2009 all over again?

With the Liberal Party on the point of changing leaders again, some are looking back to a time when that worked, after a fashion.

Another swing of the pendulum in Chile

Chile looks like continuing its alternation in power of left and right, but this time it could be the far right that benefits.

Antony Green has some interesting points about this year's federal election, despite his retirement.

Views over the years of the 1975 constitutional crisis.

The divisions in Australia's Liberal Party are again on display, but one side completely lacks the ruthlessness of its opponents.

Three big Democrat victories in America's off-year elections.

Argentina's president gets a more sympathetic legislature, and Dutch voters turn against the far right.

Putting the far right into government in the Netherlands wasn't a success, leading to an early election. Voters need to work out what to do next.

Ireland gets a far-left president, in a further sign of voter disenchantment with its two traditional parties.

The centrist candidate scores a comfortable win in Bolivia, and Argentina's libertarian president faces a test in mid-term elections.