Israelis come out and vote
So Israelis are now voting for their new Knesset. Polls close at 7am AEDT, and I hope to post an early results update at...
UK Parliament boundaries
So the UK will see a general election either this year or next year, and the election will see a new set of boundaries...
WA federal boundaries finalised
100th post!
The Australian Electoral Commission has finalised the new electoral boundaries for the next federal election. You can download the Google Earth map here....
India and Indonesia update
In today's Sydney Morning Herald, the surprisingly-large "upcoming elections in large Asian countries whose name begins with an I" has a couple of articles...
Baseless early election speculation
Former Liberal leader John Hewson penned a piece in today's Crikey speculating at the possibility of an early federal election later this year. He...
Lee Rhiannon to contest Senate
Being a Greens member, I'm gonna refrain from commenting on this story, so I'll just quote from this AAP story:
Greens MP Lee Rhiannon has...
Likud/Yisrael Beiteinu ahead in Israeli election
Guest post from Ofir Thaler:
In predicting the winners in Israeli elections, especially in the last 15 years, it is nowhere near enough to just...
NDP goes for the throat
Only days ago, Jack Layton's NDP remained in a technical coalition with Michael Ignatieff's Liberals in Canada. Yet after the coalition was dissolved by...
Canada on the brink
So Canada's conservative government has brought down a budget, eight weeks after Parliament was prorogued to prevent a new Liberal-NDP coalition government being formed.
The...
Iceland goes to the polls
The voters go to the polls in Iceland on 9 May to elect a new Parliament. The current government fell in the last few...