Centre-right Alexander Stubb elected Finland’s next president | Elections News

Centre-right Alexander Stubb elected Finland’s next president | Elections News

New president will have a central role in defining Finland’s NATO policies, amid growing security concerns about Russia. Former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb has won the election runoff against ex-Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto to become Finland’s next president, and take on the task of steering the Nordic country’s foreign and…

Khan’s PTI leads as final results in Pakistan election called | Elections News

Khan’s PTI leads as final results in Pakistan election called | Elections News

Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party and its affiliates have won the most seats in Pakistan’s elections, the election commission has revealed as it declared final results in the hotly-contested vote. A number of independent candidates allied to the jailed former leader’s PTI have won National Assembly seats in…

Q&A: Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto ‘confident’ of election victory | Elections

Q&A: Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto ‘confident’ of election victory | Elections

Jakarta, Indonesia – On February 14, more than 204 million Indonesians will have the chance to vote for their new president. Incumbent Joko Widodo is in his second and final term, and is constitutionally barred from seeking re-election. Voters have a choice between three presidential candidates – Anies Baswedan, the…

Who’s going to lead Pakistan’s next government after inconclusive election? | Elections News

Who’s going to lead Pakistan’s next government after inconclusive election? | Elections News

Imran Khan-linked independents win most seats after PTI party banned. The results of Pakistan’s general election are inconclusive – with rival former prime ministers, Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif, claiming victory. Horsetrading between different parties will now follow to form the next government. So who is likely to lead Pakistan…

Pakistan’s Khan, Sharif claim election win, despite no clear majority | Elections News

Pakistan’s Khan, Sharif claim election win, despite no clear majority | Elections News

Pakistan faces a period of uncertainty with the election results showing no clear majority and two opposing political leaders, Nawaz Sharif from Pakistan Muslim League (PMLN) and Imran Khan from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), declaring victory. Full results of Thursday’s elections were still not in for nine of the 265 seats…

Student killed in Senegal protests over election delay | Elections News

Student killed in Senegal protests over election delay | Elections News

Violent protests erupt after President Macky Sall postponed presidential elections by several months. A student has been killed in the Senegalese city of Saint-Louis during violent protests against the postponement of the presidential election. Clashes between security forces and protesters gripped Senegal’s capital and other cities on Friday, the first…

Big election rallies in Indonesia on final day of campaign | Elections News

Big election rallies in Indonesia on final day of campaign | Elections News

Hundreds of thousands of supporters of presidential contenders pack rallies in capital Jakarta and other cities. Tens of thousands of supporters of Indonesia’s presidential candidates have poured onto its streets as they hold final campaigns before heading to the polls in the world’s biggest single-day election. The contenders to lead…

‘He needs our votes’: In Karachi, Pakistan election tests old loyalties | Elections

‘He needs our votes’: In Karachi, Pakistan election tests old loyalties | Elections

Karachi, Pakistan – These are the fourth general elections I’m covering in Pakistan over the past 16 years. In a city where colours, music and ethnicities change from neighbourhood to neighbourhood, every one of those previous elections has been confusing. This one has been the same: chaotic and confusing. I started…

How Taiwan’s elections challenge the power of China’s Communist Party | Elections News

How Taiwan’s elections challenge the power of China’s Communist Party | Elections News

If free and fair national elections are considered the hallmark of a democratic state, Taiwan has much to boast about. In January, the self-ruled island held its eighth presidential election concurrently with a parliamentary vote. Just 160km (100 miles) away on the other side of the narrow Taiwan Strait, the…

PTI-linked independents take Pakistan election lead as counting nears end | Elections News

PTI-linked independents take Pakistan election lead as counting nears end | Elections News

Candidates linked to jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party are in the lead in Pakistan’s election, ahead of two dynastic parties believed to be favoured by the military, as vote counting enters its final leg. In an AI-generated “victory speech” posted on the social media platform X on…