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Hungarians went to the polls yesterday in parliamentary elections, and responded with a resounding "Ruszkik Haza!" , telling Puti...

Kaipara Mayor Craig Jepson is known as the "Trump of the North" due to his racism and authoritarianism. And now he seems to be mi...

Local body election results were announced on Saturday, and it seems that Palmerston North has kept the cookers out! Mayor grant Smith was h...

Back in July, National introduced its Electoral Amendment Bill, containing the widest attack on the right to vote seen in Aotearoa. Rather t...

Palmerston North held a mayoral candidate debate last night, and based on the Substandard's writeup , I've finally figured out how I...

My local body voting papers arrived earlier in the week, so its time for the usual post in which I try and work out who I'm voting for. ...

Australians went to the polls on Saturday in an election originally expected to be a tight contest between an uninspiring ALP government, a...

Local body elections are in October, and so like a lot of people, I received the usual pre-election enrolment confirmation from the Orange M...

Germans went to the polls today , in what looks to be their most important election since 1945. The good news is that they seem to have kept...

Like a lot of people, I spent Friday watching the UK election . There's the obvious joy at seeing the end of 14 years of Tory chaos, but...

or the past 14 years, ever since the Spanish government cheated on an autonomy deal, Catalonia has reliably given pro-independence parties a...

With Labour doing so badly this election (and indeed, doing badly every election since 2008, except when Jacinda was in charge ), Sue Bradfo...

Poland has been on a nasty path for the last eight years, with the ruling "Law and Justice " Party becoming increasingly bigoted, ...

Spanish voters went to the polls yesterday in national elections. And it looks like everybody lost, with neither bloc winning a majority . ...

Thais went to the polls on Sunday , in the second election under the military's new 2017 constitution, and voted overwhelmingly for chan...

People went to the polls in French Polynesia on Sunday in the second round of territorial elections, and delivered a resounding victory to ...

In December 2006 then-Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrew Fiji's elected government in a military coup . While Fiji officially returne...

Fijians went to the polls yesterday in the third post (latest) coup election. In the leadup to the poll, the (now elected) coup regime arre...

Brazilians went to the polls today in a run-off presidential election, and voted narrowly to re-elect former President Luiz Inácio Lula da ...

The local body election finished over the weekend, and seems to have delivered a tide of reactionary grey NIMBYs over much of the country. W...