IFES Election Guide - Newsletter: ElectList!

ElectList!:

ElectList! is a weekly newsletter that brings you election-related news from around the world as well as the latest updates to ElectionGuide. With the newsletter, you will receive information and links about upcoming election dates and the most recently posted election results. We will also provide concise summaries of breaking news and important developments related to electoral processes and current elections throughout the world.

To have all our breaking election-related news delivered to your Inbox each week, sign up for ElectList! today. Subscribe now!

Search News Archives

Current ElectList News

Tonga (Sep 01, 2010)
Proposed legislation in Tongo will require public servants to resign before registering as candidates. The proposal, which parliament will vote on next month, comes before parliamentary elections on November 25. In previous elections, public servants could take a leave, campaign for the elections, and resign if elected.

Sweden (Aug 31, 2010)
Members of Denmark's governing coalition on Tuesday called for election observers to be sent to neighboring Sweden for the country’s September 19 parliamentary poll. The Danish politicians claimed observers were necessary after two Swedish stations refused to broadcast election advertisements from the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party. The stations rejected the ads, which are critical of Muslim immigration, stating that they violate laws barring hate based on race and religion. Muslim immigration has been a contentious issue in Danish politics over the past decade. Now some conservative Danish lawmakers are claiming censorship, and believe the incident threatens the fairness of the Swedish election. Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke RASMUSSEN, however, stated that it was not his role to interfere in Swedish polls.

New Zealand (Aug 25, 2010)
New Zealand’s Electoral Enrollment Centre released the final voter registration numbers on Wednesday, which show that over 91 percent of eligible voters are enrolled for upcoming local body elections. Local polls in New Zealand, which elect local government officials and district health board members, are held every three years. All voters in local elections cast their ballot by mail.

Australia (Aug 21, 2010)
Parliamentary elections in Australia on Saturday have left the country with a hung lower house for the first time in forty years. Both the ruling Labor Party of Prime Minister Julia GILLARD, and the opposition Liberal/National Party alliance failed to capture the 76 seats needed for an outright majority. Patrick DUNLEAVY, a professor of political science at the London School of Economics, has noted that the election results mean that every major Westminster model country in the world now has a hung parliament. This includes Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and India. Although Australians will not know final election results for another week, GILLARD, and Liberal Party leader Tony ABBOTT are attempting to win negotiations with independent lawmakers to form a government.

Tuvalu (Aug 16, 2010)
Tuvaluan voters will be able to cast ballots from anywhere in the country during the September parliamentary election, a government official announced on Monday. Parliamentarians in Tuvalu represent multi-member constituencies, but voters will be able to vote for their district’s representatives regardless of which polling station they are at. Tuvaluans living abroad, however, will be unable to cast overseas ballots. On September 16, approximately five thousand voters will be eligible to elect the entire 15-member parliament.