Virginia, New Jersey & New York

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

Results: Argentina & Netherlands

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.

Ireland gets a far-left president, in a further sign of voter disenchantment with its two traditional parties.

The centrist candidate scores a comfortable win in Bolivia, and Argentina's libertarian president faces a test in mid-term elections.

Notes on six African elections, plus a popular uprising.

Czechs get the expected election result, with their billionaire former prime minister set to return to power.

Czechs vote in a election with major strategic implications for central Europe.

Moldova's voters deliver a strong rebuke to Moscow's plans for the region, returning their pro-western government with its majority largely intact.

Brazil's former president is convicted of an attempted coup; similar charges are being brought in Romania, but the US's plotter remains at large.