Voice and accountability during each office-holder's tenure, worldwide

42 offices, from presidents to mayors, in 40 countries, ranked against one another by how the voice and accountability 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.

#	Office-holder	Place	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	N Viktor Yushchenko	Ukraine President	23 Jan 2005 – 25 Feb 2010	+14.0 points 2004 → 2009	+2.8 points/yr
2	N Edmund Ho	Macao Chief Executive · China	20 Dec 1999 – 20 Dec 2009 from 2000	+10.1 points 2000 → 2009	+1.1 points/yr
3	Tony Blair	United Kingdom Prime Minister	2 May 1997 – 27 Jun 2007	+8.9 points 1996 → 2006	+0.9 points/yr
4	Krišjānis Kariņš	Latvia Prime Minister	23 Jan 2019 – 15 Sep 2023	+7.4 points 2018 → 2023	+1.5 points/yr
5	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	India Prime Minister	19 Mar 1998 – 22 May 2004 from 1998	+7.1 points 1998 → 2003	+1.4 points/yr
6	John Howard	Australia Prime Minister	11 Mar 1996 – 3 Dec 2007 from 1996	+6.8 points 1996 → 2007	+0.6 points/yr
7	Bertie Ahern	Ireland Taoiseach	26 Jun 1997 – 7 May 2008	+6.8 points 1996 → 2007	+0.6 points/yr
8	Wolfgang Schüssel	Austria Federal Chancellor	4 Feb 2000 – 11 Jan 2007 from 2000	+6.7 points 2000 → 2006	+1.1 points/yr
9	Mikuláš Dzurinda	Slovakia Prime Minister	30 Oct 1998 – 4 Jul 2006	+6.6 points 1998 → 2006	+0.8 points/yr
10	Guy Verhofstadt	Belgium Prime Minister	12 Jul 1999 – 20 Mar 2008	+6.2 points 1998 → 2007	+0.7 points/yr

Showing 10 of 155 tenures.

Sorted by total, highest first. Rows measure the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators score from 0 to 100, one method for every country; 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.