January 5 at 
Presidential elections were held in Georgia, where Mikheil Saakashvili won. At the same time, Georgia held a referendum on joining NATO , in which 70% of the population voted in favor of joining the alliance [1] .
January 20 at 
Serbia hosted the 1st round of the Presidential election , in which Tomislav Nikolic won. In the second round, which took place on February 3, Boris Tadich won, however, with a margin of votes of less than 3 percent.
On March 11, due to disagreement over the reaction to Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence, the President of Serbia scheduled early parliamentary elections for May 11 . The victory was won by the pro-European block “For European Serbia” by Boris Tadic .
The main intrigue of the 2008 elections was 
Presidential race in the USA .
On February 5th, Super Tuesday was held. This is election day for party congresses in the United States . June 4 - During the pre-election, Barack Obama was elected as the US presidential candidate for the Democratic Party . Hillary Clinton , who lost the vote, announced that she intends to run for vice presidency . John McCain was nominated from the Republican Party. Actually, the elections were held on November 4 . The 44th president was Barack Obama .
February 19th held 
Presidential elections in Armenia .
On 
Russian presidential election held on March 2 . Dmitry Medvedev , the successor to Vladimir Putin , won.
The presidential election in Taiwan (2008) was held on March 22 . The leader of the Taiwanese opposition, 57-year-old Ma Ying-jeou, won [2] .
May 25th Parliament 
Lebanon elected Michel Suleiman as President of the Lebanese Republic.
September 28, quietly and imperceptibly, without extra pump went 
parliamentary elections in Belarus .
On October 8, as a result of a protracted parliamentary crisis, the President of Ukraine dissolved the parliament. date of 
An extraordinary election was first scheduled for December 7 , on November 20 the elections were postponed to December 14 [3] , and then postponed indefinitely.