From India To US, UK To Russia- 2024 A Year Of Elections

2024 was not just an election year. It was the biggest election year in human history, with nearly half the world's population voting to determine their political, social and economic landscape

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United States President-elect Donald Trump was targeted in an alleged assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania

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In one of the most high-profile elections of the years, Democrats lost to Republicans in the US presidential elections, with Donald Trump set to return to the Oval Office

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United Kingdom Former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called for an early general election in May

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Led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the Labour Party won an overwhelming parliamentary majority, bringing 14 years of Tory rule to an end

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South Korea In South Korea, people gave a majority to the opposition Democratic Party in the National Assembly in what was seen as a check on the ruling People Power Party

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Russia President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia's election, cementing his already tight grip on power in a victory

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India India witnessed the largest election in history, with a multi-stage polling process featuring over 1 million voting stations

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party won a third term, but their majority shrunk and were forced into a coalition government

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Japan Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has ruled Japan for almost all of its post-war history, and junior coalition partner Komeito took 215 seats in the lower house of parliament

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France President Emmanuel Macron's decision to hold snap elections in the summer backfired, with his centrist Ensemble alliance losing ground to both the left-wing New Popular Front and the right-wing National Rally

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Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won a landslide victory to become Mexico's first female president

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Namibia Namibia also elected its first female President, with Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah declared the winner of this year's disputed elections

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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won the fourth consecutive term in January, though the election was boycotted by the country's main opposition party over allegations of crackdowns on political dissent

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However, Ms Hasina had to resign and flee the country in August after hundreds of people were killed in her iron-fisted crackdown on demonstrations

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Pakistan In Pakistan, independent candidates backed by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan out-performed those from rival parties

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