Presidential and Parliamentary elections (tbc)
Presidential and Parliamentary (Chamber of Deputies and Senate) elections are scheduled in late 2025. Date not confirmed.
Presidential and Parliamentary (Chamber of Deputies and Senate) elections are scheduled in late 2025. Date not confirmed.
Presidential and National Congress elections are scheduled for 30 November 2025.
Presidential and Parliamentary (Chamber of Deputies and Senate) elections are scheduled for 16 November 2025.
Council of Representatives election is scheduled for 11 November 2025.
Presidential election is scheduled for 11 November 2025. Date not confirmed.
Incumbent President Paul Biya of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (Rassemblement démocratique du Peuple Camerounais, RDPC) won Cameroon’s presidential election, held on 12 October, extending his rule to an eighth consecutive term. According to official results, Biya won 53.7 per cent of votes, ahead of Issa Tchiroma of the Cameroon National Salvation (Front pour le salut national du Cameroun, FSNC) with 35.2 per cent. Of the 12 candidates that contested the election, only one was a woman.
On 27 October, Côte d’Ivoire’s electoral commission declared President Alassane Ouattara the winner of the 25 October presidential election with 89.8 per cent of the vote. Major challengers Laurent Gbagbo and Tidjane Thiam were barred from running, and with no major opposition contender on the ballot, voter turnout dropped slightly to 50.1 per cent from 53.9 per cent in 2020. Entrepreneur Jean-Louis Billon placed a distant second with 3.1 per cent, followed by former First Lady Simone Gbagbo at 2.4 per cent; she was one of two women candidates among the five on the ballot.
On 3 and 4 October, Czechia held parliamentary elections for the 200 seats of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the country’s bicameral Parliament. The ANO (Yes) party led by Andrej Babiš received the highest vote share with 34.5 per cent of the vote, securing 80 seats, an increase of 8 compared to the 2021 elections.
On 3 September, Jamaica held a general election. The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) won 35 out of the 63 seats in Parliament’s House of Representatives, resulting in Prime Minister Andrew Holness securing a third term in office. The opposition Peoples’s National Party (PNP) won 28 seats, representing a gain of 14 seats compared to the previous election.
The ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) won 50.2 per cent of the vote and 55 of 101 seats in the country’s parliamentary election on 28 September. The opposition Patriotic Electoral Bloc (BEP) came second with 24.2 per cent and 26 seats. Electoral turnout was 52.2 per cent, up from 48.4 per cent in the 2021 elections. As with other recent elections, the campaign was portrayed as a referendum between further European integration and a pro-Russian geopolitical orientation by many actors and observers, including PAS, Russia, and the European Union.