# List of annulled elections

This is a list of political elections that had their results cancelled or decertified after they were held, sometimes legally, sometimes following a coup or revolution. Partial cancellations (one or some districts) are omitted.

## National elections
### 20th century

* 1918 Estonian Constituent Assembly election
* May 1925 Bolivian general election (won by José Gabino Villanueva)
* 1930 Brazilian general election (won by Júlio Prestes, followed by Brazilian Revolution of 1930)
* 1931 Ecuadorian presidential election (won by Neptalí Bonifaz Ascásubi)
* 1934 Bolivian general election (won by Franz Tamayo)
* 1936 Peruvian presidential election (won by Luis Antonio Eguiguren)
* 1948 Costa Rican general election (won by Otilio Ulate Blanco, followed by Costa Rican Civil War)
* 1957 Guatemalan general election (won by Miguel Ortiz Passarelli)
* 1958 Cuban presidential election (won by Andrés Rivero Agüero, followed by Cuban Revolution)
* 1960 Iranian legislative election
* 1962 Argentine legislative election (annulled by a coup 10 days later)
* 1962 Peruvian general election (won by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre)
* 1967 Sierra Leonean general election (Siaka Stevens took the oath of office as prime minister but was overthrown the same day)
* May 1968 Dahomeyan presidential election (won by Basile Adjou Moumouni)
* 1970 Dahomeyan presidential election (won by Justin Ahomadegbé)
* 1970 Lesotho general election (won by the Basotho Congress Party)
* 1978 Bolivian general election
* 1982 Guatemalan general election (won by Ángel Aníbal Guevara, followed by a coup d'état)
* 1986 Philippine presidential election (won by Ferdinand Marcos, followed by the People Power Revolution)
* 1989 Panamanian general election (won by Guillermo Endara, nullified before voting was complete, followed by United States invasion of Panama)
* 1990 Burmese general election (won by the National League for Democracy)
* 1991 Algerian legislative election (won by the Islamic Salvation Front, followed by Algerian Civil War)
* 1992 Central African general election
* 1993 Nigerian presidential election (won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola)
* April 1997 Malian parliamentary election
* 2000 Peruvian general election

### 21st century

* 2003 Georgian legislative election (followed by Rose Revolution)
* September 2003 Papua New Guinea vice-regal election (parliamentary vote won by Sir Albert Kipalan)
* December 2003 Papua New Guinea vice-regal election (parliamentary vote won by Sir Pato Kakaraya)
* 2004 Abkhazian presidential election
* The original second round results of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election (won by Viktor Yanukovych, followed by Orange Revolution)
* 2005 Kyrgyz parliamentary election (followed by Tulip Revolution)
* April 2006 Thai legislative election (followed by 2006 Thai coup d'état)
* 2010 Icelandic Constitutional Assembly election
* 2011 Kosovan presidential election (parliamentary vote won by Behgjet Pacolli)
* 2011 South Ossetian presidential election (won by Alla Dzhioyeva; Leonid Tibilov elected in 2012)
* 2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election
* 2012 Guinea-Bissau presidential election (second round canceled after a coup d'état)
* February 2012 Kuwaiti general election
* December 2012 Kuwaiti general election
* 2013 Maldivian presidential election (first round re-run)
* 2014 Thai general election (followed by the 2014 Thai coup d'état)
* 2015 Haitian presidential election
* The original second round results of the 2016 Austrian presidential election
* 2017 Kenyan general election (only the presidential election which was initially called for Uhuru Kenyatta)
* 2019 Malawian general election
* 2019 Bolivian general election (followed by the 2019 Bolivian political crisis)
* 2019 Abkhazian presidential election
* October 2020 Kyrgyz parliamentary election (caused by mass protests)
* 2020 Myanmar general election (followed by the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état)
* 2023 Gabonese general election (followed by the 2023 Gabonese coup d'état)
* 2024 Romanian presidential election (first round won by Călin Georgescu, followed by 2025 Romanian presidential election)

## Local elections

* New York State Congressional election of 1812. State awarded an additional 10 districts after comparing 1790 census to 1810 census results. New election held in December 1812.
* April 1931 Buenos Aires provincial election
* 1943 Entre Ríos provincial election (annulled by a coup)
* 1962 Argentine provincial elections (annulled by a coup)
* 1966 Mendoza provincial election (annulled by a coup)
* 1974 United States Senate election in New Hampshire
* 1974-75 Louisiana's 6th congressional district election (original election invalidated after voting machine malfunctions; Henson Moore elected in rematch over Jeff LaCaze)
* 1992 Corrientes provincial election
* 2000 Molise regional election
* 2011 Molise regional election
* September 2018 Primorsky Krai gubernatorial election
* 2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election (won by Mark Harris; Dan Bishop elected in 2019)
* March 2019 Istanbul mayoral election
* 2021 Berlin state election
* 2023 Gabonese departmental elections and 2023 Gabonese local elections (followed by the 2023 Gabonese coup d'état)

## Elections where the winning candidate died before taking office

* 1908 Argentine Chamber of Deputies election in Santiago del Estero (Mariano Santillán Jr. elected, assassinated)
* 1916 Argentine Chamber of Deputies election in San Luis (Miguel B. Pastor elected)
* 1918 Brazilian general election (won by Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves)
* 1928 Mexican general election (won by Álvaro Obregón, assassinated)
* 1946 Santa Fe provincial election (won by Leandro Meiners)
* 1946 La Rioja provincial election (won by Leovino Martínez)
* 1946 Georgia gubernatorial election (won by Eugene Talmadge)
* 1967 South African presidential election (won by Theophilus Dönges)
* 1972 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska (won by Nick Begich)
* 1972 United States House of Representatives election in Louisiana's 2nd congressional district (won by Hale Boggs)
* August 1982 Lebanese presidential election (won by Bashir Gemayel, assassinated)
* 1985 Brazilian presidential election (won by Tancredo Neves)
* 2000 United States Senate election in Missouri (won by Mel Carnahan)
* 2002 United States House of Representatives election in Hawaii's 2nd congressional district (won by Patsy Mink)
* 2011 Argentine Chamber of Deputies election in Santiago del Estero (Jorge Raúl Pérez elected)
* 2019 Argentine Senate election in Neuquén (Horacio "Pechi" Quiroga elected)

## Referendums

* 1990 Cordillera Autonomous Region creation plebiscite
* 2006 Shariff Kabunsuan creation plebiscite
* 2017 Slovenian railway referendum
* One of the 2016 Swiss referendums on taxation, overturned in 2019 by the Federal Supreme Court.