ACE Electoral News
ACE Electoral News
- Bhutan holds fake national poll, BBC (2007)
- BBC article about the 2007 mock elections in Bhutan.
- Encouraging turnout in Bhutan's historic mock polls, India eNews (2007)
- This article describes the mock elections of Bhutan, preceding the country's first democratic elections to be held in late 2007.
- Bhutan mock poll votes for tradition, TheStar (2007)
- This article describes the mock elections of Bhutan, where four mock parties competed. The yellow Druk (dragon) party, which stood for the preservation of tradition and values, turned out as the winner of the mock elections.
- Bhutan announces election details, BBC (2006)
- A article about the upcoming parliamentary elections of Bhutan in 2008.
- Bhutan's Electoral Management Body
- Here is a link to the official website of Bhutan's Electoral Management Body
- Election Results - Bhutan
- 50% Quota for Women in Panchayats Cleared, Hindustan Times (2009)
- This article provides information on the newly accepted constitutional amendment that reserves 50% of seats in the 252, 000 panchayats or village councils for women.
- Key India state elections begin, BBC News (2009)
- Polls have opened in three Indian states, testing the strength of the Congress party-led federal government.
- India: Eunuchs can vote, contest as 'others', The Times of India (2009)
- In order to free sexual identity from stereotypes, the Election Commission gave transsexuals and eunuchs a distinct identity, enabling them to identify themselves as 'others' on the electoral rolls.
- India: Decentralization and accountability - are voters more vigilant in local than in national elections?
- Defining vigilance as retrospective voting - where voters evaluate incumbents on their performance during their entire term in office - the author compares voter behavior in local and national elections to make inferences about whether voters are more vigilant in monitoring government at the local level. Using data from 14 major states in India over the period 1960-92, she contrasts voters' behavior in state legislative assembly elections with their behavior in national legislative elections. In state assembly elections voter reward incumbents for local income growth, and punish them for a rise in inequality, over their entire term in office. But in national elections voters behave myopically, rewarding growth in national income and a fall in inflation and inequality only in the year preceding the election. The evidence is consistent with greater voter vigilance and government accountability in local than in national elections.
- India's Electoral Management Body
- Here is a link to the official website of India's Electoral Management Body
- Election Results - India
- Election results from Adam Carr's Election Archive
- Upcoming and past elections
- IFES Election Guide - India
- IFES India
- Sri Lanka's president wins victory in native south, Reuters (2009)
- After having defeated the Tamil Tigers, President Mahinda Rajapaksa's ruling coalition won 38 out of 55 council seats in the Southern Province, in Saturday's provinicial elections.
- Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa delays announcement of Lanka poll dates, Daily News and Analysis (2009)
- Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa has not announced the dates for the presidential or general elections at the key convention of the ruling party, despite the widely held belief he would do so. Instead, he announced that a decision will be made in a due course.
- Ranil wants Indian form of democracy in Sri Lanka, The Hindu (2009)
- Awaiting the announcement of the dates for both presidential and parliamentary elections, the leader of the United National Front argues for a change from the presidential model to a parliamentary model closer to the Indian system.
- Sri Lanka sets date for presidential poll, The New York Times (2009)
- President Rajapaksa has now called the presidential elections for mid-January 2010, and according to a cabinet minister, he also informed all party leaders about this.
- S. Lanka opposition endorses ex-general for president, Reuters (2009)
- The United National Party announced its endorsement for General Fonseka, who is widely credited for defeating the Tamil Tigers. He will be the main challenger of President Rajapaksa, who will be running for re-election.
- Sri Lankan Electoral Management Body
- Here is a link to the official website of the Sri Lankan Electoral Management Body.
