Tying up some loose ends from recent electoral events, plus an advance look at next month’s Iranian election.

British Columbia’s Liberal Party wins re-election despite what the polls said, in a result that will give comfort to unpopular incumbents everywhere.

An indecisive election result puts Bulgaria into limbo, but the media don’t bother telling people anything useful about it.

How to read Bulgarian election results.

There were no big surprises in Pakistan’s election, but the peaceful transfer of power to Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League is itself a major step towards modernisation.

Bulgaria votes for a new parliament on Sunday, with opinion polls showing a close race between the centre-right and its social democratic opposition.

Pakistan votes tomorrow in an election that, for all its violence and unpredictability, marks an important milestone on the democratic road.

A new NRA president is the cue for another look at the Republican Party’s debt to the deep south.

Veteran anti-independence leader Gaston Flosse is back in charge in French Polynesia, but ongoing corruption charges mean that his tenure is far from assured.

An analysis of Malaysia’s electoral results shows how the government won. (Hint: it wasn’t by winning more votes.)