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Upcoming events worth attending from across the Democracy Landscape, plus election dates. Subscribe below to get new ones as they're added. For what organisations have published or announced, see Landscape News.
About this calendar — what's listed here, and what the election cards mean
DOD's own events (announced via the blog), plus organisations we track that have a public calendar feed (ics_feed:) or a manually confirmed upcoming event (events:).
Election dates are here too — federal, state and local polling days across Australia, plus a selection of major elections elsewhere. They're the one kind of entry with no organisation behind it, so they get a violet card and a 🗳️ badge, and there's an elections-only feed if that's all you want in your calendar. Where a date isn't settled yet the card says so: expected date (set by a fixed-term rule but not formally called), due by this date (the last day it can lawfully be held), or day not yet set (only the month is published). Listing an election is a statement about the date, not about the election.
This is a future-facing calendar of things to attend, not a historical record: recent past events are collapsed at the foot of the list, older ones are in the Landscape Archive, and an organisation's own page has its full history. Publications, appointments and other news aren't listed here; they're in Landscape News.
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Recent past events (36) · last 90 days
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🎤 conference🇫🇷 France📍 Strasbourg, France
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The 14th World Forum for Democracy... will take place in Strasbourg from 2–4 November 2026 under the theme "Democratic Foresight."
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● Notable📅 webinar🇦🇺 AustraliaPublic talk on national Lobbying Act campaign18:30 – 19:30 📍 Online
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Event page (JS-rendered; text read from the page's embedded data, 2026-10-25) lists Thursday October 29, 6:30-7:30PM, an online presentation plus Q+A with RSVP for the link, in which CEO Saffron Zomer and Senior Campaigner Christian Slattery discuss ADN's role in seeding the Four Corners lobbying investigation and the push for a national Lobbying Act. Page URL says Melbourne; times are presumably Melbourne time (AEDT).
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🛠️ workshop🇧🇪 Belgium📆 22–24 Oct · 3 days 📍 San Francisco, United States
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Year inferred from page context (listed alongside the already-recorded 2026 Copenhagen masterclass); not stated explicitly alongside the day/month on the page.
San Francisco, CA – October 22-24
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● Notable🤝 meetup🇦🇺 AustraliaOne-off local public forum📍 Irish Club, Weston ACT
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Event 3 Re-imagining Governance for the ACT: A Public Event Series Expanding the ACT Assembly for better government – is it time? Hosted by CAPaD & Active Democracy Bean
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🛠️ workshop🇧🇪 Belgium📆 15–17 Oct · 3 days 📍 Washington, D.C., United States
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Year inferred from page context (listed alongside the already-recorded 2026 Copenhagen masterclass); not stated explicitly alongside the day/month on the page.
Washington, D.C. – October 15-17
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🛠️ workshop🇪🇸 Spain📆 14–18 Oct · 5 days 📍 Vic, Spain
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The Democracy Camp is your five-day intercultural exchange on youth participation, rights, inclusion, and Europe – and the interconnections between them.
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📅 other🇧🇪 Belgium
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Year inferred from page context (a current/recent FIDE news post); not stated explicitly alongside the day/month on the page.
Save the date | Join us on October 9 for a webinar on what the EU budget means for civil society and local governments.
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★ Major event🎤 conference🇧🇼 BotswanaFlagship conference/summit📆 7–10 Oct · 4 days 📍 Gaborone, Botswana
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In 2026, the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy heads to Southern Africa for the first time.
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🎤 conference🇧🇼 Botswana📆 7–10 Oct · 4 days 📍 Gaborone, Botswana
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The largest gathering devoted to direct democracy worldwide; examines constitutional reform, youth inclusion, democratic resilience, and Botswana's Kgotla system of open community assemblies.
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● Notable🎓 lecture🇦🇺 AustraliaElectoral Commissioner on election integrity before the state poll12:15 – 14:00 📍 University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC
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Free lunchtime panel at the University of Melbourne's Science Gallery Theatre, co-presented with the Melbourne Press Club. Bluemmel appears alongside University of Melbourne Professor of Political Communication Andrea Carson, an expert in dis- and misinformation, and Sumeyya Ilanbey, Victorian political correspondent for The Australian Financial Review; Nine News Chief Political Reporter Heidi Murphy moderates. The organisers frame the 2026 state election as Victoria's "largest and most complex event", staged amid "the most challenging communication environment ever seen".
Victoria’s Electoral Commissioner Sven Bluemmel, who will outline the investments and initiatives the VEC is undertaking ahead of the state’s election on Saturday 28 November
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🎤 conference🇬🇷 Greece📍 Athens, Greece
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The Global Democracy Coalition will hold its annual Global Forum on 1 October 2026 in Athens, working alongside the Athens Democracy Forum.
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● Notable🇦🇺 AustraliaSpecific named public forum
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Panel with former UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate Gilmore, Human Rights Watch Australia Director Daniela Gavshon, Human Rights Law Centre CEO Caitlin Reiger, and Emeritus Professor Spencer Zifcak, moderated by convener Joseph Camilleri.
Presently, our world is beset by conflicts more serious than at any time since World War II.
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🚀 launch🇳🇿 New Zealand📍 Wellington, New Zealand
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which invites readers to consider a simple but important question: if you were Prime Minister and tasked with designing New Zealand’s machinery of government, what would it look like? Wendy will share her thoughts at the Institute’s Wellington office. Wednesday 30 September 12pm–1:30pm (starts at 12:15pm)
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📅 other🇳🇿 New Zealand
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Playing the Long Game is a new webinar series from the Helen Clark Foundation bringing together some of New Zealand's most experienced political, economic, and public-sector leaders to ask: how do we build policy that lasts? 29 September 2026 at 12:00
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🎤 conference🇬🇷 Greece📍 Athens, Greece
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The Athens Democracy Forum returns for its 14th edition, convening in the Greek capital from 29 September – 1 October 2026
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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International Right to Know Day webinar with Aiden Clarkson (UK Information Commissioner's Office) and Christian Anker (Chile's Council for Transparency) on how regulators can help people use their right to information.
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● Notable🚀 launch🇳🇿 New ZealandResearch launch marking International Access to Information Day📍 Online (Fiji / Aotearoa New Zealand)
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Marks International Access to Information Day; researchers present findings on environmental information access in Fiji and Solomon Islands.
Monday 28 September 2026 11am Fiji | 12pm Aotearoa New Zealand Online via Zoom | Free
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● Notable🇦🇺 AustraliaGlobal dialogue marking International Day of Democracy21:00 – 22:00 📍 Virtual
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we’re joined by Lisa Witter and Josh Lerner, two leading democratic innovators whose work traverses continents and the democratic ecosystem, from communities to public servants and elected representatives
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📋 meeting🇦🇺 Australia16:00 – 18:00 📍 Australian Ethical Foundation, 130 Pitt St, Sydney
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Event page (JS-rendered; text read from the page's embedded data, 2026-10-25) lists Wednesday September 23, 4-6PM at the Australian Ethical Foundation, Level 7, 130 Pitt St, Sydney, with CEO Saffron Zomer and Senior Campaigner Christian Slattery speaking on building momentum for a national Lobbying Act after the Four Corners investigation into lobbying.
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🇦🇺 Australia
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Free online webinar, "From campaigns to community power," per CIP's own events page: international organising scholar Hahrie Han and Australian community organiser Amanda Tattersall discussed how Community Electorate Groups (like Voices) can retain relationships and build organising capacity between elections.
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🚀 launch🇩🇰 Denmark📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
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🎤 conference🇵🇱 Poland📆 21–23 Sep · 3 days 📍 Kraków, Poland
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The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (OIDP) will return for its 25th annual conference in Kraków from 21–23 September 2026
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★ Major event🇦🇺 AustraliaPublic panel co-hosted for International Day of Democracy18:00 – 20:00
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Panel at the Kelvin Club — the members' club 888 provides workspace access to — on democratic practices beyond voting. Confirmed panel of four — Nicholas Gruen (Lateral Economics), Anitra Nelson (University of Melbourne), Godfrey Moase (CoPower), and Nicole Hunter (MosaicLab).
Hosted by 888 Co-operative Causeway in partnership with Designing Open Democracy.
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★ Major event🎤 conference🇦🇺 AustraliaFlagship conference/summit📍 Parliament of NSW, Sydney
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The Climate Integrity Summit convenes leading experts in economics, ecology, policy and governance to discuss a credible and achievable climate policy that serves the Australian people and the broader global community.
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★ Major event🎤 conference🇩🇪 GermanyFlagship conference/summit📆 15–17 Sep · 3 days 📍 Munich, Germany
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The CONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation in collaboration with the Landeshauptstadt München organises the next ConsulCon on 15-17 September 2026 in München, Germany.
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★ Major event🇦🇺 AustraliaPublic panel co-hosted for International Day of Democracy18:00 – 20:00
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Panel at The Kelvin Club, Melbourne, on democratic practices beyond voting. Confirmed panel of four — Nicholas Gruen (CEO, Lateral Economics), Anitra Nelson (University of Melbourne), Godfrey Moase (co-founder, CoPower), and Nicole Hunter (co-founder, MosaicLab).
Together they will explore citizens’ juries, deliberative democracy, co-operative enterprise and practical ways of making decisions with people who may not agree with us - with plenty of time for questions and conversation.
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🛠️ workshop🇧🇪 Belgium📆 14–16 Sep · 3 days 📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
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● Notable🇦🇺 AustraliaParticipatory design roundtable
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The event page states the roundtable was held on 9 September 2026, with case studies from Indonesia, Rwanda and Northern Australia.
the presentations will examine co-design as a process of listening, learning, negotiating and sharing authority
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● Notable🇩🇰 DenmarkFacilitator training camp, not a public conference📆 9–10 Sep · 2 days
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Join the open international Democracy Fitness camp this September in Copenhagen to learn new facilitation methods and get a deeper understanding of democracy as something that needs training.
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🛠️ workshop🇦🇺 Australia📍 Online
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★ Major event🇦🇺 AustraliaFirst chapter launch18:00 – 20:00
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We are also excited to introduce you to the founding members of the new RadicalxChange Melbourne chapter
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🛠️ workshop🇧🇬 Bulgaria📆 26–30 Aug · 5 days 📍 Sofia/Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
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● Notable📋 meeting🇦🇺 AustraliaRoutine annual governance meeting📍 Online via Zoom
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Be part of setting the future for CAPaD for another year.
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🚀 launch🇨🇱 Chile📍 Santiago, Chile
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🎓 lecture🇦🇺 Australia📍 National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra ACT
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Join us at the 2026 Dr Hugh Saddler Memorial Lecture, featuring former ACT Minister, Greens Leader, and long‑serving parliamentarian Shane Rattenbury.
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★ Major event🎤 conference🇳🇴 NorwayFlagship conference/summit📆 10–13 Aug · 4 days 📍 Arendal, Norway
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Om du er interessert i grønn omstilling, hvordan få til samarbeid, skogbevaring, grønnvasking, OsloFjorden eller inkludering i idrett - det finnes et arrangement for deg på Arendalsuka
Older events are in the Landscape Archive. What organisations have published or announced is in Landscape News.
November 2026
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Nov 07 Sat election New Zealand
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🇹🇼 Taiwan11/08 Sun. g0v 第柒拾伍次投出未來黑客松 G0Vote Hackath75n
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★ Major event📋 meeting🇦🇺 AustraliaStructural vote: org rename + remit change
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● Notable🤝 meetup🇦🇺 AustraliaLocal meetup, not a flagship event📍 Irish Club, Weston ACT
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The ACT Standing Citizens’ Assembly (SCA) is a three-year project to build momentum for a trial of well facilitated input from Canberrans to government in the ACT.
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★ Major event🎤 conference🇦🇹 AustriaFlagship conference/summit📆 18–19 Nov · 2 days 📍 Vienna, Austria
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A conference for practitioners, public officials, political parties, NGOs, and funders to move this field from the margins to the mainstream. To build the infrastructure, lift the standards, and create the political will to make it permanent.
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● Notable🎤 conference🇩🇪 GermanyFlagship-style public conference📆 19–21 Nov · 3 days 📍 Cologne, Germany
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Through interactive workshops, discussions, exhibitions, and public events, Shaping Democracy 2026 brings together citizens, activists, researchers, local government representatives, and participation practitioners to share and connect.
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● Notable📋 meeting🇩🇪 GermanyAnnual General Assembly, 15th anniversary📍 Cologne, Germany
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We warmly invite you to Democracy International’s General Assembly on Saturday, 21 November 2026, at 13:30 CET.
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🇹🇼 Taiwan貳拾柒th 國會 Hackathon第貳拾柒次國會松
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Nov 28 Sat election Victoria
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Nov 28 Sat election Taiwan
December 2026
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🏛️ assembly🇦🇺 Australia📍 Woden Valley Uniting Church, Curtin ACT
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This Community Assembly to to give them opportunity to report back to us and for us to respond to their report.
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🛠️ workshop🇸🇮 SI📆 8–11 Dec · 4 days 📍 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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During our stay, we will meet with Slovenian civil society organisations, researchers and other local actors working on direct democracy, participation and democratic rights.
January 2027
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Jan 16 Sat election Nigeria🗳️ National election🇳🇬 NigeriaGovernorship and state assembly elections follow on 6 February 2027.
March 2027
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★ Major event🇬🇧 United KingdommySociety's flagship TICTeC civic-tech conference📆 11–12 Mar · 2 days
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Two-day TICTeC conference on how digital tools can make democratic decision-making more effective, inclusive and participatory, run jointly with the Scottish Government, the University of Edinburgh Futures Institute and the AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI) Hub.
Digital Democracy Edinburgh will take place on 11 & 12 March 2027 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Mar 13 Sat election New South Wales🗳️ State / territory election🇦🇺 AustraliaThe fourth-Saturday-in-March default would fall on Holy Saturday in 2027, so the government announced the fortnight earlier date instead.
April 2027
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Apr 18 Sun election France🗳️ National election🇫🇷 FranceSecond round on 2 May 2027 if no candidate wins a majority in the first.
May 2027
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May 06 Thu election United Kingdom🗳️ Local election🇬🇧 United KingdomThe Northern Ireland Assembly election is expected on the same day.
June 2027
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Jun 06 Sun election Mexico
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● Notable📅 festival🇦🇺 AustraliaMulti-day festival concluding the 2026 governance series📆 19–21 Jun · 3 days
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bring together, sort and prioritise all the ideas that have come up during the 2026 Re-imagining Governance for the ACT event series
August 2027
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Aug 10 Tue election Kenya
October 2027
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Oct 24 Sun election Argentina
May 2028
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May 20 Sat election Australia🗳️ National electiondue by this date🇦🇺 AustraliaNot yet called. This is the last lawful date for a simultaneous House and half-Senate election; a House-only election could run as late as 23 September 2028.
August 2028
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Aug 26 Sat election Northern Territory🗳️ State / territory electionexpected date🇦🇺 AustraliaFixed four-year terms set the polling day by rule rather than by announcement; the fourth Saturday of August 2028 is 26 August.
October 2028
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Oct 21 Sat election Australian Capital Territory🗳️ State / territory electionexpected date🇦🇺 AustraliaFixed four-year terms put the poll on the third Saturday of October; the source states the date as expected rather than called.
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Oct 28 Sat election Queensland🗳️ State / territory electiondue by this date🇦🇺 AustraliaQueensland's fixed-term law sets a last possible date rather than a called one.
November 2028
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Nov 01 Wed election Philippines🗳️ Local electionday not yet set🇵🇭 PhilippinesPostponed from 2 November 2026 by Republic Act 12326, signed in late September 2026; only the month is published. NAMFREL has said it will join a constitutional challenge.
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Nov 07 Tue election United States
March 2029
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Mar 10 Sat election Western Australia
March 2030
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Mar 16 Sat election South Australia
September 2030
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Sep 08 Sun election Sweden🗳️ National electionexpected date🇸🇪 SwedenThe Instrument of Government fixes polling day as the second Sunday in September every four years; the 2030 date follows from that rule rather than a formal announcement.