The following elections occurred in the year 2007.
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Electoral calendar 2007
This electoral calendar 2007 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2007 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states and their dependent territories. Referendums are included, although they are not elections. By-elections are not ...
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Elections in 2007
This electoral calendar 2007 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2007 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states and their dependent territories. Referendums are included, although they are not elections. By-elections are not ...
52nd National Conference of the African National Congress
The 52nd National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) was held in Polokwane, Limpopo, from 16 to 20 December 2007. At the conference, Jacob Zuma and his supporters were elected to the party's top leadership and National Executive ...
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2007 Algerian legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Algeria on 17 May 2007. 24 political parties and around 100 independent lists with a total of more than 12,000 candidates competed for the 389 seats in the National People's Assembly. While most Algerians voted ...
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2007 Beninese parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Benin on 31 March 2007, having been delayed from an earlier date of 25 March due to organisational difficulties. Twenty-six political parties and 2,158 candidates contested the elections for the 83 seats in the ...
2007 Democratic Republic of the Congo gubernatorial elections
Gubernatorial elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 27 January 2007 (with 30 January planned as a possible date for a second round, if necessary), though they were originally scheduled for 16 January and 19 January. The go ...
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2007 Democratic Republic of the Congo Senate election
Elections to the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were held on 19 January 2007, though they had originally been scheduled for 16 January. The members of the Senate were chosen through indirect election by the members of the provincia ...
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2007 Republic of the Congo parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in the Republic of the Congo on 24 June 2007, with a second round initially planned for 22 July 2007, but then postponed to 5 August 2007. According to the National Commission of the Organization of the Elections ...
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2007 Egyptian Shura Council election
Elections for the Shura Council were held in Egypt on 11 and 18 June 2007. From a total of 264 seats in the Shura Council, the upper house of the Parliament of Egypt, Egyptian parliament, 88 are for election every three years.
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2007 Gambian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in the Gambia on 25 January 2007. Forty-eight members of the National Assembly were elected, with another five being appointed by the President.2007 Kenyan general election
General elections were held in Kenya on 27 December 2007. Voters elected the President, and members of the National Assembly. They coincided with the 2007 Kenyan local elections.
Incumbent Mwai Kibaki, running on a Party of National Unity (PN ...
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2007 Lesotho general election
General elections were held in Lesotho on 17 February 2007. They had originally been scheduled to be held in April or May 2007. In October 2006, Tom Thabane left the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) and formed a new party, the All Baso ...
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2007 Malagasy parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Madagascar on 23 September 2007, with the vote to be repeated in two constituencies on 14 November 2007.
2007 Moroccan parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Morocco on 7 September 2007, the second of King Mohammed VI's reign. Voter turnout was estimated to be 37%, the lowest in Moroccan political history. There were 33 different parties and 13 independent candid ...
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2007 Nigerian general election
General elections were held in Nigeria on 21 April 2007 to elect the President and National Assembly.Ola Awoniyi"Nigeria sets date for elections", ''Mail & Guardian''. 29 August 2006. Governorship and State Assembly elections had been held on 14 ...
2007 Senegalese parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Senegal on 3 June 2007. They had originally been planned to be held together with the presidential election on 25 February 2007, but were postponed. Fourteen parties or coalitions participated in the elections, ...
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2007 Senegalese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Senegal on 25 February 2007. Incumbent president Abdoulaye Wade was re-elected in the first round with almost 56% of the vote.Diadie Ba"Senegal's Wade re-elected, warns opposition", Reuters (''Mail & Guardian On ...
2007 Sierra Leonean general election
General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 11 August 2007. Seven candidates competed in the first round of the presidential election;2007 Togolese parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Togo on October 14, 2007 for the 81 seats in the National Assembly.2007 Armenian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 12 May 2007. 1,364 candidates ran for the 131 seats, 41 of which were constituency seats with the remaining 90 being filled by a proportional party-list system. The electoral threshold was five per ...
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2007–2008 Bhutanese National Council election
National Council elections were held in Bhutan for the first time on 31 December 2007, having been originally scheduled for 26 December. The new National Council had 25 members, which 20 members were directly elected from 20 dzongkhags by 312,81 ...
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2007 East Timorese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in East Timor in 2007. The first round on 9 April 2007 saw six of the eight candidates eliminated. The remaining two candidates, incumbent Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta and FRETILIN President Francisco Guterre ...
2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election
The 2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election was held on 25 March 2007 to select the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. Incumbent Chief Executive Donald Tsang was re-elected, defeating the pro-democracy challenger, legislator Alan Leong of the Civic ...
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2007 Hong Kong Island by-election
The 2007 Hong Kong Island by-election was held on 2 December 2007 and was won by Anson Chan with 54.6% of the votes cast. It was precipitated by the death of the then chairman of the Pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progre ...
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2007 Indian presidential election
The Election Commission of India held indirect 13th Presidential elections of India on 19 July 2007. Pratibha Patil with 638,116 votes won over her nearest rival Bhairon Singh Shekhawat who got 331,306 votes. This result meant that Pratibha Pa ...
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2007 Israeli presidential election
Indirect presidential elections were held in Israel on 13 June 2007. The Knesset elected Shimon Peres, a former Prime Minister and a member of the Kadima party. His opponents were Reuven Rivlin, a former Knesset speaker, of the Likud Party, and ...
2007 Jordanian parliamentary election
General elections were held in Jordan on 20 November 2007. Following the election, Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit and his cabinet resigned, as it normally followed in the Jordanian political system. King Abdullah II appointed Nader al-Dahabi as ...
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2007 Kazakhstani legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Kazakhstan on 18 August 2007. President Nursultan Nazarbayev's Nur Otan party received 88% of the vote and won all of the available seats. None of the six other parties contesting the election passed the 7% thr ...
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2007 Kuomintang chairmanship election
The 2007 Kuomintang chairmanship by-election () was held on 7 April 2007 in Taiwan between Wu Po-hsiung and Hung Hsiu-chu. This was the third direct election of the chairman in the Kuomintang history. All registered, due-paying KMT party members w ...
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2007 Kyrgyzstani constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Kyrgyzstan on 21 October 2007, following the constitutional crisis caused by amendments passed since the Tulip Revolution in 2005 (in November and December 2006) being invalidated by the Constitutional Court ...
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2007 Kyrgyzstani parliamentary election
Early parliamentary elections were held in Kyrgyzstan on 16 December 2007. The election was called by President of Kyrgyzstan, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev after the 2007 Kyrgyz constitutional referendum, constitutional referendum on 21 October 200 ...
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2007 Labor Party (Israel) leadership election
A leadership election was held by the Israeli Labor Party on 12 June 2007, to elect the party's new leader, due to internal dissatisfaction with the incumbent chairman Amir Peretz. The winner was Ehud Barak.
History
Five candidates ran in the el ...
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2007 Lebanese by-elections
By-elections were held in Lebanon on 5 August 2007 to replace two assassinated MPs, Pierre Amine Gemayel of the Kataeb Party (killed on the 21 November 2006) and Walid Eido of the Future Movement (killed on the 13 June 2007). Their respective ...
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2007 Nagorno-Karabakh presidential election
Presidential elections were held in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic on 19 July 2007. Incumbent president Arkady Ghukasyan was constitutionally barred from seeking a third term and endorsed Bako Sahakyan, who was the head of the National Security S ...
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2007 Omani parliamentary election
General elections were held in Oman on 27 October 2007, for advisory Consultative Assembly of Oman.Oman Inter-Parli ...
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2007 Pakistani presidential election
An indirect presidential election was held in Pakistan on 6 October 2007. This was before dissolution of parliament for the following general election to be held in 2008. The Pakistani legislature elected incumbent Pervez Musharraf by an overwh ...
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2007 Philippine House of Representatives elections
The 2007 Philippine House of Representatives elections were held on May 14, 2007, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the Philippines to serve in the 14th Congress of the Philippines from June 30, 2007, until June 30, 2010. The Ph ...
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2007 Philippine Senate election
The 2007 election of members to the Senate of the Philippines was the 29th election to the Senate of the Philippines. It was held on Monday, May 14, 2007, to elect 12 of the 24 seats in the Senate. Together with those elected in 2004, they will co ...
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2007 Philippine general election
Legislative and local elections were held in the Philippines on May 14, 2007. Positions contested included half the seats in the Senate, which are elected for six-year terms, and all the seats in the House of Representatives, who were elected fo ...
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2007 Qatari municipal elections
Municipal elections were held in Qatar on 1 April 2007 for the third time. Three women and 122 men ran for 29 seats in the Central Municipal Council. About 28,000 citizens of the 174,000 Qataris were able to vote,2007 South Korean presidential election
Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 19 December 2007. The election was won by Lee Myung-bak of the Grand National Party, returning conservatives to the Blue House for the first time in ten years. Lee defeated Grand Unified Democ ...
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2007 Syrian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Syria on 22 April 2007. The number of seats reserved for the parties in the National Progressive Front was increased to 170 from 167, decreasing the seats for independents to 80 from 83. The election was boyc ...
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2007 Syrian presidential election
A referendum to confirm the presidential candidate Bashar al-Assad was held in Syria on 27 May 2007, after the People's Council of Syria unanimously
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2007 Thai constitutional referendum
A referendum on the new constitution was held in Thailand on 19 August 2007. Had the draft been rejected, the military government would have had the freedom to choose any previous constitution to adapt and promulgate instead. The turnout was aro ...
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2007 Turkmenistan presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Turkmenistan on 11 February 2007, following the death of president-for-life Saparmurat Niyazov on 21 December 2006.
Election date
After Niyazov's death on December 21, 2006, Acting President Gurbanguly Berdim ...
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2007 Uzbekistani presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Uzbekistan on 23 December 2007.2007 Vietnamese parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Vietnam on 20 May 2007.
Results
Aftermath
Following the elections, in the first session of the new National Assembly, Nguyễn Phú Trọng was elected as Chairman on 23 July 2007. Incumbent president Ngu ...
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2007 Vietnamese presidential election
Parliamentary elections were held in Vietnam on 20 May 2007.
Results
Aftermath
Following the elections, in the first session of the new National Assembly, Nguyễn Phú Trọng was elected as Chairman
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2007 Goa Legislative Assembly election
Elections for the Indian state of Goa took place 2 June 2007. Counting of votes began 5 June and the election process was completed by 8 June.
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Winning candidates
By-elections
Government formation
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2007 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election
Gujarat's twelfth legislative election was held in 2007. In this election, the BJP led by Narendra Modi won 117 seats out of 182 (ten seats fewer than in 2002). Congress improved its performance and won 59 seats (eight more than last election). ...
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2007 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
Elections to the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in December 2007, to elect members of the 68 constituencies in Himachal Pradesh, India. The Bharatiya Janata Party won a majority of seats as well as the popular vote, and Prem K ...
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2007 Indian presidential election
The Election Commission of India held indirect 13th Presidential elections of India on 19 July 2007. Pratibha Patil with 638,116 votes won over her nearest rival Bhairon Singh Shekhawat who got 331,306 votes. This result meant that Pratibha Pa ...
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2007 Punjab Legislative Assembly election
The Punjab Legislative Assembly election, 2007 was held in Indian state of Punjab in 2007, to elect 117 members to the Punjab Legislative Assembly. Election Commission of India Shiromani Akali Dal, and its alliance partner Bharatiya Janata Party ...
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2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
The 2007 Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly election was held during April–May 2007. It was held to elect a government for the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
Background
With 166 million people, U.P. is about the size of France, Germany, an ...
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2007 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election
The 2007 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election were the 2nd Vidhan Sabha ( Legislative Assembly) election of the state of Uttarakhand in India. The elections were held on 21 February 2007, when the Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the large ...
2007 Inagi local election Inagi, Tokyo held an election for the city assembly on April 15, 2007.
Results
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2007 Japanese House of Councillors election
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on July 29, 2007. The date was originally to be July 22, but the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) decided in mid-June to extend the session of the House for a week to finish up legislative b ...
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2007 Kameoka mayoral election Kameoka, Kyoto
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2007 Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election
A leadership election was held in the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan on 23 September 2007 after the incumbent party leader and Prime Minister of Japan Shinzō Abe announced that he would resign on 12 September 2007.2007 Meguro local election
Meguro, Tokyo, held a local election for the city assembly on April 15, 2007.
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2007 Minamimaki mayoral election
The Japanese village Minamimaki, Nagano held a mayoral election on November 11, 2007. Yukihiko Kikuchi beat the incumbent mayor Yoshito Nakajima.
Candidates
* Yoshito Nakajima, incumbent mayor of Minamimaki.
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2007 Miyazaki gubernatorial by-election
Miyazaki Prefecture held a gubernatorial by-election on January 21, 2007. Former governor Tadahiro Ando was arrested for bid-rigging. Independent comedian Hideo Higashikokubaru
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2007 Ōta local election Ōta, Tokyo held a local election for the city assembly on April 22, 2007.
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2007 Shinjuku local election Shinjuku, Tokyo held a local election for the city assembly on April 22, 2007 as part of the 2007 Japanese unified local elections.
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2007 Tokyo gubernatorial election
The 2007 Tokyo Gubernatorial elections were held on April 8, 2007 as part of the 16th unified local elections. There were fourteen candidates, among them the incumbent governor Shintaro Ishihara. Most candidates, with the exception of Kurokawa ...
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2007 Warabi city assembly election Warabi, Saitama held a local election to the city assembly on June 3, 2007. The election was dominated by independents while the Japanese Communist Party gained most seats of the parties. Notable is the Liberal Democratic Party did not contest with ...
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2007 Warabi mayoral election Warabi, Saitama held a mayoral election on June 3, 2007. Hideo Yoritaka, an independent backed by the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) won.
Candidates
* Hideo Yoritaka, member of the Japanese Communist Party and former city assembly member.
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2007 Ijok by-election
The 2007 Ijok by-election was held on 28 April 2007. The seat of Ijok in the State Legislative Assembly of Selangor, Malaysia, fell vacant after the death of the incumbent, K. Sivalingam, on 4 April 2007 from a heart attack. Sivalingam was a m ...
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2007 Machap by-election
The 2007 Machap by-election was held on 12 April 2007. The seat in the state assembly of Malacca, Malaysia, fell vacant after the incumbent, Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), died on 15 March that year. On 21 March ...
2007 Philippine House of Representatives elections
The 2007 Philippine House of Representatives elections were held on May 14, 2007, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the Philippines to serve in the 14th Congress of the Philippines from June 30, 2007, until June 30, 2010. The Ph ...
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2007 Philippine Senate election
The 2007 election of members to the Senate of the Philippines was the 29th election to the Senate of the Philippines. It was held on Monday, May 14, 2007, to elect 12 of the 24 seats in the Senate. Together with those elected in 2004, they will co ...
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2007 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections
Synchronized Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections were held on October 29, 2007, based on the newly amendeRepublic Act No. 9340 approved on September 22, 2005, by the 13th Congress of the Philippines which prescribed that Barangay and ...
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2007 Philippine general election
Legislative and local elections were held in the Philippines on May 14, 2007. Positions contested included half the seats in the Senate, which are elected for six-year terms, and all the seats in the House of Representatives, who were elected fo ...
2007 Russian legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Russia on 2 December 2007. At stake were the 450 seats in the 5th State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly (the legislature). Eleven parties were included in the ballot, including Russia's largest ...
2007 Turkish general election
General elections were held in Turkey on 22 July 2007 to elect 550 members to the Grand National Assembly. Originally scheduled for November, the elections were brought forward after parliament failed to elect a new president to replace Ahmet ...
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2007 Turkish presidential election
The 2007 Turkish presidential election refers to two attempts to elect the country's 11th president, to succeed Ahmet Necdet Sezer. The most likely candidate for president was Abdullah Gül. Turkey's presidential office is regarded as the gu ...
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2007 Turkish constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum on electoral reform was held in Turkey on 21 October 2007. After the aborted attempt to elect the next president in May 2007, the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan introduced substantial electoral reforms in parliam ...
Europe
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2007 Abkhazian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Abkhazia on 4 March 2007, with a second round in seventeen constituencies on 18 March.
Electoral system
The 35 members of the People's Assembly were elected in single-member constituencies using the two-roun ...
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2007 Åland legislative election
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2007 Albanian presidential election
Indirect presidential elections were held in Albania on 20 and 27 June, 8, 11, 14, and 20 July, the sixth such elections since the collapse of the communist regime in 1991.
The President of Albania is elected through a secret vote and without d ...
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2007 Albanian local elections
Local elections were held in Albania on 18 February 2007. They came after threats to boycott the elections by opposition parties because of accusations over fraudulent voting rolls; because of this, the elections were rescheduled from 20 January 2 ...
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2007 Belgian general election
Federal elections were held in Belgium on 10 June 2007. Voters went to the polls in order to elect new members for the Chamber of Representatives and Senate.
Eligible voters were Belgian citizens 18 years and older. There was a legal electo ...
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2007 Croatian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 25 November 2007 and for overseas voters on 24 and 25 November.2007 Danish parliamentary election
General elections were held in Denmark on 13 November 2007. The elections allowed prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to continue for a third term in a coalition government consisting of Venstre and the Conservative People's Party with parliam ...
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2007 Estonian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Estonia on 4 March 2007. The newly elected 101 members of the 11th Riigikogu assembled at Toompea Castle in Tallinn within ten days of the election. It was the world's first nationwide vote where part of the ...
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European Parliament election, 2007 (Romania)
Romania elected its members of the European Parliament for the first time on 25 November 2007; the election was initially scheduled for 13 May, but the PM postponed it for domestic political reasons. A referendum on a new voting system for nat ...
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2007 European Parliament election Two member states of the European Union held elections to the European Parliament in 2007. For details, see
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European Parliament election, 2007 (Bulgaria)
Bulgaria elected its members of the European Parliament in a by-election on 20 May 2007. It was the country's first European election, having joined the Union on 1 January of that year. The country still had 18 MEPs, no change from before the ...
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2007 Finnish parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 18 March 2007. Early voting was possible from the 7–13 March. The 200 members of the Eduskunta were elected from 15 constituencies.
Election themes included a reduction of income tax and VAT on f ...
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2007 Gibraltar general election
General elections were held in Gibraltar on 11 October 2007. The incumbent Chief Minister Peter Caruana narrowly won a fourth term, but opposition leader Joe Bossano had a very strong showing. Joe Bossano noted that this would be his last term ...
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2007 Greek legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on Sunday, 16 September 2007 to elect the 300 members of the Hellenic Parliament. The leading party for a second term was New Democracy under the leadership of Kostas Karamanlis with 42%, followed by ...
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2007 Icelandic parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 12 May 2007. The Independence Party remained the largest party in the Althing, winning 25 of the 63 seats.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p977 Follo ...
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2007 Irish general election
The 2007 Irish general election took place on Thursday, 24 May after the dissolution of the 29th Dáil by the President on 30 April, at the request of the Taoiseach. The general election took place in 43 parliamentary constituencies througho ...
2007 Kosovan parliamentary election
'Parliamentary elections were held in Kosovo on 17 November 2007 alongside 2007 Kosovan local elections, Municipal elections. Voters elected the 120 members of the Unicameralism, unicameral Assembly of Kosovo, Assembly, the legislative branch of ...
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2007 Kosovan local elections
Municipal elections were held in Kosovo on November 17, 2007, at the same time as elections to the Assembly of Kosovo, with a second round for the mayoral elections held on 2007-12-08. The date was originally set for September 1, 2007 by the Specia ...
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2007 Latvian presidential election
A presidential election was held in the Latvian Saeima on 31 May 2007. The government candidate Valdis Zatlers defeated Aivars Endziņš.
Nominations
Before the governing coalition had agreed on Zatlers as a candidate, the People's Party had ...
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2007 Maltese local council elections
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2007 Moldovan local election
Local elections were held in Moldova on June 3, 2007, with a runoff for mayors on June 17, 2007.
Voter turnout reached 52.34% nationwide and 37.17% in Chişinău municipality. Following the elections, district, municipal, town and village counc ...
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2007 Nagorno-Karabakh presidential election
Presidential elections were held in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic on 19 July 2007. Incumbent president Arkady Ghukasyan was constitutionally barred from seeking a third term and endorsed Bako Sahakyan, who was the head of the National Security S ...
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2007 Norwegian local elections
Country-wide local elections for seats in municipality and county councils were held throughout Norway on 10 September 2007, with some areas polling on 9 September as well. For most places this meant that two elections, the municipal elections and ...
2007 Polish parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 21 October 2007,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1491 after the Sejm voted for its own dissolution on 7 September. The election took place two years be ...
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2007 Republika Srpska presidential election
The presidential election of 2007 in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina was announced after the premature death of President Milan Jelić on 30 September 2007 and was held on 9 December 2007. Until the election took place, Igo ...
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2007 Romanian voting system referendum
A referendum on changing the electoral system to a two-round system was held in Romania on 25 November 2007, on the same date as the election to the European Parliament. The referendum was called by President Traian Băsescu on 23 October 2007 wh ...
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2007 Romanian presidential impeachment referendum
The Romanian presidential impeachment referendum of 2007 was conducted in order to determine whether the president of Romania Traian Băsescu should be forced to step down.
On 19 April 2007 the Romanian parliament suspended Băsescu."Romania's M ...
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2007 Serbian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 21 January 2007 to elect members of the National Assembly. The first session of the new National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia was held on 14 February 2007. The elections enabled the coalition o ...
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2007 Slovenian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Slovenia in October and November 2007 to elect the successor to the second President of Slovenia Janez Drnovšek. France Cukjati, the President of the National Assembly, called the elections on 20 June 2007 ...
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2007 Turkish general election
General elections were held in Turkey on 22 July 2007 to elect 550 members to the Grand National Assembly. Originally scheduled for November, the elections were brought forward after parliament failed to elect a new president to replace Ahmet ...
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2007 Turkish constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum on electoral reform was held in Turkey on 21 October 2007. After the aborted attempt to elect the next president in May 2007, the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan introduced substantial electoral reforms in parliam ...
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2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Early parliamentary elections in Ukraine took place on 30 September 2007. The date of the election was determined following agreement between the President Viktor Yushchenko, the Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and the Chairman of the Verkho ...
2007 European Parliament election Two member states of the European Union held elections to the European Parliament in 2007. For details, see
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European Parliament election, 2007 (Bulgaria)
Bulgaria elected its members of the European Parliament in a by-election on 20 May 2007. It was the country's first European election, having joined the Union on 1 January of that year. The country still had 18 MEPs, no change from before the ...
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European Parliament election, 2007 (Romania)
Romania elected its members of the European Parliament for the first time on 25 November 2007; the election was initially scheduled for 13 May, but the PM postponed it for domestic political reasons. A referendum on a new voting system for nat ...
France
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2007 French presidential election
Presidential elections were held in France on 21 and 22 April 2007 to elect the successor to Jacques Chirac as president of France (and ''ex officio'' Co-Prince of Andorra) for a five-year term. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a ...
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2007 French legislative election
The French legislative elections took place on 10 June and 17 June 2007 to elect the 13th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, a few weeks after the French presidential election run-off on 6 May. 7,639 candidates stood for 577 seats, inclu ...
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2007 Saint Barthélemy Territorial Council election
Elections to the Territorial Council were held in the French overseas collectivity of Saint Barthélemy for the first time on 1 July 2007. Since Bruno Magras, the incumbent mayor of Saint Barthélemy, got an absolute majority in the first round, ...
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2007 Saint Martin Territorial Council election
Elections to the Territorial Council were held in the French overseas collectivity of Saint Martin for the first time on 1 July and 8 July 2007. As no list received an absolute majority of the vote in the first round, all lists with more than 10% ...
Germany
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2007 Bremen state election
The 2007 Bremen state election was held on 13 May 2007 to elect the members of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen, as well as the city councils of Bremen and Bremerhaven. The incumbent government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democra ...
Italy
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2008 Abruzzo regional election
The Abruzzo regional election of 2008 took place on 14–15 December 2008, due to the early resignation of President Ottaviano Del Turco, after his indictment for alleged corruption. The election was to take place on 30 November–1 December, but ...
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2008 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election
The 2008 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election took place on 13–14 April 2008.
Former President Renzo Tondo (The People of Freedom) defeated incumbent Riccardo Illy (an independent closed to the Democratic Party Democratic Party most often re ...
2008 Italian general election
A snap election was held in Italy on 13–14 April 2008. The election came after President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved the Italian Parliament on 6 February 2008, following the defeat of the government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi in a Januar ...
Italian general election, 2008 (Veneto)
The Italian general election of 2008 took place on 13–14 April 2008.
The election was won in Veneto by the centre-right coalition between The People of Freedom and Lega Nord, as it happened at the national level. The People of Freedom was the l ...
2008 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections
The Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections of 2008 took place on 26 October 2008 in South Tyrol and on 9 November in the Trentino. It was the first time since 1946 that elections were not held on the same day.
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2008 Valdostan regional election
The Valdostan regional election of 2008 took place in Italy's Aosta Valley on 25 May 2008. The election saw the victory of the centrist autonomist coalition led by Aosta Valley's former governor, Augusto Rollandin
Augusto Arduino Rollandin (born ...
2007 Dutch Senate election
Elections of the Dutch Senate were held on 29 May 2007, following the provincial elections on 7 March 2007. The 564 members of the twelve States-Provincial elected the 75 Senate members. The new Senate was installed on 12 June 2007.
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2007 Dutch provincial elections
Provincial elections were held in the Netherlands, on 7 March 2007. The election also determined the members of the Senate, since the 564 members of the twelve provincial councils elect its 75 members. This election took place on 29 May 2007.
Ba ...
2007 Russian legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Russia on 2 December 2007. At stake were the 450 seats in the 5th State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly (the legislature). Eleven parties were included in the ballot, including Russia's largest ...
Elections to the Corts Valencianes, 2007
The 2007 Valencian regional election was held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the 7th Corts of the Valencian Community. All 99 seats in the Corts were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other ...
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2007 Spanish regional elections
The 2007 Spanish regional elections were held on Sunday, 27 May 2007, to elect the regional parliaments of thirteen of the seventeen autonomous communities—Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile and L ...
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2007 Swiss federal election
Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 Novembe ...
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2007 Swiss Federal Council election
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2007 Turkish general election
General elections were held in Turkey on 22 July 2007 to elect 550 members to the Grand National Assembly. Originally scheduled for November, the elections were brought forward after parliament failed to elect a new president to replace Ahmet ...
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2007 Turkish presidential election
The 2007 Turkish presidential election refers to two attempts to elect the country's 11th president, to succeed Ahmet Necdet Sezer. The most likely candidate for president was Abdullah Gül. Turkey's presidential office is regarded as the gu ...
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2007 Turkish constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum on electoral reform was held in Turkey on 21 October 2007. After the aborted attempt to elect the next president in May 2007, the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan introduced substantial electoral reforms in parliam ...
United Kingdom
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2007 Ealing Southall by-election
The 2007 Ealing Southall by-election was a by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Ealing Southall, in west London. It was held on 19 July 2007.
The election was triggered when Piara Khabra, the Labour Party Member of Parliament for ...
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2007 Inverclyde Council election
Elections to Inverclyde Council were held on 3 May 2007 the same day as the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using six new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004; each ward w ...
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2007 Labour Party deputy leadership election
The 2007 Labour Party deputy leadership election was a British political party election for the position of deputy leader of the Labour Party. John Prescott, the previous deputy leader, announced on 10 May 2007 that he was standing down from tha ...
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2007 Labour Party (UK) leadership election
A Labour Party leadership election was formally triggered on 10 May 2007 by the resignation of Tony Blair, Labour Leader since the previous leadership contest on 21 July 1994. At the same time that Blair resigned, John Prescott resigned a ...
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2007 Liberal Democrats leadership election
The 2007 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held following the resignation of Sir Menzies Campbell as leader on 15 October 2007, after 19 months as leader of the Liberal Democrats, the third-largest political party in the United Kingdom. ...
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2007 United Kingdom local elections
The 2007 UK local government elections were held on 3 May 2007. These elections took place in most of England and all of Scotland. There were no local government elections in Wales though the Welsh Assembly had a general election on the same d ...
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2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election
The 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election was held on Wednesday, 7 March 2007. It was the third election to take place since the devolved assembly was established in 1998. The election saw endorsement of the St Andrews Agreement and the two ...
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2007 Scottish Parliament election
The 2007 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the Scottish Parliament. It was the third general election to the devolved Scottish Parliament since it was created in 1999. Local elections in Scotland fe ...
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2007 Sedgefield by-election
The 2007 Sedgefield by-election was a by-election held on 19 July 2007 for the House of Commons constituency of Sedgefield in County Durham. The Ealing Southall by-election was also held on 19 July.
The by-election was triggered when Tony Bl ...
2007 United Kingdom local elections
The 2007 UK local government elections were held on 3 May 2007. These elections took place in most of England and all of Scotland. There were no local government elections in Wales though the Welsh Assembly had a general election on the same d ...
2007 Scottish local elections
The 2007 Scottish local elections were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as Scottish Parliament elections and local elections in parts of England. All 32 Scottish councils had all their seats up for election – all Scottish councils are unita ...
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2003 Scottish local elections
The 2003 Scottish local elections were held on 1 May 2003, the same day as Scottish Parliament elections and local elections in parts of England. All 32 Scottish councils had all their seats up for election – all Scottish councils are unitary ...
2007 Alnwick Council election
Elections to Alnwick District Council were held for the final time on 3 May 2007. The whole council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. The council was abolished in 2009 when Northumberland County Council became ...
2007 Ashfield Council election
The 2007 Ashfield District Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Ashfield District Council in Nottinghamshire, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour Party lost overall control of the council to ...
2007 Brighton and Hove City Council election
Elections to Brighton and Hove City Council on the south coast of England were held on 3 May 2007. The whole council (a unitary authority) was up for election and all 54 councillors were elected.
The Conservative Party won 26 out of 54 seats o ...
2007 Burnley Council election
Elections to Burnley Borough Council in Lancashire, England were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election and no party won overall control of the council. The winner of the Rosegrove with Lowerhouse ward had to be ...
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2007 Calderdale Council election
Elections to Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 3 May 2007 with the exception of the Warley ward which was postponed until 14 June 2007 due to the sudden death of one of the candidates. One third of the council was up for elec ...
2007 Coventry Council election
Elections for Coventry City Council were held on Thursday 3 May 2007. As the council is elected by thirds, one seat in each of the wards was up for election.
The Labour Party gained two seats (Foleshill and Wyken) from the Conservative Party o ...
2007 Dartford Council election
The 2007 Dartford Borough Council election to the Dartford (borough), Dartford Borough Council was held on 3 May 2007. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party took overall control of the council. ...
2007 Derby Council election
The 2007 Derby City Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Derby Derby City Council, City Council in England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.
The election saw ...
2007 Halton Council election
The 2007 Halton Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Halton Unitary Council in Cheshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour Party stayed in overall control of the council.
Aft ...
2007 Hart Council election
The 2007 Hart Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Hart District Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.
After the election, the co ...
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2007 Hull Council election
The 2007 Hull City Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Hull City Council in England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats gained overall control of the council from no overall control. ...
2007 Ipswich Borough Council election
Elections for Ipswich Borough Council were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.
After the election, the composition of the council was:
*Conservative 20
* Labour 18
* ...
2007 Liverpool Council election
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrat party kept overall control of the council. Overall turnout was 27.5%
After the election, the composition of th ...
2007 Mole Valley Council election
Elections to Mole Valley Council were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party kept overall control of the council. Overall turnout was 46.5%.
After the election, the composition of the council ...
2007 North Lincolnshire Council election
Elections to North Lincolnshire Council were held on 3 May 2007. The Conservative Party lost its overall majority to the Labour Party. Overall turnout was 32%.
Election result
There were 3 vacant seats on the council due to the death ...
2007 Penwith Council election
Elections to Penwith District Council were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.
After the election, the composition of the council was
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2007 Portsmouth Council election
Elections to Portsmouth City Council were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.
After the election, the composition of the council was:
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2007 Preston Council election
Elections to the Preston City Council took place on 3 May 2007.
Preston council is elected "in thirds" which means one councillor from each three-member ward, and councillors from selected two-member wards, are elected each year, with one yea ...
2007 Rossendale Council election
Elections to Rossendale Borough Council were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.
After the election, the composition o ...
2007 Rushmoor Council election
The 2007 Rushmoor Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Rushmoor Borough Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council. ...
2007 Salford Council election
The 2007 Salford City Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Salford City Council in England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party kept overall control of the council. Overall turnout was 29.36% ...
2007 Sheffield Council election
Sheffield City Council elections took place on Thursday 3 May 2007 with one third of council seats up for election; one in each ward. Since the previous election, Liberal Democrat Martin Davis (representing Stocksbridge & Upper Don) defected, s ...
2007 Slough Council election
Elections to the Borough Council in Slough, England, were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election. This was the 122nd Slough general local authority election (including both whole Council elections and elections by thirds) ...
2007 Stockport Council election
Elections to Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election. The Liberal Democrats retained overall control of the council with a majority of 9 councillors. The overall turnout was 3 ...
2007 Thurrock Council election
The 2007 Thurrock Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative party lost overall control of the council to no overall contr ...
2007 Welwyn Hatfield Council election
The 2007 Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council in Hertfordshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall c ...
2007 Winchester Council election
The 2007 Winchester Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Winchester District Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.
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2007 Windsor and Maidenhead Council election
The 2007 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Windsor and Maidenhead Unitary Council in Berkshire, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative Party gained overall ...
2007 Woking Council election
The 2007 Woking Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Woking Borough Council in Surrey, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party gained overall control of the council from no over ...
2007 York Council election
Local elections for City of York Council were held on Thursday 3 May 2007. The whole council was up for election. Of the 47 seats contested, the Liberal Democrats won 19 seats, Labour won 18 seats, Conservatives won eight seats and the Green P ...
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2007 Scottish local elections
The 2007 Scottish local elections were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as Scottish Parliament elections and local elections in parts of England. All 32 Scottish councils had all their seats up for election – all Scottish councils are unita ...
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2003 Scottish local elections
The 2003 Scottish local elections were held on 1 May 2003, the same day as Scottish Parliament elections and local elections in parts of England. All 32 Scottish councils had all their seats up for election – all Scottish councils are unitary ...
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2007 Aberdeen City Council election
The 2007 Aberdeen City Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Aberdeen City Council, at the same time as the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 13 new wards created as a result of th ...
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2007 Aberdeenshire Council election
Elections to Aberdeenshire Council were held on 3 May 2007 the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 19 new wards created as a result of th ...
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2007 Angus Council election
Elections to Angus Council were held on 3 May 2007 the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 8 new wards created as a result of the Local Gov ...
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2007 Argyll and Bute Council election
Elections to Argyll and Bute Council were held on 3 May 2007 the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 11 new wards created as a result of the ...
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2007 City of Edinburgh Council election
Elections to the City of Edinburgh Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the Scottish Parliament 2007 Scottish Parliament election, general election. The election was the first one using 17 new ward (politics), wards created as a resu ...
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2007 Clackmannanshire Council election
Elections to Clackmannanshire Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 5 new wards created as a result of th ...
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2007 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar election
Elections to Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles council) were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 9 new ward ...
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2007 Dumfries and Galloway Council election
Elections to Dumfries and Galloway Council were held on 3 May 2007 the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 13 new wards created as a result ...
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2007 Dundee City Council election
Elections to Dundee City Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election.
The election was the first one to use the new 8 wards created as a result of ...
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2007 East Ayrshire Council election
Elections to East Ayrshire Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using nine new wards created as a result of t ...
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2007 East Dunbartonshire Council election
Elections to East Dunbartonshire Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. This election was the first to use eight new multi-member wards create ...
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2007 East Lothian Council election
Elections to East Lothian Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election.
The election was the first using seven new wards created as a result of ...
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2007 East Renfrewshire Council election
Elections to East Renfrewshire Council were held on 3 May 2007 the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election.
The election was the first using six new wards created as a result of the L ...
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2007 Falkirk Council election
Elections to Falkirk Council were held on 3 May 2007—the same day as the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 9 new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004. Each ward will e ...
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2007 Fife Council election
Elections to Fife Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 23 new wards created as a result of the Local Gove ...
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2007 Glasgow City Council election
Elections to Glasgow City Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 21 new wards created as a result of the L ...
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2007 Midlothian Council election
Elections to Midlothian Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using six new wards created as a result of the L ...
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2007 North Ayrshire Council election
Elections to North Ayrshire Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament elections. The election was the first one using eight new wards created as a result of t ...
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2007 North Lanarkshire Council election
Elections to North Lanarkshire Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 20 new wards created as a result o ...
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2007 Orkney Islands Council election
Elections to Orkney Islands Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using six new wards created as a result of the L ...
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2007 Perth and Kinross Council election
Elections to Perth and Kinross Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 12 new wards created as a result ...
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2007 Renfrewshire Council election
Elections to Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Local government in Scotland, Scottish local government 2007 Scottish local elections, elections and the Scottish Parliament 2007 Scottish Parlia ...
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2007 Scottish Borders Council election
Elections to Scottish Borders Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 11 new wards created as a result of ...
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2007 Shetland Islands Council election
Elections to Shetland Islands Council were held on 3 May 2007 the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using seven new wards created as a resul ...
2007 South Lanarkshire Council election
Elections to South Lanarkshire Council took place on 3 May 2007 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections.
The election was the first to use the 20 new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act ...
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2007 Stirling Council election
Elections to Stirling Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using seven new wards created as a result of the ...
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2007 Highland Council election
Elections to the Highland Council were held on 3 May 2007; the same day as elections to the Scottish Parliament and to the 31 other councils in Scotland. Previous elections to the council had been conducted using the single member plurality sy ...
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2007 West Dunbartonshire Council election
Elections to West Dunbartonshire Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using six new wards created as a result ...
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2007 West Lothian Council election
Elections to West Lothian Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using nine new wards created as a result of the ...
National Assembly for Wales
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2007 National Assembly for Wales election
The 2007 National Assembly for Wales election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the National Assembly for Wales. It was the third general election. On the same day local elections in England and Scotland, as well as the Scotti ...
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One Wales
One Wales ( cy, Cymru'n Un, ) was the coalition agreement for the National Assembly for Wales between Labour and Plaid Cymru agreed to by Rhodri Morgan, First Minister of Wales and leader of Welsh Labour, and Ieuan Wyn Jones, leader of ...
2007 Guatemalan general election
General elections were held in Guatemala on 9 September to elect a new President and Vice President of the Republic, 158 congressional deputies, and 332 mayors. As no presidential candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was h ...
2007 Belfast-Murray River provincial by-election
A provincial by-election was held in Prince Edward Island on October 15, 2007, to fill the vacancy in the Legislative Assembly riding of Belfast-Murray River. It was called by Premier Robert Ghiz on September 17, 2007.
The by-election was cause ...
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2007 Canadian federal by-elections By-elections to the 39th Canadian Parliament were held to fill vacancies in the House of Commons of Canada between the 2006 federal election and the 2008 federal election. The Conservative Party of Canada led a minority government for the entire ...
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2007 Charlevoix provincial by-election
A provincial by-election was held in Quebec on 24 September 2007 to fill the vacancy in the National Assembly riding of Charlevoix.
The by-election was caused by the decision of PQ MNA Rosaire Bertrand to stand down to offer the new Parti Québéc ...
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2007 Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage provincial by-election
A provincial by-election was held in Nova Scotia on 2 October 2007 to fill the vacancy in the House of Assembly riding of Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage. The byelection resulted from the resignation of New Democrat MLA Kevin Deveaux. New Democrat ...
2007 Manitoba general election
The 2007 Manitoba general election was held on May 22, 2007 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the New Democratic Party, which won 36 seats out of 57. The Progressive Conservative Par ...
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2007 Moncton East provincial by-election
A provincial by-election was held in New Brunswick on March 5, 2007 to fill the vacancy in the Legislative Assembly riding of Moncton East.
As a result of Bernard Lord's resignation, a by-election had to be called within six months of January 31 ...
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2007 New Brunswick New Democratic Party leadership election
The New Brunswick New Democratic Party held a leadership election, following the resignation of Allison Brewer, on November 6, 2006 subsequent to their previous convention on September 25, 2005.
The New Brunswick NDP is a social democratic polit ...
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2007 Newfoundland and Labrador general election
The 2007 Newfoundland and Labrador general election was held on October 9, 2007 to elect members of the 46th General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Campaign
The election was called soon after Premier Danny Williams announced the popular ...
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2007 Newfoundland and Labrador provincial by-elections
Five provincial by-elections were held in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2007, following vacancies in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly. Three took place on February 8, and two took place on February 13.
In ...
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2007 Northwest Territories general election
The 2007 Northwest Territories general election took place on October 1, 2007. Nineteen members were elected to the Legislative Assembly from single member districts conducted under first-past-the-post voting system.
The election was called on Se ...
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2007 Nova Scotia Liberal Party leadership election
The 2007 Nova Scotia Liberal Party leadership election was held on April 27, 2007 at the Dartmouth Sportsplex, following the resignation of Francis MacKenzie, shortly after failing to win a seat in the 2006 election. This was the third leaders ...
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2007 Ontario electoral reform referendum
A referendum was held on October 10, 2007, on the question of whether to establish a mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system for elections to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The vote was strongly in favour of the existing plu ...
2007 Ontario provincial by-elections
By-elections were held on February 8, 2007, in Ontario, Canada, to fill three vacancies in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. By-elections were held in three electoral districts (ridings): Burlington, Markham and York South–Weston.
The ...
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2007 Parti Québécois leadership election
The Parti Québécois leadership election of 2007 elected the seventh leader of the Parti Québécois, the main political party to promote Quebec independence in Quebec, Canada, and was won by Pauline Marois.
Former PQ Minister Pauline Marois wa ...
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2007 Prince Edward Island general election
The 2007 Prince Edward Island general election was held on May 28, 2007. It elected members of the 63rd General Assembly of Prince Edward Island, Legislative Assembly of the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Prince Edward Island, Ca ...
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2007 Quebec general election
The 2007 Quebec general election was held in the Canadian province of Quebec on March 26, 2007 to elect members of the 38th National Assembly of Quebec. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Premier Jean Charest managed to win a plurality of seats, ...
2007 Saskatchewan general election
The 2007 Saskatchewan general election was held on November 7, 2007 to determine the composition of the 26th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
The New Democratic Party of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan New Democratic Party government of Premier o ...
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2007 Alberta municipal elections
Municipal elections were held in Alberta, Canada on Monday, October 15, 2007. Since 1968, provincial legislation has required every municipality to hold triennial elections. Mayors (reeves), councillors ( aldermen), and trustees were elected ...
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2007 Calgary municipal election
The 2007 Calgary municipal election was held Monday, October 15, 2007. The citizens of Calgary elected one mayor, 12 of their 14 aldermen (one from each of 14 wards) to the city council, five of the seven Calgary School District trustees (each ...
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2007 Edmonton municipal election
The 2007 Edmonton municipal election was held Monday, October 15, 2007 to elect a mayor and 12 councillors to the city council, eight of the nine trustees to Edmonton Public Schools, and four of the seven trustees to the Edmonton Catholic Schools. ...
2007 Ontario general election
The 2007 Ontario general election was held on October 10, 2007, to elect members ( MPPs) of the 39th Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Liberals under Premier Dalton McGuinty won the election with a majority government, ...
2007 Bahamian general election
General elections were held in the Bahamas on 2 May 2007. The result was an opposition victory, with the Free National Movement, led by former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, claiming 23 of the 41 seats. Incumbent Prime Minister Perry Christie c ...
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2007 Bermudan general election
General elections were held in Bermuda on 18 December 2007 to elect all 36 members of the House of Assembly. The incumbent Progressive Labour Party (PLP) led by Ewart Brown was returned for a third term, with 22 of the 36 seats of the House of ...
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2007 British Virgin Islands general election
General elections were held in the British Virgin Islands on 20 August 2007. The result was a landslide victory for the opposition Virgin Islands Party (VIP) over the incumbent National Democratic Party (NDP).
The VIP took 7 of the 9 district ...
2007 Jamaican general election
General elections were held in Jamaica on 3 September 2007. They had originally been scheduled for 27 August 2007 but were delayed due to Hurricane Dean. The preliminary results indicated a slim victory for the opposition Jamaican Labour Party ...
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2007 Saint Martin Territorial Council election
Elections to the Territorial Council were held in the French overseas collectivity of Saint Martin for the first time on 1 July and 8 July 2007. As no list received an absolute majority of the vote in the first round, all lists with more than 10% ...
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2007 Trinidad and Tobago general election
General elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 5 November 2007. Nomination day was 15 October. Five parties contested the elections; the ruling People's National Movement, the official opposition United National Congress–Alliance (a co ...
2007 United States Virgin Islands Constitutional Convention election
The 2007 United States Virgin Islands Constitutional Convention election was an election to the Fifth Constitutional Convention of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the United States Virgin Islands on 12 June 2007. The convention was the fifth attempt t ...
Mexico
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2007 Mexican elections
A number of elections on the local level took place in Mexico
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2007 Baja California state election
Local elections were held in the States of Mexico, Mexican State of Baja California on Sunday, August 5, 2007. According to the preliminary results program, José Guadalupe Osuna Millán of the Alliance for Baja California (APBC) was elected govern ...
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Broad Progressive Front
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2007 Yucatán state election Local elections were held in the Mexican state of Yucatán on May 20, 2007. Voters went to the polls to elect on the local level:
*a new Governor of Yucatán to serve for a five-year term;
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2007 United States elections
The 2007 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 6. During this off-year election, the only seats up for election in the United States Congress were special elections held throughout the year. None of these congressional seats ch ...
2007 Northern Mariana Islands general election
General elections were held in the Northern Mariana Islands on 3 November 2007, concurrently with a double referendum. The Republican Party won a majority of seats in the House of Representatives
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2007 Oregon's statewide elections
The November 6, 2007 special Election, was an off-year election in which no members of the Congress, statewide offices, or members of the Oregon Legislative Assembly were scheduled for election. However, two statewide measures were referred by th ...
2007 Virginia state elections
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2007 California's 37th congressional district special election
California's 37th congressional district special election, 2007 was held on August 21, 2007 to replace the seat of Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald, who died of cancer on April 22, 2007. California State Assemblymember Laura Richar ...
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2007 Georgia's 10th congressional district special election
On June 19, 2007, the U.S. state of Georgia held a special election to fill a vacancy in Georgia's 10th congressional district. A runoff was held on July 17 with Paul Broun defeating Jim Whitehead by less than 1%.
History
The vacancy was created ...
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2007 Massachusetts's 5th congressional district special election
Massachusetts held a special election to fill a vacancy in Massachusetts's 5th congressional district on October 16, 2007. Democrat Niki Tsongas won election to Congress, defeating Republican Jim Ogonowski in an election that was closer than ...
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2007 Ohio's 5th congressional district special election
The 2007 special election in Ohio's 5th congressional district occurred when the district became vacant following the death of incumbent Paul E. Gillmor. A special election to fill the seat was called by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland for Decemb ...
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2007 Virginia's 1st congressional district special election
After the death of Republican Party (United States), Republican Congresswoman Jo Ann Davis on October 6, 2007, a special election was required to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the 110th United States Congress. Governor Tim Kaine announced ...
2007 United States gubernatorial elections
United States gubernatorial elections were held in October and November 2007 in three states. The final results were a net change of zero among the parties. Republicans picked up the open seat in Louisiana and reelected incumbent Haley Barbour in ...
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2007 Kentucky gubernatorial election
The 2007 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2007. In this election, incumbent Republican Governor Ernie Fletcher ran for reelection to a second term, but was soundly defeated by Democratic challenger Steve Beshear. A primar ...
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2007 Louisiana gubernatorial election
The 2007 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on October 20. The filing deadline for candidates was September 6. On the day of the election, all 12 candidates competed in an open jungle primary. Bobby Jindal won the election with 54%.
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2007 Mississippi gubernatorial election
The 2007 Mississippi gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday, November 6. Incumbent Haley Barbour was re-elected to serve a four-year term as Governor of Mississippi from January 15, 2008 through January 10, 2012. The Lieutenant Governor of M ...
United States mayoral
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2007 United States mayoral elections
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2007 Baltimore mayoral election
The 2007 Baltimore mayoral election was held on November 6, 2007. Because Baltimore's electorate is overwhelmingly Democratic, Sheila Dixon's victory in the Democratic primary on September 11 all but assured her of victory in the general electi ...
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2007 Charlotte mayoral election
The biennial Charlotte mayoral election was held on November 6, 2007. Mayor Pat McCrory, a Republican, was re-elected to a seventh term.
Hot button issues
* Light rail: was a source of controversy.
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2007 Houston mayoral election
The Houston Mayoral Election of 2007 took place on November 6, 2007. Incumbent Mayor Bill White was re-elected to a third term. Officially the race was non-partisan, but Mayor White is a member of the Democratic Party.
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2007 Houston elections
The 2007 Houston elections took place on May 12, June 16, and November 6, 2007. All City Council posts, the City Controller, and the Mayor all had elections. All positions were non-partisan.
Mayor
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2007 Indianapolis mayoral election
The Indianapolis mayoral election of 2007 took place on November 6, 2007. Voters elected the Mayor of Indianapolis, members of the Indianapolis City-County Council, as well as several other local officials. Incumbent Democrat Bart Peterson was s ...
2007 Philadelphia mayoral election
The 2007 Philadelphia mayoral election was held on November 6, 2007 when Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States elected Michael Nutter as the Mayor of Philadelphia starting in 2008. The incumbent mayor, John F. Street was barred from seeking ...
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2007 Pittsburgh mayoral special election
The mayoral election of 2007 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was a special election held on Tuesday, November 6, 2007. The incumbent mayor, Luke Ravenstahl of the Democratic Party faced Republican challenger Mark DeSantis, a telecommunications execu ...
2007 San Francisco mayoral election
The 2007 San Francisco mayoral election occurred on November 6, 2007. Voters elected a Mayor of San Francisco and several local officials. Incumbent Mayor Gavin Newsom was re-elected by an overwhelming margin. There were 12 candidates on the ball ...
2007 United States Virgin Islands Constitutional Convention election
The 2007 United States Virgin Islands Constitutional Convention election was an election to the Fifth Constitutional Convention of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the United States Virgin Islands on 12 June 2007. The convention was the fifth attempt t ...
2007 United States Virgin Islands Constitutional Convention election
The 2007 United States Virgin Islands Constitutional Convention election was an election to the Fifth Constitutional Convention of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the United States Virgin Islands on 12 June 2007. The convention was the fifth attempt t ...
2007 Marshall Islands general election
General elections were held in the Marshall Islands on 19 November 2007.
Campaign
One of the election issues was whether to switch recognition from Taiwan to the China, with the opposition in favour of recognising China instead. However, Aelon Ke ...
2007 Micronesian presidential election
Indirect presidential elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on May 11, 2007.
Incumbent President Joseph Urusemal, was defeated for re-election by challenger Manny Mori at the opening session of the newly elected 15th Congress ...
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2007 Nauruan parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Nauru
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2007 Nauruan presidential election
Indirect presidential elections were held in Nauru on 28 August 2007. They were originally scheduled for June, but a debate on changing the constitution and allowing direct presidential elections delayed the election for a few months.
The incumbe ...
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2007 New Zealand local elections
Triennial elections for all 73 cities and districts, twelve regional councils and all district health boards (DHBs) in New Zealand were held on 13 October 2007. Most councils were elected using the first-past-the-post voting method, but eigh ...
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2007 Northern Mariana Islands general election
General elections were held in the Northern Mariana Islands on 3 November 2007, concurrently with a double referendum. The Republican Party won a majority of seats in the House of Representatives
House of Representatives is the name of leg ...
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2007 Papua New Guinean general election
General elections were held in Papua New Guinea from 30 June 2007 to 14 July 2007.2007 Pitcairn Islands general election
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2007 Samoan o le Ao o le Malo election
An indirect election was held in Apia to elect the O le Ao o le Malo (head of state) of Samoa on 16 June 2007 after the death of the country's head of state for four and a half decades, Malietoa Tanumafili II, in May 2007. Former Prime Minist ...
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2007 Titikaveka by-election The Titikaveka by-election was a by-election in the Cook Islands seat of Titikaveka. It took place on 7 February 2007.
At the 2006 election, Robert Wigmore won the seat of Titikaveka by a significant margin. However, his election was subsequently ...
2007 Wallis and Futuna Territorial Assembly election
Territorial Assembly elections were held in Wallis and Futuna on 1 April 2007. Of the twenty-six lists contesting the election, twenty won one seat each in an election that has been described as "having elected members along mainly clan lines". T ...
Australia
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2007 Australian federal election
The 2007 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 24 November 2007. All 150 seats in the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives and 40 of the seats in the 76-member Australian Senate, Senate were up for elect ...
National Party of Australia leadership spill, 2007
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New South Wales
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2007 New South Wales state election
Elections for the 54th Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday, 24 March 2007. The entire Legislative Assembly and half of the Legislative Council was up for election. The Labor Party led by Morris Iemma won a fourth four-year t ...
2007 Greatorex by-election
The 2007 Greatorex by-election was a by-election held on 28 July 2007 for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly electorate of Greatorex in Alice Springs.
The by-election was triggered when Dr Richard Lim, the Country Liberal Party membe ...
Queensland
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2007 Brisbane Central state by-election
A state by-election was held in Queensland on 13 October 2007 to fill the vacancy in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland electoral district of Brisbane Central, formerly held by Labor member and former Premier Peter Beattie, who resigned on 14 ...
2007 Albert Park state by-election
The 2007 Albert Park state by-election was a by-election held on 15 September 2007 for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Albert Park, immediately to the south of Melbourne's central business district.
The by-election was triggered by t ...
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2007 Williamstown state by-election
The 2007 Williamstown state by-election was a by-election held on 15 September 2007 for the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate of electoral district of Williamstown, Williamstown in suburban Melbourne.
The by-election was triggered when Ste ...
Western Australia
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2007 Peel state by-election
The 2007 Peel state by-election was held in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly district of Peel on 3 February 2007.
The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Labor MP Norm Marlborough. Labor candidate Paul Papalia was elected to ...
New Zealand
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2007 Dunedin mayoral election
The 2007 Dunedin mayoral election re-elected Peter Chin as Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand. The election was conducted under the Single transferable vote voting system.
Results
The following table shows the detailed results for the 13 October 20 ...
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2007 New Zealand local elections
Triennial elections for all 73 cities and districts, twelve regional councils and all district health boards (DHBs) in New Zealand were held on 13 October 2007. Most councils were elected using the first-past-the-post voting method, but eigh ...
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2007 Wellington City mayoral election
The 2007 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the 2007 New Zealand local elections. On 13 October 2007, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government roles. Kerry Prendergast was elected for a third consecut ...
Northern Mariana Islands
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2007 Northern Mariana Islands general election
General elections were held in the Northern Mariana Islands on 3 November 2007, concurrently with a double referendum. The Republican Party won a majority of seats in the House of Representatives
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South America
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2007 Argentine general election
Argentina held national presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, 28 October 2007, and elections for provincial governors took place on staggered dates throughout the year. For the national elections, each of the 23 provinces and the Au ...
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2007 Colombian regional elections
Democratic elections were held in the Republic of Colombia on October 28, 2007. The elections were organized as established by the Colombian Constitution of 1991 by the National Electoral Council (''Consejo Nacional Electoral'', CNE) to elect D ...
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2007 Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly election
Constituent Assembly elections were held in Ecuador on 30 September 2007. A Constituent Assembly was established following an April referendum on doing so. A total of 130 delegates were elected; 24 members from national lists, 100 elected from pr ...
2007
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Elections
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office.
Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...