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Election calendar and linked election pages for contests tracked in 2020.
Taiwanese presidential election held January 2020. Tsai Ing-wen won re-election by a landslide over Han Kuo-yu amid Hong Kong protests that boosted pro-sovereignty sentiment.
Bolivian presidential election held October 2020 after the 2019 crisis. Luis Arce of the MAS party won convincingly, restoring leftist governance in the country.
Ghanaian presidential election held December 2020. Incumbent Nana Akufo-Addo defeated former president John Mahama in a close contest in West Africa's stable democracy.
Irish general election held February 2020. Sinn Féin topped the popular vote for the first time in the Republic, upending the traditional Fine Gael–Fianna Fáil duopoly.
Ivorian presidential election held October 2020. Incumbent Alassane Ouattara won a third term amid an opposition boycott and post-election violence that left dozens dead.
Myanmar general election held November 2020. Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won a massive majority, but the military staged a coup three months later.
New Zealand general election held October 2020. Jacinda Ardern won a rare outright majority for Labour — the first since the proportional MMP system was introduced in 1996.
Polish presidential election held June–July 2020. Incumbent Andrzej Duda narrowly defeated Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski in a polarised runoff by a margin of just over 2 percentage points.
Singaporean general election held July 2020 amid COVID-19. The PAP won 83 of 93 seats, though the Workers' Party made history by winning a Group Representation Constituency.
South Korean National Assembly election held April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moon Jae-in's Democratic Party won an overwhelming 180-seat supermajority in record turnout.
United States presidential election held November 2020. Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.
