Elections

Israel’s Netanyahu falls short of parliamentary majority

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again fallen short of a parliamentary majority with his hardline allies, final election results confirmed on Thursday, extending the country's year-old political deadlock and…

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Iran’s hard-liners take early lead in Tehran after vote

Iranian state TV announced the first partial results from the country’s parliamentary elections, indicating a strong showing by hard-liners in the capital Tehran, although authorities have not released full results…

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As expected, Azeri ruling party strengthens grip after parliamentary election

Azerbaijan’s ruling party was leading on Monday in a snap parliamentary election called by President Ilham Aliyev to consolidate power and speed economic reforms by replacing the old guard associated…

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Sinn Féin wins highest percentage of first preference votes in Ireland’s election

Irish nationalists Sinn Fein demanded on Sunday to be part of the next Irish government after the left-wing party secured the most votes in an election that leader Mary Lou…

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Cameroon vote marked by violence and abstention

Polls have opened in Cameroon elections overshadowed by separatist violence, which has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and a partial opposition boycott. Elections for the central African country's legislature and local…

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Azerbaijan holds a snap parliamentary election

Azerbaijan holds a snap parliamentary election on Sunday, seen as the next step by President Ilham Aliyev to consolidate power and create a younger, more dynamic parliament to push forward…

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Exit poll predicts ‘tie’ between three main parties in Ireland

The three main political parties have tied in first preference votes, according to an exit poll for the Republic of Ireland's general election. The earliest indications from the poll suggest…

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Salvini fails in bid to seize left’s northern stronghold

Italy’s right-wing leader Matteo Salvini failed in his effort to overturn decades of leftist rule in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna on Sunday in an election that brought huge relief…

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Salvini targets leftist region in key Sunday vote

Italy's right-wing populist leader Matteo Salvini is trying to trigger a political earthquake this Sunday. With the support of veteran Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi, Salvini is supporting League party candidate…

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Ex PM Zoran Milanovic wins Croatian election

Zoran Milanovic, Croatia's center-left former prime minister, has won the country's presidential election, defeating center-right incumbent Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic in a second-round vote. Milanovic, of the Social Democrats (SDP), won 52.7% of the vote according to results…

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Next Labour leader in UK is likely to be a woman

The battle to succeed Jeremy Corbyn and shape the future direction of the Labour party is under way as potential successors set out their leadership stalls for the first time,…

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Sturgeon insists Scotland wants different future from rest of UK

Boris Johnson cannot “bludgeon” Scotland into seeing the world in the same way that he does, Nicola Sturgeon has said after telling the new prime minister that the election results…

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Jeremy Corbyn apologises over heavy Labour defeat

Jeremy Corbyn has apologised to Labour supporters over his party's heavy defeat in the general election. Writing in the Sunday Mirror and the Observer, he acknowledged the party's failings in…

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Historic win for nationalist in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland elected more Irish nationalists to Britain's parliament than pro-British unionists, a first since the partition of Ireland in 1921. Nationalists said the result paved the way towards…

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Algeria’s contested presidential election sees historically low turn out

A record six in 10 Algerians abstained from voting in the country's presidential election that was firmly rejected by the nine-month-old protest movement. Just under 40 percent of registered voters…

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Trump congratulates UK’s Johnson after historic win, hints at new trade deal

President Trump took to Twitter on Friday to congratulate U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson after Johnson and his Conservative Party won easily in the country’s general election, which was seen as a clear…

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UK Liberal Democrats to elect new leader in new year

Britain's Liberal Democrats will hold a leadership contest in the new year after leader Jo Swinson lost her seat on Friday in a bruising General Election night for the party.…

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Sturgeon insists Scotland must be given new independence vote

Scotland must be allowed to hold another referendum on its place inside the United Kingdom following the crushing victory of the nationalists in the election, leader Nicola Sturgeon said on…

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British papers react to election result

All the headlines as papers react to the exit poll at the time of going to print showing a large majority for the Conservatives. The Conservatives have won the UK…

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Johnson hails ‘historic’ win, Corbyn to resign

The Conservatives officially secured a majority after winning 326 seats. The Conservatives have taken a string of former Labour strongholds, with the party officially winning the general election with a…

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Photo Story: The general election in the UK: Boris Johnson votes

Britain's Prime Minster Boris Johnson (C) leaves a polling station after casting his vote with his dog Dylan at a polling station in London, Britain, 12 December 2019. Britons go…

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Algerians head to polls amid opposition calls to boycott the vote

Algerians vote Thursday in the first elections since popular protests forced longtime leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power. The opposition, which is calling for voters to boycott the elections, held a protest in…

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The UK heads to the polls

Political party leaders in the UK issued their final rallying cries as the country prepares to head to the polls. Ahead of the polls opening at 7am on Thursday, the…

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Irish PM suffers by-election defeats ahead of national vote

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar’s Fine Gael party failed to win any of the four by-elections held to fill parliamentary vacancies on Saturday, a blow ahead of a general election…

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Venice floats autonomy vote as answer to city’s problems

This Sunday Venetians will vote in a consultative referendum on whether to give the lagoon city autonomy over its government — cutting Venice’s administrative ties to the Italian mainland. After…

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Uruguay elects new president

Uruguayan President-elect Luis Lacalle Pou reacts as his wife Lorena Ponce de Leon (R) kisses him during an event with supporters of the National Party, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Lacalle Pou…

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President Klaus Iohannis wins Romania presidential elections

Romania's centrist President Klaus Iohannis won a presidential election runoff on Sunday as expected, crushing his socialist challenger with a pledge to resume judicial reforms slowed down by successive Social…

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Pro-democracy groups make big gains in Hong Kong elections

Hong Kong's opposition pro-democracy movement has made unprecedented gains in the Chinese territory's district council elections, early results show. A record 4.1 million people had registered to vote - more…

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Belarus holds parliamentary polls

Belarusians head to the polls Sunday to elect members to the ex-Soviet republic's rubber-stamp parliament. The elections are being closely watched by the West to see how much President Alexander…

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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards wins re-election in blow to Trump

Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards is projected to narrowly win a second term as Louisiana governor, beating Republican challenger Eddie Rispone by 1.4 percentage points and delivering another blow in…

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Sri Lanka’s Premadasa accepts defeat at presidential poll

Sri Lanka’s ruling party presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa on Sunday accepted defeat in the presidential poll and congratulated his rival former wartime defense chief, Gotabaya Rajapaksa. “It is my privilege…

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Vote counting begins in presidential election in Sri Lanka, various violent incidents reported

Vote counting began in Sri Lanka after polls closed on Saturday for 16 million eligible voters looking to choose their new president. Polls closed at 5 p.m local time (1130 UTC)…

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Boris Johnson meets Queen as election campaign officially kicks off

Boris Johnson Wednesday morning went to Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen to mark the dissolution of parliament, marking the start of the election period in the run-up to the…

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Democrats claim victory in key Virginia and Kentucky elections

US Democrats have made gains in key state elections, in what is seen as a blow to President Donald Trump. Democrat Andy Beshear claimed victory in Kentucky's governor vote, after…

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Spain’s Socialists lead ahead of election

Spain’s Socialists lead in voting intentions ahead of the Nov. 10 election but will lose two seats compared to the last parliamentary election in April, again failing to reach a…

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Facebook to allow UK election candidates to run false ads

CNN reports that a controversial policy allowing politicians to run false ads on Facebook will extend to the United Kingdom as the country prepares to vote in a historic December…

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Bulgaria’s Ruling Party Leads In Major Cities For Local Elections

Exit polls in Bulgaria indicate that the ruling center-right GERB party will maintain its nationwide dominance but with less support than four years ago, following the October 27 municipal and…

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Uruguayan presidential elections to go to second round run-off

Presidential candidate Daniel Martinez, from the Frente Amplio party, speaks to his supporters at the Cristal Tower hotel in Montevideo, Uruguay. The candidate of the official Frente Amplio (FA), Daniel…

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Salvini wins landslide victory in Italian regional election

After half a century of left-wing rule, the central Italian region of Umbria voted for a regional government spearheaded by Matteo Salvini's far-right League. Donatella Tesei of the League, backed by…

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German far-right AfD surges to second place in Thuringia election

Voters in the eastern German state of Thuringia boosted the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in regional elections on Sunday, according to preliminary results, but the Left party will remain the dominant political force…

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Alberto Fernández elected President of Argentina

Centre-left opposition candidate Alberto Fernández has been elected president of Argentina in a vote dominated by economic concerns. Fernández secured more than the 45% of the vote needed to win,…

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Canada goes to the polls

Canadians will be going to the polls on Monday to decide whether to give Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal party a second term. The parties have been making their pitches…

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Photo Story: Bolivia heads to run-off Presidential elections

President of Bolivia Evo Morales (C), along with Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera (C, left), speaks to the press at the Palacio Quemado of La Paz, Bolivia, 20 October…

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Green parties make historic gains in Swiss election

Green parties have made historic gains at the expense of those to the right and the left in elections to the Swiss parliament. Final results show the left-wing Green Party winning…

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Bolivia’s Evo Morales faces tight election race

Bolivians are voting in key elections to decide whether to deliver a fourth term to President Evo Morales. Since sweeping to power in 2006 with his Movement to Socialism party,…

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Greens set for gains as Swiss elect parliament

Swiss voters’ concerns about climate change look set to give the environmentalist Greens strong gains in a parliamentary election on Sunday that could dilute the centre-right’s grip on power. A…

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Gibraltar goes to polls for general election

Gibraltar goes to the polls to elect a new government in the same week as the chaotic Brexit scenario in the UK. Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo called for the…

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Polish Election Update: PiS wins majority in parliamentary vote, expected to lose Senate (UPDATED)

UPDATE: Poland's nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party looked to have narrowly won a second term in power, according to preliminary results from Sunday's parliamentary election, but fell short of the…

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Orban suffers his biggest political setback in a decade as opposition wins Budapest mayoral race

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban suffered his biggest political setback in a decade on Sunday, when an opposition candidate became mayor of Budapest by defeating an incumbent backed by the ruling…

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Exit polls indicate Kais Saied won Tunisia presidential election

Tunisian polling agencies are forecasting that conservative law professor Kais Saied has overwhelmingly won the North African country's presidential election. Saied's supporters exploded with joy, celebrating on the main boulevard…

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The ruling alliance in Kosovo has lost the election

Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) snatched 26% of the vote at the Sunday's parliamentary election, in Kosovo, barely edging out another opposition party, the LDK, which claimed around 25% according to an early…

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Voting in Tunisia ends in uncertainty

Tunisia’s parliament looks deeply fractured after an election on Sunday, with an exit poll showing the moderate Islamist Ennahda in first place with only 17.5% of votes, meaning the coming…

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Costa’s Socialists win Portuguese election

Prime Minister Antonio Costa's Socialists (PS) came out on top of parliamentary elections held Sunday in Portugal. The first forecasts showed his party expanded its number of mandates in the 230-seat…

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Tunisia holds third parliament polls since 2011 revolt

Tunisians go to the polls Sunday for the third parliamentary polls of a successful but hectic transition to democracy since the North African country’s 2011 revolution. Polling stations opened for…

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Portugal heads to polls

Portugal’s centre-left Socialists are expected to retain power and win more parliament seats in general elections on Sunday, after four years of economic growth, but still fall short of an…

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Kosovo holds early election

Kosovo is holding an early general election Sunday amid calls for leaders to resume dialogue with Serbia over normalizing ties. The vote comes after the outgoing prime minister resigned following…

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Clear victory for Sebastian Kurz’s People’s Party in Austrian vote

Austria's People's Party, led by former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, has won a clear victory in Sunday's general election. With nearly all the votes counted, Kurz's party has more than 38%…

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