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Spain as it happens

Results are coming in from a close and path-breaking Spanish election.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Spain 5 Comments 21 December 201528 January 2022

Election preview: Spain

Spain has undergone a political upheaval in the last four years, making Sunday's election the most unpredictable anyone can remember.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, Europe, Party matters, Spain 1 Comment 18 December 201528 January 2022

What happened in France

The National Front's failure to win control of any French regions isn't particularly surprising or mysterious.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, France, Party matters 3 Comments 17 December 201528 January 2022

Cruz-ing into Iowa

With the Iowa caucuses fast approaching, the Republican Party looks like having to veer a long way to the right in order to outflank Donald Trump.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Party matters, United States Leave a comment 14 December 2015

Fascism on both sides of the Atlantic

There's been some very interesting discussion on whether to call Donald Trump a fascist, a debate that has particular resonance with the rise of the National Front in France.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, France, Ideas, Party matters, Political issues, United States 4 Comments 12 December 201528 January 2022

South America’s shift to the right

Venezuela's government turns out to be neither as popular nor as undemocratic as left and right (respectively) would have had you believe.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Latin America 4 Comments 10 December 201529 January 2019

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.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, Europe, France, Party matters 1 Comment 5 December 201528 January 2022

Please to remember 11 November

More about the 1975 constitutional crisis, and how easy it is to misunderstand the role of the House of Representatives.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Constitutional law, Political issues 5 Comments 13 November 201528 January 2022

Unsurprising results

A big win for the opposition in Myanmar/Burma, and a hung parliament in Croatia. No surprises, although some seem surprised anyway.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, South-East Asia 2 Comments 10 November 2015

Election preview: Croatia

Croatia's centre-left government, which brought the country into the EU, has a fight on its hands for re-election.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe 2 Comments 8 November 20155 February 2019

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