Election Emergency and Crisis Monitor: Mapping Impact and Response to Disasters
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About the Election Emergency and Crisis Monitor
During the 2024 super-cycle year of elections, at least 23 elections, including primary, local, national, and supranational polls in 18 countries, were affected by natural hazards, impacting millions of voters around the world. Countries affected included Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Czechia, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Maldives, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, Romania, Senegal, Tuvalu, and USA. Climate change exacerbated many of these weather events, aggravating disruptions at multiple stages of the electoral cycle.
The electoral challenges posed by extreme weather - exacerbated by climate change - such as floods, hurricanes, heatwaves, and wildfires, as well as other disasters like earthquakes and volcanic activity, are highlighted in the EECM. Each country brief provides a concise overview of the disaster's impact on the country and its electoral process, detailing the event, its societal effects, connections to climate change, procedural and legal adaptations, and measures taken to safeguard electoral integrity, including voter turnout data where available. The EECM contains over 90 country briefs spanning elections from 2001 to 2025. For more information visit our project page.
Citation: Asplund, E. (editor), 'Election Emergency and Crisis Monitor: Mapping Impact and Response to Disasters', International IDEA, 12 November 2024 (and updated)
