Shock results and riots: How a year of elections played out
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A record-breaking number of people voted across the globe in 2024 with consequences not just for their own countries, but for the rest of the world too. The first vote of the year:. • Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina won the country’s general election for the fourth time in a row - but her new term was short-lived.
Student-led protests spiralled into deadly clashes between demonstrators and security forces, killing about 1,500 people, according to the country’s interim leader. Sheikh Hasina fled to India, triggering an intense power struggle in Bangladesh. The ones with surprising results:.
• France. Marine Le Pen's National Rally party was set to emerge victorious at the French parliamentary elections. But it ended up stumbling home in third in the second round of voting. • Mexico. Claudia Sheinbaum was voted in as Mexico’s first female president in June, winning with the highest vote percentage of anyone in the country’s democratic history.
• Iran. In Iran, the ballot is tightly controlled by an assembly of clerics and jurists and it’s all under the watchful eye of the supreme leader. The country was forced to hold a presidential election in 2024 after Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash.
The winner was the relatively moderate Masoud Pezeshkian, labelled the first reformist Iranian president in 20 years. The one that was annulled:. • Romania. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. . Romania’s top court annulled the results of the first round of its presidential election.
