How Democracies Fared Around The World In 2024

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🗓️ 11 December 2024

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Summary

2024 was, in many ways, a year of elections.

Both home and abroad.President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in November. He won a second term in office and will be headed back to Washington come January.

Across the globe, an election took place in India in seven stages starting in the spring and ending in June. Voters in Pakistan and Indonesia also went to the polls. European governments in France, Slovakia, the U.K. all saw switch ups. Germany, a financial powerhouse in the E.U., called a snap election for early 2025.

We discuss the democratic elections around the world and what the outcomes reflect when it comes to the wishes of voters.

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0:26.4	Music or older to purchase. 2024 has been the year of elections, and not only in the U.S.
0:30.9	Billions of people cast a ballot this year in every part of the world, including
0:34.4	Taiwan and January, Pakistan in April, South Africa Africa and May, and in France this past July.
0:44.8	The economist estimates that a total of 76 countries were scheduled to have an election in 2024.
0:53.5	Slightly more than half of those were expected to be free and fair elections.
0:57.3	What were the results? What wins give a hint about the course of a country's politics?
1:01.4	And what trends are sweeping multiple countries around the world?
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