Queensland's Labor government has turned the clock back to compulsory preferential voting in the pursuit of short-term electoral advantage.
Category: Electoral law
Primary season moves west
Another set of primary results fail to clinch the presidential nomination on either side. With 19 states to go, the contests are moving into somewhat different territory.
Three years or four?
Queensland's politicians want to give themselves an extra year before being accountable to their voters. The voters may not be so keen on the idea.
The continuing struggle for Senate democracy
Don't depend on the media to explain what's at stake with Senate voting reform, or even to point out the biases of their sources.
Election preview: Spain
Spain has undergone a political upheaval in the last four years, making Sunday's election the most unpredictable anyone can remember.
New regions, new politics
French regional elections tomorrow will tell us more about the size of the surge for the far-right National Front and the impact of the recent terrorist attacks.
Two election results
The polls got it right in Switzerland; less so in Canada, but for explicable reasons.
Election preview: Canada
Canada's Liberals look set to avenge their dreadful 2011 result tonight, meaning that the country might be set for fairer elections in future.
Fending off the far right in central Europe
Vienna holds off a challenge from Austria's far-right party. Meanwhile, Swiss elections look like confirming the right's strength there, but in Switzerland votes bear little relationship to political power.
A victory, but not a mandate
Elections show Catalonia split down the middle on the question of independence. That's a good reason for Madrid to negotiate, but it's not a mandate for unilateral action.
The World is Not Enough 