Electoral democracy during each office-holder's tenure, worldwide

41 offices, from presidents to mayors, in 40 countries, ranked against one another by how the electoral democracy changed from each office-holder's first day in office, each on its own country's figures. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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#	Office-holder	Place	In office	Total	Per year
1	Ivica Račan	Croatia Prime Minister	27 Jan 2000 – 23 Dec 2003	+33.8 points 1999 → 2003	+8.5 points/yr
2	N Viktor Yushchenko	Ukraine President	23 Jan 2005 – 25 Feb 2010	+22.1 points 2004 → 2009	+4.4 points/yr
3	Ernesto Zedillo	Mexico President	1 Dec 1994 – 1 Dec 2000	+20.4 points 1994 → 2000	+3.4 points/yr
4	Moon Jae-in	South Korea President	10 May 2017 – 10 May 2022	+13.4 points 2016 → 2021	+2.7 points/yr
5	N Leonid Kravchuk	Ukraine President	23 Jul 1990 – 19 Jul 1994 from 1991	+11.7 points 1991 → 1994	+3.9 points/yr
6	DP Kim Young-sam	South Korea President	25 Feb 1993 – 25 Feb 1998	+9.2 points 1992 → 1997	+1.8 points/yr
7	Kim Dae-jung	South Korea President	25 Feb 1998 – 25 Feb 2003	+9.0 points 1997 → 2002	+1.8 points/yr
8	Nikica Valentić	Croatia Prime Minister	3 Apr 1993 – 7 Nov 1995	+8.7 points 1992 → 1995	+2.9 points/yr
9	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	Brazil President	1 Jan 2023 – now	+8.5 points 2022 → 2025	+2.8 points/yr
10	PDL Emil Boc	Romania Prime Minister	22 Dec 2008 – 9 Feb 2012	+6.3 points 2008 → 2011	+2.1 points/yr

Showing 10 of 195 tenures.

Sorted by total, highest first. Rows measure V-Dem's electoral democracy index, 0 to 1 shown as 0 to 100, the same country experts' method everywhere; yearly; each place is read from its own statistics office's series (the row's chart names it), so a change is set against the place's own first day, never against another country's level. Every row is indexed to the last month, quarter or count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that period had no data, or because the period cut it). Changes are differences in points; "per year" divides them by the years in office. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. Data as of Sep 2026.