Elections

Reuters reported Monday the Chinese government has established a “crisis command center” in Shenzhen, the Chinese city closest to Hong Kong.

China’s communist regime claimed on Monday that the resounding defeat of pro-communist candidates in Hong Kong’s District Council elections Sunday occurred because of American and Western foreign interference, not popular disgust with Beijing.

Pro-democracy candidates in Hong Kong’s weekend elections scored a stunning blowout victory, routing pro-Beijing candidates by winning 389 out of 452 seats in the legislature in a contest with over 70 percent voter turnout.

Hong Kong election officials banned freedom activist Joshua Wong from running in a local district council election on Monday after refusing to meet his demands for a definitive answer on his potential candidacy in the November 24 city-wide elections.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party were narrowly returned to power in Monday’s election and now form a minority government.

Polls are extremely tight going into Canada’s elections on Monday, with no clear frontrunner after incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau weathered a corruption scandal and the discovery of several photos and videos that showed him wearing blackface.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has extended her lead in early primary and caucus states, the latest YouGovUS/CBS News poll reveals.

“We have more votes in this election,” challenger Abdullah Abdullah claimed on Monday, declaring victory over incumbent Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in the weekend elections.

Canadians reported sightings this weekend of campaign signs and billboards across Canada defaced with markers to simulate blackface in a mocking reference to Justin Trudeau.

The Palestinian Authority is allegedly actively encouraging Israeli-Arab voters to turn out in today’s Israel election.

Failed presidental candidate Hillary Clinton revisited what she saw as corrupt patterns in American elections in 2016, warning 2020 Democrats of the threats they faced running against President Donald Trump.

Voter turnout in Israel was up significantly Tuesday morning in comparison with turnout levels at the same stage in previous elections.

A significant majority of Italians would have preferred snap elections rather than the unelected coalition government that excluded their most popular party, a national poll revealed Thursday.

The highly controversial Moscow elections were held on Sunday, and the results were not good for President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, although not quite the bloodbath they feared after a summer of surprisingly large protests. 

The rumblings of a political earthquake have been heard in Moscow, where longtime members of President Vladimir Putin’s scandal-tainted United Russia party are bailing out and running as independents in Sunday’s city elections, even as actual independent candidates are forced off the ballot with administrative tricks.

The Saxony Constitutional Court has ruled that the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) will only be allowed to field 30 candidates in next month’s regional election.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) said in a tweet Friday that Democrats will work hard and win Texas over in 2020.

A New York state law that allows illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses is likely to also enable them to vote in elections, according to state officials.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has reiterated his call for fresh elections to be held for the country’s National Assembly, a move that would pave the way for his socialist regime to take back control of the country’s only democratically elected lawmaking body. 

It’s Brexit party all the way for me. I could never trust a Conservative leader who gets his climate facts from a 16-year-old autistic kid who in turn got her climate facts from Ice Age II.

Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is just one point behind the leading Labour Party in the latest opinion polling showing Westminster voting intention.

Rodrigo Duterte, the perpetually controversial president of the Philippines, appears on track to increase his legislative influence in the midterm elections. Duterte’s critics hoped the election would be a negative referendum on his administration halfway through his six-year term, but his approval ratings are approaching all-time highs and candidates aligned with him are doing well in the polls.

A federal judge has ordered the State of Florida to provide all election ballots in Spanish starting with the 2020 election cycle.

Billionaire Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, is an environmental activist who hates corporate America and President Donald Trump.

Turkey’s top election authority voided the Istanbul mayoral election won by an opposition candidate and ordered a do-over, ruling Monday in favor of a request by the president’s party to throw out the vote it narrowly lost.

Spaniards are set to go to the polls on Sunday for the third time in three and a half years with the ruling Socialists predicted to win the largest number of votes but fall short of a majority, while the right-populist Vox is expected to enter the national parliament for the first time.

Social media website Twitter reportedly plans to allow users to report tweets that they feel attempt to mislead voters.

The populist leader vowing to “make Spain great again” has been axed from the only televised debate confirmed ahead of the election later this month.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said on Monday that a “glass of water” could have won Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) district.

Officials in the Labor and Meretz parties are exploring the possibility of a merger of their two parties in the wake of Labor’s worst-ever election showing on April 9.