Romanians will try again to elect a new president today, six months after the first attempt ended in scandal and confusion. A radical outsider with mystical leanings, Calin Georgescu, came first on 24 November, but that result was annulled over allegations of campaign fraud and Russian interference. In February, US Vice President JD Vance sharply...
Polls predicted a tight race in Australia’s election, but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has won a second term in a landslide. His rival Peter Dutton has suffered a humiliating defeat, losing even the seat he held for 24 years. Our Australia correspondent Katy Watson breaks down the result – and what it means for the...
EPA Nigel Farage has hailed Reform UK’s gains in Thursday’s elections as “unprecedented” and “the end of two-party politics”. The party has taken control of 10 local councils, won two mayoral races and added a fifth MP to its ranks in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election now counting has been completed. Many of these wins...
The BBC took to the streets of Sydney to ask people their thoughts on the 2025 federal election campaign. Read full article at source...
For all of the noise and the numbers following this week’s elections in England, two sentences tell you much of what you need to know. Nigel Farage arranged a fireworks display and a party. The prime minister and the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch have both written post-mortem articles in Saturday’s newspapers. Politicians often accuse journalists...
Henry Zeffman BBC chief political correspondent Reuters The election results are still being counted but this patchwork of different contests across England has been truly fascinating, throwing up all sorts of lessons. Here are seven things we have learnt so far: These are really bad results for the Labour Party Sometimes in politics what is...
Getty Images In Western Sydney, an audience of Stetson-wearing Australians are sitting in their fold-up camping chairs, swigging beers and eating a spiralled fried potato on a skewer known as a ‘chip on a stick’. People here are enjoying bull rides, barrel racing and bucking broncos. It feels like a slice of Americana in New...
Former vice-president Kamala Harris has criticised the Trump administration’s agenda in her first major speech since losing the US election. Speaking at an event run by Emerge, a political organisation that recruits and trains Democratic women to run for public office, she singled out the administration’s handling of the economy and immigration policy. But, she...
Martyn Oates BBC South West political editor BBC Devon County Council can trace its roots back to 1888 Elections usually mean new beginnings – but for Devon County Council this week’s poll is the beginning of the end. Like all local authority councils in the remaining “two-tier” areas – governed by a combination of county...
Shortly before the election, a campaign using the hashtag “stability and integrity” flooded Romanian TikTok. Influencers uploaded videos describing what they were looking for in a future president: “stability”, “progress”, “a patriot”. They did not name a specific candidate. They had been paid to upload videos with these messages through a marketing platform called FameUp,...
Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News EPA Kamla Persad-Bissessar led her UNC party to victory The opposition in the Caribbean twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has won a decisive victory in Monday’s parliamentary election, preliminary results suggest. The win by the centrist United National Congress (UNC) party means that Kamla Persad-Bissessar will be appointed as the...
Canadians of different political leanings have reacted with a mix of hope, concern, and uncertainty after the federal election. Voters across the country spoke to the BBC about the Liberal Party’s win, and gave their views on what it could mean for the road ahead. Read full article at source...
Mark Carney’s Liberal Party has won the Canadian election. In his victory speech, Carney told supporters that “President Trump is trying to break” Canada so that “America can own” the country. In his concession speech, defeated Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said “hard lessons” had been learned from the election. This is how the unprecedented election...
Reuters Mark Carney’s Liberals are projected to have won Canada’s federal election – riding a backlash of anti-Trump sentiment to form the next government. It is a stunning political turnaround for party who were widely considered dead and buried just a few months ago. It’s not yet clear if the party – which has been...
Mark Carney’s Liberal Party is expected to win enough seats in the House of Commons to form a government in Canada. It is not yet clear whether they will be able to secure a majority. Carney is set to remain Prime Minister, having only assumed the role in early March following Justin Trudeau’s resignation. Carney’s...