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Title | Date added | Template | Question Presented | Legal Issue(s) | Country | Language of Decision | Date of decision |
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2018Hun-Ma456 | Sep 14, 2022 | Judgment | Whether the Public Official Election Act’s required verification of internet users when they post election-related content online during a campaign violates freedom of expression, freedom of anonymous speech, freedom of the press and the right to informational self-determination. |
| South Korea |
| Jan 28, 2021 |
Núñez de Armas v. Magdaniel Hernández | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | Whether a candidate must resign from his administrative position twelve months from the date of his registration as a candidate or twelve months from the date of the election to be eligible to run as a candidate. |
| Colombia |
| Dec 16, 2020 |
BVerfG, decision of the Second Senate of December 15, 2020 | Oct 6, 2021 | Judgment | Whether the non-parity nomination of candidates for the Bundestag election by the parties constitutes a major electoral error that has a decisive impact on the distribution of seats and the validity of the election. |
| Germany |
| Dec 15, 2020 |
Ortiz Daza v. Act Declaring the Election of Candelo Riascos | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | Whether a candidate is permitted to endorse a candidate from another party (“double militancy”) when he receives express permission or derogation from his own party to do so, despite the provision in law that prohibits this practice. |
| Colombia |
| Dec 10, 2020 |
Ramos Rojas v. Sanabria Chacón | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | Whether a political party’s internal rules on candidacy criteria relating to nepotism may nullify an election of one of its registered candidates if he violated the party rules but otherwise met the eligibility criteria set up in the Constitution or statutes. |
| Colombia |
| Dec 3, 2020 |
Ospina Carballo v. Restrepo Gallego | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | Whether a candidate in the Departmental Assembly of Valle del Cauca gubernatorial election is eligible to be allocated a seat as Deputy even if he or she won fewer votes than the “blank vote option,” which won the second highest number of votes. |
| Colombia |
| Nov 5, 2020 |
Zambrano Castro v. National Electoral Council | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | Whether the rejection of an applicant’s mayoral candidacy should be overturned because he initiated a lawsuit to revoke disciplinary sanctions against him, thereby potentially qualifying him for a “pending lawsuit” exception as outlined in Article 100, Paragraph 8 of the General Code of Procedure. |
| Colombia |
| Oct 29, 2020 |
VerfGBbg, judgment of 23. October 2020 - VfGBbg 55/19 | Oct 19, 2021 | Judgment | Whether the gender quota under the Parity Act is constitutional |
| Germany |
| Oct 23, 2020 |
VerfGBbg, judgment of 23 October 2020 - VfGBbg 9/19 | Oct 19, 2021 | Judgment | Are gender quotas constitutional? |
| Germany |
| Oct 23, 2020 |
Ledezma Acosta v. Ausecha Ordóñez and Armando Guevara Bravo | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | Whether a candidate’s disqualification from running in an election should affect the eligibility of all the candidates on the political party’s candidate list, since as a result of the disqualification the entire list did not meet the gender quota minimum required by law. |
| Colombia |
| Sep 17, 2020 |
2017Hun-Ma813 | Sep 14, 2022 | Judgment | Whether any of the following alleged acts violate citizens’ constitutional rights to vote or equality under the law: 1) denying a soldier’s request to watch presidential election interviews and debates; 2) requiring election campaign bulletins written in braille to be within the page limits for booklet-type campaign bulletins; and 3) failing to require Korean sign language or captions in all election-related broadcasts. |
| South Korea |
| Aug 28, 2020 |
Medina Padilla v. Aguilar Hurtado | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | Whether an election should be annulled because the elected candidate received an endorsement from registered members of a political party, along with some of that party’s militants, other than the candidate’s registered party. |
| Colombia |
| Aug 20, 2020 |
VerfGH Thuringia, 07/15/2020 - VerfGH 2/20 | Oct 19, 2021 | Judgment | Is a gender quota statute constitutional? |
| Germany |
| Jul 15, 2020 |
New Nation Movement NPC and Others v President of the Republic of South Africa | Jun 11, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the requirement of political party membership for candidate eligibility is constitutional. |
| South Africa |
| Jun 11, 2020 |
Human Rights Network of Uganda v. Attorney General | May 20, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the Public Order Management Act of 2013 violates the Uganda Constitution? Whether parliament and the executive may pass legislation in response to decision of the court? |
| Uganda |
| Mar 26, 2020 |
Monroy Hernandez v. Molano Granados | Oct 14, 2022 | Judgment | Whether the election of a municipal elected official should be nullified and/or her candidacy deemed ineligible on charges of nepotism due to her father holding a government position, which exercised administrative authority, within twelve months of her election even if there is no proof that he used or abused his position to further her candidacy. |
| Colombia |
| Mar 12, 2020 |
Case on Election Campaign by Teacher via Social Networking | Jun 18, 2020 | Judgment | A public school teacher shared a post on his/her Facebook that indicated that a political candidate was lying. |
| South Korea |
| Feb 27, 2020 |
Case on Restricting Online Media from Publishing Columns, etc. Written by Candidates for Public Official Election | Jun 18, 2020 | Judgment |
| South Korea |
| Nov 28, 2019 | |
Prabowo Subianto & Sandiaga Salahudin Uno v. General Election Commission | Jul 15, 2020 | Judgment | Did the General Election Commission (KPU) violate the General Elections Code while conducting the vote count for the 2019 presidential election? |
| Indonesia |
| Jun 27, 2019 |
Maurin v. France | Jun 28, 2019 | Judgment | Did the candidate violate campaign finance laws when he filed his campaign accounts late and failed to file certain expenses and financial notebooks? |
| France |
| Feb 1, 2019 |
My Vote Counts NPC v. Minister of Justice and Correctional Services | Jun 28, 2019 | Judgment | Is the current Promotion of Access to Information Act unconstitutional? |
| South Africa |
| Jun 21, 2018 |
Mavedzenge v. Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs | Jul 16, 2019 | Judgment | Applicant seeks declaration of constitutional invalidity of Electoral Act section 192(6), particularly striking the phrase "approved by the Minister" from the provision. Is the Minister's approval requirement tantamount to the ZEC being subject to his direction and control? |
| Zimbabwe |
| May 31, 2018 |
Siwale v. Electoral Commission of Zambia | Aug 7, 2019 | Judgment | Can the referendum proceed without being voted on as a bill as constitutionally required? |
| Zambia |
| Feb 14, 2018 |
Harle v. France | Jun 28, 2019 | Judgment | Should elections be annulled when 1) there were inconsistencies between the number of ballot papers and signatures, and 2) the candidate violated electoral propaganda laws when he posted a personal propaganda photo on his Facebook? |
| France |
| Dec 2, 2017 |
Masumba v. Kamondo | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | Whether the respondent was properly elected as a Member of Parliament on account of allegations made against him by the appellant of illegal acts or misconduct (i.e., defamation or inflammatory statements, intimidation and violence, and undue influence) during the campaign period. |
| Zambia |
| Nov 17, 2017 |
Review of the Constitutionality of Section Five of the Riigikogu Election Act | Jun 26, 2020 | Judgment |
| Estonia |
| May 18, 2017 | |
Hichilema v. Lungu | Jul 16, 2019 | Judgment | Does the Court have jurisdiction to hear the election petition after the expiry of the 14 day constitutionally prescribed period? |
| Zambia |
| Sep 5, 2016 |
Décision n° 2015 465 QPC du 24 avril 2015 Conseil constitutionnel | Jul 25, 2019 | Judgment |
| France |
| Apr 24, 2015 | |
Abdel-Razeq v. Ahmed | Jul 6, 2020 | Judgment | Where the constituency representation scheme violates the reasonableness standard. |
| Egypt |
| Mar 15, 2015 |
Prabowo Subianto & Hatta Rajasa v. General Election Commission | Jul 15, 2020 | Judgment | Did the General Election Commission (KPU) violate the Presidential Election Law while conducting the vote count for the 2014 presidential election? |
| Indonesia |
| Aug 21, 2014 |