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The following elections occurred in the year 2001.


Africa

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2001 Beninese presidential election Presidential elections were held in Benin on 4 March 2001, with a second round run-off on 18 March. They controversially resulted in the re-election of Mathieu Kérékou for a second term. Kérékou's rival Nicéphore Soglo, who had been preside ...
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2001 Cape Verdean parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Cape Verde on 14 January 2001. The result was a victory for the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde run by José Maria Neves, which won 40 of the 72 seats in the National Assembly, defeating the r ...
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2001 Cape Verdean presidential election Presidential elections were held in Cape Verde on 11 February 2001, with a second round on 25 February after no candidate achieved outright victory in the first round. The result was a victory for Pedro Pires of the African Party for the Independ ...
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2001 Chadian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Chad on 20 May 2001. Incumbent List of heads of state of Chad, President Idriss Déby of the Patriotic Salvation Movement was re-elected with 63% of the vote. Candidates Déby stood as a candidate for a second ...
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2001 Gabonese legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Gabon on 9 and 23 December 2001. The result was a victory for the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party, which won 86 of the 120 seats in the National Assembly.2001 Gambian presidential election Presidential elections were held in the Gambia on 18 October 2001. The result was a victory for the incumbent Yahya Jammeh, who received just over 50% of the vote. The elections were marred by irregularities and repression of the opposition; Pre ...
* 2000–2001 Ivorian parliamentary election *
2001 Malagasy presidential election 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...
* 2001 Mauritanian parliamentary election *
2001 São Tomé and Príncipe presidential election 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to ...
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2001 Senegalese parliamentary election 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to s ...
* 2001 Seychellois presidential election *
2001 Ugandan parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Uganda on 26 June 2001. At the time, the constitution banned all political parties (a referendum on changing to a multi-party system having failed the previous year), so all members were elected as independents ...
* 2001 Ugandan presidential election *
2001 Zambian general election General elections were held in Zambia on 27 December 2001 to elect a President and National Assembly. The result was a victory for the ruling Movement for Multi-Party Democracy, which won 69 of the 150 National Assembly seats and whose candidat ...


Asia

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2000–2001 Azerbaijani parliamentary election The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...
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2001 Bangladeshi general election General elections were held in Bangladesh on 1 October 2001. The 300 seats of the Jatiya Sangsad were contested by 1,935 candidates representing 54 parties and 484 independents. The elections were the second to be held under the caretaker govern ...
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2001 East Timorese parliamentary election Constituent Assembly elections were held in East Timor on 30 August 2001, the second anniversary of the independence referendum. One member was elected from each of the country's thirteen districts, whilst a further 75 were elected by proportion ...
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2001 Iranian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Iran on 8 June 2001. The result was a victory for incumbent president Mohammad Khatami, who was re-elected for a second term. Candidates Although 814 candidates registered for the election, including 25 women ...
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2001 Israeli prime ministerial election Prime ministerial elections were held in Israel on 6 February 2001 following the resignation of the incumbent Prime Minister Ehud Barak on 9 December 2000. Barak stood for re-election against Likud's Ariel Sharon. The third and last prime minist ...
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2001 Macanese legislative election Legislative elections were held in Macau on 23 September 2001. Results Members Directly-elected members *1. Antonio Ng (ANMD, with 16,961 votes) *2. Kwan Tsui Hang (UPD, with 12,990 votes) *3. Leong Heng Teng (UPP, 11.276 votes) *4. David ...
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2001 Philippine House of Representatives elections Elections for the House of Representatives of the Philippines were held on May 14, 2001. This was the next election succeeding the events of the 2001 EDSA Revolution that deposed Joseph Estrada from the presidency; his vice president, Gloria Maca ...
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2001 Republic of China legislative election The 2001 Taiwanese legislative election was held on 1 December 2001. All 225 seats of the Legislative Yuan were up for election: 168 elected by popular vote, 41 elected on the basis of the proportional representation based of the nationwide vote ...
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2001 Singaporean general election General elections were held in Singapore on 3 November 2001. President S.R. Nathan dissolved parliament on 18 October 2001 on the advice of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. The ruling People's Action Party (PAP) won 82 of the 84 elected seats in ...
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2001 Sri Lankan parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 5 December 2001, just a little over a year after the previous elections in October 2000. Background The People's Alliance (PA) government faced a blow when most of the SLMC MPs left the coaliti ...
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2001 Thai general election General elections were held in Thailand on 6 January 2001 to elect the 500 seats of the House of Representatives. In accordance with the recently enacted 1997 constitution, the House of Representatives was composed of 400 members elected from sin ...


India

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2001 Tamil Nadu legislative assembly election The twelfth legislative assembly election of Tamil Nadu was held on 10 May 2001. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)-led front won the elections and its general secretary, J. Jayalalithaa was sworn in as Chief Minister, even though ...


Japan

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2001 Japanese House of Councillors election House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 29 July 2001. They were the first national elections since Junichiro Koizumi became Prime Minister after Yoshiro Mori resigned in April 2001. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its electio ...
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2001 Tokyo prefectural election Prefectural elections were held in Tokyo for the city's Metropolitan Assembly on June 24, 2001. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and New Komeito Party secured their positions as ruling parties. Japanese Communist Party (JCP) lost almost half it ...


Malaysia

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2001 Sarawak state election The eighth Sarawak state election was held on Thursday, 27 September 2001 with nomination date on Tuesday, 18 September 2001. The state assembly was supposed to be expired on 18 November 2001 but it was dissolved by the governor of Sarawak 2 mo ...


Philippines

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2001 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao expansion and inclusion plebiscite The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) was the only Autonomous regions of the Philippines, autonomous region in the Philippines, until it was superseded by Bangsamoro; as such it is the sole region with a regional government as prescribed ...
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2001 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao general election Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao general elections were held for the first time in the newly expanded Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. In 2001, Republic Act No. 9054 was passed for the expansion of the ARMM to include the areas which ini ...
* 2001 Cebu City local elections *
2001 Philippine Senate election 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...


Europe

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2001 Albanian parliamentary election 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...
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2001 Andorran parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Andorra on 4 March 2001. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party of Andorra, which won 15 of the 28 seats. Its leader, Marc Forné Molné, remained Prime Minister. Voter turnout was 81.6%. Results B ...
* 2001 Basque parliamentary election *
2001 Belarusian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 9 September 2001. The election should have been held in 1999, but a revised constitution adopted in 1996 extended incumbent Alexander Lukashenko's term for another two years. Lukashenko was re-elec ...
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2001 Bulgarian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 17 June 2001.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p.369 The result was a victory for the new National Movement – Simeon II, which won 120 of the 240 ...
* 2001 Bulgarian presidential election *
2001 Cypriot legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Cyprus on 27 May 2001. The result was a victory for Progressive Party of Working People, AKEL, which won 20 of the 56 seats. Voter turnout was 91.8%.Nohlen & Stöver, p443 Results References

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* 2001 Danish parliamentary election *
2001 Kosovan parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Kosovo on 17 November 2001. The elections were held under the government of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. Results Notes References {{Serbian local elections, state=coll ...
* 2001 Liechtenstein parliamentary election *
2001 Manx general election 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...
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2001 Montenegrin parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Montenegro on 22 April 2001. The result was a victory for the Victory is of Montenegro alliance formed by the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro and the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro, which ...
* 2001 Norwegian Sami parliamentary election *
2001 Norwegian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 9 and 10 September 2001.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1438 The governing Labour Party lost seats and their vote share was the worst they had ever ...
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2001 Polish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 23 September 2001. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate were elected. The election concluded with an overwhelming victory for the centre-left Democratic Left Alliance – Labor ...
* 2001 Portuguese presidential election * 2001 Sammarinese general election


France

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2001 French cantonal elections Cantonal elections to elect half the membership of the general councils of France's 100 departments were held on 11 and 18 March 2001. While the left did poorly in the municipal elections held on the same dates, it emerged as the overall winner in ...
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2001 French municipal elections Municipal elections were held in France on 11 and 18 March 2001. These elections were marked by a setback for the left and a victory for the right one year before the 2002 presidential election. However, the capital, Paris and the second larges ...


Germany

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2001 Baden-Württemberg state election 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to s ...
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2001 Berlin state election The 2001 Berlin state election was held on 21 October 2001 to elect the members of the 15th Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin. Prior to the election, List of Mayors of Berlin, Mayor Klaus Wowereit had led a minority government of the Social Democratic P ...
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2001 Hamburg state election The 2001 Hamburg state election was held on 23 September 2001 to elect the members of the 17th Hamburg Parliament. The incumbent coalition government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Green Alternative List (GAL) led by First Mayor Ortwin ...
* 2001 Rhineland-Palatinate state election


Italy

* Italian Senate election in Lombardy, 2001 *
2001 Italian general election The 2001 Italian general election was held in Italy on 13 May 2001 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. The election was won by the centre-right coalition House of Freedoms led by Silvio Berlusconi, defea ...
* Italian general election, 2001 (Sardinia) * Italian general election, 2001 (Veneto) *
2001 Molise regional election The Molise regional election of 2001 took place on 11 November 2001. It was an early election as the 2000 regional election was invalidated due to irregularities in the vote. The election consisted in a re-proposition of the 2000 race, but thi ...
* 2001 Sicilian regional election


Moldova

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2001 Moldovan parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Moldova on 25 February 2001.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1330 The result was a victory for the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM), which ...
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2001 Moldovan presidential election An Indirect election, indirect presidential election was held in Moldova on 4 April 2001. The Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) won 50.07% of the vote and 71 of the 101 seats in the 2001 Moldovan parliamentary election, Februa ...
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2001 Transnistrian presidential election Presidential elections were held in the breakaway republic of Transnistria on 9 December 2001.''Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003'', Taylor & Francis, p265 The result was a victory for incumbent President Igor Smirnov (politician), Igor ...


Spain

* 2001 Galician parliamentary election


United Kingdom

* 2001 United Kingdom general election results in Scotland *
2001 Banff and Buchan by-election The 2001 Banff and Buchan by-election to the Scottish Parliament was held on 7 June 2001, the same day as a UK general election and also a Scottish Parliament by-election in Strathkelvin and Bearsden. The by-election was caused by the resignatio ...
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2001 Conservative Party leadership election The 2001 Conservative Party leadership election was held after the party failed to make inroads into the Labour government's lead in the 2001 general election. Party leader William Hague resigned, and a leadership contest was called under new r ...
* 2001 United Kingdom general election result in Cornwall *
2001 Ipswich by-election The Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Ipswich (UK Parliament constituency), Ipswich in Suffolk, Jamie Cann, of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party died on 15 October 2001. The by-election was held on 22 November t ...
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List of MPs elected in the 2001 United Kingdom general election This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons at the 2001 general election, held on 7 June. The list is arranged by constituency. New MPs elected since the general election and changes in party allegiance are no ...
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2001 United Kingdom local elections 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...
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2001 Strathkelvin and Bearsden by-election The 2001 Strathkelvin and Bearsden by-election was a by-election held for the Scottish Parliament constituency of Strathkelvin and Bearsden on 7 June 2001, the same day as the UK general election and also a Scottish Parliament by-election in B ...
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2001 United Kingdom general election The 2001 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 June 2001, four years after the previous election on 1 May 1997, to elect 659 members to the House of Commons. The governing Labour Party led by Prime Minister Tony Blair was r ...


United Kingdom local

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2001 United Kingdom local elections 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...
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2001 Northern Ireland local elections Elections for Local government in Northern Ireland, local government were held in Northern Ireland on 7 June 2001, contesting 582 seats in all, along with the 2001 United Kingdom general election, 2001 general election across the entire United K ...


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2001 Buckinghamshire County Council election The 2001 Buckinghamshire Council election took place on 7 June 2001 to elect members of Buckinghamshire County Council in England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council. The e ...
* 2001 Halton Council election * 2001 Kent Council election * 2001 Lancashire County Council election * 2001 Shropshire County Council election * 2001 Southend-on-Sea Council election *
2001 Suffolk County Council election Elections for Suffolk County Council as part of the 2001 United Kingdom local elections were held on 7 June. 80 councillors were elected from various electoral divisions, which returned one county councillor each by first-past-the-post voting fo ...
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2001 Thurrock Council election The 2001 Thurrock Council election took place on 7 June 2001 to elect members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. The election took place at the same time as the 2001 general election after being postponed from the first week of May due to an ...
* 2001 Wiltshire Council election * 2001 Wokingham Council election


North America

* 2001 Honduran general election *
2001 Nicaraguan general election General elections were held in Nicaragua on 4 November 2001 to elect the President and the members of the National Assembly. Enrique Bolaños of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC) was elected president, with Daniel Ortega losing his thir ...


Canada

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2001 Alberta general election The 2001 Alberta general election was held on March 12, 2001 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The incumbent Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, Alberta Progressive Conservative Party, led by Ralph Klein, won ...
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2001 British Columbia general election The 2001 British Columbia general election was the 37th provincial election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on April 18, 2001 and ...
* 2001 Green Party of Ontario leadership election *
2001 Quebec municipal elections Several municipalities in the Canadian province of Quebec held elections on November 4, 2001, to elect mayors, reeves, and city councillors. The most closely watched contest was in the newly amalgamated city of Montreal, where Gérald Tremblay def ...


Alberta municipal

* 2001 Calgary municipal election * 2001 Edmonton municipal election


Caribbean

* 2001 Montserratian general election * 2001 Saint Lucian general election * 2001 Tobago House of Assembly election *
2001 Trinidad and Tobago general election Early general elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 10 December 2001,Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p635 after the ruling United National Congress lost its majority in the House of Repres ...


United States

* 2001 United States elections


United States House of Representatives

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2001 Massachusetts's 9th congressional district special election Massachusetts's 9th congressional district special election of 2001 was held in the U.S. state on October 16, 2001, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Joe Moakley. Democratic State Senator Stephen F. Lynch won the election ...
* 2001 South Carolina's 2nd congressional district special election *
2001 Massachusetts's 9th congressional district special election Massachusetts's 9th congressional district special election of 2001 was held in the U.S. state on October 16, 2001, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Joe Moakley. Democratic State Senator Stephen F. Lynch won the election ...


United States gubernatorial

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2001 United States gubernatorial elections United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 6, 2001, in two states and one territory, as well as other statewide offices and members of state legislatures. Democrats successfully recaptured the open-seat governorships of Virgini ...
* 2001 New Jersey gubernatorial election *
2001 Virginia gubernatorial election The 2001 Virginia gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2001. Incumbent Republican governor Jim Gilmore was barred from seeking a second term; Democratic nominee Mark Warner, the 1996 Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate and form ...
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2001 Pennsylvania state elections Pennsylvania's state elections were held November 6, 2001.2001 Charlotte mayoral election * 2001 Houston mayoral election * 2001 Jersey City mayoral election *
2001 Los Angeles mayoral election The 2001 Los Angeles mayoral election was for a four-year term as mayor of Los Angeles, California. It took place on April 10, 2001, with a runoff on June 5, 2001. Incumbent mayor Richard Riordan was prevented from running for a third term bec ...
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2001 New York City mayoral election The New York City mayoral election of 2001 was held on November 6, 2001. Incumbent Republican mayor Rudy Giuliani could not run again due to term limits. As Democrats outnumbered Republicans by a five-to-one margin in the city, it was widely ...
* 2001 Pittsburgh mayoral election * 2001 Raleigh mayoral election


South America

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2001 Argentine legislative election An Argentine legislative election took place on Sunday, 14 October 2001 to elect 127 of the 257 seats in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, and all 72 seats in the Argentine Senate. The elections were held during the second year of the administr ...
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2001 Chilean parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Chile on 16 December 2001.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p262 The Concert of Parties for Democracy alliance remained the largest faction in the Chamber of De ...
* 2001 Falkland Islands general election *
2001 Guyanese general election General elections were held in Guyana on 19 March 2001.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p363 The result was a victory for the People's Progressive Party/Civic, which won 34 of the 65 seats. Voter t ...
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2001 Peruvian general election Early general elections were held in Peru on 8 April 2001, with a second round of the presidential election on 3 June.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p454 The elections were held after President of ...


Oceania

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2001 Fijian general election General elections were held in Fiji in August and September 2001. The Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua party won 18 of the 23 seats reserved for ethnic Fijians and one of three " general electorates" set aside for Fiji's European, Chinese, and o ...
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2001 Samoan general election General elections were held in Samoa on 2 March 2001 to determine the composition of the 13th Parliament. Four parties contested the election, including the ruling Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) and the main opposition Samoan National D ...
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2001 Solomon Islands general election General elections were held in the Solomon Islands on 5 December 2001.Solomon Islands
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Australia

* 2001 Aston by-election * 2001 Auburn state by-election *
2001 Australian Capital Territory election Elections to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly were held on Saturday, 20 October 2001. The incumbent Liberal Party, led by Gary Humphries, was challenged by the Labor Party, led by Jon Stanhope. Candidates were elected to fi ...
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2001 Australian federal election The 2001 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 10 November 2001. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Prime Minis ...
* 2001 Campbelltown state by-election *
2001 Northern Territory general election A general election was held in the Northern Territory, Australia, on 18 August 2001. The centre-left Labor Party (ALP), led by Clare Martin, won a surprising victory over the Country Liberal Party (CLP). Before this, the CLP had held 18 out th ...
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2001 Queensland state election The 2001 Queensland state election was held on 17 February 2001 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The result of the election was the return of the Labor Party (ALP) government of Premier Peter Beattie, with an incre ...
* 2001 Ryan by-election * 2001 Surfers Paradise state by-election * 2001 Tamworth state by-election *
2001 Western Australian state election Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 10 February 2001 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council. The two-term Liberal– National coalition government, led by Premier ...


New Zealand

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2001 Wellington City mayoral election The 2001 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the 2001 New Zealand local elections held at that time. Elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government roles. Kerry Prendergast, the former deputy mayor, was elec ...


See also

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