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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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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe 6 Comments 30 March 202330 March 2023

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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Charles Richardson Australia, Elections 1 Comment 24 March 2023

March electoral roundup

Our regular look at election news around the world. This month, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Kuwait and the Netherlands.

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Betting on Trump

Donald Trump has surged back to favoritism for next year's Republican nomination. What's going on here?

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Charles Richardson Elections, Party matters, Political issues, United States, War and peace 4 Comments 16 March 202316 March 2023

NSW two weeks out

Nominations have closed for the New South Wales state election, with the Coalition seeking to extend its 12 years in office.

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Turkey’s opposition makes its choice

A consensus candidate is chosen to take on Turkey's authoritarian president in the election scheduled for May.

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Big & little results

Incumbent parties are returned in both Nigeria and Estonia, but in other respects they were very different elections.

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Election preview: Estonia

Estonia's government has been one of Ukraine's strongest supporters. On Sunday it will seek a mandate to continue that stance.

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