Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Ivory Coast on 6 March 2021. The previous elections, held in 2016, saw the presidential coalition (the Rally of Houphouëtists for Democracy and Peace, composed of the […]
Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Somalia in 2021. The incumbent president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, has been in office since the February 2017 election. In January 2019, former president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed announced […]
General elections will be held in Ivory Coast on 31 October 2020. Incumbent President Alassane Ouattara has announced he will not run again after being president for two terms (2010–2015 and 2015–2020). Electoral system The President of the Ivory Coast and the Vice-President will […]
The elections will be held using the two-round system, with a second round taking place if no candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the first round. The new constitution passed in a […]
Parliamentary elections are scheduled in Ethiopia for May 2020. “Before the recent period of reforms, Ethiopia was ruled under an iron fist for 28 years essentially under the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) which dominated […]
Parliament elections are scheduled to be held in Egypt from April–May 2020, after the 2019 Egyptian constitutional referendum. Elections for the senate will be held alongside the parliamentary election. Background According to the parliament’s chair, the election is expected to be held […]
Parliamentary elections in Guinea are scheduled for March 2020, after being postponed three times from the original date of January 2019. Electoral system The 114 members of the National Assembly are elected by a mixed […]
Legislative elections were held in the Comoros on 19 January 2020; in constituencies where no candidate received a majority, a second round was held alongside local elections on 23 February. An opposition union including the […]
Electoral system Constitutional amendments approved in May 2019 changed the electoral system for the presidency to the two-round system, replacing the previous first-past-the-post system. Campaign In October 2019 the main opposition party, the National Alliance […]
General elections are scheduled to be held in Botswana on 23 October 2019. Election day will be declared a public holiday. Background Following the 2014 elections, there were two opposition factions in parliament; the Umbrella for Democratic Change (an alliance of the Botswana […]
