27 h. ago German far right triples support in local election vote, early forecasts show

The results send a warning to Chancellor Friedrich Merz's four-month-old national coalition with the Social Democrats

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27 h. ago Democrats are facing a gerrymandering armageddon. It was avoidable | David Daley

A handful of party figures warned about the power of redistricting. Too many leaders ignored themThere are many reasons why Democrats find themselves on the wrong end of a gerrymandering armageddon.There’s John Roberts and the US supreme court, who pretended partisan gerrymandering is just politics as usual, left voters naked to extreme power grabs, and failed the nation when voters most needed the courts’ protection.David Daley is the author of Antidemocratic: Inside the Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections as well as Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count Continue reading...

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34 h. ago Who cares the most about the NHS will pull in the votes at the next election

Record View says it could well be that the party that comes up with the best solution to ongoing NHS crisis will sway a lot of voters at the next Holyrood election.

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4 d. ago How the House could force a vote on releasing all the Epstein files — even if no more Republicans sign on

A series of special elections might give the discharge petition enough votes in the House. The Senate is another question

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8 d. ago Norway votes in a closely fought election with the future of a wealth tax in focus

Norwegians are heading to the polls in the main day of voting for a new parliament, after a campaign in which the future of a wealth tax that dates to the late 19th century has been a central issue

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1 week ago Tycoon who led push to decriminalise cannabis becomes Thai PM

Anutin Charnvirakul voted in by parliament after promising election in four months, as Thaksin Shinawatra jets outAnutin Charnvirakul, a staunch royalist, has been appointed by lawmakers as Thailand’s next prime minister following days of heated negotiations and political drama.The 58-year-old tycoon turned politician is considered a conservative, though he made a name for himself for leading a campaign to decriminalise cannabis. He was voted in after a chaotic scramble by parties to gain enough support to replace the ousted PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who was removed from office by a court ruling. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Tycoon who led campaign to decriminalise cannabis to be Thai PM

Anutin Charnvirakul voted in by parliament after promising election in four months, as Thaksin Shinawatra jets outAnutin Charnvirakul, a staunch royalist, has been selected as Thailand’s next prime minister, after securing the backing of the majority of lawmakers in parliament.The 58-year-old tycoon turned politician is considered a conservative, though he made a name for himself for leading a campaign to decriminalise cannabis. He was voted in after a chaotic scramble by parties to gain enough support to replace the ousted PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who was removed from office by a court ruling. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Guyana’s president claims victory in election held amid newfound oil riches

Irfaan Ali will be tasked with turning the profits of Guyana’s 2019 oil boom into prosperity for its citizensGuyana’s president, Irfaan Ali, has proclaimed victory in this week’s general and regional elections after his party won more than 240,000 votes and seven of the country’s ten electoral districts.“The results are all out there, as published by the Guyana elections commission. The numbers are clear. The people have spoken in an overwhelming way. We have won these elections with a remarkable margin,” he told the Guardian on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Lanarkshire MSP says party can bring 'hope and optimism' under her new leadership

Gillian Mackay was elected at the first stage of the Scottish Greens vote with 34 per cent

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2 w. ago Trump to issue ‘unconstitutional’ executive order mandating voter ID for elections

President insists on citizens presenting valid identification before voting with ‘no exceptions’ but lacks the authority to support such a dictate

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2 w. ago Trump says he plans unconstitutional executive order to mandate ID for voters

President also wants to ban most voting by mail in push stemming from baseless claims related to 2020 election lossDonald Trump has said he will issue an executive order to mandate identification for all US elections, a move likely to be challenged in court as unconstitutional.“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!,” the US president said on Truth Social late on Saturday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago More woe for Starmer as plan for votes aged 16 'will benefit Corbyn's party and Nigel Farage'

A poll has found the as-yet unnamed left-wing outfit launched by Jeremy Corbyn could suck up more than a fifth of support among 16 and 17-year olds.

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2 w. ago Alabama town’s Black mayor wins election four years after white residents locked him out of town hall and refused to let him serve

Patrick Braxton has been elected as the mayor of Newbern, Alabama, after the town voted 66 to 26 in his favor

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2 w. ago Samoa votes in an election that will decide the fate of its first woman leader

Samoa went to the polls in a critical election that could decide the future of its first woman leader, prime minister Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa

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2 w. ago Labour sinks to lowest poll rating since election as party trails behind Reform UK with voters

Just 20% of voters said they would back Sir Keir Starmer’s party at a general election - the party’s lowest approval rating in six years

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2 w. ago Enjoying your holiday Keir? Labour sinks to its lowest poll rating in six years in fresh blow to Starmer

A YouGov poll, published while the Prime Minister enjoys a family holiday abroad, showed just 20 per cent of voters would back Labour at a general election .

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3 w. ago Call for children to have lessons in how to vote at 16 in UK election

Teachers will be asked to leave their politics at the classroom door in order to make sure pupils are not swayed on how to vote

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3 w. ago India’s opposition leader hosts ‘dead’ voters alleging rigging in upcoming state elections

As 6.5 million Indian voters go ‘missing’ from electoral database, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi accuses prime minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of rigging polls in India, Arpan Rai reports

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3 w. ago The Democrats are in deep trouble in the US – and Labour is on the way to joining them | Nesrine Malik

When millions of once-loyal supporters become disillusioned with a party, there can only be one result: electoral disasterThe measure of a political party’s failure lies not in how many agnostics and opponents it fails to convert, but in how many loyalists it fails to preserve. The endorsement of new, unnatural voters – Latinos in the US for Donald Trump, or Tories voting for Labour for the first time – might deliver big electoral swings but is ultimately not sticky. And these votes are only meaningful if the bedrock is solid. That bedrock is the people who consistently show up, no matter what, from generation to generation, for a party. And the Democrats are losing them.In extensive research published last week tracking voter registration, the New York Times identified an alarming pattern. The Democratic party has been “haemorrhaging” voters since way before election day. In the states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost to Republicans in all of them in...

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3 w. ago California’s governor signed a redistricting plan. What happens next?

Everything to know about Gavin Newsom’s newly signed proposal, special elections and how California voters feelCalifornia’s governor, Gavin Newsom, on Thursday signed a redistricting plan and declared a special election to ask voters to change the boundaries of five Republican-held congressional districts in the state.The legislative manoeuvre is part of a national battle for control of the US House of Representatives, and comes as a direct response to developments in Texas. Continue reading...

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