National election candidates by popular vote per month edit

National elections in December 2017
← Nov 2017 December 2017 Jan 2018 →
Turnout18,762,126 (58.7%)
from Chile, Nepal, and Liberia
       
Candidate Sebastián Piñera   Khadga Prasad Oli   Alejandro Guillier  
Party Chile Vamos CPN (UML) New Majority
Popular vote 3,769,579 3,173,494 3,159,902
Percentage 20.09% 16.91% 16.84%

   
Candidate S. Bahadur Deuba   P. Kamal Dahal   George Weah  
Party NC Maoist Centre CDC
Popular vote 3,128,389 1,303,721 732,185
Percentage 16.67% 6.95% 3.90%

     
Candidate Mahanth Thakur   Upendra Yadav   Joseph Boakai  
Party RJPN FSFN UP
Popular vote 472,254 470,201 457,579
Percentage 2.52% 2.51% 2.44%

Previous President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Juan Orlando Hernández
  Honduras
National

President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Sebastián Piñera
  Chile
Chile Vamos

National elections in November 2017
← Oct 2017 November 2017 Dec 2017 →
Turnout10,812,458 (48.8%)
from Chile, Honduras, Slovenia, and Tonga
       
Candidate Sebastián Piñera   Alejandro Guillier   Juan O. Hernández  
Party Chile Vamos New Majority National
Popular vote 2,418,540 1,498,040 1,410,888
Percentage 22.37% 13.85% 13.05%

       
Candidate Salvador Nasralla   Beatriz Sánchez   José Antonio Kast  
Party Anti-Corruption Party Broad Front Independent
Popular vote 1,360,442 1,338,037 523,375
Percentage 12.58% 12.37% 4.84%

     
Candidate Luis Orlando Zelaya   Carolina Goic   M. Enríquez-Ominami  
Party Liberal PDC Progressive Party
Popular vote 484,187 387,784 376,871
Percentage 4.48% 3.59% 3.49%

Previous President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Shinzō Abe
  Japan
Liberal Democratic

President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Juan Orlando Hernández
  Honduras
National

National elections in October 2017
← Sep 2017 October 2017 Nov 2017 →
Turnout77,885,180 (53.6%)
from Japan, Kenya, Austria, the Czech Republic, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Slovenia, and Iceland
       
Candidate Shinzō Abe   Yukio Edano   Yuriko Koike  
Party Liberal Democratic Constitutional Democratic Kibō no Tō
Popular vote 18,555,717 11,084,890 9,677,524
Percentage 23.82% 14.23% 12.43%

       
Candidate Uhuru Kenyatta   Natsuo Yamaguchi   Kazuo Shii  
Party Jubilee Komeito Communist
Popular vote 7,483,895 6,977,712 4,404,081
Percentage 9.61% 8.96% 5.65%

       
Candidate Ichirō Matsui   Sebastian Kurz   Andrej Babiš  
Party Innovation ÖVP ANO
Popular vote 3,387,097 1,595,526 1,500,113
Percentage 4.35% 2.05% 1.93%

Previous President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Angela Merkel
  Germany
CDU/CSU

President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Shinzō Abe
  Japan
Liberal Democratic

National elections in September 2017
← Aug 2017 September 2017 Oct 2017 →
Turnout52,088,953 (75.5%)
from Germany, Norway, and New Zealand
       
Candidate Angela Merkel   Martin Schulz   Weidel/Gauland  
Party CDU/CSU SPD AfD
Popular vote 15,315,576 9,538,367 5,877,094
Percentage 29.40% 18.31% 11.28%

       
Candidate Christian Lindner   Wagenknecht/Bartsch   G.-Eckardt/Özdemir  
Party FDP Left Greens
Popular vote 4,997,178 4,296,762 4,157,564
Percentage 9.59% 8.25% 7.98%

     
Candidate Bill English   Jonas Gahr Støre   Jacinda Ardern  
Party National Labour Labour
Popular vote 998,813 800,949 776,556
Percentage 1.92% 1.54% 1.49%

Previous President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Paul Kagame
  Rwanda
RPF

President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Angela Merkel
  Germany
CDU/CSU

National elections in August 2017
← Jul 2017 August 2017 Sep 2017 →
Turnout29,455,566 (82.2%)
from Kenya, Rwanda, and Angola
       
Candidate Uhuru Kenyatta   Raila Odinga   Paul Kagame  
Party Jubilee ODM RPF
Popular vote 8,223,369 6,822,812 6,675,472
Percentage 22.95% 19.04% 18.63%

       
Candidate João Lourenço   Isaías Samakuva   Abel Chivukuvuku  
Party MPLA UNITA CASA–CE
Popular vote 4,164,157 1,818,903 168,480
Percentage 11.62% 5.08% 1.80%

 
Candidate E. Kuangana   Ngola Kabangu   Philippe Mpayimana  
Party Social Renewal National Liberation Front Independent
Popular vote 92,222 63,658 49,031
Percentage 0.26% 0.18% 0.14%

Previous President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Mohammed Dionne
  Senegal
Benno Bokk Yaakaar

President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Paul Kagame
  Rwanda
RPF

National elections in July 2017
← Jun 2017 July 2017 Aug 2017 →
Turnout5,153,600 (57.4%)
from Senegal, Mongolia, and East Timor
(results from Papua New Guinea and Republic of the Congo unavailable)
       
Candidate Mohammed Dionne   Khaltmaagiin Battulga   Abdoulaye Wade  
Party Benno Bokk Yaakaar Democratic Manko Wattu
Popular vote 1,663,447 611,226 549,551
Percentage 32.28% 11.86% 10.66%

       
Candidate Miyeegombyn Enkhbold   Khalifa Sall   Mari Alkatiri  
Party MPP Manko Taxawu Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor
Popular vote 497,067 388,188 168,480
Percentage 9.64% 7.53% 3.27%

       
Candidate Xanana Gusmão   Peter O'Neill   Clément Mouamba  
Party CNRT PNC PCT
Popular vote 167,345 Vote count unknown Vote count unknown
Percentage 3.25%

Previous President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Theresa May
  United Kingdom
Conservative

President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Mohammed Dionne
  Senegal
Benno Bokk Yaakaar

National elections in June 2017
← May 2017 June 2017 Jul 2017 →
Turnout59,504,053 (57.6%)
from the United Kingdom, France, Albania, Mongolia, Kosovo, Lesotho, and Malta
     
Candidate Theresa May   Jeremy Corbyn   Édouard Philippe  
Party Conservative Labour LREM
Popular vote 13,636,690 12,877,869 8,926,901
Percentage 22.92% 21.64% 15.00%

       
Candidate François Baroin   Marine Le Pen   J.-L. Mélenchon  
Party LR FN LFI
Popular vote 4,898,061 2,990,454 2,497,622
Percentage 8.23% 5.03% 4.20%

       
Candidate Tim Farron   Bernard Cazeneuve   Nicola Sturgeon  
Party Liberal Democrats PS SNP
Popular vote 2,371,861 2,154,269 977,568
Percentage 3.99% 3.62% 1.64%

Previous President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Hassan Rouhani
  Iran
MDP

President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Theresa May
  United Kingdom
Conservative

National elections in May 2017
← Apr 2017 May 2017 Jun 2017 →
Turnout113,328,177 (66.9%)
from Iran, France, South Korea, Algeria, and the Bahamas
       
Candidate Hassan Rouhani   Emmanuel Macron   Ebrahim Raisi  
Party MDP LREM CCA
Popular vote 23,549,616 20,743,128 15,786,449
Percentage 20.78% 18.30% 13.93%

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Candidate Moon Jae-in   Marine Le Pen   Hong Jun-pyo  
Party Democratic FN Liberty Korea
Popular vote 13,423,800 10,638,475 7,852,849
Percentage 11.85% 9.39% 6.93%

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Candidate Ahn Cheol-soo   Yoo Seong-min   Sim Sang-jung  
Party People's Party (South Korea) Bareun Justice
Popular vote 6,998,342 2,208,771 2,017,458
Percentage 6.18% 1.95% 1.78%

Previous President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Lenín Moreno
  Ecuador
PAIS Alliance

President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Hassan Rouhani
  Iran
MDP

National elections in April 2017
← Mar 2017 April 2017 May 2017 →
Turnout52,926,754 (75.7%)
from France, Ecuador, Serbia, Armenia, and The Gambia
       
Candidate Emmanuel Macron   Marine Le Pen   François Fillon  
Party LREM FN LR
Popular vote 8,528,585 7,658,990 7,126,632
Percentage 16.11% 14.47% 13.47%

       
Candidate J.-L. Mélenchon   Lenín Moreno   Guillermo Lasso  
Party LFI PAIS Alliance CREO
Popular vote 7,011,856 5,062,018 4,833,389
Percentage 13.25% 9.56% 9.13%

       
Candidate Benoît Hamon   Aleksandar Vučić   Nicolas Dupont-Aignan  
Party PS SNS DLF
Popular vote 2,268,838 2,012,788 1,689,686
Percentage 4.29% 3.80% 3.19%

Previous President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Mark Rutte
  Netherlands
VVD

President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Lenín Moreno
  Ecuador
PAIS Alliance

National elections in March 2017
← Feb 2017 March 2017 Apr 2017 →
Turnout14,605,727 (70.7%)
from the Netherlands, Bulgaria, and East Timor
       
Candidate Mark Rutte   Geert Wilders   S. van Haersma Buma  
Party VVD PVV CDA
Popular vote 2,238,351 1,372,941 1,301,796
Percentage 15.33% 9.40% 8.91%

     
Candidate Alexander Pechtold   Boyko Borisov   Jesse Klaver  
Party D66 GERB GL
Popular vote 1,285,819 1,147,283 959,600
Percentage 8.80% 7.86% 6.57%

       
Candidate Emile Roemer   Korneliya Ninova   Lodewijk Asscher  
Party SP BSPzB PvdA
Popular vote 955,633 955,490 599,699
Percentage 6.54% 6.54% 4.11%

Previous President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
  Turkmenistan
TDP

President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Mark Rutte
  Netherlands
VVD

National elections in February 2017
← Jan 2017 February 2017 Mar 2017 →
Turnout13,649,274 (84.8%)
from Ecuador, Turkmenistan, and Liechtenstein
       
Candidate Lenín Moreno   G. Berdimuhamedow   Guillermo Lasso  
Party PAIS Alliance TDP CREO
Popular vote 3,716,343 3,090,611 2,652,403
Percentage 27.23% 22.64% 19.43%

       
Candidate Cynthia Viteri   Paco Moncayo   Abdalá Bucaram, Jr.  
Party PSC Agreement for Change Fuerza Ecuador
Popular vote 1,540,903 634,033 455,187
Percentage 11.29% 4.65% 3.33%

 
Candidate Iván Espinel Molina   P. Zuquilanda Duque   Washington Pesántez  
Party Compromiso Social PSP Movimiento Unión
Popular vote 299,840 72,679 71,107
Percentage 2.20% 0.53% 0.52%

Previous President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Youri Latortue
  Haiti
Haiti in Action

President or PM elected with most votes of the month

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
  Turkmenistan
TDP

These infoboxes list the most successful candidates who contested a national election in recent months, ordered by the number of votes received. Percentages are given as proportions of votes in all nations in which elections took place in that month.