List of annulled elections
This is a list of national political elections that had their results cancelled or decertified after they were held, sometimes legally, sometimes following a coup or revolution. Partial cancellations (one or some districts) are omitted.
National elections
- 1918 Estonian Constituent Assembly election
- 1925 Bolivian presidential election (won by José Gabino Villanueva)
- Brazilian presidential election (won by Júlio Prestes, followed by Brazilian Revolution of 1930)
- 1931 Ecuadorian presidential election (won by Neptalí Bonifaz Ascásubi)
- 1936 Peruvian presidential election (won by Luis Antonio Eguiguren)
- 1948 Costa Rican general election (won by Otilio Ulate Blanco, followed by Costa Rican Civil War)
- 1957 Guatemalan presidential election (won by Miguel Ortiz Passarelli)
- 1958 Cuban presidential election (won by Andrés Rivero Agüero, followed by Cuban Revolution)
- 1960 Iranian legislative election[1]
- 1962 Peruvian presidential election (won by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre)
- 1967 Sierra Leonean general election (Siaka Stevens took the oath of office as prime minister but was overthrown the same day)
- May 1968 Dahomeyan presidential election (won by Basile Adjou Moumouni)
- 1970 Dahomeyan presidential election (won by Justin Ahomadegbé)
- 1970 Lesotho general election (won by the Basotho Congress Party)
- 1982 Guatemalan general election (won by Ángel Aníbal Guevara, followed by a coup d'état)
- 1989 Panamanian general election (won by Guillermo Endara, followed by United States invasion of Panama)
- 1990 Burmese general election (won by the National League for Democracy)
- 1991 Algerian legislative election (won by the Islamic Salvation Front, followed by Algerian Civil War)
- 1992 Central African general election
- 1993 Nigerian presidential election (won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola)
- April 1997 Malian parliamentary election
- 2000 United States presidential election in Florida (decided by Supreme Court in favor of George W. Bush)
- 2003 Georgian legislative election (followed by Rose Revolution)
- September 2003 Papua New Guinea vice-regal election (parliamentary vote won by Sir Albert Kipalan)
- December 2003 Papua New Guinea vice-regal election (parliamentary vote won by Sir Pato Kakaraya)
- The original second round results of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election (won by Viktor Yanukovych, followed by Orange Revolution)
- 2005 Kyrgyz parliamentary election (followed by Tulip Revolution)
- April 2006 Thai legislative election (followed by 2006 Thai coup d'état)
- 2010 Icelandic Constitutional Assembly election
- 2011 Kosovan presidential election (parliamentary vote won by Behgjet Pacolli)
- 2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election
- 2012 Guinea-Bissau presidential election (second round canceled after a coup d'état)
- February 2012 Kuwaiti general election
- December 2012 Kuwaiti general election
- 2013 Maldivian presidential election (first round re-run)
- 2014 Thai general election (followed by the 2014 Thai coup d'état)
- 2015 Haitian presidential election
- The original second round results of the 2016 Austrian presidential election
- 2017 Kenyan general election (only the presidential election which was initially called for Uhuru Kenyatta)
- 2019 Malawian general election
- 2019 Bolivian general election (followed by the 2019 Bolivian political crisis)
- The original first round results of the 2020 Polish presidential election
Local elections
- 1974 United States Senate election in New Hampshire
- 2004 Abkhazian presidential election
- 2011 South Ossetian presidential election (won by Alla Dzhioyeva; Leonid Tibilov elected in 2012)
- September 2018 Primorsky Krai gubernatorial election
- 2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election (won by Mark Harris; Dan Bishop elected in 2019)
- March 2019 Istanbul mayoral election
- 2019 Abkhazian presidential election
Elections where the winning candidate died before taking office
- 1918 Brazilian presidential election (won by Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves)
- 1928 Mexican general election (won by Álvaro Obregón, assassinated)
- 1967 South African presidential election (won by Theophilus Dönges)
- 1982 Lebanese presidential election (won by Bashir Gemayel, assassinated)
- 1985 Brazilian presidential election (won by Tancredo Neves)
References
- Azimi, Fakhreddin (December 13, 2011) [December 15, 1998]. "ELECTIONS i. UNDER THE QAJAR AND PAHLAVI MONARCHIES, 1906-79". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. 4. VIII. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. pp. 345–355. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
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