# List of elections in 1997

The following elections occurred in the year 1997.

## Africa

* 1997 Algerian legislative election
* 1997 Burkinabé parliamentary election
* 1997 Cameroonian parliamentary election
* 1997 Cameroonian presidential election
* 1997 Chadian parliamentary election
* 1997 Djiboutian parliamentary election
* 1997 Gambian parliamentary election
* 1997 Kenyan general election
* 1997 Liberian general election
* April 1997 Malian parliamentary election
* July 1997 Malian parliamentary election
* 1997 Malian presidential election
* 1997 Mauritanian presidential election
* 1997 Moroccan general election

## Asia

* 1997 Balochistan provincial assembly election
* 1997 Indian presidential election
* 1997 Indonesian legislative election
* 1997 Iranian presidential election
* 1997 Pakistani general election
* 1997 Philippine barangay election
* 1997 Singaporean general election
* 1997 South Korean presidential election
* 1997 Indian presidential election
* 1997 Yemeni parliamentary election

## Europe

* 1997 Albanian parliamentary election
* 1997 Andorran parliamentary election
* 1997 Bulgarian parliamentary election
* 1997 Croatian presidential election
* 1997 Croatian Chamber of Counties election
* 1997 Irish general election
* 1997 Irish presidential election
* 1997–1998 Lithuanian presidential election
* 1997 Montenegrin presidential election
* 1997 Norwegian parliamentary election
* 1997 Polish parliamentary election
* 1997 Serbian general election
* 1997 Serbian presidential election
* 1997 Slovenian presidential election

### France

* 1997 French legislative election

### Germany

* 1997 Hamburg state election

### Spain

* 1997 Galician regional election

### United Kingdom

* 1997 Beckenham by-election
* Blair Babe
* 1997 Conservative Party leadership election
* Richard Huggett
* List of MPs elected in the 1997 United Kingdom general election
* 1997 United Kingdom local elections
* 1997 Paisley South by-election
* 1997 Scottish devolution referendum
* 1997 United Kingdom general election
* 1997 Uxbridge by-election
* 1997 Winchester by-election
* 1997 Wirral South by-election

#### United Kingdom local

* 1997 United Kingdom local elections
* 1997 Northern Ireland local elections

##### English local

* 1997 Wiltshire County Council election

## North America

* 1996–97 Belizean municipal elections

### Canada

* 1997 Alberta general election
* 1997 Canadian federal election
* 1997 Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick leadership election

#### Ontario municipal

* 1997 Ontario municipal elections
* 1997 Brantford municipal election
* 1997 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election
* 1997 Ottawa municipal election
* 1997 Ottawa-Carleton Regional Municipality elections
* 1997 St. Catharines municipal election
* 1997 Sudbury municipal election
* 1997 Toronto municipal election
* 1997 Windsor municipal election

### Caribbean

* 1997 Jamaican general election

### Mexico

* 1997 Mexican legislative election

### United States
#### United States mayoral

* 1997 Houston mayoral election
* 1997 Los Angeles mayoral election
* 1997 New York City mayoral election
* 1997 Pittsburgh mayoral election

#### United States gubernatorial

* 1997 New Jersey gubernatorial election
* 1997 United States gubernatorial elections
* 1997 Virginia gubernatorial election

## Oceania

* 1997 Papua New Guinean general election

### Australia

* 1997 Fraser by-election
* 1997 Northern Territory general election
* 1997 South Australian state election
* 1997 Sutherland state by-election

## South America

* 1997 Argentine legislative election
* 1997 Bolivian presidential election
* 1997 Falkland Islands general election
* 1997 Guyanese legislative election
* 1997 Honduran general election
* 1997 Salvadoran legislative election