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National elections coming up, and the integrity questions worth watching at each — set against what this database has already documented. These are open questions, not allegations: nothing here asserts that anything has happened.
Election calendar
Select any marked day to see the election, its status, and the integrity questions being monitored.
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Sunday, September 13, 2026
Sweden's first general election since completing NATO accession, run on an all-paper ballot with manual counting — a system with few of the technical attack surfaces that dominate election-integrity debate elsewhere. That makes the information environment, rather than the count, the place where pressure would show.
September 13, 2026
Sweden's first general election since completing NATO accession, run on an all-paper ballot with manual counting — a system with few of the technical attack surfaces that dominate election-integrity debate elsewhere. That makes the information environment, rather than the count, the place where pressure would show.
September 20, 2026
Russia elects the State Duma under conditions no international observer mission has been able to assess against democratic standards for years: OSCE/ODIHR did not observe the 2021 Duma election after being offered a numerically restricted mission. The entry is listed for completeness and comparison, not because a competitive contest is expected.
September 23, 2026
Morocco will elect the House of Representatives on 23 September. Preparations include voter-roll revision, a central monitoring commission and a special audiovisual-media regime that covers political pluralism and deceptive AI-generated election content.
October 3, 2026
Latvia votes for the 15th Saeima having legislated a change in how the ballots are counted: the parliament approved a move to manual counting for this election. That makes the count itself the thing to watch — not because manual counting is worse, but because any change to the counting method in the cycle before a vote is a change to the safeguards a result rests on.
October 4, 2026
A general election in a state whose constitutional order is itself contested by part of its own leadership, held under a system where ethnicity determines what a citizen may vote for. Bosnia is a standing test of the difference between an election that is administered correctly and one that is genuinely free and fair — the two questions this database keeps separate everywhere.
October 4, 2026 · run-off October 25, 2026
Brazil votes on fully electronic voting machines that produce no voter-verifiable paper record, four years after a losing campaign disputed the count and supporters stormed the capital's institutions. The pairing matters: a system without a paper trail is harder to audit publicly, which raises the evidentiary cost of refuting a false claim about it.
October 27, 2026
Israel's election for the 120-seat Knesset is scheduled for 27 October. The nationwide proportional contest uses paper party-list slips and manual counting. A July State Comptroller report makes the public response to foreign digital influence a specific institutional issue rather than a generic warning.
November 3, 2026
The first federal election since the 2020 cycle whose aftermath produced the most heavily litigated fraud claims in American history — every one of which failed in court, and which are recorded here as debunked. The question for 2026 is not whether those claims recur but whether the administrative safeguards that defeated them, chiefly paper records and post-election audits, remain in place at state level.
November 7, 2026
New Zealand votes under mixed-member proportional representation, with each voter casting an electorate vote and a party vote. The Electoral Commission has published the key dates and is implementing an integrity programme following an Auditor-General review.
November 8, 2026 · run-off November 15, 2026
Bulgaria votes for a president in an information environment that EU institutions have repeatedly identified as among the most exposed in the union to Russian-aligned messaging. The presidency is largely ceremonial, which makes the campaign a cheaper target than a parliamentary contest — and therefore a useful place to observe technique rather than consequence.
November 8, 2026
Nicaragua's first general election under the 2025 constitution will choose a male and female co-presidential ticket and legislative representatives for six-year terms. The central questions are whether competition, candidate eligibility, media access, observation, voter-register review and count transparency meet the rights guaranteed in law and address the documented restrictions surrounding 2021.
November 15, 2026
Cabo Verde will elect its president on 15 November, with citizens voting in the islands and diaspora. The immediate integrity checkpoints are completion of registration before the 65-day suspension, correction and freezing of the rolls, access for agents and observers, and reconciliation of polling-station records through the national tabulation.
November 29, 2026
Ecuador will elect 5,749 principal provincial, municipal, parish and citizen-participation officials on 29 November. A 13.8-million-person register, thousands of offices and candidacies, statutory gender and youth rules, CPCCS candidate vetting, overseas participation and multiple results systems make audit access and precise voter information especially important.
December 5, 2026
The Gambia elects its president using the country's distinctive marble-and-drum ballot system. The Independent Electoral Commission has published a detailed calendar, while the 2021 EU observer mission provides a concrete reform baseline for the legal framework, campaign and media environment.
December 22, 2026
South Sudan plans its first national election since independence, after repeated extensions of the transitional period. The election authority has adopted 102 geographic constituencies based on the 2010 arrangement, but voter registration, funding, security, party readiness and the legal-operational framework remain decisive benchmarks.
February 6, 2027
Fiji's campaign period is open, but the writ and polling date have not yet been issued. Voters will fill 55 seats through a single nationwide open-list proportional contest. Date communication, register closure, postal and pre-poll access, candidate-number voter education, station-level counting and the public results system are the main checkpoints.
February 20, 2027
Nigeria's 2027 cycle will be the first general election under the Electoral Act 2026 and the first led by INEC chair Joash Amupitan. The core integrity tests are inclusive registration and PVC collection, nationwide logistics and security, reliable BVAS accreditation, prompt publication and reconciliation of polling-unit forms, and visible implementation of lessons from 2023.
October 24, 2027
Argentina is expected to renew roughly half of the Chamber of Deputies and one-third of the Senate on 24 October 2027. It will be the second national cycle using the single paper ballot. Final district magnitudes, participating provinces for Senate seats, ballot designs and the operational calendar will follow in the formal convocation.
October 31, 2027
Poland's first parliamentary elections after the closely contested 2025 presidential cycle will test whether observer recommendations on state resources, public media, campaign finance, third-party campaigning and election remedies have been implemented. They will also be the first parliamentary contest after the planned launch of a digital candidate-support portal. The count itself remains paper-based and is published at polling-station level; the separate forward-looking questions are whether those records remain easy to verify and whether Poland's 2025 election-protection capacity can respond transparently to cyber incidents, covert advertising, impersonation, synthetic media and documented Russia- and Belarus-linked influence techniques.
Scheduled dates come from national election authorities and are linked above. Dates can move; where one is not yet fixed by decree it is marked as expected rather than confirmed. Listing an election here is not a prediction that anything improper will occur — it is a statement about what would be worth checking if it did.