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December 2018[edit]

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2BangladeshPM Hasina wins the violence-marred Bangladesh elections as opposition rejects polls.
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11United StatesAs if the North Carolina 9th District election controversy couldn't get weirder, it does. The North Carolina Bipartisan State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement, investigating if fraud took place in the November 2018 election has been dissolved by a panel of judges who found it unconstitutional, stemming from an unrelated legal challenge that started in 2016. Further, Steny Hoyer (D-MD) has stated the House will not seat Mark Harris when the new session starts on 3 January, 2019. A new board is expected to start operations on 31 January, 2019.
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12United StatesRussiaChinaIranRussia, China, and Iran sought to influence the 2018 US midterm elections.
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18United StatesNorth Carolina's 9th Congressional District results have still not been certified, after allegations that an individual went around collecting ballots from absentee voters' houses, some blank or unsealed, from voters. A hearing is scheduled by the state election board, on December 21st, 2018 to further discuss the matter.

November 2018[edit]

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-40SpainSpain Socialists Dealt Blow in Andalusia, Far-Right Emerges.
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3United StatesSenator Cindy Hyde-SmithWikipedia wins runoff and is reelected, despite accusations of blatant racism. Because Mississippi.
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-8TaiwanA referendum to legalize same-sex marriage in Taiwan fails.
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30United StatesDemocrats have taken all seven House seats in the historically Republican stronghold Orange County.
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-34United StatesNew Ager Marianne Williamson is exploring a 2020 presidential bid. With friends like these...
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37United StatesDemocrat Kyrsten Sinema wins the Arizona Senate race.
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18United StatesRecounts have been ordered for the Florida governor, Senate and agricultural commissioner races.
UPDATE: Republican Ron DeSantis has been declared governor-elect while the latter two races will be recounted by hand.
UPDATE: Republican Gov. Rick Scott has been declared winner of the Senate race.
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5European Union German MEP Manfred Weber is chosen as the centre-right European People’s Party spitzenkandidat, the candidate for President of the European Commission. As the EPP is the most likely be the largest party in European Parliament, he is likely to replace Jean-Claude Juncker after the European parliamentary elections in 2019.
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40United States Scott Walker loses his bid for a third term as Governor of Wisconsin.
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34United States Laura Kelly, a Democrat, has bested Trump-backed far-right candidate Kris Kobach in the race for Kansas governor.
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20United States Of the Republicans, the pro-Putin & Russian Dana Rohrabacher has lost his Californian seat in Congress. However, it was tight as he has lost by fewer than 2000 votes, 89,068 to 91,750.
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39United StatesThe Democrats narrowly take back the House while the GOP expands its majority in the Senate. A list of firsts for women in the 2018 midterm election.

October 2018[edit]

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11BrazilBolsonaro has utilized fake news on social media such as WhatsApp to win the election in Trump style.
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-36BrazilThe far-right Jair Bolsonaro wins the Brazilian presidency.
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17United StatesIrony meter hits 12.5 as Trump calls for more civility in politics. "Those engaged in political arena must stop treating political opponents as being morally defective," he said."No one should carelessly compare political opponents to historic villains, which is done often," he added. Seriously??
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26AustraliaThe Liberals lose their majority in the lower house of Australian Parliament.
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24BrazilBrazil's far-right presidential candidate has narrowly missed an outright victory and now heads to a runoff vote.
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11United StatesGeorgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp is accused of blocking 53,000 voter registrations as he runs for governor.
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12United StatesThe Supreme Court votes to allow North Dakota to enforce voter ID laws.

September 2018[edit]

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25United StatesPolling shows that the Democrats hold a 12-point lead in congressional preference among registered voters.
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26United StatesIn the continuing adventures of the GOP's image problem regarding sexual assault/harassment, comes Jim Knoblach stopping his campaign for Minnesota state rep after allegations from his 23 year old daughter that he abused her from age 9 to 21.
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7SwedenThe Swedish election ends with neither the center-left or center-right coalition winning a majority and the Sweden Democrats winning a small gain to receive 17.6% of the vote.
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-63Ireland A few identitarian activists and Farage loyalists in Ireland are trying to create a localised version of UKIP, with the “Irexit Freedom Party”. This is despite support for the EU is around 90% in Ireland.
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2Sweden Despite what most outside journalists think, the biggest issue in the upcoming Swedish general election isn't migration or asylum, it is climate.

August 2018[edit]

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32United StatesThe big story from Tuesday's primaries: Andrew Gillum, the Bernie Sanders-endorsed progressive mayor of Tallahassee, scored a major upset victory in the Florida Democratic gubernatorial primary, bucking a trend of the state party nominating centrists for Governor who inevitably go down in defeat to the Republicans. Less surprising: the hard-right Ron DeSantis won the Republican gubernatorial primary, and wasted no time throwing racist dog whistles at Gillum (who is black).
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34United States Georgia is still insisting that its elections are fine, despite one precinct's turnout for its primaries being 243%!
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11United StatesThe record for the most female gubernatorial nominees in a single year in the US has been broken.
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18United StatesThe Ohio special congressional election ends with the Republican candidate narrowly leading over the Democratic one, as the Trump-backed candidate very narrowly leads the Kansas GOP governor primary.

July 2018[edit]

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18United States Taking a page from the dictators' playbook, President Trump warns of the violence and destruction of civil liberties that would happen if the Republicans don't win the November election.
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-17ZimbabweViolence in Zimbabwe as the ruling Zanu-PF claims victory with a two-thirds majority.
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7CambodiaThe Cambodian ruling party claims victory in an election marred by voter intimidation and lacking any significant opposition.
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7PakistanImran Khan wins the Pakistani premiership amidst allegations of rigging.
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31United StatesThe Californian Democratic Party snubs five-term US Senator Feinstein in favor of endorsing democratic socialist challenger Kevin de Leon.
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52MexicoLeftist candidate Lopez Obrador wins the Mexican presidency in a landslide.

June 2018[edit]

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60United StatesAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a young Democratic Socialist, defeats incumbent Joe Crowley in the primary for an important New York house seat.
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8United StatesThe Supreme Court upholds all but one Texan electoral district in the result of a lawsuit alleging racist gerrymandering, as well as throwing out a ruling about North Carolinian gerrymandering.
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-53 Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claims victory with unofficial results in the Turkish election
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6 United States California will vote in November whether to split into 3 states

May 2018[edit]

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7IraqThe votes of an entire Iraqi electoral district were destroyed in a fire.
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36United StatesMaine will be testing ranked voting in statewide elections.
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-38CanadaThe Conservatives win Ontario after fifteen years of uninterrupted Liberal rule.
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7United StatesEight US states have held their primaries, including California.
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55United StatesNathan Larson, Virginia independent congressional candidate admits he’s a pedophile to reporter in phone interview. Among other things wants to legalize incest and child pornography. He also had a 3 year old daughter who is, thankfully, not in his custody anymore. RationalWiki veterans may remember him as Tisane.
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6ColombiaRight-winger Ivan Duque and leftist Gustavo Petro head to a runoff vote in Colombia.
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8VenezuelaMaduro was re-elected amidst low turnout of 46.1% and massive corruption.
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9United StatesSupporters of a Californian neo-Nazi are sending antisemitic robocalls accusing his opponent of being a "traitorous Jew".
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17United StatesA man running for office in Dallas acknowledged that he set up his trust fund to encourage his children to marry opposite-sex white Christians.
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9United StatesThe Democrats' poll advantage has shrunken dramatically.
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2VenezuelaDespite dismal approval ratings at approximately 20%, Maduro is expected to win re-election due to rigging and low opposition turnout.
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8IraqIraq is holding its first election since the fall of the Islamic State. Prime Minister Abadi faces the stiffest competition from a party linked to Iran. UPDATE: Anti-American, populist, and Shia cleric, Muqtada al-SadrWikipedia and his party has won the election
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31United StatesFormer coal executive Don Blankenship, who served a year in prison for safety violations in a 2010 disaster that killed 29 miners, loses the West Virginia GOP Senate primary after a bitter, racially charged campaign. He was such an awful candidate that even Trump urged voters to reject him. Predictably, he blamed "the establishment" for his loss.
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17MalaysiaOppositon wins the general election in Malaysia, putting an end to 60 years of virtual autocracy which spawned the infamous racist policy Bumiputra.
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6LebanonLebanon is holding its first elections in nine years.
UPDATE: Unofficial tallies present strong showings for Hezbollah and Amal.

April 2018[edit]

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49United Kingdom In a very hostile political climate, four Conservative candidates have been suspended ahead of the local elections. One for antisemitic and AIDS jokes; one for calling for returning the death penalty to execute homosexuals; one for claiming the Labour Party spreads STIs, and one for complaining that racial slurs aren't acceptable anymore.
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7United StatesA Republican won the Arizona special election, though by a much smaller margin than normal.
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15United StatesRussiaDemocratic Party files suit alleging Russia, the Trump campaign, and WikiLeaks conspired to disrupt the 2016 election
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-5AzerbaijanThe Azerbaijani king president has secured his third term.
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6Hungary Hungary's dictator Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wins his third term in power.
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10MalaysiaThe Malaysian parliament will be dissolved tomorrow with plans to hold an election within 60 days as constitutionally required.
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10United States Voters in the Alaskan city-borough of Anchorage have voted for a second term for the Democratic-leaning mayor Ethan Berkowitz and rejection by a local referendum for introducting a bathroom bill (but by a thin margin).
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3Sierra LeoneSierra Leone has declared its former junta head president-elect.
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1EgyptSisi has secured his second term as dictator president with 97% of the vote and a remarkably low turnout of 41%.
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13Costa RicaCarlos Alvarado Quesada wins Costa Rica's presidential election, after promising legalisation of same-sex marriage.

March 2018[edit]

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13United StatesA Democratic victory would require a historic upset due to gerrymandering.
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7Sierra LeoneSierra Leone begins its presidential runoff with the incumbent term limited out of running.
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7EgyptThe Egyptian "election" has ended with Sisi poised to win.
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6EgyptPolitical repression in Egypt worsens as the "election" approaches.
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36KenyaCambridge Analytica was also involved in the 2013 and 2017 Kenyan elections.
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5United StatesScott Lively has vowed to establish "separation of LGBT and state" if elected.
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10United StatesA neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier has won the GOP primaries after running unopposed for an Illinois congressional seat. (Don't worry, it's a very blue district.)
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7RussiaPutin won the "election" as we all expected.
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7RussiaUkraineGovernment television in Crimea churns out anti-Western propaganda in the final days before the Russian "election", warning that the West will take low turnout as a sign of weakness and use it to exterminate Crimea's ethnic Russians.
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17United StatesRepublicans try to explain the Pennsylvanian electoral upset by claiming Lamb is a DINO.
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41United StatesDemocrat Conor Lamb won in a major electoral upset in a deep-red district.
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25United StatesThe Republicans are struggling to hold on to Orange County.Wikipedia
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22RussiaUnited StatesPutin admits that Russians hacked the election, but claimed it was da Joos and ethnic minorities and the gov't had nothing to do with it.
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8Italy In Italy, division between the north and south has been widened by the election.
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11United StatesIf elections were held today, five Senate Democrats would lose their seats.
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7ItalyExit polls predict a hung parliament, with the right coalition gaining the most seats and the Five Star Movement being the largest single party.
UPDATE: Results pretty much confirm exit polls.
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7CanadaIndiaMidterm blues: If an election were held today, the Conservatives would beat out the Liberals, as a result of Trudeau's botched visit to India.
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-44GermanyThe far-right Alternative for Germany is on the rise due to Merkel defectors and non-voters.

February 2018[edit]

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22United StatesA Democrat getting outspent 17-1 is now neck and neck in deep-red Pennsylvania
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31United States A Democrat wins a Kentucky House seat where Trump won 72% of the vote.
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41United States A Democrat has won a Missouri state house seat in a district Trump won in a landslide.

January 2018[edit]

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3Czechia The Presidential election in Czechia comes to a close with the election of Milos Zeman, who fought on an anti-immigration/pro-Putin platform.
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-85United States Disgraced former sheriff Joe Arpaio is running for Senate.
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-71United StatesOprah Winfrey is considering about running for President according to everyone except Oprah... so far.....