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Polling took place at Latakia’s Governor ballot station, in the coastal city of Latakia, Syria (AP)

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Syria goes to the polls for first time since Assad removal

Syria is holding parliamentary elections for the first time since the fall of the country’s autocratic leader, Bashar Assad, who was unseated after a rebel offensive in December.

The governing Party of Action and Solidarity looked to have secured a clear majority of legislative seats in the parliamentary poll (Vadim Ghirda/AP)

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Moldova’s pro-EU party wins election fraught with Russian interference claims

Igor Grosu, the leader of Party of Action and Solidarity, said after polls closed that ‘Russia’s attempts to hijack the electoral process have been huge’ (Vadim Ghirda/AP)

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Moldova’s pro-EU ruling party leading polls in critical parliamentary election

Japan Election

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Japan’s PM Ishiba says he will stay in office despite election loss

Japan Election

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Japanese PM’s coalition loses majority in upper house election

Poland Presidential Election

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Conservative Karol Nawrocki wins Poland’s presidential election

Poland Presidential Election

Exit polls in Poland’s presidential run-off show race too close to call

Exit polls in Poland’s presidential run-off showed the two candidates in a statistical tie with the race still too close to call in the deeply divided nation.

Sun, 01 Jun, 2025

Romania Election

Romanian court rejects hard-right candidate’s challenge to election result

A top Romanian court has rejected as unfounded a request to annul the country’s presidential election by the hard-right candidate who decisively lost the race to his pro-European Union opponent.

Thu, 22 May, 2025

Romania Election

Romania’s new pro-European President puts country back on Western course

A pro-European Union centrist has caused an upset in Romania’s presidential election, beating out a hard-right nationalist who had channelled people’s anger at the political establishment to surge in the polls.

Mon, 19 May, 2025

Poland Presidential Election

Right-wing populists hopeful after first round of Polish presidential election

Rafal Trzaskowski, and a conservative opponent backed by the national conservative Law and Justice party, Karol Nawrocki, emerged ahead in a pack of 13 candidates.

Mon, 19 May, 2025

General Election Ireland 2020

Research indicates high levels of confidence in Irish electoral system

Some 94% of respondents agreed that elections are conducted in accordance with the law, and 88% said that elections are well managed and that election officials are fair

Mon, 19 May, 2025

Romania Election

Pro-Europe mayor triumphs in crucial vote which could decide Romania's path

The race pitted front-runner George Simion, the 38-year-old leader of the hard-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, or AUR, against incumbent Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan

Sun, 18 May, 2025

Portugal Election

Portuguese election set to result in another minority government – exit poll

An exit poll suggested that Sunday’s election in Portugal was poised to deliver yet another minority government, as the increasingly fragmented political landscape defies efforts to unite behind policies on pressing national issues such as ...

Sun, 18 May, 2025

Poland Presidential Election

Mayor and historian are front runners in Poland’s presidential election

Liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and a conservative historian, Karol Nawrocki, are the front-runners in a presidential election in Poland on Sunday, an exit poll shows. They will face off in a second round in two weeks.

Sun, 18 May, 2025

Romania Election

Pro-western mayor Dan takes early lead in Romanian presidential election runoff

Pro-western centrist politician Nicusor Dan has taken an early lead in Romania’s presidential election runoff, preliminary data suggests.

Sun, 18 May, 2025

Romania Election

Polls close in crucial presidential run-off election in Romania

Romanians have been voting on Sunday in a tense presidential run-off between a hard-right nationalist and a pro-western centrist in a high-stakes election rerun that could determine the geopolitical direction of the European Union and Nato member ...

Sun, 18 May, 2025

Portugal Election

Portugal holds third general election in three years

Voters in Portugal returned to the polls on Sunday for a third general election in three years, as the country’s increasingly fragmented political landscape defies efforts to unite behind policies on issues such as immigration, housing and the cost ...

Sun, 18 May, 2025

Poland Presidential Election

Poles vote for a new president as security concerns loom large

Poles are voting on Sunday in a presidential election at a time of heightened security concerns, stemming from the ongoing war in neighbouring Ukraine and growing worry that the US commitment to Europe’s security could be weakening under US ...

Sun, 18 May, 2025

Albania Election

Albanian preliminary polls results show clear win for ruling Socialists

Preliminary results in Albania’s parliamentary election on Tuesday give a clear victory to the ruling Socialist Party, which attracted voters supporting the country’s uphill effort to join the European Union and prime minister Edi Rama’s bid for a ...

Tue, 13 May, 2025

Australia Politics

Australian cabinet sworn in after landslide election win

Australia’s cabinet was sworn into office on Tuesday after the centre-left Labor Party was re-elected in a landslide. With vote counting continuing, Labor expects to hold between 92 and 95 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives.

Tue, 13 May, 2025

Albania Election

Albanian PM seeks fourth term with ambitious promise of EU membership

Mr Rama’s Socialist Party says it can deliver EU membership in five years, sticking to an ambitious pledge

Sun, 11 May, 2025

Romania Election

Hard-right candidate to face pro-EU reformist in Romania’s presidential run-off

Hard-right nationalist George Simion will face a pro-western reformist in a pivotal run-off after decisively winning the most votes in Romania’s first-round presidential election rerun.

Mon, 05 May, 2025

Romania Election

Hard-right candidate secures decisive win in Romania’s presidential vote

Hard-right nationalist George Simion secured a decisive win in the first round of Romania’s repeated presidential election. Mr Simion, the 38-year-old leader of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR), was well ahead with 40.

Mon, 05 May, 2025

Romania Election

Simion set to secure decisive win in first round of Romania’s presidential rerun

Hard-right nationalist George Simion is set to secure a decisive win in the first round of Romania’s presidential election redo, incomplete electoral data indicates, months after an annulled vote plunged the European Union and Nato member country ...

Sun, 04 May, 2025

Romania Election

Romanians return to polls in election which could propel ultranationalist to power

Romanians are casting ballots on Sunday in a critical presidential election redo after last year’s annulled vote plunged the European Union (EU) and Nato member country into its worst political crisis in decades.

Sun, 04 May, 2025

Singapore Election

Singapore’s long-ruling party on track to win another landslide

A sample count of votes released by Singapore’s Election Department indicated that the long-ruling People’s Action Party has won another landslide in Saturday’s general elections.

Sat, 03 May, 2025

Australia Election Issues Explainer

Albanese wins second term as Australian PM; Opposition leader Peter Dutton loses seat

Anthony Albanese has become the first Australian prime minister to win a second consecutive three-year term in 21 years.

Sat, 03 May, 2025

APTOPIX Australia Election

Counting begins in Australian election focused on energy and inflation

Vote counting has begun in Australia’s general election after polling stations closed in the country’s populous eastern states. Stations close two hours later on the west coast but counting starts immediately after voting ends.

Sat, 03 May, 2025

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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in Canadian Parliament

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre was voted out of his own seat in Parliament as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party won Canada’s federal election, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projected.

Tue, 29 Apr, 2025

Canada Election

What happens next after Carney secures Canadian election victory

The Liberal Party has won the federal election in Canada, ending a process marked by US president Donald Trump’s threats of a trade war and making the country the 51st American state.

Tue, 29 Apr, 2025

Canada Election

Mark Carney’s Liberal Party wins Canadian election upended by Donald Trump

Prime minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party won Canada’s federal election on Monday, capping a stunning turnaround in fortunes fuelled by US President Donald Trump’s annexation threats and trade war.

Tue, 29 Apr, 2025

Canada Election

Mark Carney’s Liberals projected to win Canadian election

Prime minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party was projected to win Canada’s federal election on Monday, capping a stunning turnaround in fortunes fuelled by US President Donald Trump’s annexation threats and trade war.

Tue, 29 Apr, 2025

Canada Election

Canadians vote in election dominated by Trump’s trade war and bluster

Canadians are voting on whether to extend the Liberal Party’s decade in power by picking new Prime Minister Mark Carney or hand control to the opposition Conservatives and their populist leader Pierre Poilievre.

Mon, 28 Apr, 2025

Canada Election

Canadians set to vote in election dominated by Trump’s trade war and bluster

Canadians are going to the polls to decide whether to extend the Liberal Party’s decade in power or instead hand control to the Conservatives.

Mon, 28 Apr, 2025

Canada Election Poilievre

Trump’s trade war and annexation threats have upended Canada’s election

US President Donald Trump’s trade war and annexation threats have upended Canada’s election and improved the fortunes of the Liberal Party, which could win a fourth consecutive term in power next week.

Thu, 24 Apr, 2025

Singapore Election

Singapore parliament dissolved to pave way for election

Singapore’s parliament was dissolved, paving the way for general elections in which the city-state’s long-ruling People’s Action Party will seek to strengthen its dominance under prime minister Lawrence Wong.

Tue, 15 Apr, 2025

Ecuador Election

Ecuadorian voters re-elect incumbent president Daniel Noboa

Ecuador has re-elected president Daniel Noboa, a conservative millionaire with a divisive no-holds-barred crime-fighting record.

Mon, 14 Apr, 2025

Ecuador Election

Incumbent Daniel Noboa takes lead in Ecuador’s presidential run-off election

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa, a conservative young millionaire, held the lead in early returns from Sunday’s presidential run-off election. Results from the National Electoral Council gave Mr Noboa 56.

Mon, 14 Apr, 2025

Ecuador Election

Ecuador’s incumbent president and leftist lawyer in election runoff

Ecuadorians have voted in the country’s presidential election runoff in a tight race between incumbent President Daniel Noboa and left-wing lawyer Luisa Gonzalez.

Sun, 13 Apr, 2025

Gabon Elections

Gabon coup leader records landslide victory in presidential election

General Brice Oligui Nguema, Gabon’s interim leader who staged a 2023 coup that ended a decades-long political dynasty, has been elected president of the central African nation. Mr Oligui Nguema, 50, recorded a landslide victory with 90.

Sun, 13 Apr, 2025

Ecuador Election

Presidential rivals face off for second time in Ecuador

A conservative young millionaire, who is the incumbent president, and a leftist lawyer are again the choices as Ecuador heads to the polls in the second presidential run-off election in under two years.

Sun, 13 Apr, 2025

South Korea Election

South Korean opposition leader opens presidential bid following Yoon’s ouster

South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung officially announced a presidential bid on Thursday, vowing to heal a starkly divided nation through economic growth.

Thu, 10 Apr, 2025

South Korea Election

South Korea sets election date to replace ousted president

Tuesday’s announcement came days after the Constitutional Court removed Yoon from office over his ill-fated imposition of martial law in December

Tue, 08 Apr, 2025

Australia Election Issues

Australia to hold general election on May 3

Australians will go to the polls on May 3 for a general election with high costs of living and a shortage of housing likely weighing against the government as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s centre-left Labour Party seeks a second three-year term.

Thu, 27 Mar, 2025

Belarus Lukashenko Inauguration

Authoritarian leader of Belarus sworn for seventh term

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has been sworn in for a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided him as “Europe’s last dictator” by saying his country has more democracy “than those who cast themselves as its models”.

Tue, 25 Mar, 2025

Russia Myanmar

Myanmar’s military leader announces timeframe for general election

Four years after seizing power from the elected administration, the head of the military government has declared Myanmar will hold a general election within 10 months, state-run media reported.

Sat, 08 Mar, 2025

ieExplains: What we learned from the German election

ieExplains: What we learned from the German election

After the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s three-party government in November, it is now up to Friedrich Merz to restore stability to the European Union’s most populous country and traditional political heavyweight, which also has the continent’s biggest economy

Mon, 24 Feb, 2025

Friedrich Merz on course to lead Germany after election and vows to unite Europe

Friedrich Merz on course to lead Germany after election and vows to unite Europe

Friedrich Merz, who is set to become the new German chancellor, has vowed to prioritise European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Mon, 24 Feb, 2025

Conservatives win German election while far-right party surges to second place

Conservatives win German election while far-right party surges to second place

Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation’s second-largest.

Mon, 24 Feb, 2025

Germany’s Friedrich Merz claims victory for his conservatives in election

Germany’s Friedrich Merz claims victory for his conservatives in election

Mr Merz said he was aware of the dimension of the task he faces and said that “it will not be easy”

Sun, 23 Feb, 2025