A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists and former activists to up to 10 years in prison, concluding the largest case brought to date under the authoritarian “national security law” imposed by Beijing to crush the 2019 pro-democracy movement.
Virginia Democrats have begun the process of trying to put a proposed amendment before voters that would enshrine a right to abortion into the state constitution.
Germany will elect its next government seven months early as the precarious “progressive coalition” of left-wing and centrists collapsed.
Several states passed measures to bar noncitizens from voting as Donald Trump campaigned successfully for curbs on migration.
Unhappy members of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party lashed out at him during a closed-door caucus meeting Wednesday.
Canadian lawmakers from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party are pressuring him to step down, even though he has survived two recent confidence votes.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it was filing a lawsuit against the “State of Virginia, Virginia State Board of Elections and Virginia Commissioner of Elections” over the state’s enforcement of a 2006 law, removing non-citizens from voter lists.
Former defense minister Ishiba Shigeru won his bid for leadership of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Friday, all but guaranteeing he will become the next prime minister.
Algerian election officials on Sunday declared incumbent President Abulmadjid Tebboune the winner of a dubious election with 95 percent of the vote.
Canada’s left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP) on Wednesday announced it was withdrawing from the coalition keeping Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in power, a blow that could seriously threaten the already-embattled Trudeau’s grip on power.
A “software error” in one state was blamed for changing the initial official results, taking two seats away from the right.
American Conservative Union (ACU) chairman Matt Schlapp spoke to Breitbart News Saturday about how people overseas “can’t believe” how the United States conducts its elections.
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) was unseated in a close primary race on Tuesday night for Missouri’s 1st Congressional District.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) – an organization that counts prominent Democrats and leftists such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Cori Bush (D-MO) as members – congratulated brutal left-wing Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro for his stolen election “win” on Tuesday.
Democrats and Republicans in Georgia have found common ground and are demanding the state election board ditch electronic voting machines.
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denounced “acts of terror and terrorism” on Sunday, seemingly in response to the assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening, although Ahmadinejad did not refer to Trump by name in his message.
Sen. Bob Casey’s (D-PA) cozy relationship with China is taking center stage in Pennsylvania’s Senate race against Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick.
China’s state-run Global Times worries that “the influence of the far-right has not diminished” after France’s surprising snap election.
Masoud Pezeshkian, the “moderate” and “reformist” winner of Iran’s special election, vowed to continue supporting terrorism against Israel.
Conservative Gov. Koike Yuriko of Tokyo, Japan, won a third term in office on Sunday in a high-turnout election where her top rival was expected to be the candidate backed by the Japanese Communist Party — but instead came in third to a YouTube celebrity politician who moved to Tokyo a week before campaigning began.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and military leaders locked arms with Masoud Pezeshkian, the ostensibly “reformist” president-elect.
Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian defeated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s protege Saeed Jalili on Friday to become Iran’s next president.
Trump-backed Virginia State Sen. John McGuire defeated Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District race as the state certified the election results.
Iranians who boycotted the first round of their sham election have second thoughts after the moderate candidate did better than expected.
As Iran is set to hold a presidential run-off election — widely considered a sham — following the lowest voter turnout in the history of the Islamic Republic, hundreds of prominent world leaders and legislators convened at a prominent Iranian opposition group’s annual international assembly in France.
Iran’s “moderate” reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, once dismissed as a dark horse with little chance of winning the emergency election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, managed to become the frontrunner by about a million votes when the results were announced on Saturday. Pezeshkian could not get past the 50 percent threshold to win outright, so he will face hardliner Saeed Jalili in a runoff election on July 5.
Two of the “hardliner” candidates in Iran’s sham presidential “election” dropped out on Thursday, urging their followers to unite against the lone “moderate” among the four remaining candidates, Masoud Pezeshkian.
Canadian Conservative candidate Don Stewart won a close election on Monday in Toronto-St.Paul’s, taking a seat that has been held by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party for the past 30 years.
A temporary election worker for Maricopa County in Arizona was arrested after he allegedly stole items from an election center.
Former White House Political Adviser Brian Jack won his Republican primary runoff race on Tuesday evening and will be advancing to the general election in November.
Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump offered a warning to anyone planning to cheat in an election.
South Africa’s uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party, headed by former president Jacob Zuma, on Tuesday filed a case with the Constitutional Court to block the newly elected parliament from taking its seats, because the elections last month were allegedly rigged.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared victory in the 2024 election on Tuesday night, but he will enter his third term with greatly reduced parliamentary support from his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which performed well below expectations.
South Africa is still tabulating the votes from its national elections, but it appears at press time that the African National Congress (ANC) will lose its majority for the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994.
The government of Israel reacted to news that South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), was likely to lose its majority for the first time, by noting the South African government had been a “lawyer for Hamas.”
Texas State House Speaker Dade Phelan (R) narrowly defeated Trump-backed Texas Republican Dave Covey in a primary election on Tuesday evening.
A stage collapse during a campaign rally late Wednesday in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon killed at least nine people — including a child — and injured a further 63, the state’s governor said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s domestic support is on the rise as Israel’s war against Hamas advances, according to poll numbers released on Thursday.
Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission issued a report on Friday that said the Indian government might have used proxy agents to pour money into the campaigns of preferred candidates in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 general elections.
Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill into law on Tuesday, establishing rules and processes regarding voter registration and how elections are conducted.
