Review of the 2025 Year of Elections
This report examines the key challenges and innovations that shaped elections during the 2025 calendar year. It provides practitioners, researchers and the wider public with an overview of global trends in electoral integrity; analyses emerging challenges affecting the conduct of elections; and showcases 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 discussion, global comparative analysis and expert reflection. It synthesizes the key trends observed throughout 2025 and offers evidence-based insights to inform future policy, practice and research.
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Acknowledgements
Preface
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Introduction
1. Innovation and evolving electoral management practice
2. Electoral reform
3. Campaign finance in elections
4. Electoral malpractice
5. Election-related violence
6. Gender-based violence
7. The information environment around elections
8. Electoral management hurdles and malfunctions
9. Conclusion
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Annex A. Findings from the Global Election Monitor
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