Image: Solomon Muchie/DW By the end of 2026,15 countriesacrossAfricawillhaveelected new parliaments.Whileelectionsare being ...

Disastrous landslides that struck southern Ethiopia after a week of heavy rains have killed at least 50 people and left 125 ...

Balendra Shah, known to most Nepalis simply as ‘Balen’ the rapper, has officially been elected to the country’s House of Representatives from the Jhapa-5 constituency with 68,348 votes — the highest ...

Kathmandu (AFP) – Nepal's centrist RSP party of rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah had secured a majority in the direct parliamentary elections, partial official results showed Sunday, and was ...

Kathmandu, March 7 The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), which is sweeping the elections under the First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) system, ... Kathmandu, March 7 The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), which is ...

Readers respond to Gaby Hinsliff’s defence of first past the post, and Polly Toynbee’s call for electoral reform Gaby Hinsliff (Nobody wants to defend Britain’s voting system any more – but here’s why ...

Nepal General Election 2026: Voting is underway across Nepal with over 18.9 million eligible voters expected to take part in choosing representatives for the 275-member House of Representatives (HoR).

Mexico's main opposition party, the PAN, calls Sheinbaum's electoral reform “Ley Maduro,” or the "Maduro Law," in reference to the former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. The PAN, as do other parties ...

NEWBURGH — The town of Newburgh will become the second municipality in the state to adopt a ranked-choice voting system, where the winner of an election is not always the initial top vote-getter. The ...

In Spring 2025, Change Party received almost one-third of the votes for the eight senators from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. They got, however, zero seats. With only around 64% of the ...

One answer is found in proportional representation, an electoral system used in most of the rest of the world's established democracies. These systems elect multiple representatives in a district in ...