The British government is to scrap the practice of making voters in Northern Ireland register every year for elections.

Opposition supporters rampaged through Malawi’s streets after electoral officials declared President Bakili Muluzi’s designated successor the winner of the impoverished southern African country’s third multi-party elections.

Speaking after northern polls closed last night, the Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams expressed concern at certain aspects of the conduct of the election.

David Trimble’s Ulster Unionists and the Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists are running neck-and-neck in a tight Northern Ireland Assembly Election contest, an exit poll claimed today.

Rival political workers clashed during local elections today in an eastern Indian state, leaving at least 13 dead and dozens injured, police said.

No Orange Order halls will be used when voters in West Tyrone cast their votes in the next Stormont Assembly elections, it was claimed today.

David Trimble’s Ulster Unionist Party was today facing allegations that it produced bogus electoral registration forms in Northern Ireland.

A photographic identity card is to be introduced in a bid to combat electoral fraud in Northern Ireland, it emerged tonight.

The SDLP is to press for National Insurance numbers to be used at polling stations in a bid to stamp out electoral fraud, the party revealed today.

Two men are being questioned by the RUC about a gun attack on a polling station in which two officers and a woman were injured.