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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Year of Global Elections
Democracy in turbulent times
President Claudia Sheinbaum wears the presidential sash during her swearing-in ceremony as Mexico's new president in Mexico City, October 1 2024 Eduardo Verdugo/AP hide caption
Shigeru Ishiba, top, ahead of the extraordinary session of parliament's lower house Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, in Tokyo. Eugene Hoshiko/AP hide caption
Leader and the presidential candidate of National People's Power Anura Kumara Dissanayake arrives at a polling station to cast his vote in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Saturday. Eranga Jayawardena/AP hide caption
Sri Lanka will elect a new president two years after ousting former leader
Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez waves to supporters during a political event at a square in the Hatillo municipality of Caracas, Venezuela, June 19, 2024. Ariana Cubillos/AP hide caption
Paramilitary soldiers stand guard as people queue up to vote during the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly election, in Kishtwar, India, on Wednesday. Channi Anand/AP hide caption
He won Kashmir's election from prison. What his victory may mean for India
A Jordanian man votes in parliamentary elections at a polling station in al-Salt near the capital Amman on Tuesday. Khalil Mazraawi/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
An Jordanian citizen votes in historic elections for the Parliament of Jordan's 138-seat lower house on Tuesday in Amman, Jordan. Voters are deciding their representatives in the 20th Lower House of Parliament. Jordan Pix/Getty Images hide caption
Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González waves to supporters during a political event at a square in the Hatillo municipality of Caracas, Venezuela, June 19, 2024. Ariana Cubillos/AP hide caption
Unpacking the foreign policy issues likely to be in focus at the presidential debate
Michel Barnier speaks during a campaign rally on Feb. 13, 2022, in Paris. President Emmanuel Macron named the former EU Brexit negotiator as France's new prime minister on Thursday after more than 50 days of caretaker government. Francois Mori/AP hide caption
Bjoern Hoecke top candidate in Thuringia of the far-right Alternative for Germany, AfD, party waves to supporters during an election campaign rally in Suhl, Germany, Aug. 13. Markus Schreiber/AP hide caption
Far-right party makes large gains in elections in 2 states in eastern Germany
Demonstrators with signs reading "Grandmas against the far-right" protest against right-wing extremism and racism at the Deutzer Werft shipyard in Cologne, Germany, June 1. Sascha Thelen/picture alliance/dpa/Getty Images hide caption
Rising anti-immigrant sentiment in Germany causes concerns in the country’s business community
A poster shows U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in her ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu on July 23, after President Biden stepped down as the Democratic Party nominee for president and endorsed Harris. Idrees Mohammed/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Kamala Harris' presidential bid is being cheered on in her ancestral village in India
Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at the 46th International Convention of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees on Aug. 13 in Los Angeles. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
Democratic VP nominee Walz gets flak from the right for his relationship with China
Buildings at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. campus in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on July 16. An Rong Xu/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Front row, from left: Venezuela's attorney general, Tarek William Saab; President Nicolás Maduro; Supreme Court President Caryslia Rodríguez; National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez; and the president of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Amoroso. They are attending a ceremony in the Supreme Court building in Caracas on Jan. 31. Pedro Rances Mattey/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center found groups linked to Russia, Iran and China have been steadily launching efforts online to sow division or spread disinformation among U.S voters. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Xi Jinping, China's president, during a news conference in Belgrade, Serbia, on May 8. Oliver Bunic/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Residents and community organizers take the street Wednesday to show support for opposition candidate in Venezuela's presidential election, Edmundo Gónzalez Urrutia, in the neighborhood of La Vega, in Venezuela's capital of Caracas. Lexi Parra for NPR hide caption
Naval vessels participate in a Taiwanese military drill near the naval port in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan on Jan. 27, 2016. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images hide caption