List of annulled elections

This is a list of national political elections that had their results cancelled after they were held, sometimes legally, sometimes following a coup or revolution. Partial cancellations (one or some districts) are omitted.

• Estonian Constituent Assembly election, 1918
• Bolivian presidential election, 1925 (won by José Gabino Villanueva)
• Brazilian presidential election (won by Júlio Prestes, followed by Brazilian Revolution of 1930)
• Ecuadorian presidential election, 1931 (won by Neptalí Bonifaz Ascásubi)
• Peruvian presidential election, 1936 (won by Luis Antonio Eguiguren)
• Costa Rican general election, 1948 (won by Otilio Ulate Blanco, followed by Costa Rican Civil War)
• Guatemalan presidential election, 1957 (won by Miguel Ortiz Passarelli)
• Cuban presidential election, 1958 (won by Andrés Rivero Agüero, followed by Cuban Revolution)
• Iranian legislative election, 1960
• Peruvian presidential election, 1962 (won by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre)
• Sierra Leonean general election, 1967 (Siaka Stevens took the oath of office as prime minister but was overthrown the same day)
• Dahomeyan presidential election, May 1968 (won by Basile Adjou Moumouni)
• Dahomeyan presidential election, 1970 (won by Justin Ahomadegbé)
• Lesotho general election, 1970 (won by the Basotho Congress Party)
• Guatemalan general election, 1982 (won by Ángel Aníbal Guevara, followed by a coup d'état)
• Panamanian general election, 1989 (won by Guillermo Endara, followed by United States invasion of Panama)
• Burmese general election, 1990 (won by the National League for Democracy)
• Algerian legislative election, 1991 (won by the Islamic Salvation Front, followed by Algerian Civil War)
• Nigerian presidential election, 1993 (won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola)
• Malian parliamentary election, April 1997
• Georgian legislative election, 2003 (followed by Rose Revolution)
• Papua New Guinea vice-regal election, September 2003 (parliamentary vote won by Sir Albert Kipalan)
• Papua New Guinea vice-regal election, December 2003 (parliamentary vote won by Sir Pato Kakaraya)
• The original second round results of the Ukrainian presidential election, 2004 (won by Viktor Yanukovych, followed by Orange Revolution)
• Kyrgyz parliamentary election, 2005 (followed by Tulip Revolution)
• Thai legislative election, April 2006 (followed by 2006 Thai coup d'état)
• Icelandic Constitutional Assembly election, 2010
• Kosovan presidential election, 2011 (parliamentary vote won by Behgjet Pacolli)
• South Ossetian presidential election, 2011
• Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011–12
• Guinea-Bissau presidential election, 2012 (second round canceled after a coup d'état)
• Kuwaiti general election, February 2012
• Kuwaiti general election, December 2012
• Maldivian presidential election, 2013 (first round re-run)
• Thai general election, 2014 (followed by the 2014 Thai coup d'état)
• Haitian presidential election, 2015
• Austrian presidential election, 2016
• Kenyan general election, 2017 (only the presidential election which was initially called for Uhuru Kenyatta)

In addition, there are some elections that remain valid but are effectively overturned by the death of the winning candidate before taking office.

• Brazilian presidential election, 1918 (won by Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves)
• Mexican general election, 1928 (won by Álvaro Obregón, assassinated)
• South African presidential election, 1967 (won by Theophilus Dönges)
• Lebanese presidential election, 1982 (won by Bashir Gemayel, assassinated)
• Brazilian presidential election, 1985 (won by Tancredo Neves)