# List of elections in 1979

The following elections occurred in the year 1979.

## Africa

* Algeria: presidential election
* Benin: parliamentary election
* Botswana: general election
* Gabon: presidential election
* Ghana: presidential election
* Kenya: general election
* Mali: general election
* Nigeria:
** parliamentary election
** presidential election
* Ghana: general election
* Rhodesia: constitutional referendum
* Seychelles: general election
* Somali: parliamentary election
* Togo: general election
* Tunisia: general election
* Zimbabwe Rhodesia general election

## Asia

* 1979 Bangladeshi general election
* India:
** 1979 Indian vice presidential election
** 1979 Indian Rajya Sabha elections
** 1979 Nagapattinam by-election
* Iran:
** March 1979 Iranian Islamic Republic referendum
** December 1979 Iranian constitutional referendum
* Japan: general election
* Mindanao: 1979 Sangguniang Pampook elections
* Philippines: 1979 Sangguniang Pampook elections

## Australia

* 1979 Norwood state by-election
* 1979 South Australian state election
* 1979 Tasmanian state election

## Europe
### Austria

* 1979 Austrian legislative election

### Denmark

* 1979 Danish parliamentary election

### European Parliament

* 1979 European Parliament election
** in Belgium
** in Denmark
** in France
** in Greenland
** in Ireland
** in Italy
*** in Sardinia
*** in Veneto
** in Luxembourg
** in the Netherlands
** in the United Kingdom
** in West Germany

### Finland

* 1979 Finnish parliamentary election
* 1979 Ålandic legislative election

### France

* 1979 European Parliament election in France
* 1979 French cantonal elections

### Germany

* 1979 West German presidential election
* 1979 European Parliament election in West Germany
* 1979 Rhineland-Palatinate state election
* 1979 West Berlin state election

### Iceland

* 1979 Icelandic parliamentary election

### Ireland

* 1979 Irish local elections
* 1979 Fianna Fáil leadership election

### Italy

* 1979 European Parliament election in Italy
* 1979 Italian general election

### Luxembourg

* 1979 Luxembourg general election

### Norway

* 1979 Norwegian local elections

### Portugal

* 1979 Portuguese legislative election
* 1979 Portuguese local elections

### Spain

* 1979 Spanish general election

### Sweden

* 1979 Swedish general election
* 1979 Stockholm municipal election

### Switzerland

* 1979 Swiss federal election

### United Kingdom

* 1979 United Kingdom general election
** List of MPs elected in the 1979 United Kingdom general election
* 1979 Clitheroe by-election
* 1979 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
* 1979 South West Hertfordshire by-election
* 1979 Knutsford by-election
* 1979 Liverpool Edge Hill by-election
* 1979 Manchester Central by-election
* 1979 Scottish devolution referendum
* 1979 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election

#### United Kingdom local

* 1979 United Kingdom local elections

##### English local

* 1979 Manchester Council election
* 1979 Trafford Council election
* 1979 Wolverhampton Council election

## North America

* 1979 Belizean legislative election

### Canada

* 1979 Canadian federal election
* 1979 Alberta general election
* 1979 British Columbia general election
* 1979 Edmonton municipal plebiscite
* 1979 Newfoundland general election
* 1979 Northwest Territories general election
* 1979 Prince Edward Island general election

### United States

* 1979 United States gubernatorial elections

#### United States gubernatorial

* 1979 Louisiana gubernatorial election
* 1979 United States gubernatorial elections

#### Louisiana

* 1979 Louisiana gubernatorial election

## Oceania

* 1979 Christchurch Central by-election

### Australia

* 1979 Norwood state by-election
* 1979 South Australian state election
* 1979 Tasmanian state election