Nominees had to receive at least 5% of the vote.

Africa (Presidents; >5%) edit

East Africa edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Charity Ngilu     Kenya SDP 1997 488,600
(7.9%)
Lost  N
Joyce Banda     Malawi PP 2014 1,056,236
(20.2%)
Lost  N
Sahle-Work Zewde     Ethiopia Independent 2018 659
(100.0%)
Elected  Y

Middle Africa edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Alda Bandeira     São Tomé and Príncipe PCD-GR 1996 5,970
(16.1%)
Lost  N
Maria das Neves     São Tomé and Príncipe Independent 2011 8,461
(14.0%)
Lost  N
MLSTP–PSD 2016 16,828
(24.3%)

West Africa edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf     Liberia Unity 1997 59,557
(9.6%)
Lost  N
2005 192,326
(19.8%)
Run-off  Y
478,526
(59.4%)
Elected  Y
2011 530,020
(43.9%)
Run-off  Y
607,618
(90.7%)
Elected  Y

South Africa edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah     Namibia SWAPO 2024
(0.0%)
TBA

Americas (Presidents; >5%) edit

Carribean edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Mirlande Manigat     Haiti RPND 2010-11 336,878
(31.4%)
Run-off  Y
336,747
(31.7%)
Lost  N
Maryse Narcisse     Haiti Fanmi Lavalas 2015 108,844
(7.0%)
Lost  N
Nov 2016 95,765
(9.0%)
Paula-Mae Weekes     Trinidad and Tobago Independent 2018 Unopposed Elected  Y
Sandra Mason     Barbados Independent 2021 45
(100.0%)
Elected  Y
Christine Kangaloo     Trinidad and Tobago PNM 2023 48
(68.6%)
Elected  Y

Central America edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Violeta Chamorro     Nicaragua UNO 1990 777,552
(54.7%)
Elected  Y
Mireya Moscoso     Panama Liberal 1994 310,372
(29.1%)
Lost  N
Arnulfista 1999 572,717
(44.8%)
Elected  Y
Blanca Ovelar     Paraguay Colorado 2008 540,513
(31.7%)
Lost  N
Balbina Herrera     Panama PRD 2009 597,227
(37.6%)
Lost  N
Laura Chinchilla     Costa Rica PLN 2010 896,516
(46.9%)
Elected  Y
Xiomara Castro     Honduras Libre 2013 896,498
(28.8%)
Lost  N
2021 1,716,793
(51.1%)
Elected  Y
Sandra Torres     Guatemala UNE 2015 948,809
(19.8%)
Run-off  Y
1,328,342
(32.6%)
Lost  N
2019 1,112,939
(25.4%)
Run-off  Y
1,384,044
(42.0%)
Lost  N
2023 868,124
(20.9%)
Run-off  Y
1,567,472
(39.1%)
Lost  N
Zury Ríos     Guatemala Valor 2015 286,730
(6.0%)
Lost  N
2023 361,205
(8.7%)
Lost  N
Thelma Cabrera     Guatemala MLP 2019 452,260
(10.3%)
Lost  N
Lineth Saborío Chaverri     Costa Rica PUSC 2022 259,767
(12.4%)
Lost  N

North America edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Josefina Vázquez Mota     Mexico PAN 2012 12,732,630
(26.0%)
Lost  N
Hillary Clinton     United States Democratic 2016 65,853,514
(48.2%)
Lost  N
Claudia Sheinbaum     Mexico Morena 2024 N/A
(0.0%)
TBD
Xóchitl Gálvez   PAN

South America edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
María Eugenia Rojas Correa     Colombia ANAPO 1974 492,166
(9.5%)
Lost  N
Remedios Loza     Bolivia CONDEPA 1997 373,528
(17.2%)
Lost  N
Noemí Sanín     Colombia Yes Colombia 1998 2,845,750
(26.8%)
Lost  N
2002 641,884
(5.8%)
Conservative 2010 893,819
(6.1%)
Rosalía Arteaga     Ecuador MIRA 1998 195,000
(5.1%)
Lost  N
Lourdes Flores     Peru National Unity 2001 2,576,653
(24.3%)
Lost  N
2006 2,923,280
(23.8%)
Michele Bachelet     Chile Socialist 2005-06 3,190,691
(46.0%)
Run-off  Y
3,723,019
(53.5%)
Elected  Y
2013 3,075,839
(46.7%)
Run-off  Y
3,470,379
(62.2%)
Elected  Y
Heloísa Helena     Brazil PSOL 2006 6,575,393
(6.8%)
Lost  N
Cynthia Viteri     Ecuador PSC 2006 525,728
(9.6%)
Lost  N
2017 1,540,903
(16.3%)
Martha Chávez     Peru Alliance for the Future 2006 912,420
(7.4%)
Lost  N
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner     Argentina Justicialist 2007 8,652,293
(45.3%)
Elected  Y
2011 11,865,055
(54.1%)
Elisa Carrió   Civic Coalition ARI 2003 2,723,207
(14.1%)
Lost  N
2007 5,168,481
(27.0%)
Dilma Rousseff     Brazil Workers' 2010 47,651,434
(46.9%)
Run-off  Y
55,752,529
(56.0%)
Elected  Y
2014 43,267,668
(41.6%)
Run-off  Y
54,501,118
(51.6%)
Elected  Y
Marina Silva   Green 2010 19,636,359
(19.3%)
Lost  N
Socialist 2014 22,176,619
(21.3%)
Keiko Fujimori     Peru Popular Force 2011 3,449,595
(23.6%)
Run-off  Y
7,490,647
(48.6%)
Lost  N
2016 6,115,073
(39.9%)
Run-off  Y
8,555,880
(49.9%)
Lost  N
2021 1,930,762
(13.4%)
Run-off  Y
8,792,117
(49.9%)
Lost  N
Evelyn Matthei     Chile UDI 2013 1,648,481
(25.0%)
Run-off  Y
2,111,891
(37.8%)
Lost  N
Marta Lucía Ramírez     Colombia Conservative 2014 1,997,980
(15.5%)
Lost  N
Clara López Obregón   PDA 1,958,518
(15.2%)
Verónika Mendoza     Peru Broad Front 2016 2,874,940
(18.7%)
Lost  N
Together for Peru 2021 1,132,577
(7.9%)
Beatriz Sánchez     Chile Independent 2017 1,338,037
(20.3%)
Lost  N
Carolina Goic   PDC 387,784
(5.9%)
Yasna Provoste     Chile PDC 2021 815,563
(11.6%)
Lost  N
Luisa González     Ecuador MRC 2023 3,315,663
(33.6%)
Run-off  Y
4,880,525
(48.2%)
Lost  N
Patricia Bullrich     Argentina PRO 2023 6,379,023
(23.8%)
Lost  N

Asia (Presidents; >5%) edit

Central Asia edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Dania Espaeva     Kazakhstan Aq Jol 2019 465,714
(5.0%)
Lost  N
Maqsuda Vorisova     Uzbekistan XDP 2021 1,075,016
(6.6%)
Lost  N

East Asia edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Park Geun-hye     South Korea Saenuri 2012 15,773,128
(51.6%)
Elected  Y
Tsai Ing-wen     Taiwan DPP 2012 6,093,578
(45.6%)
Lost  N
2016 6,894,744
(56.1%)
Elected  Y
2020 8,170,231
(57.1%)
Carrie Lam     Hong Kong Independent 2017 777
(66.8%)
Elected  Y
Sim Sang-jung     South Korea Justice 2017 2,017,458
(6.2%)
Lost  N

South Asia edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Sirimavo Bandaranaike     Sri Lanka SLFP 1988 2,289,860
(44.9%)
Lost  N
Chandrika Kumaratunga   SLFP 1994 4,709,205
(62.3%)
Elected  Y
1999 4,312,157
(51.1%)
Srima Dissanayake   UNP 1994 2,715,283
(35.9%)
Lost  N
Lakshmi Sahgal     India CPI (M) 2002 107,366
(10.4%)
Lost  N
Pratibha Patil   INC 2007 638,116
(65.8%)
Elected  Y
Bidya Devi Bhandari       Nepal CPN (UML) 2015 327
(59.6%)
Elected  Y
2018 39,275
(77.4%)
Meira Kumar     India INC 2017 367,314
(34.3%)
Lost  N
Kumari Laxmi Rai       Nepal Nepali Congress 2018 11,730
(23.0%)
Lost  N
Droupadi Murmu     India BJP 2022 676,803
(64.0%)
Elected  Y

Southeast Asia edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Corazon Aquino     Philippines PDP–Laban 1986 7,158,769
(52.3%)
Elected  Y
Miriam Defensor Santiago   PRP 1992 4,468,173
(19.7%)
Lost  N
Imelda Marcos   KBL 2,338,294
(10.3%)
Megawati Sukarnoputri     Indonesia PDI-P 1999 313
(45.6%)
Lost  N
2004 31,569,104
(26.6%)
Run-off  Y
44,990,704
(39.4%)
Lost  N
2009 32,548,105
(26.8%)
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo     Philippines Lakas 2004 12,905,808
(40.0%)
Elected  Y
Grace Poe   Independent 2016 9,100,991
(21.4%)
Lost  N
Halimah Yacob     Singapore Independent 2017 Walkover Elected  Y
Leni Robredo     Philippines Independent 2022 15,035,773
(27.9%)
Lost  N
Armanda Berta dos Santos     Timor Leste KHUNTO 2022 56,690
(8.7%)
Lost  N

West Asia edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Dalia Itzik     Israel Kadima 2014 28
(23.9%)
Lost  N
Dalia Dorner   Independent 13
(11.1%)
Meral Akşener     Turkey iYi 2018 3,649,030
(7.3%)
Lost  N
Miriam Peretz     Israel Independent 2021 26
(23.0%)
Lost  N

Europe (Presidents; >5%) edit

Eastern Europe edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Marie Stiborová     Czech Republic KSČM 1993 49
(24.5%)
Lost  N
Magdaléna Vášáryová     Slovakia Independent 1999 194,635
(6.6%)
Lost  N
Nataliya Vitrenko     Ukraine PSPU 1999 2,886,972
(11.0%)
Lost  N
Katalin Szili     Hungary MSZP 2005 183
(47.5%)
2nd round
185
(48.0%)
3rd round
182
(47.1%)
Lost  N
Nadezhda Bondarenko     Transnistria PKP 2006 20,902
(8.3%)
Lost  N
Zinaida Greceanîi     Moldova PCRM May-June 2009 60
(59.4%)
2nd round
Annulled  N
Iveta Radičová     Slovakia SDKÚ–DS 2009 713,735
(38.0%)
Run-off  Y
988,808
(44.5%)
Lost  N
Zuzana Martináková   Free Forum 96,035
(5.1%)
Yulia Tymoshenko     Ukraine Batkivshchyna 2010 6,159,810
(25.0%)
Run-off  Y
11,593,357
(45.5%)
Lost  N
2014 2,310,050
(12.8%)
2019 2,532,452
(13.4%)
Meglena Kuneva     Bulgaria Independent 2011 470,808
(14.0%)
Lost  N
Alla Dzhioyeva     South Ossetia Independent 2011 6,052
(24.8%)
Run-off  Y
14,828
(57.9%)
Annulled  N
Nino Burjanadze     Georgia DM–UG 2013 166,061
(10.2%)
Lost  N
Elena Udrea     Romania PMP 2014 493,376
(5.2%)
Lost  N
Tsetska Tsacheva     Bulgaria GERB 2016 840,635
(22.0%)
Run-off  Y
1,256,485
(36.2%)
Lost  N
Maia Sandu     Moldova PAS 2016 549,152
(38.7%)
Run-off  Y
766,593
(47.9%)
Lost  N
2020 487,635
(36.2%)
Run-off  Y
943,006
(57.7%)
Elected  Y
2024
(0.0%)
TBA
Salome Zourabichvili     Georgia Independent 2018 615,572
(38.6%)
Run-off  Y
1,147,701
(59.5%)
Elected  Y
Viorica Dăncilă     Romania SPD 2019 2,051,725
(22.3%)
Run-off  Y
3,339,922
(33.9%)
Lost  N
Zuzana Čaputová     Slovakia PS 2019 870,415
(40.6%)
Run-off  Y
1,056,582
(58.4%)
Elected  Y
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya     Belarus Independent 2020 588,619
(10.2%)
Lost  N
Katalin Novák     Hungary Fidesz 2022 137
(72.9%)
Elected  Y
Danuše Nerudová     Czech Republic Independent 2023 777,080
(13.9%)
Lost  N

Northern Europe edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir     Iceland Independent 1980 43,611
(33.8%)
Elected  Y
1984 Unopposed
1988 117,292
(94.6%)
1992 Unopposed
Sigrún Þorsteinsdóttir     Iceland Independent 1988 6,712
(5.4%)
Lost  N
Mary Robinson     Ireland Labour 1990 612,265
(38.9%)
Run-off  Y
817,830
(51.9%)
Elected  Y
Elisabeth Rehn     Finland Swedish's People 1994 702,211
(22.0%)
Run-off  Y
1,476,294
(46.1%)
Lost  N
2000 241,877
(7.9%)
Mary McAleese     Ireland Fianna Fáil 1997 574,424
(45.2%)
Run-off  Y
706,259
(55.6%)
Elected  Y
2004 Unopposed
Mary Banotti     Ireland Fine Gael 1997 372,002
(29.3%)
Run-off  Y
497,516
(39.2%)
Lost  N
Dana Rosemary Scallon   Independent 175,458
(13.8%)
Adi Roche   Labour 88,423
(7.0%)
Tarja Halonen     Finland Social Democratic 2000 1,224,431
(40.0%)
Run-off  Y
1,644,532
(51.6%)
Elected  Y
2006 1,397,030
(46.3%)
Run-off  Y
1,630,980
(51.8%)
Elected  Y
Siiri Oviir     Estonia Centre 1996 25
(6.7%)
Lost  N
Guðrún Agnarsdóttir     Iceland Independent 1996 43,578
(26.4%)
Lost  N
Ilga Kreituse     Latvia Saimnieks 1996 25
(25.8%)
Lost  N
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga     Latvia Independent 1999 53
(60.9%)
Elected  Y
2003 88
(93.6%)
Ingrīda Ūdre     Latvia New 1999 9
(10.3%)
Lost  N
Riitta Uosukainen     Finland National Coalition 2000 392,305
(12.8%)
Lost  N
Kazimiera Prunskienė     Lithuania VNDS 2002-03 72,925
(5.0%)
Lost  N
2004 264,681
(21.2%)
Run-off  Y
651,024
(47.3%)
Lost  N
Vilija Blinkevičiūtė     Lithuania NS (SL) 2004 204,819
(16.4%)
Lost  N
Ene Ergma     Estonia IRL 2006 65
(64.4%)
Lost  N
Dalia Grybauskaitė     Lithuania Independent 2009 950,407
(69.1%)
Elected  Y
2014 612,485
(45.9%)
Run-off  Y
701,999
(57.9%)
Elected  Y
Thóra Arnórsdóttir     Iceland Independent 2012 52,795
(33.2%)
Lost  N
Mailis Reps     Estonia Centre 2016 26
(25.7%)
2nd round
32
(31.7%)
3rd round
26
(25.7%)
4th round
79
(23.6%)
Lost  N
Marina Kaljurand   Independent 75
(22.4%)
Kersti Kaljulaid   Independent 81
(80.0%)
Elected  Y
Halla Tómasdóttir     Iceland Independent 2016 50,995
(27.9%)
Lost  N
Laura Huhtasaari     Finland Finns 2018 207,337
(6.9%)
Lost  N
Liadh Ní Riada     Ireland Sinn Féin 2018 93,987
(6.4%)
Lost  N
Joan Freeman   Independent 87,908
(6.0%)
Ingrida Šimonytė     Lithuania Independent 2019 446,719
(31.5%)
Run-off  Y
443,394
(33.5%)
Lost  N
2024 N/A
(0.0%)
TBD
Elina Pinto     Latvia Independent 2023 10
(13.0%)
2nd round
Lost  N

Southern Europe edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Savka Dabčević-Kučar     Croatia HNS 1992 161,242
(6.1%)
Lost  N
Nilde Iotti     Italy PDC 1992 183
(21.1%)
2nd round
182
(18.4%)
3rd round
245
(25.0%)
4th round
256
(50.1%)
5th round
249
(25.1%)
6th round
235
(23.6%)
7th round
233
(26.1%)
8th round
214
(23.2%)
9th round
Barbara Brezigar     Slovenia Independent 2002 352,520
(30.8%)
Run-off  Y
449,995
(43.4%)
Lost  N
Jadranka Kosor     Croatia HDZ 2005 452,218
(20.5%)
Run-off  Y
751,692
(34.1%)
Lost  N
Vesna Pusić     Croatia HNS-LD 2009-10 143,190
(7.3%)
Lost  N
Borjana Krišto     Bosnia and Herzegovina HDZ BiH 2010 109,758
(19.7%)
Lost  N
2022 180,255
(44.2%)
Atifete Jahjaga     Kosovo Independent 2011 81
(67.5%)
Elected  Y
Suzan Novoberdali   AKR 19
(15.8%)
Lost  N
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović     Croatia HDZ 2014-15 665,379
(37.8%)
Run-off  Y
1,114,945
(50.7%)
Elected  Y
Independent 2019-20 507,628
(27.0%)
Run-off  Y
929,707
(47.3%)
Lost  N
Željka Cvijanović     Bosnia and Herzegovina SNSD 2014 310,658
(47.6%)
Lost  N
2022 327,720
(51.6%)
Elected  Y
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca     Malta Labour 2014 Unopposed Elected  Y
Sibel Siber     Northern Cyprus CTP 2015 24,271
(22.5%)
Lost  N
Marisa Matias     Portugal BE 2016 469,814
(10.1%)
Lost  N
Romana Tomc     Slovenia SDS 2017 102,925
(13.7%)
Lost  N
Ljudmila Novak   NSi 54,437
(7.2%)
Diana Zelenika     Bosnia and Herzegovina HDZ 1990 2018 25,890
(6.0%)
Lost  N
Draginja Vuksanović     Montenegro SDP 2018 27,441
(8.2%)
Lost  N
Katerina Sakellaropoulou     Greece Independent 2020 261
(87.0%)
Elected  Y
Violeta Ivanov     Moldova Șor 2020 87,542
(6.5%)
Lost  N
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova     North Macedonia VMRO-DPMNE 2019 318,341
(44.2%)
Run-off  Y
377,446
(46.4%)
Lost  N
2024 N/A
(0.0%)
TBD
Vjosa Osmani     Kosovo Guxo 2021 69
(57.5%)
2nd round
67
(55.8%)
3rd round
71
(59.2%)
Elected  Y
Ana Gomes     Portugal PS 2021 540,823
(13.0%)
Lost  N
Elisabetta Casellati     Italy Forza Italia 2022 382
(37.9%)
Lost  N
Nataša Pirc Musar     Slovenia Independent 2022 234,361
(26.9%)
Run-off  Y
478,399
(53.9%)
Elected  Y
Sabina Senčar   Resni.ca 51,767
(5.9%)
Lost  N

Western Europe edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Annemarie Renger     West Germany SPD 1979 431
(41.6%)
Lost  N
Luise Rinser     West Germany Green 1984 68
(6.5%)
Lost  N
Freda Meissner-Blau     Austria Green 1986 259,689
(5.5%)
Lost  N
Arlette Laguiller     France LO 1995 1,615,5525
(5.3%)
Lost  N
2002 1,630,045
(5.7%)
Heide Schmidt     Austria FPÖ 1992 761,390
(16.4%)
Lost  N
Liberal Forum 1998 464,625
(11.1%)
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher     Germany FDP 1994 132
(10.0%)
2nd round
126
(9.5%)
Lost  N
Gertraud Knoll     Austria Independent 1998 566,551
(13.6%)
Lost  N
Dagmar Schipanski     Germany CDU 1999 588
(43.9%)
2nd round
572
(42.8%)
Lost  N
Gesine Schwan     Germany SPD 2004 589
(48.8%)
Lost  N
2009 503
(41.1%)
Ségolène Royal     France PS 2007 9,500,112
(25.9%)
Run-off  Y
16,790,440
(46.9%)
Lost  N
Benita Ferrero-Waldner     Austria ÖVP 2010 1,969,326
(47.6%)
Lost  N
Barbara Rosenkranz     Austria FPÖ 2010 481,923
(15.2%)
Lost  N
Beate Klarsfeld     Germany Independent 2012 126
(10.2%)
Lost  N
Marine Le Pen     France RN 2012 6,421,426
(17.9%)
Lost  N
2017 7,678,491
(21.3%)
Run-off  Y
10,638,475
(33.9%)
Lost  N
2022 8,133,828
(23.1%)
Run-off  Y
13,288,686
(41.4%)
Lost  N
Irmgard Griss     Austria Independent 2016 810,641
(18.9%)
Lost  N

Oceania edit

Name Image Country Party Election Votes
(Pct.)
Outcome
Hilda Heine     Marshall Islands Non-partisan 2016 24
(72.7%)
Elected  Y
2020 12
(37.5%)
Lost  N
2024 17
(51.5%)
Elected  Y
Teimumu Kepa     Fiji SODELPA 2021 23
(45.1%)
Lost  N
Nicole Sanquer     French Polynesia A here ia Porinetia 2023 3
(5.6%)
Lost  N