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ACE Electoral News

Colombia:Santos handily wins first round of Colombian presidential election, New York Times (2010)

A former defense minister who would continue President Álvaro Uribe's tough anti-guerrilla policies handily defeated a former Bogota mayor Sunday in the first round of presidential elections.

Colombia:Former defense minister ahead in Colombia election, Los Angeles Times (2010)

Juan Manuel Santos, a veteran defense minister and political heir to conservative President Alvaro Uribe, surged well ahead in voting Sunday in Colombia's hard-fought presidential election but fell just shy of winning the simple majority that would have given him the office.

Liberia's Referendum Campaign Gets Underway Sunday Voanews.com (2011)

The campaigns for the referendum will begin on Sunday in order to amend four points, but the most important ones are the residency and the retirement of the judges. The referendum is scheduled for August a month before the October’s presidential election.

Nigeria’s Electoral Commission to Conduct Post-Election Analysis Voanews.com (2011)

The Independent National Electoral Commission has decided to have a session with the stakeholdersin order to analyse the 2011 elections and to avoid those mistakes in 2015 elections. Although the international observers have declared the elections free and fair, many acts of violence broke out, many people died, and many more were injured.

Italian local elections test PM Berlusconi, BBC (2011)

In what is the last vote before the 2013 national Italian elections, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faces a crucial round of key local elections. The vote is said to gauge the greater part of the country's reaction to stifling economic growth, high unemployment and a barrage of criminal and sex scandals aimed at the Italian PM.

Belarus opposition leader Andrei Sannikov jailed, BBC (2011)

The article reports that the main opposition leader in Belarus, Andrei Sannikov, "has been jailed for five years on charges of organising mass protests after last year's presidential poll." The EU and US have responded to the crackdown by imposing harsh sanctions on the current leadership. Political tensions within the country have turned violent.

Bosnia tension eases as Serbs cancel referendum, BBC (2011)

The article explains that the Bosnian Serb leader has cancelled a referendum that would have gauged support for the presence of a UN envoy that is accused, along with Bosnia's war crimes court, of having a bias against Serbs. The referendum would have also "asked Bosnian Serbs if they supported Bosnia's central institutions, which tackle war crimes cases, corruption and organised crime." After assurances from high ranking EU officials that the system would be reviewed, the referendum was cancelled. The tension between the country's two ethnic groups remains.

France: Strauss-Kahn sex case throws open election race, Reuters (2011)

The chief of the International Monetary Fund and the person hitherto considered most likely to run again Nicolas Sarkozy in the next French national election has been caught in a criminal scandal the likes of which promise to jeopardize his candidacy potential. The article describes the event as well as touches on several opinions about how this will all affect the future presidential race.

Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev Landslide Fails to Win Over Foreign Observers, EurasiaNet (2011)

The article reports that Kazakhstan's leader Nazarbyev won in the April 3 elections with 95.5% of votes, and declaring more than 90% turnout. Although Nazarbayev asserted Kazakhstan is democratizing, international observers are critical of the electoral process and indicated that the accuracy of numbers is of suspect.

Georgia: Opposition Plans New Proposals 'to Save Electoral Talks', Civil.ge (2011)

The article reports that talks over the electoral system in Georgia between the governmental and opposition political forces have come to deadlock. The issue of majoritarian MPs turned into one of the most serious sticking points in talks between the ruling party and the group of eight opposition parties. In the current system, the MPs are elected by winner takes it all principle, while the opposition is pushing for a list proportional system.

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Putin eases to third Presidential term, euronews (2012)

Vladimir Putin wins presidential elections in Russia with nearly 64 percent of the vote. Putin’s nearest rival Gennady Zyuganov managed 17 percent of the vote. Opponents are planning protests today in Moscow.

Russia election: Vladimir Putin celebrates victory, BBC News (2012)

The electoral commission said that with more than 99% of the votes counted, Vladimir Putin won 63.75%. A leading independent election watchdog Golos said the polls could not be considered fair and open. Opposition groups alleged fraud and plan a protest rally in Moscow.

Russian Election: Reaction From Candidates and Their Allies, wsj (2012)

The article provides different opinions of candidates after Russia’s presidential elections where Vladimir Putin won the majority of votes.

Russia’s presidential election marked by unequal campaign conditions, active citizens’ engagement, international observers say, OSCE (2012)

The international observers concluded a statement regarding presidential election in Russia. Heidi Tagliavini, the Head of the Election Observation Mission of the OSCE Office says: “Although the authorities made some effort to improve transparency, there remained widespread mistrust in the integrity of the election process”.

Russia: OSCE/ODIHR Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions, OSCE (2012)

Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions regarding 4 March 2012 Presidential Election in Russian Federation.

Egypt to select constitutional panel March 3, SF Chronicle (2012)

This news article says that Egypt's ruling military council pushed ahead Sunday with plans to begin drafting a new constitution before transferring power to civilian rule, announcing that parliament will meet this week to select the panel tasked with writing the document.

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Elections Results - New Zealand Electoral Commission

This Link leads to the electoral results database from the official New Zealand Electoral Commission website.