Two South American results

Chile looks set for a far-right president, while Ecuador clips its president's wings in a referendum.

Desperate measures for the Victorian Liberals

The Victorian Liberal Party's 16th leader is also the first woman in the job. She has taken on a big task.

With the Liberal Party on the point of changing leaders again, some are looking back to a time when that worked, after a fashion.

Chile looks like continuing its alternation in power of left and right, but this time it could be the far right that benefits.

Antony Green has some interesting points about this year's federal election, despite his retirement.

Views over the years of the 1975 constitutional crisis.

The divisions in Australia's Liberal Party are again on display, but one side completely lacks the ruthlessness of its opponents.

Three big Democrat victories in America's off-year elections.

Argentina's president gets a more sympathetic legislature, and Dutch voters turn against the far right.

Putting the far right into government in the Netherlands wasn't a success, leading to an early election. Voters need to work out what to do next.