Latvia goes to the polls on Saturday, at a time when having Russia as a neighbor is particularly uncomfortable.
Category: Elections
Why not try democracy?
Italy's prospective right-wing government is not the choice of most Italian voters – a fact that you might not learn from the media coverage.
Italy turns Trumpist?
Alarm bells in Europe as the right scores a clear victory in Italy. The comparison with America's Trump moment is instructive.
Election preview: Italy
A century on, Mussolini's heirs look set to return to power in Italy. How worried should we be?
September electoral roundup
Our monthly roundup of election news covers Kenya, Canada, Brazil and Austria.
Voting in the desert
A by-election tomorrow in Western Australia raises some interesting issues, and incidentally reveals just how empty much of Australia is.
Sweden wraps up
The right-of-centre opposition wins a narrow majority in Sweden, but its task of forming a government may not be straightforward.
Another Swedish cliffhanger
A knife-edge result in Sweden sees the right better placed to form government, but it will be a couple of days before final figures are available.
Election preview: Sweden
Sweden's voters look set to return a parliament very similar to the last one, which may or may not be enough for its centre-left government to hold on.
Results on three continents
A president narrowly returned in Angola, a high-profile loss in Alaska and the draft constitution goes down in Chile.
The World is Not Enough 