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Election Schedule, January 2022

 

Country

Election

Forthcoming Election Date

Most Recent Election

Algeria

Parliamentary

2026

12 June 2021

Algeria

Presidential

2024

12 December 2019

Bahrain

Parliamentary

2022

24 November & 1 December 2018

Egypt

Parliamentary

-

24-25 October & 7-8 November 2020

Egypt

Presidential

2022

26-28 March 2018

Iran

Parliamentary

2024

21 February 2020

Iran

Presidential

2025

18 June 2021

Iraq

Parliamentary

-

10 October 2021

Iraq

Presidential

2022

2 October 2018

Iraq

Municipal

N/A

20 April 2013

Israel

Parliamentary

2025

23 March 2021

Israel

Presidential

2028

2 June 2021

Jordan

Parliamentary

2024

10 November 2020

Jordan

Municipal

-

15 August 2017

Kuwait

Parliamentary

-

5 December 2020

Lebanon

Parliamentary

15 May 2022

6 May 2018

Lebanon

Presidential

2022

31 October 2016

Libya

Parliamentary & Presidential

24 January 2022

25 June 2014

Morocco

Parliamentary

-

8 September 2021

Oman

Consultative Council

-

27 October 2019

Palestine

Parliamentary

2021[1]

25 January 2006

Palestine

Presidential

2021[2]

9 January 2005

Palestine

Municipal

11 December 2021-26 March 2022[3]  

13 May 2017

Qatar

Consultative Council

-

2 October 2021

Qatar

Municipal

2023

16 April 2019

Saudi Arabia

Consultative Council

Nominated

2 December 2016[4]

Saudi Arabia

Municipal

2019[5]

12 December 2015

Syria

Parliamentary

2024

19 July 2020

Syria

Presidential

2028

26 May 2021

Tunisia

Parliamentary

2024

6 October 2019

Tunisia

Presidential

2024

15 September 2019

Tunisia

Municipal

N/A

6 May 2018

Turkey

Parliamentary

18 June 2023

24 June 2018

Turkey

Presidential

18 June 2023

24 June 2018

Turkey

Municipal

N/A

31 March 2019

UAE

Federal Council

-

5 October 2019

Yemen

Parliamentary

N/A

27 April 2003

Yemen

Presidential

N/A

21 February 2012

 

[1] Palestinian Legislative Election was scheduled for 22 May 2021 but on 29 April 2021 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas indefinitely postponed the election.

[2] Palestinian Presidential Election was scheduled for 31 July 2021 but on 29 April 2021, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas indefinitely postponed the election.

[3] The first round of Election in Palestine was held on 11 December 2021 for 154 towns in West Bank. The second round of election will be held in 66 Palestinian cities on 26 March 2022.

[4] The council was reconstituted through a Royal Decree issued on 2 December 2016.

[5] Not held in 2019 and new dates have not been announced.

As part of the policy, the MEI@ND standardizes spellings and date format to make the text uniformly accessible and stylistically consistent. The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views/positions of the MEI@ND. Editor, MEI@ND: P R Kumaraswamy