The Center for Digital Democracy
Subnational Election Observatory
A public research publication for regional, municipal, and council elections: searchable, comparable, and downloadable. Start with South America and explore the imported Latin America release.
The SQLite-backed Election Atlas MVP is at /atlas. This observatory catalogue stays at /electiondatabase.
Priority region
South America
Research is available with explicit remaining evidence gaps.
Coverage totals
Denominators distinguish tracked current offices, historical predecessors, and historical event records. Research completeness remains a separate assessment.
- Tracked current offices (imported)
- 18,435
- Historical offices (imported)
- 414
- Historical event records
- 40,938
Tracked offices across the imported release
Excluded from current-office totals
273,796 result rows; evidence status varies
Upcoming elections
Searchable list of next dates in the loaded dataset. Partial dates keep their supplied precision.
| Date | Certainty | Office | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-20 special; 2027-10-31 ordinary cycle expected | expected | Cartago — Mayor | Colombia |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Acre — Governor | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Acre — State legislative assembly | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Alagoas — Governor | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Alagoas — State legislative assembly | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Amazonas — Governor | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Amazonas — State legislative assembly | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Amapá — Governor | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Amapá — State legislative assembly | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Bahia — Governor | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Bahia — State legislative assembly | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Ceará — Governor | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Ceará — State legislative assembly | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Federal District — Governor | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Federal District — District Legislative Chamber | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Espírito Santo — Governor | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Espírito Santo — State legislative assembly | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Goiás — Governor | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Goiás — State legislative assembly | Brazil |
| 2026-10-04 | expected | Maranhão — Governor | Brazil |
First 20 South American entries. Browse the full calendar.