British prime minister Boris Johnson has postponed the May 7 elections because of the coronavirus outbreak, PA understands.

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.