v6.6.0 (2026-08-18)

New Features

• Single Election menu item type: point a menu item straight at one election, giving it its own URL, page title and breadcrumb [Menus]
• Election Results menu item type, so an election's results can be linked from a menu [Menus]
• Display options for the election page: show or hide the title, opening and closing dates, election status, the visitor's voting status, description, View Results button, Order By dropdown and the Candidates/Lists tabs [Display]
• Display options for the cards themselves: candidate image and placeholder, image height, candidate number, list name and description with a configurable truncation length; motion number; candidate list description, avatars and numbers; and every element of an election card in the elections list [Display]
• Every display option is set globally under Options and can be overridden on an individual menu item, the same way Joomla's own articles work [Display]
• The candidate grid and the elections list grid are configurable per screen size, from phones through extra large desktops, at 1 to 6 cards per row [Display]

Improved

• The elections list menu item type is now called "Elections list" and carries a description. Previously it and the single election type were both listed as "JoomElection main page", so the two were impossible to tell apart when creating a menu item [Menus]

Fixed

• A link to one election, built on a page whose menu item pointed at a different election, resolved to the menu item's election instead of the linked one [Routing]
• Candidate list names and the candidate names inside them were not escaped on the Candidate lists tab [Security]
• The Default Candidate Order setting never reached the query, so the Order By dropdown showed an order the candidate list was not actually sorted by [Elections]
• Building an election link could raise a fatal error on a page with no active menu item [Routing]

Upgrade Notes

• No database changes. Every new display option defaults to the current appearance, so a site that is upgraded and left alone renders exactly as it did before.
• Default Candidate Order now genuinely sorts the candidate list. If your candidates' manual ordering differs from their candidate numbers, the default order on the election page may change; set Default Candidate Order to "Candidate number" under Options to keep the previous ordering.
• Existing menu items continue to work unchanged and are now shown as "Elections list".

v6.5.0 (2026-07-23)

New Features

• Motions election type: voters take a Yes, No or Abstain position on a numbered agenda, alongside the existing candidate and candidate list elections [Elections]
• Admin Motions section for writing, numbering and ordering the motions in an election, with a per-election toggle for whether Abstain is offered [Motions]
• Motion ballot: the voter answers every motion in a single form, and the whole ballot is validated server-side before anything is recorded [Voting]
• Motion outcomes - Carried, Not carried, or Not carried (tie) - on the frontend and admin results screens and in CSV exports [Results]
• Weighted voting applies to motions, with each motion counted independently [Voting]

Improved

• The E2E voting harness covers motion elections, with expected tallies and outcomes computed by hand rather than derived from the component's own counting [Testing]

Fixed

• Admin-entered names were not escaped on the results, ballot and candidate list screens [Security]
• A new voter could not be saved from the Select User modal [Voters]

Upgrade Notes

• Adds the 6.5.0 database migration: a third election type, a motion_allow_abstain column on elections, and a nullable choice column on votes.
• Existing votes keep a NULL choice, which marks them as candidate or candidate list ballots, so no existing election result is altered.
• Candidate and candidate list elections are otherwise untouched.

v6.4.1 (2026-07-22)

New Features

• Ballot Simulation: preview a voter's ballot under the current weighted settings before saving, showing the resolved weight, allowance and per-candidate cap alongside the ballot the voter would actually see [Voting]

Improved

• Ballot Simulation warns when a voter's allowance cannot be spent, for example 450 votes where three candidates capped at 2 each leave room for only 6 [Voting]

Fixed

• Multi-seat elections declared only one winner. A 2-seat election now marks both seats, and a tie on the final seat is reported as a tie instead of being awarded to whichever candidate happened to sort first [Results]
• Candidate list election results were ordered by candidate name instead of votes, which could place a candidate with no votes at the top of the table [Results]
• Admin footer showed "Version" with no number [UI]

Upgrade Notes

• No database changes, and no existing results are altered. Vote totals were always counted correctly; what changed is which candidates are marked as having won a seat.
• Single-seat elections are unaffected and still show one "Winner". Multi-seat elections now show "Elected" on every candidate who took a seat.

v6.4.0 (2026-07-16)

New Features

• Multi-seat elections: a Seats setting gives each voter seats × their weight votes [Elections]
• Max Votes per Candidate limits how many votes one candidate may take from one voter, set per election and overridable per voter and per user group [Voting]
• Ballots capped at one vote per candidate now show checkboxes instead of number boxes [Voting]
• Optional 6th CSV column for a voter's per-candidate cap [Voters]

Fixed

• Turnout by voting power could exceed 100% in a multi-seat election, counting one weight per voter against every ballot row cast [Results]

Upgrade Notes

• Elections are unaffected by default: Seats defaults to 1, which keeps a voter's allowance equal to their weight exactly as in 6.3.0.
• If you gave individual voters a weight of 5 to grant them "five votes", set their weight back to 1 and use Seats = 5 instead. Leaving the weight at 5 alongside Seats = 5 would give an allowance of 25.

v6.3.0 (2026-07-15)

New Features

• Weighted voting: per-voter and per-user-group vote weights, with per-election overrides [Elections]
• Block and split vote allocation modes for weighted elections [Voting]
• Demo Mode with one-click sample data installation [Demo]
• User and admin documentation in docs/ [Documentation]

Improved

• Result widgets polish and candidate images [Results]
• Selectable demo voters instead of hardcoded usernames [Demo Data]

Fixed

• Vote "too many redirects" loop in demo mode [Voting]
• SEF election links with unsafe characters not routing correctly [Routing]
• Candidate saved to wrong election (off-by-one) [Edit Candidate]
• Joomla\CMS\Filesystem\Folder class not found [Demo Data]

v6.2.0 (2026-03-27)

New Features

• Detailed CSV Export with Voter Records
• Configurable Results Display and control who can when and who can see

Improved

• use Joomla date language constant instead of hardcoded one
• auto show/hide candidate list field based on selected election type [Candidate form]
• Make candidate list field required if eelction type match it [Candidate Form]
• UI/UX of candidates and candidates list [Election view]
• Election result widgets UI/UX with Chart.js visualizations [Results]

Fixed

• saving candidate list sometimes fail [Candidate form]
• some missing languages constant for alerts in actions [Candidates Manage]

v6.0.1 (2025-11-26)

New Features

• Joomla 6 support without need of compatiblity plugin to be enabled

Improved

• Package feature [Installation]

v5.3.5 (2025-09-12)

Improved

• Vote invite email now support HTML 

v5.3.4 (2025-04-26)

Improved

• Some UI/UX improvements on election view
• vote access info now use method for better reuse

Fixed

• Generate password was not working correctly for voters
• Joomla database checker issues all corrected

v5.3.0 (2024-03-15)

New Features

• order candidates in backend
• 2 new orderby types (order, reverse order)
• set default candidates order by in election
• display not yet started elections status

Improved

• start voting button added to election card
• election voter email should not be empty

Fixed

• html tags stripped when saving description [XML Forms]
• issue with timezone when election saved
• election voter email should not be empty

v5.1.1 (2024-02-16)

Improved

• UI/UX of candidates list specially columns order [Backend]
• new column added that display candidate list name
• UI/UX of elections list [Backend]

Fixed

• candidates list select doesn't update when choosing election [Candidate form]
• candidates list select should be required only if election type is list

v5.0 (2023-11-27)

New Features

• Joomla 5 support without need of BC plugin to be enabled

Improved

• DID and UpdateServer tags moved to xml package file

v4.4.4 (27/08/2023)

Improved

• translation link in dashboard updated to https://crowdin.com/project/joomelection
• lang tag removed from filenames [Languages]

v4.4.0 (18/06/2023)

New Features

• support of contentPrepare on description field

Improved

• candidate card now use JLayout for better reuse

Fixed

• wrong id in electiosn and elections list fields
• html stripped in candidate description

v4.3.0 (10/06/2023)

New Features

• Ability to display candidate image

Improved

• candidates and candidate form was redone to follow Joomla Framework
• Editor field now use JForm on all forms

v4.2.4 (30/01/2023)

Improved

• Elections list table UI/UX

Fixed

• deleting items was not working [Lists] [Backend]
• pagination was not working [Candidates and Candidate Lists View]

v4.2.2 (20/01/2023)

Fixed

• pagination was not working [Backend]
• Elections list table UI/UX broken

v4.2.0 (01/09/2022)

New Features

• Allow/disallow Joomla user groups to vote

v4.1.0 (28/08/2022)

New Features

• Display election type [Backend] [Elections List]
• User can now vote on multiple elections

Improved

• Some old code removed for loading bootstrap
• Election result button UI/UX improved [Backend] [Elections List]
• Display "not voter" message if current user is not a voter.
• Insert voter simplified
• vote insertion code improved
• Some changes in xml enty points

Fixed

• Fatal error when deleting voter
• don't delete joomla user when deleting voter

v4.0 (23/05/2022)

New Features

• Joomla 4 support
• Bootstrap 5 support
• UI/UX improvements in frontend
• Download Key Joomla integration

Improved

• Download ID widget removed cuz no more needed
• All old assets removed
• PHP 8+ support

Fixed

• Some php issues
• wrong option variable in candidates and vote confirmation views

v1.1.0 (24/09/2020)

Fixed

• Installed version value doesn't display [Dashboard] [Download ID layout]
• Missed "Multiple Group" constant language [Voters view]
• Always hide existing user field on edit [Voter edit view]

v1.0 (01/07/2020)

• Initial version