The Global Election Monitor

Electoral integrity is increasingly under pressure in both transitional and well-established democracies. Challenges are ever-present, stemming from the complexity of both the environments in which elections take place and electoral management itself.

The Global Election Monitor (GEM) aims to provide a continuous qualitative overview of democratic national elections and instances of electoral integrity challenges. Election stakeholders increasingly navigate changing information environments and eroding levels of trust in government institutions, as well as traditional hurdles related to electoral administration and performance.  

All GEM briefs are based on reliable open-source information, and typically highlight key concerns and actions drawn from news articles, reports by electoral management bodies  and election observation reports. The information compiled in the GEM is collected through desk research by International IDEA’s Electoral Processes Team, using a variety of keyword searches and fully referenced media monitoring. The GEM briefs are designed to provide a condensed overview of a given election and serve as a point of departure for further research, they are updated on a continuous basis to reflect new insights. 

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