Electoral democracy index during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how the electoral democracy index changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

#	President	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	RND Liamine Zéroual	27 Nov 1995 – 27 Apr 1999	+12.6 points 1995 → 1998	+4.2 points/yr
2	Abdelaziz Bouteflika	27 Apr 1999 – 9 Apr 2019	−0.7 points 1998 → 2018	0.0 points/yr
3	Ind. Abdelmadjid Tebboune	19 Dec 2019 – now	−2.8 points 2019 → 2025	−0.5 points/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that count had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in points; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. points, 0 to 100, V-Dem's 0 to 1 index times 100 · V-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_polyarchy): the electoral democracy index, free and fair elections with wide suffrage and the freedoms of association and expression that make them count, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100 · Algeria data · as of Sep 2026.