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An election and an “election”

Armenia's prime minister puts his job on the line in an early election. Meanwhile, Iran's rulers look like securing a hard-line president and possible successor for the supreme leader.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Middle East, War and peace 2 Comments 18 June 202118 June 2021

A postmortem on 2020 forecasting

Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com reviews his site's performance in last year's election, with interesting results.

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Charles Richardson Elections, United States 2 Comments 11 June 202120 February 2024

Yet another Peruvian cliffhanger

Peru's presidential elections always seem to be close, and Sunday's was no exception.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Latin America 6 Comments 10 June 202117 June 2021

Third time lucky for New Caledonia?

France opts for an early date for New Caledonia's next vote on independence. That accords with the wishes of the anti-independence forces, but their task remains a difficult one.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, France, Oceania, Political issues, Referenda 1 Comment 8 June 202126 January 2022

Extremes on the retreat in Germany

Germany's centre-right finally gets some good news, with big gains in a state election at the expense of both far left and far right.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Germany 3 Comments 7 June 202126 January 2022

Peru and Mexico

Peru's voters face a difficult choice in the second round of their presidential election, while Mexico holds mid-term legislative elections.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Latin America 3 Comments 4 June 2021

Elections in divided countries

Cyprus's legislative election produces the expected result. Meanwhile, a long-delayed election was held in another very interesting divided country.

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Charles Richardson Africa, Elections, Electoral law, Europe, Political issues 1 Comment 3 June 2021

Another Trumpist in trouble

Not all incumbents have benefited from Covid-19: Brazil shows that a sufficiently bad performance will eventually turn the tide of public opinion.

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Netanyahu on the ropes

After four elections, two months of negotiations and a short war, Israel finally seems on the verge of a change of government.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Middle East, Party matters 1 Comment 31 May 2021

Election preview: Cyprus (legislature)

Cyprus's centre-right president will be hoping that Sunday's election returns a sympathetic legislature for the remainder of his term.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe 1 Comment 28 May 2021

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