← Tenure by political system

An electoral democracy holds real multiparty elections that are mostly free and fair, so voters can genuinely change their government. What separates it from a liberal democracy is weaker guardrails: courts, media, and minority protections do not fully constrain those in power between elections.

Across the 55 electoral democracies we track, the current leader has been in office an average of 1,447 days (about 4.0 years).

Regime classifications follow the Regimes of the World scheme (V-Dem), via Our World in Data.