Year of Global Elections Over 60 countries and billions of people are voting in their national elections in 2024. They include the world’s three largest democratic countries — India, the U.S. and Indonesia.
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Democracy in turbulent times
Labour Leader Keir Starmer celebrates winning the 2024 general election with a speech at Tate Modern in London on Friday. Ricky Vigil/Getty Images Europe hide caption
A person looks at an election poster board for Tokyo gubernatorial election Monday, July 1, 2024, in Tokyo. Tokyo elects a new governor on Sunday but residents say personal publicity stunts have overtaken serious campaigning — there are nearly nude women in suggestive poses, pets, an AI character and a man practicing his golf swing. Eugene Hoshiko/AP hide caption
In this photo made available by Iranian state-run TV, IRIB, Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili, left, a hard-line former nuclear negotiator, and reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian greet one another at the conclusion of a debate at the TV studio in Tehran, Iran, on June 1, 2024. Morteza Fakhri Nezhad/AP/IRIB hide caption
Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, is seen at BBC Broadcasting House for an interview on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg on Oct. 23, 2022, in London. Hollie Adams/Getty Images hide caption
Labour leader Keir Starmer gives a speech during a visit to Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, England, while on the election campaign trail on Monday. Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Reuters hide caption
Supporters of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen react after vote projections in select constituencies, Sunday, in Henin-Beaumont, northern France. French voters propelled the far-right National Rally to a strong lead in first-round legislative elections Sunday and plunged the country into political uncertainty. Thibault Camus/AP hide caption
French far right leader Marine Le Pen reacts as she meets supporters and journalists after the release of projections based on the actual vote count in select constituencies on Sunday in Henin-Beaumont, northern France. Thibault Camus/AP hide caption
South Africa's African National Congress loses absolute majority for the first time
An Iranian man casts his vote at a polling station in Tehran during the country's presidential election on Friday. Hossein Beris/AFP hide caption
Posters with images or names of local candidates for the first round of the 2024 French legislative elections displayed in front of the local town hall in Port-en-Bessin-Huppain, Normandy, France, on June 25. France will hold an early legislative election in two rounds, on June 30 and July 7. Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Reuters hide caption
Pictured from left: Saeed Jalili, Masoud Pezeshkian, Mostafa Pourmohammadi and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. Raheb Homavandi/AFP via Getty Images; Vahid Salemi/AP; Morteza Fakhri Nezhad/IRIB via AP; Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa raises his hand as he is sworn is as a member of Parliament ahead of an expected vote by lawmakers to decide if he is reelected as leader of the country in Cape Town, South Africa, Friday. At right is Pemmy Majodina, a lawmaker with his African National Congress party. Jerome Delay/AP hide caption
Green parties suffered dramatic losses in the European parliament elections
Elections workers empty a bin to count postal ballots for the European Union elections in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sunday. Michael Probst/AP hide caption
Indian leader Narendra Modi was sworn in for 3rd term as prime minister
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures to the gathering during the oath-taking ceremony at presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Sunday. Money Sharma/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
In Berlin, thousands take to the streets to protest far-right extremism
Anthony Lee stands in front of his barn on his family farm in the German state of Lower Saxony. Lee has been an outspoken critic of the European Union’s climate change policies and has been a leader in the farmer protest movement in Europe. He’s running for EU Parliament for the right-wing Free Voter party and his YouTube channel has over 24 million views. Rob Schmitz/NPR hide caption