2016 - a bad year for election nerds

[Sir John Johns]

Add a very open and overcrowded presidential election (first round on 28 February; run-off on 13 March) in Benin - one of the African countries with the most interesting (but sadly underdocumented) political scene - and a possible referendum in Bolivia on the abolition of term limits for president (with recent polls predicting a defeat for the government on the question).

[Sir John Johns]

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