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Title | Date added | Date modified | Template | Question Presented | Legal Issue(s) | Country | Language of Decision | Date of decision | Legal Issue and/or Topic | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10- Perera v. Senarathe | Jul 12, 2019 | Sep 16, 2020 | Judgment | The petitioner, an MP, complained that the respondent, also an MP, has illegally entered into contracts with government institutions and seeks a declaration that the respondent's appointment is void. |
| Sri Lanka |
| Dec 10, 1999 | ||
Quinn Leandro v. Jonas | Jun 20, 2019 | Nov 4, 2020 | Judgment |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
| Oct 27, 2010 | |||
Winnemucca v. United States | Jun 19, 2020 | Oct 15, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the election of the Council Chairman and the Bureau of Indian Affairs’s nonrecognition of the new government is reviewable by the courts. |
| United States of America |
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Wong Souk Yee v. Attorney General | Jul 1, 2020 | Nov 6, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the Prime Minister had a duty to fill the vacancy in a Group Representation Constituency. |
| Singapore |
| Apr 10, 2019 | ||
Mwiru v. Samson | Jul 24, 2020 | Nov 4, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the respondent’s education failed to meet the requirements for candidacy. If so, whether the respondent’s election as a Member of Parliament should be annulled. |
| Uganda |
| Jun 28, 2011 | ||
In the Matter of Rudolph W. Giuliani | Sep 16, 2022 | Sep 16, 2022 | Judgment | Whether the respondent violated D.C. Bar Rules X and XI, § 2(b) by filing a frivolous lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania, which requires him to be sanctioned under the D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct. |
| United States of America |
| Apr 4, 2022 | ||
Decision No. 207182 | Sep 16, 2022 | Sep 16, 2022 | Judgment | Whether a voter’s electoral rights are violated when the question asked in a referendum is unclear and information about the question is not readily available at the polling site. |
| Serbia |
| Feb 3, 2022 | ||
Decision 207183 | Sep 19, 2022 | Sep 19, 2022 | Judgment | Whether the Sabac City Assembly was the proper authority to hear a challenge about the conduct of a referendum. |
| Serbia |
| Feb 3, 2022 | ||
Electoral Commission v. Watson | Jun 19, 2020 | Sep 16, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the video and song Planet Key are considered election advertisements and/or election programs. |
| New Zealand |
| Oct 20, 2016 | ||
Aryeh Bain v. Chief Electoral Officer | Jun 23, 2020 | Nov 19, 2020 | Judgment | Whether setting election day as a Jewish holiday violates the right to vote? |
| Canada |
| Jun 26, 2019 | ||
(Mexico) SCM JDC 0412 2021 | Jul 1, 2021 | Jul 21, 2021 | Judgment | Whether there is an obligation among political parties to comply with a candidate quota that included people from the LGBTQIA + community even though there was no legal order or law to do so. |
| Mexico |
| Apr 3, 2021 | ||
Seawright v. Board of Elections & In re Hawatmeh v. State Board of Elections | Jul 27, 2020 | Oct 8, 2020 | Judgment | Whether late filings during the COVID-9 pandemic constitute unique circumstances that would permit remedy of the fatal defect when otherwise not provide in law. |
| United States of America |
| May 21, 2020 | ||
Tan Chen Bock v. Attorney General | Jul 1, 2020 | Sep 16, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the reserved election clause solely permits choosing from the terms of office of Presidents elected by the citizens, or also includes those chosen by Parliament. |
| Singapore |
| Aug 23, 2017 | ||
Jampen v. State Council | Jul 1, 2020 | Sep 16, 2020 | Judgment | Whether when two distinct constituencies have a single electoral body and drastically different populations, the constituencies must be severed and granted their own electoral bodies. |
| Switzerland |
| Mar 20, 1963 | ||
Obradovic v. Bosnia and Herzegovina | Jul 8, 2019 | Sep 16, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the plaintiff's dismissal from the military banned him from participating in the General Election? |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Oct 10, 2003 | ||
Yang v. Kellner | Sep 17, 2020 | Sep 17, 2020 | Judgment | Whether removal of the candidates from the primary ballots after the termination of their campaign violates the voter’s right to elect the candidate of their choosing. |
| United States of America |
| May 5, 2020 | ||
Conseil d'État (CE), 4ème chambre, 31 May 2021, N° 441849 (unpublished in Lebon collection) | Jul 20, 2021 | Jul 21, 2021 | Judgment | Whether an incumbent mayoral candidate’s advertisement purchased and disseminated on Facebook prior to the campaign period violated article L. 52-1. Whether the level of voter abstention observed is sufficient to cancel electoral operations. |
| France |
| May 31, 2021 | ||
Conseil d'État (CE), 6ème chambre, 28 May 2021, N° 445567 (unpublished in Lebon collection) | Jul 20, 2021 | Aug 5, 2021 | Judgment | There are a few issues. 1) Whether an opposing candidate’s advertisement purchased and disseminated on Facebook prior to the campaign period violated article L. 52-1; 2) Whether an outdoor campaign advertisement posted near a busy street and restaurant and shared on Facebook violated Article L. 51; 3) Whether the opposing candidate disseminated false or misleading information about voting by proxy procedures under Article L. 97; 4) Whether opposing candidate defamed complainant under Article 48-2 with a leaflet during the electoral silence period.; and 5) Whether the level of voter abstention observed is sufficient to cancel electoral operations. |
| France |
| May 28, 2021 | ||
Texas Democratic Party v. Abbott | Jun 10, 2020 | Oct 8, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a disability under Texas law sufficient to modify the vote-by-mail system. |
| United States of America |
| Jun 4, 2020 | ||
Kyewalabye v. Electoral Commission | Jul 24, 2020 | Oct 14, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the plaintiff has the evidentiary burden to contest the election results. |
| Uganda |
| Oct 3, 2016 | ||
Opendi v. Electoral Commission | Jul 24, 2020 | Oct 14, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the invalidation of seventeen polling station results is sufficient grounds to annul the election results. |
| Uganda |
| Sep 23, 2011 | ||
Electoral Commission of Uganda v. Bakireke | Aug 7, 2019 | Oct 14, 2020 | Judgment | Was the election conducted legally? Did non-compliance substantially affect the results? Did the winning candidate commit electoral offenses? Did the trial judge err in annulling the elections at the trial level? |
| Uganda |
| Jan 19, 2007 | ||
Albayda Judgment – Ali Tarhouni Case II (2016) | Oct 19, 2021 | Oct 19, 2021 | Judgment | Whether the chairman of the CDA lost his Libyan citizenship and eligibility for office by obtaining American citizenship and marrying a foreigner. |
| Libya |
| Nov 28, 2016 | ||
Albayda Judgment - Emergency Procedural Ruling | Oct 19, 2021 | Oct 25, 2021 | Judgment | Whether Libyan Constitution Drafting Assembly (“CDA”) members’ procedural change on vote quorum, from requiring 2/3 majority plus one of the entire CDA to 2/3 majority plus one of present members, violated the law. | Libya |
| Dec 19, 2016 | |||
Human Rights Network of Uganda v. Attorney General | May 20, 2020 | Oct 14, 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 | ||
Hichilema v. Lungu | Jul 16, 2019 | Oct 14, 2020 | 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 | ||
Mavedzenge v. Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs | Jul 16, 2019 | Sep 16, 2020 | 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 | ||
Impeachment of Roh Moo-hyun | Jun 18, 2020 | Nov 4, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the violations of the electoral code and the Constitution are sufficient to remove the President from office. |
| South Korea |
| May 14, 2004 | ||
Shura Council Speaker request for constitutional review of the draft law regulating the exercise of political rights. | Jul 6, 2020 | Aug 5, 2021 | Judgment | Whether the draft law adheres to the current constitutional political protections. |
| Egypt |
| May 26, 2013 | ||
Popular Parliamentary Group of Congress of Deputies (Review of Law) | Jul 23, 2019 | Sep 15, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the ballot parity is sufficiently remedied in the voter pool. Whether such quotas are constitutional. |
| Spain |
| Feb 29, 2008 |