Trusted electoral processes are built on professional and continuously evolving electoral management practices. Innovative confidence-building measures, excellence in election delivery, and strengthened inter-agency cooperation enable electoral institutions to respond to emerging challenges while reinforcing electoral integrity.
Annual Election Reviews
In June 2025, International IDEA and the Electoral Integrity Project (EIP) published Review of the 2024 Super-Cycle Year of Elections: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities. The report examined the key trends and challenges that shaped the unprecedented 2024 super-cycle of elections, highlighting lessons learned, emerging risks, and opportunities to strengthen electoral integrity worldwide.
In early September 2026, International IDEA and the Electoral Integrity Project will launch the second edition of the Review of the 2025 Year of Elections: Trust, Innovation and Diversity. Building on the inaugural publication, this new report broadens the analysis to examine both the challenges to electoral integrity and innovations in electoral administration.
The publication provides election practitioners, researchers, policymakers and the wider public with a comprehensive overview of global trends in electoral integrity, analyses emerging challenges affecting the administration of elections, and highlights innovative approaches and good practices from around the world.
Produced through close collaboration between International IDEA and the Electoral Integrity Project, the report draws on extensive expert discussions, global comparative analysis and multidisciplinary reflection. It synthesizes the key trends observed throughout 2025 and offers evidence-based insights to inform future policy, practice and research on electoral integrity.
Global Network for Securing Electoral Integrity
In 2023, International IDEA (as a steering committee member) joined USAID and electoral assistance organizations around the world, in launching the Global Network for Securing Electoral Integrity (GNSEI), which convenes election stakeholders around a shared vision: to inspire and inform action to advance electoral integrity in the face of critical threats to democracy. GNSEI brings together electoral assistance actors to develop, advance, and promote adherence to norms, guiding principles, and codes of conduct that address emerging and long-term threats to electoral integrity.
Key Focus Areas
International IDEA’s Electoral Processes workstream supports the protection and strengthening of elections. Key areas of focus:
- the quality of legal and institutional frameworks relating to elections;
- the capacity of electoral institutions to implement their mandates;
- the inclusivity of electoral processes;
- the ability of civil society, democracy defenders, and the media to ensure the accountability of electoral institutions and the integrity of electoral processes; and
- the tools and practices of electoral assistance.
Through a range of publications, training resources, assessment tools, workshops and advocacy initiatives, International IDEA promotes good electoral practices and distils regulatory and policy options.
For more information see our 12 topic areas and projects pages.
