Not applicable to an appointed institution.
THE COUNTRY DESK
Vatican City.
Institutions, national geography and official sources.
Vatican CityCURRENT NATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Leo XIV
Pope and Sovereign
Leadership & photo sources ↗
Source checked 30 Oct 2026. Current officeholder snapshot; independent of the election year selected below.
Government leadership source (opens in a new tab)Leo XIV portrait (opens in a new tab) · Ricardo Stuckert · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab). Display crop; original colours retained.
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Vatican City’s government.
COUNTRY GEOGRAPHY
Simplified geographic reference. This is not a constituency or electoral district map.
Natural Earth · public domainPontifical Commission of Vatican City State
Legislative authority is exercised by the Pope and, on his behalf, the Pontifical Commission. This is an appointed institution rather than a popularly elected national parliament.
Members are appointed by the Pope for five-year terms.
No national parliamentary popular election
Official Vatican institutional source (opens in a new tab)Party seat totals, electoral constituencies and parliamentary election results do not apply to this institution.
Coverage, boundaries and source notes
WHAT IS AVAILABLE
Coverage, clearly labelled.
A country reference outline is supplied; electoral constituencies do not apply.
Party seat tallies are not applicable to this institution.
Vatican City does not hold a national parliamentary popular election comparable to these datasets. Its institutions require a separate treatment. No European live feed is active.
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- Live
- Unofficial counts arriving now.
- Official preliminary
- Accepted official preliminary counts, subject to verification and final count.
- Projection
- Model output, not an election result.
- Simulated
- A rehearsal or what-if scenario, not a result.
- Archived
- Saved past results; the original source status still applies. Archived does not mean certified.