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National election candidates by popular vote per month [ edit ]
National elections in December 2017 Turnout 18,762,126 (58.7%) from Chile , Nepal , and Liberia
Candidate
Sebastián Piñera
Khadga Prasad Oli
Alejandro Guillier
Party
Chile Vamos
CPN (UML)
New Majority
Popular vote
3,769,579
3,173,494
3,159,902
Percentage
20.09%
16.91%
16.84%
Candidate
S. Bahadur Deuba
P. Kamal Dahal
George Weah
Party
Congress
Maoist Centre
CDC
Popular vote
3,128,389
1,303,721
732,185
Percentage
16.67%
6.95%
3.90%
Candidate
Mahanth Thakur
Upendra Yadav
Joseph Boakai
Party
RJPN
FSFN
UP
Popular vote
472,254
470,201
457,579
Percentage
2.52%
2.51%
2.44%
National elections in November 2017 Turnout 10,812,458 (48.8%) from Chile , Honduras , Slovenia , and Tonga
Candidate
Sebastián Piñera
Alejandro Guillier
Juan O. Hernández
Party
Chile Vamos
New Majority
National
Popular vote
2,418,540
1,498,040
1,410,888
Percentage
22.37%
13.85%
13.05%
Candidate
Salvador Nasralla
Beatriz Sánchez
José Antonio Kast
Party
Anti-Corruption Party
Broad Front (Chile)
Independent
Popular vote
1,360,442
1,338,037
523,375
Percentage
12.58%
12.37%
4.84%
Candidate
Luis Orlando Zelaya
Carolina Goic
M. Enríquez-Ominami
Party
Liberal
PDC
Progressive Party
Popular vote
484,187
387,784
376,871
Percentage
4.48%
3.59%
3.49%
National elections in October 2017 Turnout 77,885,180 (53.6%) from Japan , Kenya , Austria , the Czech Republic , Kyrgyzstan , Liberia , Slovenia , and Iceland
Candidate
Shinzō Abe
Yukio Edano
Yuriko Koike
Party
LDP
Constitutional Democratic
Kibō no Tō
Popular vote
18,555,717
11,084,890
9,677,524
Percentage
23.82%
14.23%
12.43%
Candidate
Uhuru Kenyatta
Natsuo Yamaguchi
Kazuo Shii
Party
Jubilee
Komeito
JCP
Popular vote
7,483,895
6,977,712
4,404,081
Percentage
9.61%
8.96%
5.65%
Candidate
Ichirō Matsui
Sebastian Kurz
Andrej Babiš
Party
Ishin
ÖVP
ANO
Popular vote
3,387,097
1,595,526
1,500,113
Percentage
4.35%
2.05%
1.93%
National elections in September 2017 Turnout 52,088,953 (75.5%) from Germany , Norway , and New Zealand
Candidate
Angela Merkel
Martin Schulz
Weidel /Gauland
Party
CDU/CSU
SPD
AfD
Popular vote
15,315,576
9,538,367
5,877,094
Percentage
29.40%
18.31%
11.28%
Candidate
Christian Lindner
Wagenknecht /Bartsch
G.-Eckardt /Özdemir
Party
FDP
Left
Greens
Popular vote
4,997,178
4,296,762
4,157,564
Percentage
9.59%
8.25%
7.98%
Candidate
Bill English
Jonas Gahr Støre
Jacinda Ardern
Party
National
Labour
Labour
Popular vote
998,813
800,949
776,556
Percentage
1.92%
1.54%
1.49%
National elections in August 2017 Turnout 29,455,566 (82.2%) from Kenya , Rwanda , and Angola
Candidate
Uhuru Kenyatta
Raila Odinga
Paul Kagame
Party
Jubilee
ODM
RPF
Popular vote
8,223,369
6,822,812
6,675,472
Percentage
22.95%
19.04%
18.63%
Candidate
João Lourenço
Isaías Samakuva
Abel Chivukuvuku
Party
MPLA
UNITA
CASA–CE
Popular vote
4,164,157
1,818,903
168,480
Percentage
11.62%
5.08%
1.80%
Candidate
E. Kuangana
Ngola Kabangu
Philippe Mpayimana
Party
Social Renewal
National Liberation Front
Independent
Popular vote
92,222
63,658
49,031
Percentage
0.26%
0.18%
0.14%
National elections in June 2017 Turnout 59,504,053 (57.6%) from the United Kingdom , France , Albania , Mongolia , Kosovo , Lesotho , and Malta
Candidate
Theresa May
Jeremy Corbyn
Édouard Philippe
Party
Conservative
Labour
LREM
Popular vote
13,636,690
12,877,869
8,926,901
Percentage
22.92%
21.64%
15.00%
Candidate
François Baroin
Marine Le Pen
J.-L. Mélenchon
Party
LR
FN
LFI
Popular vote
4,898,061
2,990,454
2,497,622
Percentage
8.23%
5.03%
4.20%
Candidate
Tim Farron
Bernard Cazeneuve
Nicola Sturgeon
Party
Liberal Democrats
PS
SNP
Popular vote
2,371,861
2,154,269
977,568
Percentage
3.99%
3.62%
1.64%
National elections in May 2017 Turnout 113,328,177 (66.9%) from Iran , France , South Korea , Algeria , and the Bahamas
Candidate
Hassan Rouhani
Emmanuel Macron
Ebrahim Raisi
Party
MDP
LREM
CCA
Popular vote
23,549,616
20,743,128
15,786,449
Percentage
20.78%
18.30%
13.93%
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Candidate
Moon Jae-in
Marine Le Pen
Hong Jun-pyo
Party
Democratic
FN
Liberty Korea
Popular vote
13,423,800
10,638,475
7,852,849
Percentage
11.85%
9.39%
6.93%
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Candidate
Ahn Cheol-soo
Yoo Seong-min
Sim Sang-jung
Party
People's Party (South Korea)
Bareun
Justice
Popular vote
6,998,342
2,208,771
2,017,458
Percentage
6.18%
1.95%
1.78%
National elections in April 2017 Turnout 52,926,754 (75.7%) from France , Ecuador , Serbia , Armenia , and The Gambia
Candidate
Emmanuel Macron
Marine Le Pen
François Fillon
Party
LREM
FN
LR
Popular vote
8,528,585
7,658,990
7,126,632
Percentage
16.11%
14.47%
13.47%
Candidate
J.-L. Mélenchon
Lenín Moreno
Guillermo Lasso
Party
LFI
PAIS Alliance
CREO
Popular vote
7,011,856
5,062,018
4,833,389
Percentage
13.25%
9.56%
9.13%
Candidate
Benoît Hamon
Aleksandar Vučić
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
Party
PS
SNS
DLF
Popular vote
2,268,838
2,012,788
1,689,686
Percentage
4.29%
3.80%
3.19%
National elections in March 2017 Turnout 14,605,727 (70.7%) from the Netherlands , Bulgaria , and East Timor
Candidate
Mark Rutte
Geert Wilders
S. van Haersma Buma
Party
VVD
PVV
CDA
Popular vote
2,238,351
1,372,941
1,301,796
Percentage
15.33%
9.40%
8.91%
Candidate
Alexander Pechtold
Boyko Borisov
Jesse Klaver
Party
D66
GERB
GL
Popular vote
1,285,819
1,147,283
959,600
Percentage
8.80%
7.86%
6.57%
Candidate
Emile Roemer
Korneliya Ninova
Lodewijk Asscher
Party
SP
KzB
PvdA
Popular vote
955,633
955,490
599,699
Percentage
6.54%
6.54%
4.11%
National elections in February 2017 Turnout 13,649,274 (84.8%) from Ecuador , Turkmenistan , and Liechtenstein
Candidate
Lenín Moreno
G. Berdimuhamedow
Guillermo Lasso
Party
PAIS Alliance
TDP
CREO
Popular vote
3,716,343
3,090,611
2,652,403
Percentage
27.23%
22.64%
19.43%
Candidate
Cynthia Viteri
Paco Moncayo
Abdalá Bucaram, Jr.
Party
PSC
Agreement for Change
Fuerza Ecuador
Popular vote
1,540,903
634,033
455,187
Percentage
11.29%
4.65%
3.33%
Candidate
Iván Espinel Molina
P. Zuquilanda Duque
Washington Pesántez
Party
Compromiso Social
PSP
Movimiento Unión
Popular vote
299,840
72,679
71,107
Percentage
2.20%
0.53%
0.52%
These infoboxes list the most successful candidates who contested a national election in recent months, ordered by the number of votes received. Percentages are given as proportions of votes in all nations in which elections took place in that month.