On 5 May 2024, presidential and legislative elections were held in Panama. A total of 885 public positions were contested, including 701 representatives of district subdivisions (corregimientos), 81 mayors, 71 national deputies, 20 deputies for the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), 11 councillors, and the national president (France24 2024).
On 21 April 2024, the Maldives held elections to vote for 93 parliamentary constituencies. MPs are elected via the first past-the-post system (IFES 2024).
The Republic of Korea held its 22nd parliamentary elections on 10 April 2024 (Kim 2024). The unicameral National Assembly is made up of 300 members.
India held its election through a seven-phase process which ran from 19 April 2024 to 1 June 2024. India has a bicameral legislature, and members of the lower house (the Lok Sabha) are directly elected through a first-past-the-post system (IFES 2024).
Following the resignation of Prime Minister Antonio Costa in November 2023, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa dissolved Parliament and announced snap legislative elections to be held on 10 March 2024 (Hernández-Morales 2023).
On 14 February 2024, Indonesia held elections to vote for the president, vice president, and parliamentary and local representatives. The president is elected via two-round voting system and the legislature through party-list proportional representation (International IDEA 2024a).
On 8 February 2024, Pakistan held general elections after the regularly scheduled five-year term of the previous National Assembly. In Pakistan, voters elect one federal legislator and one provincial legislator. There are 336 seats in the National Assembly, with 60 reserved for women and 10 reserved for non-Muslims, and 749 Provincial Assembly seats, with the election following a first-past-the-post system.
El Salvador held general elections on 4 February 2024 to elect the president, vice-president and legislative assembly. As both head of state and head of government, the president is elected for a single 5-year term, with the vice-president on the same ballot paper (Country Reports 2024).
Slovakia is a parliamentary republic. The prime minister heads the government and the largely ceremonial president oversees foreign policy, holding a technical power of veto over new legislation, and making some official appointments (Freedom House 2024).
Tuvalu held elections for its unicameral parliament, the Tuvaluan House of Assembly (Fale I Fono), on 26 January 2024. The 16 members of the House are elected by plurality vote in multi-member constituencies to four-year terms. There are no political parties in Tuvalu; all candidates run as independents. The Prime Minister is elected by the members of parliament (IFES 2024).
