News of recent election outcomes from Germany, Czechia, Japan and the United States.
Category: United States
Election preview: Virginia & others
America's Republican Party sees Virginia as a crucial step on its road back to power. Tomorrow's race for governor is too close to call.
Update on gerrymandering
Continued battles over gerrymandering in the US contrast with the way such things are handled in Australia, as exemplified by a redistribution just completed in Victoria.
Ninety per cent
After a slow start, Australia's vaccination rate has reached unexpected heights. For some reason, the Trumpism of its leaders has not had the same consequences as in the United States.
Do recantations matter?
Compare and contrast: Colin Powell and News Corp.
Broad front for democracy
Hungary's opposition turns to the centre-right to try to save democracy. There may be a lesson there for the United States.
Results roundup
Results and analysis from four big recent elections: Norway, California, Russia and Canada.
A recall in California
California's governor looks like surviving an attempt to recall him, but the vote casts a light both on some of the state's quirks and on the mania that's taken hold of the Republican Party.
Texas vs civilisation
A US supreme court decision raises the prospect of giving the fundamentalists in the Republican Party what they say they want – possibly at a large political cost.
Taliban in Central America
Afghanistan isn't the only place where an anti-American autocracy has picked up where it left off. Nicaragua has already been there.