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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?



  • 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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