List of elections in 1979
The following elections occurred in the year 1979.
Africa[]
- Algeria: presidential election
- Benin: parliamentary election
- Botswana: general election
- Gabon: presidential election
- Ghana: presidential election
- Kenya: general election
- Mali: general election
- Nigeria:
- parliamentary election
- presidential election
- Ghana: general election
- Rhodesia: constitutional referendum
- Seychelles: general election
- Somali: parliamentary election
- Togo: general election
- Zimbabwe Rhodesia general election
Asia[]
- 1979 Bangladeshi general election
- India:
- 1979 Indian vice presidential election
- 1979 Indian Rajya Sabha elections
- 1979 Nagapattinam by-election
- Iran:
- March 1979 Iranian Islamic Republic referendum
- December 1979 Iranian constitutional referendum
- Japan: general election
- Mindanao: 1979 Sangguniang Pampook elections
- Philippines: 1979 Sangguniang Pampook elections
Australia[]
- 1979 Norwood state by-election
- 1979 South Australian state election
- 1979 Tasmanian state election
Europe[]
Austria[]
- 1979 Austrian legislative election
Denmark[]
- 1979 Danish parliamentary election
European Parliament[]
- 1979 European Parliament election
- in Belgium
- in Denmark
- in France
- in Greenland
- in Ireland
- in Italy
- in Sardinia
- in Veneto
- in Luxembourg
- in the Netherlands
- in the United Kingdom
- in West Germany
Finland[]
- 1979 Finnish parliamentary election
- 1979 Ålandic legislative election
France[]
- 1979 European Parliament election in France
- 1979 French cantonal elections
Germany[]
- 1979 West German presidential election
- 1979 European Parliament election in West Germany
- 1979 Rhineland-Palatinate state election
- 1979 West Berlin state election
Iceland[]
- 1979 Icelandic parliamentary election
Ireland[]
- 1979 Irish local elections
- 1979 Fianna Fáil leadership election
Italy[]
- 1979 European Parliament election in Italy
- 1979 Italian general election
Luxembourg[]
- 1979 Luxembourg general election
Norway[]
- 1979 Norwegian local elections
Portugal[]
- 1979 Portuguese legislative election
- 1979 Portuguese local elections
Spain[]
- 1979 Spanish general election
Sweden[]
- 1979 Swedish general election
- 1979 Stockholm municipal election
United Kingdom[]
- 1979 United Kingdom general election
- List of MPs elected in the 1979 United Kingdom general election
- 1979 Clitheroe by-election
- 1979 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
- 1979 South West Hertfordshire by-election
- 1979 Knutsford by-election
- 1979 Liverpool Edge Hill by-election
- 1979 Manchester Central by-election
- 1979 Scottish devolution referendum
- 1979 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election
United Kingdom local[]
- 1979 United Kingdom local elections
English local[]
- 1979 Manchester Council election
- 1979 Trafford Council election
- 1979 Wolverhampton Council election
North America[]
- 1979 Belizean legislative election
Canada[]
- 1979 Canadian federal election
- 1979 Alberta general election
- 1979 British Columbia general election
- 1979 Edmonton municipal plebiscite
- 1979 Newfoundland general election
- 1979 Northwest Territories general election
- 1979 Prince Edward Island general election
United States[]
- 1979 United States gubernatorial elections
United States gubernatorial[]
- 1979 Louisiana gubernatorial election
- 1979 United States gubernatorial elections
Louisiana[]
- 1979 Louisiana gubernatorial election
Oceania[]
- 1979 Christchurch Central by-election
Australia[]
- 1979 Norwood state by-election
- 1979 South Australian state election
- 1979 Tasmanian state election
See also[]
Categories:
- 1979 elections
- Lists of elections by year
- 1979-related lists