And so it begins

Republican voters in Iowa will tomorrow be the first to participate in this year's presidential election.

Election preview: Taiwan

It looks like a close election tomorrow in Taiwan, as its voters decide on the relative merits of resistance and conciliation towards Beijing.

Emmanuel Macron finds someone even younger than himself to serve as prime minister, hoping to keep his delicate balancing act alive.

Incumbents are returned in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Bangladesh, both in dubious circumstances.

The European Union is looking for a new head of state, exposing some of the strangeness of its constitutional arrangements.

It's not a great start for the electoral year, with a patently unfair election in Bangladesh.

Israel's supreme court narrowly rejects a key plank of the attack on its powers, adding to Benjamin Netanyahu's problems.

A look at what to expect in the electoral world in 2024.

A look back at the big elections of the year and an assessment of some of the political trends.

Four years after its near-unanimous referendum, Bougainville is still waiting for its independence.