← Back Home / Politics / Elections / Under fire Elections Under Fire Every election in the atlas held while the country was fighting a major war, from Lincoln's 1864 re-election mid-Civil War and Britain's coupon election of 1918 to Israel's wartime ballots and Russia's 2024 ritual. Voting during wartime is democracy's hardest test; here is every time it was taken.
288 wartime ballots · 186 held as free contests · 69 major wars
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Russo-Ukrainian War (2014–present) War in Iraq (2013–2017)civil war Gaza–Israel conflict (2006–present) Second Chechen War (1999–2000) Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998–2000) War in Abkhazia (1992–1993) Persian Gulf War (1990–1991) 1982 Lebanon War (1982–1985) Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989) Cambodian–Vietnamese War (1978–1989) Western Sahara War (1975–1991) Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (1971) Korean War [ 9 ] (1950–1953) 1948 Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949) Continuation War (1941–1944) Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)civil war Japanese invasion of Manchuria (1931–1932) Chinese Civil War (1927–1950)civil war Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921) Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920) Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920) Russian Civil War (1917–1922)civil war First Balkan War (1912–1913) Italo-Turkish War (1911–1912) Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)civil war Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898) First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895–1896) First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) Sino-French War (1884–1885) War of the Pacific (1879–1883) Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880) Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) Ten Years' War (1868–1878) Paraguayan War (1864–1870) American Civil War (1861–1865)civil war French intervention in Mexico (1861–1867) Hungarian War of Independence (1848–1849) Mexican–American War (1846–1848) Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–41) First Anglo-Afghan War (1838–1842) First Carlist War (1833–1840) French conquest of Algeria (1830–1847) First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826) Greek War of Independence (1821–1829) War of the Sixth Coalition (1812–1814) Peninsular War (1807–1814) War of the Fourth Coalition (1806–1807) War of the Third Coalition (1803–1806) War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802) War of the First Coalition (1792–1797) War of the Polish Succession (1733–1738) Great Northern War (1700–1721)
A ballot appears here when its polity was a belligerent in a major war, interstate or a civil war fought on its own soil, whose span includes the election year. War data: Wars since 1500 . The dot carries the election's honesty label from its hub (tap or hover it to read the label): wartime votes under dictatorship were rituals, and are marked as such. 
