Understanding politics across borders and divides
Published: November 8, 2026 Iliana Yotova (also transliterated Iotova) won Bulgaria’s presidential runoff on November 1, defeating former caretaker prime minister Andrey Gyurov by 57.57% to 39.48% with all precinct protocols processed by the Central Election Commission. She is the first woman elected to Bulgaria’s presidency. She has held the office in an acting capacity … Read more
Published: November 5, 2026 Democrats won control of both chambers of the US Congress in the November 3, 2026 midterm elections, ending two years of unified Republican government under President Donald Trump. The party flipped seven Senate seats, in Kansas, Iowa, Texas, Ohio, Maine, North Carolina and South Carolina, and gained a large House majority … Read more
Lula won Brazil’s October 25 runoff with 51.79% but faces a more conservative Congress, while Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede and seeks annulment.
Israel’s October 27 vote gave Netanyahu’s bloc 53 seats and the opposition 48, with Arab parties at a record 19. What that means for the coalition talks.
Published: October 26, 2026 Serbia’s snap parliamentary election on October 25 ended with the Student List, a citizens’ list built out of nearly two years of anti-corruption protests, on course for an outright majority in the 250-seat National Assembly. Aleksandar Vučić, who resigned the presidency in September to lead the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) … Read more
Published: October 17, 2026 Protests demanding the resignation of India’s Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, have spread from New Delhi to other cities since early October, turning a technical dispute over voter rolls into the most visible street challenge to Narendra Modi’s government in years. Opposition parties led by Congress, and a youth movement called … Read more
Published: October 17, 2026 Spain will hold a general election on November 29, about eight months ahead of schedule, after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on October 5 that he was dissolving parliament. The trigger was a defeat in Congress three days earlier, when Junts, the People’s Party (PP) and Vox voted down two government … Read more
Published: September 28, 2026 Brazil votes on October 4 in a general election that will choose a president, governors, members of Congress and state legislatures. If no presidential candidate receives more than half of the valid votes, the top two advance to a second round on October 25. More than 158 million people are eligible … Read more
Published: September 26, 2026 Israel will vote on October 27 for the 26th Knesset, the country’s first national election since the Hamas-led attack of October 7, 2023 and the wars that followed. Under Israel’s parliamentary system, voters choose party lists for the 120-seat Knesset rather than electing a prime minister directly, and the next … Read more
Last Updated: September 2026 Overview Every country that holds elections has to answer the same handful of questions: who may vote, whether they must, how a vote becomes a seat, who draws the lines, and how the count is verified. The answers vary more than most voters realize. More than 130 countries elect their lower … Read more