Not as many people will get the chance to vote in 2025 compared with the previous year. (Image Source: iStock.)
5 elections to watch in 2025
Experts on politics in Canada, Germany, Chile, Belarus and the Philippines — including USC Dornsife Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Relations Patrick James — weigh in on what to expect as each country’s voters prepare to head to the ballot box.
The coming 12 months can’t promise the bumper crop of elections we saw during 2024, when countries home to about half the world’s population headed to the polls. Still, voters will cast ballots in several important elections throughout the year — and many of the themes persist: the impact of inflation, the rise of the populist right and the fallout of war in Europe and the Middle East.
Only a fool or charlatan will pretend to predict the future, so it’s usually best to avoid election forecasting. So instead, The Conversation asked experts on five countries — Canada, Germany, Chile, Belarus and the Philippines — to explain what is at stake as those nations go to the ballot.