People

Adama Barrow

President of The Gambia

President of The Gambia since the democratic transfer of power following the 2016 presidential election, and winner of the 2021 presidential election according to the Independent Electoral Commission. This profile does not assume a finalized 2026 candidacy before nominations close.

Aleksandar Vučić

President of Serbia since 2017

President of Serbia since 2017 and leader of the SNS; not a candidate in the December 2023 parliamentary election, though the winning SNS-led list bore his name.

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus

President of Belarus since 1994, when he won the last election international observers regarded as broadly competitive. Referendums held under his presidency in 1996 and 2004 expanded the powers of the office and removed the limit on presidential terms. The 2020 election, in which he was declared the winner, was held without an OSCE/ODIHR observation mission and its official result was widely disputed.

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria

Austrian president since 2017. His first election is the reason Austria appears in this database: he won the May 2016 run-off, the Constitutional Court annulled that run-off over how postal ballots had been handled, and he won the re-run in December. The annulment turned on procedure — the Court found no evidence that the declared result was wrong — which makes the episode a reference case for separating a flawed process from a falsified one.

Alexandr Stoianoglo

Presidential candidate, Moldova

Moldovan presidential candidate who lost the 2024 run-off, held on the same day as the referendum on writing EU accession into the constitution. Out-of-country ballots were decisive in the result.

Alice Weidel

Party leader, Germany

Co-lead candidate for the AfD at the 2021 German federal election, in which the party placed fifth. The 2021 campaign period is documented here for the Ghostwriter operation against German parliamentarians.

Anatoliy Hrytsenko

Minister of Defence of Ukraine, 2005–2009; presidential candidate, 2014

Finished fourth in Ukraine's 2014 early presidential election. He also brought a successful challenge to how the election commission had reallocated executive positions on district commissions.

Andrew Scheer

Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, 2017–2020

Conservative Party leader at Canada's 2019 federal election. The party received the largest nationwide share of valid votes, 34.3%, and won 121 seats, while the Liberals formed a minority government.

Annalena Baerbock

Chancellor candidate, Germany

German chancellor candidate for Alliance 90/The Greens in the 2021 federal election; the party placed third and entered the governing coalition.

Armin Laschet

Chancellor candidate, Germany

German chancellor candidate for the CDU/CSU in the 2021 federal election, in which the bloc recorded its weakest federal result of the post-war period and went into opposition.

Atiku Abubakar

Former Nigerian vice president and People's Democratic Party runner-up in the 2023 presidential election, which INEC declared for Bola Tinubu on 36.6%.

Aziz Akhannouch

Head of Government of Morocco

Head of Government of Morocco and president of the National Rally of Independents. His party won the largest number of seats in the 2021 House of Representatives election; this page does not assume a finalized role or candidacy in the 2026 contest.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel

Prime Minister of Israel and leader of Likud. His profile supplies institutional context for the scheduled 2026 Knesset election; it does not treat party lists or candidacies as final before the legal nomination process is complete.

Benoît Hamon

Presidential candidate, France

French presidential candidate in 2017, standing for the governing party of the outgoing president, who finished well outside the top two in the first round.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Founder of Georgian Dream; Prime Minister of Georgia, 2012–2013

Founder of Georgian Dream, the party that won the October 2024 parliamentary elections, and a former prime minister. The European Parliament named him among the individuals on whom it urged the EU to impose personal sanctions following the elections.

Bola Tinubu

President of Nigeria

Nigerian president declared elected in the 2023 presidential contest with 8,794,726 votes, the largest total in a competitive four-way race.

Boris Johnson

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 2019–2022

UK prime minister and Conservative Party leader at the 2019 general election. The Conservatives won 365 seats and a House of Commons majority.

Călin Georgescu

Presidential candidate, Romania

Romanian presidential candidate who led the first round of the November 2024 election as a little-known independent. In December 2024 the Constitutional Court annulled that round after declassified intelligence described an undeclared, coordinated online campaign promoting his candidacy. He was subsequently barred from standing in the 2025 re-run. The annulment rested on how the campaign was conducted, not on any finding that votes were miscounted.

Carlos Veiga

Candidate for president of Cabo Verde in 2021

Cabo Verdean presidential candidate who placed second in the 2021 election with 78,603 votes, or 42.39% in the CNE's corrected result map.

Christian Lindner

Party leader, Germany

Leader of the FDP at the 2021 German federal election; the party placed fourth and entered the governing coalition.

Christopher Luxon

Prime Minister of New Zealand

Prime Minister of New Zealand and leader of the National Party. He announced the 7 November 2026 general-election date; final candidate nominations are a separate Electoral Commission process.

Claudia Sheinbaum

President of Mexico since 2024

President of Mexico since October 2024; won the June 2024 election as the candidate of Morena and its allies, becoming the first woman elected to the office.

Daniel Noboa

President of Ecuador

Ecuadorian president re-elected in the 2025 presidential runoff with 55.63% of valid votes, a margin of more than 1.18 million over Luisa González.

Daniel Ortega

Co-President of Nicaragua

Co-President of Nicaragua and leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front. Nicaragua's 2025 constitutional reform replaced the president and vice-president structure with a male and female co-presidency; no 2026 ticket is treated here as final before formal registration.