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Category: Elections

A result in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's president is declared the winner after delays and violent protests.

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Charles Richardson Africa, Elections 3 Comments 3 August 20183 August 2018

History, the constitution and “Super Saturday”

The saga of section 44 is an interesting lesson on the intersection of law, history and politics. Where do we go now?

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Charles Richardson Australia, Constitutional law, Elections, Electoral law, Political issues 4 Comments 2 August 201827 January 2022

Zimbabwe: a retrospective preview

Zimbabwe has held its first post-Mugabe election, but results are yet to be released.

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Charles Richardson Africa, Elections 1 Comment 1 August 2018

Cambodia goes rogue

Cambodia's autocrat predictably wins an "election", but the international community shows little interest.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Political issues, South-East Asia, War and peace 4 Comments 31 July 201818 May 2019

Pakistan votes for change, again

I'm back from Scandinavia, with a fair bit of election news to catch up on. First up is Pakistan.

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Charles Richardson Central and South Asia, Elections 3 Comments 30 July 2018

The precarious success of Pakistani democracy

Another democracy in trouble, as the Pakistani government needs to counter the influence of its own military to win a second term.

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Charles Richardson Central and South Asia, Elections 2 Comments 24 July 201830 July 2018

That didn’t take long

Mexico gets a quick and decisive result in its presidential election.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Latin America 2 Comments 2 July 20183 July 2018

Election preview: Mexico

It looks like being third time lucky for Mexico's veteran leftist in Sunday's presidential election.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, Latin America, Party matters 1 Comment 29 June 2018

Turkey’s strongman wins again

Turkey's autocratic president wins re-election and a legislative majority, but the country remains deeply divided.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Middle East 3 Comments 25 June 20181 July 2018

Turkish democracy’s last stand

Sunday's election in Turkey is probably the last chance to arrest its slide into authoritarianism. Polls suggest it could be very close.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, Europe, Middle East 2 Comments 22 June 2018

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