COVID started in 2020 and now it is 2024. Most jurisdictions, organizations and structures having a nominally democratic process will have had at least 1 round of elections since that time.

Has anyone done analysis of what effects COVID has had?

for example

• were incumbent candidates more/less successful than excepted?

• were parties in power at the time more or less likely to stay in power compared to expected?

• moving to the left, moving to the right?

• differences depending when the democratic processes took place, e.g. elections in 2020 vs 2023

• were any effects seen at local levels compared to national?

• overall an change in voter turnout or public participation?

Probably lots of other interesting questions that could be asked. These are just examples to explain what I’m getting at.