Year of elections

I guess elections happen in various countries each year but this year was easily one where several high profile elections took place. The world's largest democracy in terms of population, the most influential, two of the biggest nations by area, some of the most controversial and other nations, big or small.

This year we had India, Canada, Australia, the US, Malaysia, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Russia, Nauru, Spain, Tunisia and if we consider it, the European Union.