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According to official sources, what was the estimated overall cost (in US dollars if available) of the most recent national elections?

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estimated total: 12000000 Exchange rate used Andorra estimated total: Exchange rate used Antigua and Barbuda estimated total: Exchange rate used Albania estimated total: 2500000 Exchange rate used Angola estimated total: Exchange rate used Argentina According to the National Electoral Directorate, the original budget allocated for the 2021 elections is equivalent to some US$ 172 million for the organization of the primaries and national elections. However, postponed by the pandemic and with a differential organization to implement protocols to avoid contagion by covid-19, the national Executive increased the budget, which reached about US$ 184 million. Austria estimated total: 7 Mio Euro Exchange rate used Australia estimated total: Exchange rate used Aruba estimated total: Exchange rate used Azerbaijan N/A Bosnia and Herzegovina estimated total: Exchange rate used Barbados estimated total: 1002674 Exchange rate used 2 US $= 2bb Bangladesh estimated total: $1121000 (Approximate) Exchange rate used Burkina Faso estimated total: environ 8 571 428 millions. Exchange rate used 6 milliards de francs CFA Bulgaria estimated total: 8 000 000 USD Exchange rate used Burundi estimated total: Benin estimated total: Exchange rate used Bolivia estimated total: Bahamas estimated total: 2,584,876.82 Exchange rate used Botswana estimated total: 3421900 Exchange rate used 19,000,000BWP=3421900 USD Belarus estimated total: 4500000 Exchange rate used 1 USD= 1450 RUB Belize estimated total: Exchange rate used Canada estimated total: 110400000 Exchange rate used $1.00CDN=$0,63USD Congo (Kinshasa), Democratic Republic of the estimated total: Central African Republic estimated total: Congo (Brazzaville) estimated total: Exchange rate used Côte d'Ivoire estimated total: Exchange rate used Cook Islands estimated total: Exchange rate used Chile estimated total: 3700917 Exchange rate used 614.20 Colombia estimated total: Exchange rate used Costa Rica estimated total: Cuba estimated total: Exchange rate used Cape Verde estimated total: 1432603.55 Exchange rate used Germany estimated total: 107 Million Euros (US $121.419.855) Exchange rate used Djibouti estimated total: Exchange rate used Dominica estimated total: 223,940 USD Exchange rate used Dominican Republic estimated total: USD $ 1, 136 ,276. 00 (RD $18,708,785.60) Exchange rate: 1 USD = 17.93 RD pesos Exchange rate used Ecuador estimated total: 24.327.915 USD Exchange rate used Estonia estimated total: Exchange rate used Egypt estimated total: Exchange rate used Eritrea estimated total: Ethiopia estimated total: Finland estimated total: 15654755 USD Exchange rate used Fiji estimated total: $6,449,501.28USD Exchange rate used Falkland Islands (Malvinas) estimated total: Exchange rate used Micronesia, Federated States of estimated total: Exchange rate used Gabon estimated total: Exchange rate used Grenada estimated total: Exchange rate used French Guiana estimated total: Exchange rate used Gambia estimated total: Exchange rate used Guinea estimated total: Exchange rate used Guadeloupe estimated total: Exchange rate used Guatemala estimated total: Exchange rate used Guam estimated total: Exchange rate used Guinea-Bissau estimated total: Exchange rate used Hong Kong estimated total: Exchange rate used Honduras estimated total: Exchange rate used Haiti estimated total: Exchange rate used Hungary estimated total: 25000000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 25000000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 25000000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting Exchange rate used 270/1 Indonesia estimated total: Exchange rate used Israel estimated total: Exchange rate used India Political parties and candidates are set to spend more than 1.2 trillion rupees (approximately $14.4 billion). 2024 India elections are set to cost more than double that of India's last general elections in 2019, when candidates spent about 600 billion rupees ($7.2 billion). Iraq estimated total: Exchange rate used Iran, Islamic Republic of estimated total: Exchange rate used Iceland estimated total: 1000000 Exchange rate used 1US$ = 84 IKR Italy The reimbursements amount to 503 million Euro. Jamaica estimated total: Exchange rate used Japan estimated total: USD 529,086,341.67. (JPY 63,490,361,000) Exchange rate used Cambodia estimated total: US $ 12.48 million but actual costs were US $ 11.1 million Exchange rate used Kiribati estimated total: Exchange rate used No official information provided. Comoros estimated total: Exchange rate used Saint Kitts and Nevis No official information provided. Korea, Republic of estimated total: 114 millon USD Exchange rate used Kazakhstan Presidential elections, 9 June 2019 - budget request from the National Election Commission to the Ministry of Finance: 12,105,794,000 Tenge ) Lao People's Democratic Republic estimated total: Exchange rate used Lebanon estimated total: Exchange rate used Saint Lucia estimated total: 310,000.00 USD Exchange rate used Liechtenstein estimated total: Exchange rate used Sri Lanka Estimated Total:$24,304,304.90 Exchange Rate Used: USD/LKR = 0.0069400 Liberia estimated total: Exchange rate used Lesotho estimated total: 12125000 Exchange rate used 8.00R=1.00$ Not yet tabulated for 2015 elections Lithuania estimated total: 3000000 Exchange rate used 4 litas/ USD Latvia estimated total: 1625500 Exchange rate used 0,62 USD/1 LAT Moldova, Republic of no available data Madagascar estimated total: Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Not available. Mali estimated total: Mongolia estimated total: Exchange rate used Martinique estimated total: Exchange rate used Mauritania estimated total: Exchange rate used Malta estimated total: Exchange rate used Mauritius estimated total: Exchange rate used Malawi Estimated total: MK271 billion (USD 156 939 687,77). Malaysia estimated total: USD 35 Million Exchange rate used Mozambique estimated total: US$40.8 million Exchange rate used Namibia estimated total: 3059758 Exchange rate used New Caledonia estimated total: Exchange rate used Niger estimated total: Exchange rate used Nigeria estimated total: Exchange rate used Nicaragua estimated total: 26,082,099.00 USD. 1USD = 13.80 Exchange rate used Netherlands estimated total: Exchange rate used Norway estimated total: 12000000 Exchange rate used Niue estimated total: Exchange rate used New Zealand estimated total: 12,779,697 USD Exchange rate used Panama estimated total: Exchange rate used Peru estimated total: Exchange rate used French Polynesia estimated total: Exchange rate used Papua New Guinea estimated total: Exchange rate used Philippines estimated total: Exchange rate used Pakistan estimated total: 16223000 Exchange rate used 1US$ = 65 Rs Poland estimated total: 18000000 Exchange rate used 4,23 PLN = 1 USD Puerto Rico estimated total: around 25 millions of USD Exchange rate used Palestine estimated total: Portugal "In accordance with the law on funding of political parties, campaign activities can be financed by the funds received as state subsidies, private donations from physical persons, fundraising for the electoral purposes, and contributions from political parties to the candidates they support. The law provides those expenses incurred during the six months before the elections for the purpose of electoral benefits are counted as campaign-related expenses, and their total amount is capped at 60 national monthly minimum wages (35,340 EUR in 2015) per candidate contesting the elections. Following the elections, political parties that nominated candidates for more than half of the seats in the parliament and won at least one of them are eligible to receive state subsidy which aims to refund the costs incurred during the campaign. Twenty thousand minimum monthly wages (11,780,000 EUR in 2015) will be distributed between all eligible parties, with 20 per cent divided equally between them and the rest proportionately allocated based on electoral results."(OSCE) "In 2016 the total money spent on presidential campaigning was 3,355,160 EUR." Palau estimated total: Exchange rate used Paraguay estimated total: USD 6.000.000.- (exchange rate used 7.000Gs) Exchange rate used Réunion estimated total: Exchange rate used Russian Federation estimated total: 15 billion RUR for national elections in 2016 (227,3 million USD as for June 2, 2016) Exchange rate used: 1/66 Rwanda estimated total: Exchange rate used Solomon Islands estimated total: Exchange rate used Seychelles Information not available Singapore estimated total: Exchange rate used Saint Helena estimated total: Exchange rate used Slovenia estimated total: 2.700.000 USD Exchange rate used Slovakia estimated total: Exchange rate used Sierra Leone estimated total: 12000000 Exchange rate used San Marino estimated total: Exchange rate used Senegal estimated total: Suriname estimated total: Exchange rate used Sao Tome and Principe estimated total: 2000000 Exchange rate used El Salvador estimated total: Amount: 71.3 million colones (8.1 million USD) Exchange rate used Swaziland estimated total: Chad estimated total: Exchange rate used Togo estimated total: les chiffres ne sont pas publies. Exchange rate used Thailand estimated total: Tajikistan estimated total: Exchange rate used Timor-Leste estimated total: 1300000 Exchange rate used Tonga estimated total: 2000usd Exchange rate used Turkey Unknown Trinidad and Tobago estimated total: >300 million Exchange rate used: not stated Taiwan estimated total: Exchange rate used Tanzania, United Republic of estimated total: Exchange rate used Ukraine estimated total: 51 000 000 USD Exchange rate used Uganda estimated total: 838 Billion UGX (Approx. 236 Million USD) Exchange rate used:3500.00 Uruguay estimated total: 4800000 Exchange rate used Uzbekistan estimated total: Exchange rate used Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Not available Venezuela estimated total: Exchange rate used Viet Nam estimated total: Exchange rate used No data found Vanuatu The acting principal electoral officer, Joe Johnson Iati, says the office estimates the election will cost $765,000 Wallis and Futuna estimated total: Exchange rate used Samoa estimated total: Exchange rate used South Africa estimated total: 66151310 Exchange rate used 8R=1US Zambia estimated total: Exchange rate used Zimbabwe estimated total: 1 billion Zimbabwe Dollars = 18,721,333 US Dollar Exchange rate used Zanzibar estimated total: US$2,528,900 Exchange rate used

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