List of elections in 2016
The following elections occurred in the year 2016.
Africa
Benin Republic
- 2016 Beninese presidential election 6 March 2016
Cape Verde
- 2016 Cape Verdean presidential election 2 October 2016
Chad
- 2016 Chadian presidential election 10 April 2016
Djibouti
- 2016 Djiboutian presidential election 8 April 2016
Equatorial Guinea
- 2016 Equatorial Guinean presidential election 24 April 2016
Gabon
- 2016 Gabonese presidential election 27 August 2016
Ghana
- 2016 Ghanaian general election 7 December 2016
Morocco
- 2016 Moroccan general election 7 October 2016
Niger
- 2016 Nigerien general election 21 February and 20 March 2016
Nigeria
- 2016 Edo State gubernatorial election 28 September 2016
- Gubernatorial elections for Ondo State, Bayelsa State, Kogi State
Republic of Congo
- 2016 Republic of the Congo presidential election 20 March 2016
São Tomé and Príncipe
- 2016 São Tomé and Príncipe presidential election 17 July and 7 August 2016
Senegal
- 2016 Senegalese constitutional referendum 20 March 2016
Seychelles
- 2016 Seychellois parliamentary election 8-10 September 2016
South Africa
- 2016 South African municipal election 3 August 2016
Somalia
- 2016 Somali parliamentary election 23 October and 10 November 2016
- 2016 Somali presidential election 8 February 2016
The Gambia
- 2016 Gambian presidential election 1 December 2016
Uganda
- 2016 Ugandan general election 18 February 2016
Zambia
- 2016 Zambian general election 11 August 2016
- 2016 Zambian constitutional referendum 11 August 2016
Asia
Japan
- 2016 Japanese House of Councillors election 10 July 2016
Hong Kong
- 2016 Hong Kong legislative election 4 September 2016
India
- 2016 Assam Legislative Assembly election 4 and 11 April 2016
- 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election 4 and 11 April 2016
- 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election 16 May 2016
- 2016 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election 16 May 2016
- 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election 16 May 2016
Iran
- 2016 Iranian legislative election 26 February 2016
Kazakhstan
- 2016 Kazakhstani legislative election 20 March 2016
Kuwait
- 2016 Kuwaiti general election 26 November 2016
Mongolia
- 2016 Mongolian legislative election 29 June 2016
Philippines
- 2016 Philippine general election '
- * 2016 Philippine presidential election
- * 2016 Philippine Senate election
- * 2016 Philippine House of Representatives elections
- * 2016 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao general election
- * 2016 Philippine gubernatorial elections
- 2016 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections '
South Korea
- 2016 South Korean legislative election 13 April 2016
Syria
- Syrian legislative election, 2016
Republic of China (Taiwan)
- 2016 Republic of China legislative election 16 January 2016
- 2016 Republic of China presidential election 16 January 2016
Vietnam
- 2016 Vietnamese legislative election 22 May 2016
Uzbekistan
- 2016 Uzbekistani presidential election 4 December 2016
Europe
Austria
- 2016 Austrian presidential election 24 April and 22 May 2016
Bulgaria
- 2016 Bulgarian presidential election 6 and 13 November 2016
Czech Republic
- 2016 Czech Senate election 7-8 and 14-15 October 2016
- 2016 Czech regional elections 7-8 October 2016
Croatia
- 2016 Croatian parliamentary election 11 September 2016
Georgia
- 2016 Georgian parliamentary election 8 October 2016
Germany
- 2016 Baden-Württemberg state election 13 March 2016
- 2016 Rhineland-Palatinate state election 13 March 2016
- 2016 Saxony-Anhalt state election 13 March 2016
- 2016 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election 4 September 2016
- 2016 Berlin state election 18 September 2016
Hungary
- 2016 Hungarian migrant quota referendum 2 October 2016
Iceland
- 2016 Icelandic presidential election 25 June 2016
- 2016 Icelandic parliamentary election 29 October 2016
Ireland
- 2016 Irish general election 26 February 2016
Isle of Man
- 2016 Manx general election 22 September 2016
Italy
- 2016 Italian constitutional referendum 4 December 2016
Lithuania
- 2016 Lithuanian parliamentary election 9 and 23 October 2016
Macedonia
- 2016 Macedonian parliamentary election 11 December 2016
Moldova
- 2016 Moldovan presidential election 30 October 2016
Montenegro
- 2016 Montenegrin parliamentary election 16 October 2016
Portugal
- 2016 Portuguese presidential election 24 January 2016
- 2016 Azores regional election 16 October 2016
Romania
- 2016 Romanian local election 5 June 2016
- 2016 Romanian legislative election 11 December 2016
Russia
- 2016 Russian legislative election 18 September 2016
Serbia
- 2016 Serbian parliamentary election 24 April 2016
Slovakia
- 2016 Slovak parliamentary election 5 March 2016
Spain
- 2016 Spanish general election 26 June 2016
- 2016 Basque parliamentary election 25 September 2016
- 2016 Galician parliamentary election 25 September 2016
United Kingdom
- 2016 National Assembly for Wales election 5 May 2016
- 2016 United Kingdom local elections 5 May 2016
- 2016 London mayoral election 5 May 2016
- 2016 London Assembly election 5 May 2016
- 2016 Bristol mayoral election 5 May 2016
- 2016 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections 5 May 2016
- 2016 Scottish Parliament election 5 May 2016
- 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election 5 May 2016
- 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum 23 June 2016
North America
Canada
- 2016 Manitoba general election 19 April 2016
- 2016 Saskatchewan general election 4 April 2016
Dominican Republic
- 2016 Dominican Republic general election 15 May 2016
Haiti
- February 2016 Haitian presidential election 14 February 2016
- November 2016 Haitian presidential election 20 November 2016
Nicaragua
- 2016 Nicaraguan general election 6 November 2016
United States
- 2016 United States elections:
- * 2016 United States presidential election 8 November 2016
- * 2016 United States Senate elections 8 November 2016
- * 2016 United States House of Representatives elections 8 November 2016
- * 2016 United States gubernatorial elections 8 November 2016
South America
Brazil
- 2016 Brazilian municipal elections 2 and 30 October 2016
Chile
- 2016 Chilean municipal election
Peru
- 2016 Peruvian general election 10 April 2016
Oceania
Australia
- 2016 Australian Capital Territory general election 15 October 2016
- 2016 Australian federal election 2 July 2016
- 2016 Northern Territory general election 27 August 2016
Kiribati
- 2016 Kiribati presidential election 9 March 2016
Nauru
- 2016 Nauruan parliamentary election 9 July 2016
New Zealand
- 2016 New Zealand local elections 8 October 2016
Samoa
- 2016 Samoan general election 4 March 2016
Vanuatu
- 2016 Vanuatuan general election 22 January 2016