives: 12 November 2017
Eritrea
Eritrea, since independence, has repeatedly postponed elections.
Ethiopia
- Presidential: 25 October 2018
- House of People's Representatives: 24 May 2015
Gabon
- Presidential: 27 August 2016
- National Assembly: 6 and 27 October 2018
The Gambia
- Presidential: 1 December 2016
- National Assembly: 6 April 2017
Ghana
- Presidential: 7 December 2016
- Parliamentary: 7 December 2016
Guinea
- Presidential: 11 October 2015
- National Assembly 22 March 2020
- Constitutional Referendum 22 March 2020
Guinea-Bissau
- Presidential: 24 November and 29 December 2019
- People's National Assembly: 10 March 2019
Kenya
- Presidential: 26 October 2017
- National Assembly: 8 August 2017
- Constitutional Referendum: 4 August 2010
Lesotho
- National Assembly: 3 June 2017
Liberia
- Presidential: 10 October and 26 December 2017
- Senate: 10 October 2017
- House of Representatives: 10 October 2017
Libya
Libya does not hold elections.
Madagascar
- Presidential: 7 November and 19 December 2018
- National Assembly: 27 May 2019
- Constitutional Referendum: 17 November 2010
Malawi
- Presidential: 21 May 2019
- National Assembly: 21 May 2019
Mali
- Presidential: 29 July and 12 August 2018
- National Assembly: 29 March and 19 April 2020
Mauritania
- Presidential: 22 June 2019
- National Assembly: 1 and 15 September 2018
Mauritius
- National Assembly: 7 November 2019
Morocco
- Chamber of Representatives: 7 October 2016
Mozambique
- Presidential: 15 October 2019
- National Assembly: 15 October 2019
Namibia
- Presidential: 27 November 2019
- National Assembly: 27 November 2019
Niger
- Presidential: 21 February and 20 March 2016
- Presidential: 21 February 2016
Nigeria
- Presidential: 23-24 February 2019
- Senate: 23-24 February 2019
- House of Representatives: 23-24 February 2019
Republic of Congo
- Presidential: 20 March 2016
- National Assembly: 16 and 30 July 2017
Rwanda
- Presidential: 4 August 2017
- Chamber of Deputies: 3 September 2018
São Tomé and Príncipe
- Presidential: 17 July and 7 August 2016
- National Assembly: 7 October 2018
Senegal
- Presidential: 24 February 2019
- National Assembly: 30 July 2017
Seychelles
- Presidential: 3-5 and 16-18 December 2015
- National Assembly: 8-10 September 2016
Sierra Leone
- Presidential: 7 and 30 March 2018
- House of Representatives: 7 March 2018
Somalia
- Presidential: 8 February 2017
- House of the People: 23 October and 10 November 2016
South Africa
- National Assembly: 8 May 2019
Sudan
- Presidential: 13–16 April 2015
- National Assembly: 13-16 April 2015
Swaziland
- House of Assembly: 18 August and 21 September 2018
Tanzania
- Presidential: 25 October 2015
- National Assembly: 25 October 2015
Togo
- Presidential 22 February 2020
- National Assembly: 20 December 2018
Tunisia
- Presidential: 15 September and 13 October 2019
- Chamber of Deputies: 6 October 2019
Uganda
- Presidential: 18 February 2016
- Parliament: 18 February 2016
Western Sahara
- National Council: 19-21 February 2012
Zambia
- Presidential: 11 August 2016
- National Assembly: 11 August 2016
Zimbabwe
- Presidential: 30 July 2018
- National Assembly: 30 July 2018
Summary
| Summary of East Africa Elections | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Presidential Elections (1999–2019) | Recent Election Year | Next Election | Presidential Votes Cast in Last Election | Registered Voters |
| South Sudan | 2 | 2010 | 2021 | 2,813,830 | 4,800,000 |
| Uganda | 4 | 2016 | 2021 | 10,329,131 | 15,277,198 |
| Kenya | 4 | 2017 | 2022 | 15,593,050 | 19,611,423 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 2015 | 2020 | 15,596,110 | 23,161,440 |
| Rwanda | 3 | 2017 | 2024 | 6,769,514 | 6,897,076 |
| Burundi | 4 | 2020 | 2025 | 2,826,072 | 3,848,119 |
| Political Events in African Countries by Region, 1999–2017 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region | President/Prime Minsister | Parliamentary Elections | Peace Treaties | Total Countries |
| Southern Africa | 48 | 33 | 6 | 12 |
| Central Africa | 24 | 25 | 6 | 8 |
| East Africa | 42 | 35 | 5 | 13 |
| West Africa | 55 | 59 | 0 | 15 |
| North Africa | 18 | 18 | 2 | 6 |
| Total | 187 | 170 | 19 | 54 |
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References
- "IEBC: Breakdown of Final 19.6 million registered voters in Kenya, 2017". Kenyayote. 27 June 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
- "Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission". www.iebc.or.ke. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
- "Observing Sudan's 2010 National Elections" (PDF). The Carter Center. April 2010.
- "2021 Uganda's general elections to cost Shs700 billion". dispatch.ug. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
- "Elections in South Sudan". africanelections.tripod.com. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
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