List of elections in 1979
The following elections occurred in the year 1979.
Africa
- Algeria: presidential election
- Benin: parliamentary election
- Botswana: general election
- Gabon: presidential election
- Ghana: presidential election
- Kenya: general election
- Mali: general election
- Nigeria:
- * parliamentary election
- * presidential election
- Ghana: general election
- Rhodesia: constitutional referendum
- Seychelles: general election
- Somali: parliamentary election
- Togo: general election
- Tunisia: general election
- Zimbabwe Rhodesia general election
Asia
- 1979 Bangladeshi general election
- India:
- * 1979 Indian vice presidential election
- * 1979 Indian Rajya Sabha elections
- * 1979 Nagapattinam by-election
- Iran:
- * March 1979 Iranian Islamic Republic referendum
- * December 1979 Iranian constitutional referendum
- Japan: general election
- Mindanao: 1979 Sangguniang Pampook elections
- Philippines: 1979 Sangguniang Pampook elections
Australia
- 1979 Norwood state by-election
- 1979 South Australian state election
- 1979 Tasmanian state election
Europe
Austria
- 1979 Austrian legislative election
Denmark
- 1979 Danish parliamentary election
European Parliament
- 1979 European Parliament election
- * in Belgium
- * in Denmark
- * in France
- * in Greenland
- * in Ireland
- * in Italy
- ** in Sardinia
- ** in Veneto
- * in Luxembourg
- * in the Netherlands
- * in the United Kingdom
- * in West Germany
Finland
- 1979 Finnish parliamentary election
- 1979 Ålandic legislative election
France
- 1979 European Parliament election in France
- 1979 French cantonal elections
Germany
- 1979 West German presidential election
- 1979 European Parliament election in West Germany
- 1979 Rhineland-Palatinate state election
- 1979 West Berlin state election
Iceland
- 1979 Icelandic parliamentary election
Ireland
- 1979 Irish local elections
- 1979 Fianna Fáil leadership election
Italy
- 1979 European Parliament election in Italy
- 1979 Italian general election
Luxembourg
- 1979 Luxembourg general election
Norway
- 1979 Norwegian local elections
Portugal
- 1979 Portuguese legislative election
- 1979 Portuguese local elections
Spain
- 1979 Spanish general election
Sweden
- 1979 Swedish general election
- 1979 Stockholm municipal election
Switzerland
- 1979 Swiss federal election
United Kingdom
- 1979 United Kingdom general election
- * List of MPs elected in the 1979 United Kingdom general election
- 1979 Clitheroe by-election
- 1979 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom
- 1979 South West Hertfordshire by-election
- 1979 Knutsford by-election
- 1979 Liverpool Edge Hill by-election
- 1979 Manchester Central by-election
- 1979 Scottish devolution referendum
- 1979 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election
United Kingdom local
- 1979 United Kingdom local elections
English local
- 1979 Manchester Council election
- 1979 Trafford Council election
- 1979 Wolverhampton Council election
North America
- 1979 Belizean legislative election
Canada
- 1979 Canadian federal election
- 1979 Alberta general election
- 1979 British Columbia general election
- 1979 Edmonton municipal plebiscite
- 1979 Newfoundland general election
- 1979 Northwest Territories general election
- 1979 Prince Edward Island general election
United States
- 1979 United States gubernatorial elections
United States gubernatorial
- 1979 Louisiana gubernatorial election
- 1979 United States gubernatorial elections
Louisiana
- 1979 Louisiana gubernatorial election
Oceania
- 1979 Christchurch Central by-election
Australia
- 1979 Norwood state by-election
- 1979 South Australian state election
- 1979 Tasmanian state election