Election laws fair and impartial management

scale 0-4, 2013–2018

Country	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Afghanistan	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Albania	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Algeria	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Andorra	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Angola	2.00	2.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Antigua and Barbuda	3.00	3.00	3.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Argentina	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Armenia	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Australia	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Austria	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Azerbaijan	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Bahamas	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Bahrain	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Bangladesh	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Barbados	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Belgium	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Belize	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Benin	2.00	2.00	2.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Bhutan	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Bolivia	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	2.00
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Botswana	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Brazil	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Bulgaria	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Burkina Faso	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	3.00	3.00
Burma (Myanmar)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Burundi	2.00	2.00	2.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Cambodia	1.00	1.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Cameroon		1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Canada	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Cape Verde	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Central African Republic	3.00	2.33	1.67	1.00	1.00	1.00
Chad	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Chile	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Colombia	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Comoros	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Congo (Kinshasa)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Costa Rica	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Croatia	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Cyprus	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Czech Republic	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Denmark	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Djibouti	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Dominica	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	3.00
Dominican Republic	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Ecuador	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Egypt	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
El Salvador	4.00	4.00	4.00	3.00	4.00	4.00
Estonia	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Ethiopia	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Fiji			3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Finland	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
France	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Gabon	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Gambia	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	2.00
Georgia	2.00	2.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Germany	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Ghana	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Greece	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Grenada	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	3.00
Guatemala	3.00	3.00	3.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Guinea	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Guinea Bissau	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Guyana	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Haiti	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	2.00
Honduras	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Hong Kong	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Hungary	4.00	4.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Iceland	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
India	3.00	3.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Indonesia	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Iran	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Iraq	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Ireland	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Israel	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Italy	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Ivory Coast	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Jamaica	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Japan	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Jordan	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	2.00	2.00
Kazakhstan	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Kenya	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Kiribati	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Kosovo	2.00	2.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Kuwait	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Kyrgyzstan	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	1.00	1.00
Latvia	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Lebanon	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Lesotho	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Liberia	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	2.00
Libya	3.00	3.00	2.00	2.00	1.00
Liechtenstein	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Lithuania	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Luxembourg	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.)	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Madagascar	1.00	2.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Malawi	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Malaysia	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Maldives	3.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	1.00
Mali		2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Malta	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Marshall Islands	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Mauritania	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Mauritius	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Mexico	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Micronesia	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Moldova	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Monaco	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	3.00	3.00
Mongolia	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Montenegro	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Morocco	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Mozambique	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Namibia	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Nauru	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Nepal	1.00	2.00	2.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Netherlands	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
New Zealand	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Nicaragua	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	1.00	1.00
Niger	3.00	3.00	3.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Nigeria	2.00	2.00	2.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Northern Cyprus	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Norway	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Oman	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Pakistan	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Palau	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Panama	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Papua New Guinea	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Paraguay	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Peru	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Philippines	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Poland	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Portugal	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Puerto Rico	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Qatar	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Romania	3.00	4.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Rwanda	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Saint Kitts and Nevis	4.00	4.00	4.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Saint Lucia	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	3.00
Saint Thomas and Principe	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Saint Vincent and Grenadines	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Samoa	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
San Marino	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Senegal	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Serbia	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Seychelles	2.00	2.00	2.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Sierra Leone	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Singapore	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Slovakia	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Slovenia	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Solomon Islands	2.00	2.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Somaliland	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
South Africa	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
South Korea	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
South Sudan	2.00	2.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Spain	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	3.00
Sri Lanka	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Suriname	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Sweden	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Switzerland	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Taiwan	3.00	3.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Tajikistan	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Tanzania	3.00	3.00	3.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Thailand	2.00	2.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Timor Leste	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Togo	1.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Tonga	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Trinidad and Tobago	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Tunisia	3.00	3.00	4.00	4.00	3.00	2.00
Turkey	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	2.00	1.00
Tuvalu	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Uganda	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Ukraine	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
United Kingdom	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
United States	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Uruguay	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	4.00
Vanuatu	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Venezuela	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Yemen	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Zambia	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	2.00	2.00
Zimbabwe	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

Are the electoral laws and framework fair, and are they implemented impartially by the relevant election management bodies?

Source: Freedom House

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