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Category: Elections

More trouble in Kosovo

An extremely successful election boycott in Northern Kosovo shows that the denial of self-determination is still not working.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Political issues 7 Comments 27 April 2023

New South Wales wraps up

Final results from the New South Wales state election show that the new Labor government lacks a majority in both houses.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Elections, Electoral law, Party matters 13 Comments 20 April 2023

Election preview: French Polynesia

Recent political stability in French Polynesia seems to be more due to a change in the electoral system than to underlying voter preferences.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, Europe, France, Oceania 1 Comment 14 April 20231 May 2023

Bulgaria & Montenegro

Bulgarian voters have stuck to the general pattern seen in the previous four elections, while Montenegro's reformists scored a big victory.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe 6 Comments 5 April 20231 May 2023

Finland shifts rightwards

A dead heat in Finland: the Social Democrat-led government loses its majority, but the shape of its likely replacement is far from clear.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Scandinavia 3 Comments 4 April 20234 April 2023

Aston recurs

Labor's historic victory in the Aston by-election has exposed some deep-seated problems in the opposition.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Elections, Media, Party matters 7 Comments 3 April 2023

Election preview: Finland

Sunday's Finnish election looks like producing an outcome similar to the last one, which is good news for the Social Democrat prime minister.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Scandinavia 1 Comment 31 March 2023

Bulgaria makes five

Bulgaria just keeps on having elections without resolving anything. Number five is coming up on Sunday.

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Narrow winner, big loser

Labor has won the New South Wales election, but its chance of a majority in its own right seems to be slipping away.

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Election preview: New South Wales

Liberal premier Dominic Perrottet is facing an uphill task to retain office in tomorrow's state election, but he's still in with a chance.

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