The final deadline to register to vote before the December 12 General Election is next Tuesday.

Alexander Temerko, a friend of Boris Johnson with connections to the highest level of the Kremlin, has donated over £1m to the Conservative Party, writes

Fianna Fáil TD and aspiring MEP, Billy Kelleher has called for an ongoing Electoral Commission that would continuously monitor the system.

IRELAND’S long-awaited Electoral Commission is to be established finally in the new year. Let us hope it will prove worth the wait, but, more importantly, let us hope that it has more teeth than its UK equivalent.

A Downing Street aide is facing calls to resign after allegedly "outing" a whisteblower who claimed the official Brexit campaign broke strict spending rules during the European Union referendum.

Boris Johnson has dismissed as "ludicrous" claims the Brexit campaign he backed broke election spending rules, amid calls for the police to investigate.

Update 4pm: The Citizens' Assembly has backed calls for a permanent Electoral Commission to oversee how referendums are run here.

The UK government has pressed ahead with legislation to publish the names of major political donors in Northern Ireland - hours after the Electoral Commission criticised a delay.

The Ulster Unionist Party has been fined for failing to declare £12,000 of its spend on last year's Assembly election.

Future donations to political parties in Northern Ireland are to be published, the British Government has announced.

Nigel Farage is sharing his London house with a French woman politician who heads a think tank at the centre of an investigation into the alleged illegal funding of Ukip, it has been reported.

The British Government is "urgently" considering legislative action to allow people who register on the electoral roll on Wednesday to vote in the upcoming referendum on Britain's EU membership, David Cameron has announced.

New Zealanders know what their new potential national flag will look like, except that they’re not quite set on the colour.

New Zealanders have chosen a design for a possible new flag that features the country’s iconic silver fern next to the stars that make up the Southern Cross constellation.

To have one vote is a privilege, to knowingly have more than one is against the law.

Voting in Nigeria has continued in some areas because of technical problems, officials say.

A school in the North will not be used as a polling station in the UK General Election after “hostile” loyalist protests during voting last year.

Enda Kenny has signalled there will be no referendum on reducing the voting age during the lifetime of this Government.

The wife of the North's First Minister Peter Robinson has been found guilty of a "serious breach" of a politician's code of conduct over her business dealings with a teenage lover.

The Government is being asked to extend voting rights to Irish citizens in other European countries.

Voting is well under way on a historic day for Scotland as people determine whether the country should remain part of the United Kingdom.

Scotland’s decision day has arrived, with voters going to the polls today to determine whether the country should remain part of the United Kingdom or not.

The number of young voters failing to register is on the increase, a survey has found.

In a week that will culminate, in Scotland at least, with the most profound and far-reaching  expression  of democracy,  it is disheartening to learn that nearly one-in-three - 30% - of   Irish people aged between 18 and  25 are not registered to vote.

The king and queen of the Netherlands will lead mourners as the first victims of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 disaster are repatriated from the Ukraine today.

Staff at British polling stations have been advised to stop people taking "selfies" inside voting booths to prevent them being prosecuted.

Prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai dismissed the election in Zimbabwe as a farce after his rival President Robert Mugabe’s party claimed a landslide victory that would secure another five years in power for Africa’s oldest head of state.

A proposed ban on Stormont Assembly members double-jobbing as Westminster MPs is set to be extended to include the Dáil.

The threat to political donors from terrorism in the North should be taken seriously, the leader of the DUP said.

LIAM FOX was facing more pressure last night over his role in soliciting donations to fund close friend Adam Werritty.

Former British defense secretary Liam Fox was facing more pressure today over his role in soliciting donations used to fund close friend Adam Werritty.

The UK's Electoral Commission will not open an investigation into payments made to David Cameron’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson by his former employer News International.

Senior Liberal Democrats were this evening poised to admit defeat in the British referendum on electoral reform as the first results delivered large majorities for the No camp.

Fine Gael today outlined a radical package of political reform including reducing the voting age to 17, cutting the Taoiseach’s salary and abolishing severance pay for ministers.

The Labour Party warned today a referendum on abolishing the Seanad cannot be held on the same day as an election.

The failed Ulster Unionist and Conservative Party pact threw more money at the British general election than any of its opponents, it has been confirmed.

THE chairwoman of Britain’s Electoral Commission described the current system as “Victorian” yesterday after voters were left queuing in their thousands outside polling stations when the ballot boxes closed.

The chairwoman of the UK's Electoral Commission described the current system as “Victorian” today after voters were left queuing in their hundreds outside polling stations when the ballot boxes closed.

Conservative Party leader David Cameron said today a new British government must ensure there was no repeat of chaotic election day scenes in which people were still queuing in their hundreds outside polling stations when the ballot boxes closed.

Thousands of defiant anti-government demonstrators have fanned out to other parts of Thailand's capital today, ignoring police orders to end their occupation of Bangkok's paralysed commercial district.

Iraq’s president today called for a recount in this month’s parliamentary elections.

The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government John Gormley has said the establishment of an Electoral Commission is likely within the life of the current Government.

Legal scholar and left-wing opposition candidate Ivo Josipovic won Croatia’s presidential election, upsetting the capital’s popular mayor and confirming the country’s pro-Western course.