2024 was a historic year in global elections — and a bad one for those in power
2024 Presidential Election,World
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In this historic year of elections, the world gave its rulers a shellacking.
Most notable for Americans, of course, was the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris to President-elect Donald Trump. But zoom out and that is just one data point in a pattern that stretches from India to Austria, Botswana to South Korea, and Britain to Uruguay.
NBC News reported at the start of 2024 how it would see more elections than any other year on record, with more than 70 nations covering 4 billion people going to the polls.
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