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Category: Elections

Who lost Brexit?

Labour's loss in last week's British election is being widely blamed on Brexit. But what exactly could it have done differently?

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Elections, Europe, Party matters, Political issues, Referenda 5 Comments 19 December 201926 January 2022

Britain’s desperate need for electoral reform

Britain's voters are deeply divided over their country's future, but their electoral system obscures that division and creates an artificial majority.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Elections, Electoral law, Europe, Political issues 1 Comment 16 December 201926 January 2022

Brexit question answered at last

Britain decides to push ahead with leaving the EU. Or at least, the electoral system decides for it.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Elections, Europe, Political issues 8 Comments 13 December 201926 January 2022

Election preview: United Kingdom

Britain's winter election is finally upon us. Boris Johnson is the one to beat, but his victory is by no means assured.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Elections, Europe Leave a comment 12 December 201926 January 2022

Britain, one week out

With a week to go, Boris Johnson is strongly placed to win Britain's winter election.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Elections, Europe, Political issues 9 Comments 6 December 201926 January 2022

Progress for democracy in Namibia

The winds of change are blowing in southern Africa, with the ruling party recording its worst-ever result in Namibia's presidential and parliamentary elections.

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Charles Richardson Africa, Elections 1 Comment 2 December 20192 December 2019

A soft coup in Bolivia

The departure of Bolivia's Evo Morales is a defeat for autocracy, but may not be a gain for democracy.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, Latin America 4 Comments 27 November 201927 November 2019

A local landslide in Hong Kong

Hong Kong's democrats win a big victory in local elections.

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Charles Richardson East Asia, Elections, Electoral law, Political issues 4 Comments 25 November 20196 December 2019

November electoral roundup

A regular update on election news. Today, Sri Lanka, the United States, Romania and Israel.

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Charles Richardson Central and South Asia, Elections, Europe, Middle East, United States 2 Comments 22 November 2019

What Bernardi means (reprise)

Cory Bernardi leaves politics, with his mission largely fulfilled. The Australian right has been remade, if not exactly in his image, at least in something uncomfortably like it.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Elections, Ideas, Party matters, United States 3 Comments 20 November 201926 January 2022

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