The following elections occurred in the year 1926.
Africa
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1926 Egyptian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 22 May 1926.M.F Khatib (1954"The working of parliamentary institutions in Egypt, 1924-1952" page 171 Table ''"Length of Term of Egyptian Parliaments"'' The result was a victory for the Wafd Party, whi ...
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1926 Lagos by-election
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1926 Northern Rhodesian general election
General elections were held in Northern Rhodesia on 22 May 1926 to elect the Legislative Council for the first time. A further four members were appointed by the Governor in September 1926.
Electoral system
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1926 South West African legislative election
Asia
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1926 Hong Kong sanitary board election
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1926 Madras Presidency legislative council election
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1926 Persian legislative election
Europe
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1926 Danish Folketing election
Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 2 December 1926,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 except in the Faroe Islands where they were held on 20 December. The Social Democratic Party remaine ...
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1926 Estonian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Estonia between 15 and 17 May 1926. Before the elections, the electoral law was changed to create more stability by introducing a system of bonds and raising the electoral threshold to require a party to win a ...
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1926 Greek legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 7 November 1926.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p830 The Liberal Union emerged as the largest faction in Parliament with 108 of the 286 seats.Nohlen ...
United Kingdom
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1926 Darlington by-election
The 1926 Darlington by-election was a by-election held on 17 February 1926 for the British House of Commons constituency of Darlington in County Durham.
Vacancy
The seat had become vacant when the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (MP ...
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1926 Smethwick by-election
The 1926 Smethwick by-election was a by-election held on 21 December 1926 for the British House of Commons constituency of Smethwick in Staffordshire (now in the West Midlands county).
The by-election was caused by the resignation of the town's ...
North America
Canada
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1926 Canadian federal election
The 1926 Canadian federal election was held on September 14, 1926, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 16th Canadian Parliament, 16th Parliament of Canada.Ray Argyle, . ''Turning Points : The Campaigns that Changed Canada: 2 ...
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1926 Alberta general election
The 1926 Alberta general election was held on June 28, 1926, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The United Farmers of Alberta government that had first been elected in 1921 was re-elected, taking a majority of the seats in ...
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1926 Edmonton municipal election
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1926 Ontario general election
The 1926 Ontario general election was the 17th general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on December 1, 1926, to elect the 112 Members of the 17th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ("MLAs").
Campaign
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1926 Toronto municipal election
Central America
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1926 Guatemalan presidential election
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1926 Honduran legislative election
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1926 Nicaraguan presidential election
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1926 Nicaraguan parliamentary election
United States
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1926 California gubernatorial election
The 1926 California gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1926. After ousting incumbent governor Friend William Richardson in the Republican primary, lieutenant governor C. C. Young defeated Justus S. Wardell in a landslide, sweepi ...
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1926 Minnesota gubernatorial election
The 1926 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1926. Republican Party of Minnesota candidate Theodore Christianson defeated Farmer–Labor Party challenger Magnus Johnson.
Results
See also
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1926 New York state election
The 1926 New York state election was held on November 2, 1926, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the state comptroller, the attorney general, a U.S. Senator, the chief judge and an associate judge of the New York Court of Appea ...
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1926 South Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1926 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1926, to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. The South Carolina constitution was amended in 1926 to change the term of governor from two years to four years, ...
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1926 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1926 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the 70th United States Congress. They were held for the most part on November 2, 1926, while Main ...
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1926 United States Senate elections
The 1926 United States Senate elections were elections for the United States Senate that occurred in the middle of United States Republican Party, Republican President of the United States, President Calvin Coolidge's second term. The 32 seats o ...
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United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1926
The 1926 South Carolina United States Senate election was held on November 2, 1926, to select the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina. Incumbent Democratic Senator Ellison D. Smith won the Democratic primary and was unopposed in th ...
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United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 1926
The 1926 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts was held on November 2, 1926.
Former Democratic Senator David I. Walsh defeated incumbent William Morgan Butler, a Republican who was appointed after the death of Republican S ...
Oceania
Australia
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1926 Eden-Monaro by-election
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1926 Queensland state election
Elections were held in the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland on 8 May 1926 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly of Queensland, Legislative Assembly. The Australian Labor Party (Queensland ...
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1926 Australian referendum
New Zealand
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1926 Eden by-election
South America
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1926 Argentine legislative election
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1926 Brazilian presidential election
See also
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1926
In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days. As Friday, December 18, 1926 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Saturday, January 1, 1927 '' (Gregorian Calendar)''. 13 days were dropped to make the switch. Turkey thus became the ...
Elections
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