Election news from around the world. This week: Costa Rica, Egypt, Sierra Leone and New Caledonia.
Category: Elections
An alarming runoff in Costa Rica
Costa Ricans get to choose on Sunday between two presidential candidates with the same surname. Polling suggests that the fundamentalist has the edge.
Election preview: Russia
Russia's presidential election, or "election", doesn't require much analysis, but it still raises some interesting issues.
Election preview: South Australia
South Australians go to the polls, with little reason to think that the electoral system will reflect their wishes.
Italy: populists and populism
Will Italy's rival populists get together? Or does that idea rest on a misunderstanding?
Options for Italy, revisited
The Italian results might look complicated, but they really boil down to just two options.
Italy’s choice
As Italian results come in, Silvio Berlusconi fades to irrelevance and the Five Star Movement faces a momentous choice.
Election preview: Italy
The centre-left's predicament in Italy probably looks worse than it is. But in the circumstances that's not much consolation.
Election preview: Tasmania
A Liberal government with a reduced majority looks the most likely outcome from Saturday's state election.
Options for Italy
A refractory populist bloc and an octogenarian kingmaker pose big problems for forming government in Italy.
The World is Not Enough 