Ireland gets a far-left president, in a further sign of voter disenchantment with its two traditional parties.
Category: Elections
Bolivia & Argentina
The centrist candidate scores a comfortable win in Bolivia, and Argentina's libertarian president faces a test in mid-term elections.
Bumper African roundup
Notes on six African elections, plus a popular uprising.
The return of Czechia’s “populist”
Czechs get the expected election result, with their billionaire former prime minister set to return to power.
Election preview: Czechia
Czechs vote in a election with major strategic implications for central Europe.
Moldova stays on track
Moldova's voters deliver a strong rebuke to Moscow's plans for the region, returning their pro-western government with its majority largely intact.
Coup plotters around the world
Brazil's former president is convicted of an attempted coup; similar charges are being brought in Romania, but the US's plotter remains at large.
More worry about preferences
Many Coalition voters in Australia seem convinced that their electoral woes are due to preferential voting. There's a small element of truth there, but not much.
Two-party politics
Norway provides a lesson on how multiple parties can create something like a two-party system.
Tassie like it’s 1996
The Tasmanian election has been put to bed at last, with an understanding between the Liberals and the Greens, an unsuccessful no-confidence vote and a Labor leadership change.
