Election

Vote count under way in Zambia after tight presidential election

Partial and regional tallies start to trickle in on Friday, with final consolidated results expected by Sunday, although President Edgar Lungu's party hints it is heading for victory.

Why presidential candidates were detained in Nicaragua

The Nicaraguan government launched a crackdown on the opposition parties, arresting five presidential candidates and several other leaders in recent weeks.

Democrats, Republicans head for Senate showdown on elections, voting bill

Democrats in US Senate will try to advance legislation, viewed as the civil rights issue of the era by backers, to set new national election standards countering restrictions imposed by Republican states that make it harder to vote.

Iranian cleric Raisi's poll win draws starkly differing reactions

Iran's hard-line judiciary chief won a landslide victory in the country's presidential election, a vote that both propelled the supreme leader's protege into Tehran's highest civilian position and saw the lowest turnout in the Iran's history.

Iran's presidential election ends, results expected Saturday

Results of the election are expected around noon Saturday. If no clear winner emerges, a runoff will be held on June 25, defying predictions.

Iran presidential race narrows as more candidates drop out last minute

Conservative lawmaker Alireza Zakani, reformist Mohsen Mehralizadeh and ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, have withdrawn from Iran’s presidential race on the last day of campaigning, leaving only four contenders for Friday’s vote.

Lowest ever turnout expected in Iran’s presidential election: survey

Around 75 percent of respondents in a recent survey of Iranians said they would not cast their vote in this month’s presidential election.

Voters face two choices as Peru holds presidential elections

The polarising runoff contest between rural teacher Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori, making her third run for the presidency, comes after the government’s admission that Covid-19 deaths are at least 2.5 times higher than previously acknowledged.

Rouhani calls for competition in polls after Iran bars prominent candidates

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says he asked supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to intervene and warned "the heart of elections is competition. If you take that away it becomes a corpse."

Albania PM Rama’s Socialist party declares victory in parliamentary polls

With over 95 percent of the votes counted, the country’s central election commission says Prime Minister Edi Rama’s Socialist Party secured 48.5 percent of the votes, equivalent to 74 seats in the 140-member parliament.

Chad holds funeral for slain president Idriss Deby

Deby, a close Western ally, was killed in battle with rebels on Monday, raising concern in the US and France that turmoil and uncertainty following his death will hamper the fight against militants across the Sahel region.

Voters go to polls in Cape Verde to elect new government

The parliamentary election pits Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva's Movement for Democracy against its main challenger, the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde, a socialist party led by Janira Hopffer Almada.