With just a week to go, here is the schedule for the European Parliament elections. Thursday 4th June Elections in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Friday 5th Elections in Ireland and day 1 of elections in the Czech Republic.. Saturday 6th Elections in Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovakia, day 2 of elections in the Czech Republic and day 1 of elections in France and Italy. Sunday 7th Elections i...

On June 4 next year we have the European elections and the local elections, including county council elections. It is interesting that the governmnent has been so keen to move the local elections back from May but there is good reason. The EU elections have traditionally created abysmal turnouts, so by holding the locals at the same time, they are hoping to bump up the turnout in the EU election. ...

In the last few days a couple of people have asked about local government by-elections and whether we can tell anything about national levels of support from them, and I promised I would write a post about it. I have always been dubious in principle about whether local government by-elections can be used to gauge

Earlier today the Statutory Instrument to combine 2009’s local and European elections on the same date went through the Commons. Key points to note: The elections will be combined in June. Parish elections can also be held on the same date (the usual rule which would require them to be postponed is being waived). The elections will be administered

Angolan President Jose Eduardo DOS SANTOS announced that his country would hold democratic elections every four years, starting with next month's legislative elections. The September 5-6 elections, in which voters will elect some 220 members to the country's national assembly, are the first democratic elections to be held in Angola since 1992. While Angola's constitution requires na...

While we wait for the European Parliament election results, I thought I'd take a look at elections in 2 small-population territories that have taken place recently. In the breakway republic of South Ossetia, the elections saw a victory for the Unity Party with around 46% of the votes. The party seems to be modelled on Putin/Medvedev's United Russia Party. The elections may well not have been that ...

Eric Pickles, the Conservative party chairman, today predicted that his party would win more than 40% of the vote in next month's county council elections and take more than 100 Labour seats. But he also suggested that it would be hard, because of the electoral system, for the Tories to push beyond 36% of the vote in the European parliamentary elections on the same day. The elections are the ...

Good news from the Cabinet Office, with its announcement of pre-legislative scrutiny of plans to increase the timetable for general elections and, more significantly, for Parliamentary by-elections.

On 11 May, Serbia held Parliamentary and municipal elections . Despite clear warnings from the United Nations, Serbia also chose to organise local elections in Kosovo, in open defiance of UNSCR 1244, and in violation of the UN's mandate in Kosovo. The UN have said that they will not recognise the results of the municipal elections, which will have no legal validity in Kosovo - the Special Represen...

Ass expected the results of the local elections which came out on Friday and the European elections which were published last night have proven to be at least as bad as the worst projections for the Labour Party. After coming third behind the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats in the local elections, their position was even worse in the European elections. Meanwhile the Liberal Democrats havi...