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Title | Date added | Template | Question Presented | Legal Issue(s) | Country | Language of Decision | Date of decision | Legal Issue and/or Topic | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Winnemucca v. United States | Jun 19, 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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Electoral Commission v. Watson | Jun 19, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the video and song Planet Key are considered election advertisements and/or election programs. |
| New Zealand |
| Oct 20, 2016 | ||
Obradovic v. Bosnia and Herzegovina | Jul 8, 2019 | Judgment | Whether the plaintiff's dismissal from the military banned him from participating in the General Election? |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Oct 10, 2003 | ||
Seawright v. Board of Elections & In re Hawatmeh v. State Board of Elections | Jul 27, 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 | ||
Electoral Commission of Uganda v. Bakireke | Aug 7, 2019 | 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 | ||
10- Perera v. Senarathe | Jul 12, 2019 | 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 | ||
Kyewalabye v. Electoral Commission | Jul 24, 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 | Judgment | Whether the invalidation of seventeen polling station results is sufficient grounds to annul the election results. |
| Uganda |
| Sep 23, 2011 | ||
Mwiru v. Samson | Jul 24, 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 | ||
Yang v. Kellner | 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 | 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 | 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 | ||
Aryeh Bain v. Chief Electoral Officer | Jun 23, 2020 | Judgment | Whether setting election day as a Jewish holiday violates the right to vote? |
| Canada |
| Jun 26, 2019 | ||
Quinn Leandro v. Jonas | Jun 20, 2019 | Judgment |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
| Oct 27, 2010 | |||
Texas Democratic Party v. Abbott | Jun 10, 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 | ||
Tan Chen Bock v. Attorney General | Jul 1, 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 | ||
Wong Souk Yee v. Attorney General | Jul 1, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the Prime Minister had a duty to fill the vacancy in a Group Representation Constituency. |
| Singapore |
| Apr 10, 2019 | ||
Jampen v. State Council | Jul 1, 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 | ||
(Mexico) SCM JDC 0412 2021 | Jul 1, 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 | ||
Albayda Judgment – Ali Tarhouni Case II (2016) | 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 | 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 | |||
In the Matter of Rudolph W. Giuliani | 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 | 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 | Judgment | Whether the Sabac City Assembly was the proper authority to hear a challenge about the conduct of a referendum. |
| Serbia |
| Feb 3, 2022 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
Popular Parliamentary Group of Congress of Deputies (Review of Law) | Jul 23, 2019 | Judgment | Whether the ballot parity is sufficiently remedied in the voter pool. Whether such quotas are constitutional. |
| Spain |
| Feb 29, 2008 | ||
Shura Council Speaker request for constitutional review of the draft law regulating the exercise of political rights. | Jul 6, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the draft law adheres to the current constitutional political protections. |
| Egypt |
| May 26, 2013 |