Nominees had to receive at least 5% of the vote for their party.
Africa (PMs & Presidents; >5%)
editName | Image | Country | Party | Election | Votes (Pct.) |
Seat(s) (Pct.) |
Govt. (Pct.) |
Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Helen Zille | South Africa | DA | 2009 | 2,945,829 (16.7%) |
67 (16.8%) |
— | Opposition | ||
2014 | 4,091,584 (22.2%) |
89 (22.2%) | |||||||
Janira Hopffer Almada | Cape Verde | PAICV | 2016 | 86,078 (38.2%) |
29 (40.3%) |
— | Opposition | ||
2021 | 87,063 (38.6%) |
30 (41.7%) |
Americas (PMs & Presidents; >5%)
editCarribean
editName | Image | Country | Party | Election | Votes (Pct.) |
Seat(s) (Pct.) |
Govt. (Pct.) |
Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Eugenia Charles | Dominica | Freedom | 1970 | 7,578 (38.3%) |
2 (18.2%) |
— | Opposition | ||
1975 | 6,920 (32.4%) |
3 (14.3%) | |||||||
1980 | 15,706 (51.3%) |
17 (80.9%) |
Elected | ||||||
1985 | 18,865 (56.7%) |
15 (71.4%) | |||||||
1990 | 16,529 (49.4%) |
11 (52.4%) | |||||||
Lois Browne-Evans | Bermuda | PLP | 1972 | 13,018 (38.2%) |
10 (25.0%) |
— | Opposition | ||
1976 | 15,246 (44.4%) |
11 (27.5%) | |||||||
1980 | 22,452 (46.0%) |
18 (45.0%) | |||||||
1983 | 20,765 (43.4%) |
14 (35.0%) | |||||||
1985 | 10,930 (30.5%) |
7 (17.5%) | |||||||
Jennifer M. Smith | 1998 | 30,422 (54.6%) |
26 (65.0%) |
26 (65.0%) |
Elected | ||||
2003 | 14,868 (50.5%) |
22 (61.1%) |
22 (61.1%) | ||||||
Portia Simpson-Miller | Jamaica | PNP | 2007 | 405,293 (49.6%) |
28 (46.7%) |
— | Lost | ||
2011 | 463,232 (53.0%) |
42 (66.7%) |
42 (66.7%) |
Elected | |||||
2016 | 433,629 (49.7%) |
31 (49.2%) |
— | Lost | |||||
Kamla Persad-Bissessar | Trinidad and Tobago | UNC | 2010 | 316,600 (43.7%) |
21 (51.2%) |
21 (51.2%) |
Elected | ||
2015 | 290,066 (39.6%) |
17 (41.5%) |
— | Lost | |||||
2020 | 309,654 (47.1%) |
19 (46.3%) |
— | Opposition | |||||
Paula Cox | Bermuda | PLP | 2012 | 14,218 (46.1%) |
17 (47.2%) |
— | Lost | ||
Mia Mottley | Barbados | BLP | 2018 | 112,955 (73.5%) |
30 (100.0%) |
30 (100.0%) |
Elected | ||
2022 | 78,720 (69.0%) |
North America
editName | Image | Country | Party | Election | Votes (Pct.) |
Seat(s) (Pct.) |
Govt. (Pct.) |
Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Audrey McLaughlin | Canada | NDP | 1993 | 939,575 (6.9%) |
9 (3.0%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Kim Campbell | PPC | 2,186,422 (16.0%) |
2 (0.7%) |
— | Lost | ||||
Alexa McDonough | NDP | 1997 | 1,434,509 (11.0%) |
21 (7.0%) |
— | Opposition | |||
2000 | 1,093,868 (8.5%) |
13 (4.3%) | |||||||
Elizabeth May | Green | 2019 | 1,189,607 (6.5%) |
3 (0.9%) | |||||
Aleqa Hammond | Greenland | Siumut | 2013 | 12,910 (43.2%) |
14 (45.2%) |
16 (51.6%) |
Elected | ||
Sara Olsvig | Inuit Ataqatigiit | 2014 | 9,776 (33.5%) |
11 (35.5%) |
— | Opposition | |||
2018 | 7,478 (25.8%) |
8 (25.8%) |
South America
editName | Image | Country | Party | Election | Votes (Pct.) |
Seat(s) (Pct.) |
Govt. (Pct.) |
Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Janet Jagan | Guyana | PPP | 1997 | 220,667 (55.3%) |
34 (52.3%) |
34 (52.3%) |
Elected |
Asia (PMs; >5%)
editEast Asia
editName | Image | Country | Party | Election | Votes (Pct.) |
Seat(s) (Pct.) |
Govt. (Pct.) |
Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Takako Doi | Japan | Socialist | 1990 | 16,025,473 (24.3%) |
136 (26.6%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Social Democratic | 1996 | 3,547,240 (6.4%) |
15 (3.0%) |
— | |||||
2000 | 5,603,680 (9.4%) |
19 (4.0%) | |||||||
2003 | 3,027,390 (5.1%) |
6 (1.2%) | |||||||
Sanjaasürengiin Oyuun | Mongolia | Civil Will–Green | 2012 | 62,310 (5.2%) |
2 (2.6%) |
— | Opposition |
South Asia
editName | Image | Country | Party | Election | Votes (Pct.) |
Seat(s) (Pct.) |
Govt. (Pct.) |
Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sirimavo Bandaranaike | Ceylon | SLFP | Jul 1960 | 1,022,171 (33.2%) |
75 (49.7%) |
Elected | |||
1965 | 1,221,437 (30.2%) |
41 (27.1%) |
— | Lost | |||||
1970 | 1,839,979 (36.9%) |
91 (60.3%) |
Elected | ||||||
Sri Lanka | 1977 | 1,855,331 (29.7%) |
8 (4.8%) |
— | Lost | ||||
1989 | 1,780,599 (31.8%) |
67 29.8%) | |||||||
Indira Gandhi | India | INC | 1967 | 59,490,701 (40.8%) |
283 (54.4%) |
Elected | |||
1971 | 64,033,274 (43.7%) |
352 (68.0%) | |||||||
1977 | 65,211,589 (34.5%) |
154 (28.4%) |
— | Lost | |||||
1980 | 84,455,313 (42.7%) |
353 (66.7%) |
Elected | ||||||
Sheikh Hasina | Bangladesh | Awami League | 1986 | 7,462,157 (26.2%) |
76 (25.3%) |
— | Opposition | ||
1991 | 10,259,866 (30.1%) |
88 (29.3%) | |||||||
Jun 1996 | 15,882,792 (37.4%) |
146 (48.7%) |
178 (59.3%) |
Elected | |||||
2001 | 22,310,276 (40.0%) |
230 (20.7%) |
— | Lost | |||||
2008 | 33,887,451 (49.0%) |
230 (76.7%) |
Elected | ||||||
2014 | 63,523,066 (74.6%) |
234 (78.0%) | |||||||
2018 | 36,173,883 (79.1%) |
256 (85.7%) |
306 (87.4%) | ||||||
2024 | 4,081,537 (65.1%) |
224 (64.0%) |
272 (77.7%) | ||||||
Benazir Bhutto | Pakistan | PPP | 1988 | 7,546,561 (38.5%) |
94 (45.4%) |
109 (50.2%) |
Elected | ||
1990 | 7,795,218 (36.8%) |
44 (21.3%) |
— | Lost | |||||
1993 | 7,578,635 (37.9%) |
89 (43.0%) |
121 (62.7%) |
Elected | |||||
1997 | 4,152,209 (21.3%) |
18 (8.3%) |
— | Lost | |||||
Khaleda Zia | Bangladesh | BNP | 1991 | 10,507,549 (30.8%) |
140 (46.7%) |
151 (50.3%) |
Elected | ||
Feb 1996 | 11,776,481 (100.0%) |
300 (100.0%) | |||||||
Jun 1996 | 14,255,986 (33.6%) |
116 (38.7%) |
— | Lost | |||||
2001 | 23,074,714 (41.4%) |
200 (66.7%) |
Elected | ||||||
2008 | 22,963,836 (33.2%) |
30 (10.0%) |
— | Lost |
Southeast Asia
editName | Image | Country | Party | Election | Votes (Pct.) |
Seat(s) (Pct.) |
Govt. (Pct.) |
Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yingluck Shinawatra | Thailand | Pheu Thai | 2011 | 15,752,470 (47.0%) |
265 (53.0%) |
Elected | |||
Aung San Suu Kyi | Myanmar | NLD | 2015 | 12,821,899 (57.2%) |
255 (58.0%) |
Elected | |||
Sudarat Keyuraphan | Thailand | Pheu Thai | 2019 | 7,920,630 (21.9%) |
136 (27.2%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Paethongtarn Shinawatra | 2023 | 9,222,908 (23.5%) |
141 (28.2%) |
TBD | Coalition |
West Asia
editName | Image | Country | Party | Election | Votes (Pct.) |
Seat(s) (Pct.) |
Govt. (Pct.) |
Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Golda Meir | Israel | Alignment | 1969 | 632,035 (46.2%) |
56 (46.7%) |
102 (85.0%) |
Elected | ||
1973 | 621,183 (39.7%) |
51 (42.5%) |
68 (56.7%) |
Europe (PMs; >5%)
editEastern Europe
editName | Image | Country | Party | Election | Votes (Pct.) |
Seat(s) (Pct.) |
Govt. (Pct.) |
Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tansu Çiller | Turkey | DYP | 1995 | 5,396,009 (19.2%) |
135 (24.5%) |
— | Lost | ||
Yulia Tymoshenko | Ukraine | Batkivshchyna | 2002 | 1,882,087 (7.3%) |
22 (4.9%) |
— | Opposition | ||
2006 | 5,652,876 (22.3%) |
129 (28.7%) | |||||||
2007 | 5,208,402 (25.5%) |
101 (24.4%) |
226 (50.2%) |
Elected | |||||
2014 | 894,837 (5.7%) |
19 (4.2%) |
— | Opposition | |||||
2019 | 1,196,303 (8.2%) |
24 (5.3%) | |||||||
Beata Szydło | Poland | PiS | 2015 | 5,711,687 (37.6%) |
235 (51.1%) |
Elected | |||
Ewa Kopacz | PO | 3,661,474 (24.1%) |
138 (30.0%) |
— | Lost | ||||
Alina Gorghiu | Romania | PNL | 2016 | 1,412,377 (20.0%) |
69 (21.0%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska | Poland | PO | 2019 | 5,060,355 (27.4%) |
119 (25.9%) |
— | Opposition |
Northern Europe
editName | Image | Country | Party | Election | Votes (Pct.) |
Seat(s) (Pct.) |
Govt. (Pct.) |
Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Margaret Thatcher | United Kingdom | Conservative | 1979 | 13,697,923 (43.9%) |
339 (53.4%) |
Elected | |||
1983 | 13,012,316 (42.4%) |
397 (61.1%) | |||||||
1987 | 13,760,935 (42.2%) |
376 (57.8%) | |||||||
Gro Harlem Brundtland | Norway | Labour | 1981 | 914,749 (37.2%) |
66 (42.6%) |
— | Lost | ||
1985 | 1,061,712 (40.8%) |
71 (45.2%) |
Opposition | ||||||
1989 | 907,393 (34.3%) |
63 (38.2%) |
Lost | ||||||
1993 | 908,724 (36.9%) |
67 (40.6%) |
Elected | ||||||
Kaci Kullmann Five | Norway | Conservative | 1993 | 419,373 (17.0%) |
28 (17.0%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Margrét Frímannsdóttir | Iceland | Social Democratic | 1999 | 44,378 (26.8%) |
17 (28.6%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Anneli Jäätteenmäki | Finland | Centre | 2003 | 689,391 (24.7%) |
55 (27.5%) |
116 (58.0%) |
Elected | ||
Erna Solberg | Norway | Conservative | 2005 | 372,008 (14.1%) |
23 (13.6%) |
— | Opposition | ||
2009 | 462,465 (17.2%) |
30 (17.8%) | |||||||
2013 | 760,232 (26.8%) |
48 (28.4%) |
77 (45.6%) |
Elected | |||||
2017 | 732,897 (25.0%) |
45 (26.6%) |
88 (52.1%) | ||||||
2021 | 607,316 (20.5%) |
36 (21.3%) |
— | Lost | |||||
Helle Thorning-Schmidt | Denmark | Social Democrats | 2007 | 881,037 (25.5%) |
45 (26.9%) |
— | Opposition | ||
2011 | 879,615 (24.8%) |
44 (24.6%) |
77 (43.0%) |
Elected | |||||
2015 | 924,940 (26.3%) |
47 (26.3%) |
— | Lost | |||||
Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir | Iceland | Social Democratic | 2007 | 48,743 (26.8%) |
18 (28.6%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir | 2009 | 55,758 (29.8%) |
20 (31.7%) |
34 (54.0%) |
Elected | ||||
Mona Sahlin | Sweden | Social Democrats | 2010 | 1,827,497 (30.7%) |
112 (32.1%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Jutta Urpilainen | Finland | Social Democratic | 2011 | 561,558 (19.1%) |
42 (21.0%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Mari Kiviniemi | Centre | 463,266 (15.8%) |
35 (17.5%) |
— | Lost | ||||
Laimdota Straujuma | Latvia | Unity | 2014 | 199,535 (22.0%) |
23 (23.0%) |
61 (61.0%) |
Elected | ||
Katrín Jakobsdóttir | Iceland | Left-Green | 2016 | 30,167 (15.9%) |
10 (15.9%) |
— | Opposition | ||
2017 | 33,156 (16.9%) |
11 (17.5%) |
35 (55.6%) |
Elected | |||||
2021 | 25,114 (12.6%) |
8 (12.7%) |
37 (58.7%) | ||||||
Birgitta Jónsdóttir | Pirate | 2016 | 27,466 (14.5%) |
10 (15.9%) |
— | Opposition | |||
Theresa May | United Kingdom | Conservative | 2017 | 13,697,923 (43.9%) |
339 (53.4%) |
— | Elected | ||
Mette Frederiksen | Denmark | Social Democrats | 2019 | 914,882 (25.9%) |
48 (26.9%) |
Elected | |||
2022 | 971,995 (27.5%) |
50 (27.9%) |
88 (49.2%) | ||||||
Kaja Kallas | Estonia | Reform | 2019 | 162,332 (28.8%) |
34 (33.7%) |
— | Opposition | ||
2023 | 190,659 (31.2%) |
37 (36.6%) |
60 (59.4%) |
Elected | |||||
Jo Swinson | United Kingdom | LibDem | 2019 | 3,696,419 (11.6%) |
11 (1.7%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Mary Lou McDonald | Ireland | Sinn Féin | 2020 | 535,595 (24.5%) |
37 (23.1%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Magdalena Andersson | Sweden | Social Democrats | 2022 | 1,964,474 (30.3%) |
107 (30.7%) |
— | Lost | ||
Riikka Purra | Finland | Finns | 2023 | 620,981 (20.1%) |
46 (23.0%) |
108 (54.0%) |
Coalition | ||
Sanna Marin | Social Democratic | 617,552 (19.9%) |
43 (21.5%) |
— | Lost |
Southern Europe
editName | Image | Country | Party | Election | Votes (Pct.) |
Seat(s) (Pct.) |
Govt. (Pct.) |
Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Savka Dabčević-Kučar | Croatia | KNS | 1990 | 165,995 (9.9%) |
11 (6.9%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Aleka Papariga | Greece | KKE | 1996 | 380,046 (5.6%) |
11 (3.7%) |
— | Opposition | ||
2000 | 379,454 (5.5%) | ||||||||
2004 | 436,818 (5.9%) |
12 (4.0%) | |||||||
2007 | 583,750 (8.2%) |
22 (7.3%) | |||||||
2009 | 517,154 (7.5%) |
21 (7.0%) | |||||||
May 2012 | 536,105 (8.5%) |
26 (8.7%) | |||||||
Radmila Šekerinska | Macedonia | SDSM | 2008 | 233,284 (23.6%) |
27 (22.5%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Manuela Ferreira Leite | Portugal | PSD | 2009 | 1,653,665 (29.1%) |
81 (35.2%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Iveta Radičová | Slovakia | SDKÚ-DS | 2010 | 390,042 (15.4%) |
28 (16.7%) |
79 (52.7%) |
Elected | ||
Jadranka Kosor | Croatia | HDZ | 2011 | 563,215 (23.9%) |
47 (31.1%) |
— | Lost | ||
Fofi Gennimata | Greece | PASOK | Sep 2015 | 341,732 (6.3%) |
17 (5.7%) |
— | Opposition | ||
2019 | 457,623 (8.1%) |
19 (6.3%) | |||||||
Korneliya Ninova | Bulgaria | BSPzB | 2017 | 955,490 (27.2%) |
80 (33.3%) |
— | No government | ||
Apr 2021 | 480,146 (14.8%) |
43 (17.9%) | |||||||
Nov 2021 | 267,817 (10.1%) |
26 (10.8%) | |||||||
2022 | 232,958 (9.0%) |
25 (10.4%) | |||||||
2023 | 225,914 (8.6%) |
23 (9.6%) |
Opposition | ||||||
Jun 2024 | 151,560 (6.9%) |
19 (7.9%) |
TBD | ||||||
Giorgia Meloni | Italy | FdI | 2022 | 7,302,517 (26.0%) |
119 (29.8%) |
351 (57.9%) |
Elected | ||
Marinika Tepić | Serbia | UZPS | 2022 | 520,469 (14.1%) |
38 (15.2%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Yolanda Díaz | Spain | Sumar | 2023 | 3,044,996 (12.3%) |
31 (8.9%) |
147 (35.0%) |
Coalition |
Western Europe
editName | Image | Country | Party | Election | Votes (Pct.) |
Seat(s) (Pct.) |
Govt. (Pct.) |
Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Angela Merkel | Germany | CDU/CSU | 2005 | 16,631,049 (35.2%) |
226 (36.8%) |
448 (73.0%) |
Elected | ||
2009 | 14,658,515 (33.8%) |
239 (38.4%) |
332 (53.4%) | ||||||
2013 | 18,165,446 (41.5%) |
311 (49.3%) |
504 (79.9%) | ||||||
2017 | 15,317,344 (32.9%) |
246 (34.7%) |
399 (56.3%) | ||||||
Pamela Rendi-Wagner | Austria | SPÖ | 2019 | 1,011,868 (21.2%) |
40 (21.9%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Sophie Wilmès | Belgium | MR | 2019 | 512,825 (7.6%) |
14 (9.3%) |
38 (25.3%) |
Elected | ||
Lilian Marijnissen | Netherlands | Socialist | 2021 | 623,371 (6.0%) |
9 (6.0%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius | Netherlands | VVD | 2023 | 1,589,519 (15.2%) |
24 (16.0%) |
88 (58.7%) |
Coalition |
Oceania (PMs; >5%)
editName | Image | Country | Party | Election | Votes (Pct.) |
Seat(s) (Pct.) |
Govt. (Pct.) |
Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jenny Shipley | New Zealand | National | 1999 | 629,932 (30.5%) |
39 (32.5%) |
— | Lost | ||
Helen Clark | Labour | 800,199 (38.7%) |
49 (40.8%) |
59 (49.2%) |
Elected | ||||
2002 | 838,219 (41.3%) |
52 (43.3%) |
62 (51.7%) | ||||||
2005 | 935,319 (41.1%) |
50 (41.7%) |
61 (50.8%) | ||||||
2008 | 796,880 (34.0%) |
43 (35.8%) |
— | Lost | |||||
Julia Gillard | Australia | Labor | 2010 | 4,711,363 (38.0%) |
72 (48.0%) |
Elected | |||
Teimumu Kepa | Fiji | SODELPA | 2014 | 139,857 (28.2%) |
15 (30.0%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Jacinda Ardern | New Zealand | Labour | 2017 | 956,184 (36.9%) |
46 (38.3%) |
63 (52.5%) |
Elected | ||
2020 | 1,443,545 (50.0%) |
65 (54.2%) | |||||||
Tina Browne | Cook Islands | Democratic | 2018 | 3,620 (41.9%) |
11 (45.8%) |
— | Opposition | ||
2022 | 2,377 (26.9%) |
5 (20.8%) | |||||||
Judith Collins | New Zealand | National | 2020 | 738,275 (25.6%) |
33 (27.5%) |
— | Opposition | ||
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa | Samoa | FAST | 2021 | 32,510 (36.6%) |
26 (51.0%) |
Elected |