Most election votes cast in the same year

The year in which most votes were cast for different elections around the world is 2004. A total of 58 presidential and parliamentary elections have involved over 1.1 billion people voting. The first was in Georgia, which held its Presidential election on 4 January and the final one for 2004 was the third round of the Ukraine's presidential elections on 26 December. Please see attached document that lists all elections held.

The largest elections have been: India (May, 387.8 million votes), European Parliament (June, 160 million), Indonesia (July, 121 million) and USA (November, 120 million). The smallest have been a few thousand in Palau, Cook Islands and Nauru. (figures not available). In South Africa, 15 million votes were cast as 10 years of the end of apartheid were celebrated.