2024 Georgian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Georgia on 26 October 2024. The elections were held under the rules adopted in 2017 through the constitutional amendments which shifted the electoral system towards a fully proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold. The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party sought to win its fourth term in office. Its founder, Bidzina Ivanishvili—an influential oligarch and former prime minister often regarded as the country's éminence grise following his official departure from politics in 2021—returned to politics several months before the polls to lead GD in the elections.

With the election being held during the Russo-Ukrainian war, "safeguarding peace" through a "pragmatic policy" with Russia was a major campaign message of the ruling Georgian Dream party. It also campaigned on socially conservative policies, particularly the recent "LGBT propaganda law" and strengthening of status of the Georgian Orthodox Church in the constitution; and outlawing those opposition parties which they accused of "dragging the country in the 2008 war with Russia" and "instituting a system of violence and torture" during their rule. It shifted to Eurosceptic position, while not rejecting joining the European Union, promising to do it while "playing by Georgian rules". It also promised restoring the country's territorial integrity, with Ivanishvili making overtures to the Kremlin, and controversially calling for an apology for Georgia's role in the 2008 war.

During the pre-election period, the opposition parties emphasized what they viewed as GD's pro-Russian shift and its unwillingness to fulfill the criteria set by the European Commission for EU accession, campaigning for European integration. The election was preceded by the 2023–2024 Georgian protests over controversial legislation requiring organizations receiving foreign funding to register as "foreign agents", sparking accusations of authoritarianism. This law has strained relations with the West; the European Union and the United States initiated a variety of measures against the law, including U.S. visa designations and financial sanctions against dozens of Georgian officials and their families, the de facto freezing of Georgia's European Union membership candidate status, and the proposed U.S. Congress MEGOBARI Act.

Based on preliminary results published by Central Election Commission of Georgia, Georgian Dream declared victory in the election with more than 53% of the vote, while the four major opposition coalitions—which agreed not to cooperate with Georgian Dream in the parliament through their Georgian Charter—were recorded as having received 37.79% in total. Georgian Dream posted the highest results in rural areas, particularly in the Samtskhe-Javakheti, Kvemo Kartli, Svaneti, Racha-Lechkhumi, Guria, and Adjara regions, but lost the capital Tbilisi and also Rustavi to the opposition, while only closely winning other major cities. In the capital, GD received 42% of the vote, while the four major opposition coalitions combined received 46%; the smaller libertarian Girchi party won 5.3%. Georgian Dream also dramatically lost to the opposition among the Georgian diaspora.

The four major opposition coalitions and President Salome Zourabichvili stated that the elections were carried out with vote-buying, ballot-box stuffing, intimidation and pressure on voters. They accused Georgian Dream of "stealing the election", with Zourabichvili refusing to recognize the official results, which she called illegitimate. The opposition announced that it was going to boycott the new parliament. Some election monitors characterized the conduct of the elections as "fundamentally flawed." In the aftermath of the election, the V-Dem Institute downgraded the quality of democracy in Georgia from an "electoral democracy" to an "electoral autocracy". The disputed election led to the 2024-2026 Georgian political crisis.