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« Reply #25 on: July 29, 2015, 07:44:45 PM »

The Ghanaian election will be on 7 December, not in February. Smiley
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« Reply #26 on: July 29, 2015, 07:49:19 PM »

The Ghanaian election will be on 7 December, not in February. Smiley

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« Reply #27 on: July 29, 2015, 08:00:29 PM »

Is it me or is 2016 incredibly top heavy with elections? Most of the interesting ones are from January to May.
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« Reply #28 on: July 29, 2015, 08:32:06 PM »
« Edited: July 30, 2015, 12:54:25 PM by politicus »

Is it me or is 2016 incredibly top heavy with elections? Most of the interesting ones are from January to May.

Ghana in December made it less extreme, but it is 8:2 for me (see the bolded ones in the OP) with only two African elections (Zambia and Ghana) in the second half. Then there are the three jokers: Australia, Netherlands and Greece, but Greece will likely be this year - and if in 2016 it will surely be in the first quarter of the year. If you like Eastern European politics you got Romania, Lithuania and Montenegro, but only the last of them is semi-interesting to me. If you do not care about either Africa or Eastern Europe it gets very lopsided.
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« Reply #29 on: July 30, 2015, 07:46:53 AM »

I guess parliamentary elections in Romania would be really interesting. Close trace, new alliances, and new parties. Romania has a long tradition of open elections for years.
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« Reply #30 on: July 30, 2015, 08:02:31 AM »

I guess parliamentary elections in Romania would be really interesting. Close trace, new alliances, and new parties. Romania has a long tradition of open elections for years.

Yeah, it will certainly be competitive. I guess the main reason Romania is not on most posters list of interesting elections is that they consider it a "they are all horrible" election with no one to root for.
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« Reply #31 on: July 30, 2015, 08:09:43 AM »

Don't forget the all encompassing ACT election in October Tongue
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« Reply #32 on: July 30, 2015, 12:18:34 PM »

The UK referendum on the EU will probably be in 2016 too.
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« Reply #33 on: July 30, 2015, 12:37:30 PM »

Don't forget the all encompassing ACT election in October Tongue

Northern Territory might be more amusing.
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« Reply #34 on: July 30, 2015, 10:46:00 PM »

Don't forget the all encompassing ACT election in October Tongue

Northern Territory might be more amusing.
Risk of a genuine wipeout there tbh.
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« Reply #35 on: July 31, 2015, 06:23:00 AM »
« Edited: July 31, 2015, 06:25:12 AM by Simfan34 »

The Ghanaian election will be on 7 December, not in February. Smiley

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Well, the past six presidential elections have been on that date... I mean if you really want a source here's one:

http://www.ipu.org/parline/reports/2123_E.htm
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« Reply #36 on: July 31, 2015, 06:29:07 AM »

The Ghanaian election will be on 7 December, not in February. Smiley

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Well, the past six presidential elections have been on that date... I mean if you really want a source here's one:

http://www.ipu.org/parline/reports/2123_E.htm

Its always nice to have one when Wikipedia has a different date. That way I can correct it there. Don't take it as an expression of distrust.
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« Reply #37 on: July 31, 2015, 06:28:27 PM »

Even Belarussian one are more interesting.
Elections aren't, but post-election protests could be an interesting thing to see...
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« Reply #38 on: July 31, 2015, 06:31:48 PM »

South African municipals will be quite intriguing as well.
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« Reply #39 on: August 02, 2015, 08:47:47 PM »

Two other potentially interesting elections:

* Moroccan legislative elections, somewhere around September 2016 (could however be postponed to 2017)
* Chilean municipal elections on 30 October, 2016
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