National electoral calendar 2010
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- Highlighted countries are referred to as " electoral democracies " classified - Freedom House Report 2010
The listed herein elections and referendums were held in 2010 or were scheduled for the specified date. " Direct ", " referendum " or " petition " means an election by all voting citizens of a country or region, " indirect election " means an election by state bodies such as Parliaments or bodies of electors.
By no means all of the choices listed here in 2010 according to internationally recognized democratic standards were performed. Also included are sham elections in dictatorships without alternative candidates or elections, whose results have come through massive election fraud or without fair and equal access of competing candidates or parties to the mass media about. The two adjacent cards to give to an orientation. Try a rough classification of the countries in the world in 2010 according to their degree of democracy in accordance with the - in some cases controversial - criteria of the Freedom House index.
- 4.1 Belgium
- 4.2 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 4.3 Germany 4.3.1 presidential election
- 4.3.2 state elections and referenda at the country level
- 4.3.3 local elections
- 4.14.1 presidential election
- 4.14.2 state elections
- 4.14.3 municipal
- 4.18.1 Federal Council elections
- 4.18.2 Senate elections
- 4.18.4 municipal
- 5.1 American Samoa
- 5.2 Australia
- 5.3 Cook Islands
- 5.4 Guam
- 5.5 Nauru
- 5.6 New Zealand
- 5.7 Solomon Islands
- 5.8 Tonga
Africa
America
Asia
Afghanistan
Azerbaijan
- November 7 - parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan in 2010 - Direct election of Azerbaijan unicameral
Bahrain
- October 23 parliamentary elections
Nagorno-Karabakh
- May 24th - Direct election of unicameral of Nagorno-Karabakh
Burma Burma Myanmar
- November 7 parliamentary election
Iraq
- March 7 - direct election of the Iraqi National Assembly
Japan
Jordan
- November 9 parliamentary election
Kyrgyzstan
- June 27 - Constitution referendum on the introduction of a Parliamentary Republic
- October 10 - General Election
Northern Cyprus
Transnistria
Philippines
Sri Lanka
- January 26th - Direct election of Sri Lankan President
- April 8 - Direct election of Sri Lankan unicameral
Tajikistan
- February 28th - Direct election of the House of Tajik
- March 25th - Direct election of Tajik Senate
Turkey
Europe
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- October 3: presidential and parliamentary elections
Germany
Presidential election
- 30th June - indirect election of the German Federal President
State elections and referenda at the country level
- May 9 - state election in North Rhine -Westphalia
- 4th of July - petition " For real Non smoking protection! " In Bavaria
Local elections
- Election of the Mayor of Frankfurt ( Oder)
- Election of the chief administrative officer of Dillingen an der Donau
- Cham
- Kelheim
- Kronach
France
Georgia
- May 30 - local elections
Greece
- February 3 - indirect election of the President of the Greek
- 7 and November 14 regional and local elections
Iceland
- March 6 - referendum on the so-called Icesave Act, which provided for compensation for bank customers in the UK and the Netherlands
- November 27th Constitutional Assembly
Italy
- 28 and 29 March - regional elections
Kosovo
December 12 parliamentary election
Croatia
Latvia
- October 2 - direct election of the Saeima
Moldova
- November 28 parliamentary election
Netherlands
- March 3 - direct election of the respective municipal council in 394 of the total 431 municipalities
- 9 June - direct election of the Second Chamber of the States General
Austria
Presidential election
- April 25th - Direct election of the Austrian Federal President
State elections
- May 30 - Direct election of the Landtag Burgenland
- September 26th - Direct election of the Styrian Landtag
- October 10th - Direct election of Wiener Landtag
Local elections
Poland
- June 20th - Direct election of Polish President
- 4th of July - presidential run off election
- November 21 - Local elections in Poland
Russia
Sweden
Switzerland
- March 7 - referendum on the question of whether to 2016, the conversion rate for the calculation of pensions in the second pillar is to be reduced to 6.4 percent
- March 7 - referendum on popular initiative " Against Animal Cruelty and for better legal protection of animals ( animal welfare advocate initiative) »
- March 7 - Referendum on Constitution article about the research on humans
- 26 September - Referendum on the amendment of the Unemployment Insurance Act
- November 28 - referendum on popular initiative " for the deportation of foreign criminals ( deportation initiative ) "
- 28 November - Referendum on the counter-proposal of the Federal Council on the expulsion initiative
- November 28 - referendum on popular initiative " For Fair Taxes stop the abuse of tax competition ( Tax Justice Initiative). "
Federal elections
- September 22 - By-elections for the successor to the retiring Federal Councillors Moritz Leuenberger (SP ) and Hans -Rudolf Merz (FDP) by the United Federal Assembly
Senate elections
- January 24 - runoff election for a seat in the Senate in the canton of Solothurn
- March 7 - by-election for a seat in the Senate in the canton of Uri
- April 25 - 2nd ballot for a Senate seat in Uri
- March 7 - Elections of the Governing Council in the cantons Nidwalden
- Obwalden
- Glarus
- 2nd round of the by-election for two seats in Government Schwyz
- Cantonal elections in Graubünden
- Election of the district administrator in Glarus
Local elections
- March 7 - election to the respective municipal council in Zurich, Winterthur and Zurich more cities
Slovakia
Slovenia
- 6 June - a referendum on the border dispute with Croatia
Spain
- November 28 regional elections in Catalonia
Czechia
- May 28th and 29th - Direct election of the Czech Chamber of Deputies
- October 15 to 16 Senate election mayoral elections Prague
- October 22 to 23 Senate ballot
Hungary
Ukraine
United Kingdom
- May 6 - direct election of the British House
- May 6 - local elections in the boroughs of London and partly (re-election only a part of the people's representatives ) in other Councils in England
Belarus
Oceania
American Samoa
- November 2nd constitutional referendum in American Samoa in 2010
Australia
- March 20th - Direct election of the House of Commons and indirect election of half of the members of the upper house in the state of South Australia
- August 21 - parliamentary elections in Australia
- Elections to the parliaments of the Australian states: March 20 - South Australia
- March 20 - Tasmania
- 27 November - Victoria (plus indirect election of the Upper House )
Cook Islands
Guam
- November 2 - gubernatorial election on Guam 2010
- November 2 - parliamentary elections on Guam in 2010 ( election Liheslaturan Guåhan or engl Legislature of Guam. )
Nauru
- February 27 - Nauru constitutional referendum in 2010, including should this be implemented, the direct election of the Nauruan President instead of the previous indirect election by the Nauruan unicameral
- April 24 - Direct dial with simple, non- transferable vote of the Nauruan unicameral
- 1st November - Presidential elections in Nauru in 2010
New Zealand
- October 9 - Local elections in New Zealand 2010
Solomon Islands
- August 4 - parliamentary elections in the Solomon Islands in 2010 for the National Parliament of Solomon Islands
Tonga
- November 25 parliamentary election