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September 2025

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13Norway Norway's center-left claim victory in general election.
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15Japan Prime Minister of Japan resigns two months after his party's election losses.
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9Argentina Left wins in regional Argentine election seen as a bellwether for public approval of right-wing president Javier Milei.

August 2025

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13United StatesIowa. Senator Joni Ernst will not run for reelection.
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16Bolivia After almost 20 years of dominance of Evo Morales MAS party, Bolivia’s presidential vote headed for first-ever runoff between centrist, right-wing candidates

July 2025

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20Japan Exit polling by NHK has said that the current LDP-Komeito coalition has lost its majority for the first time in 26 years in the upper House of Councillors in the Diet. Nevertheless the LDP is still the largest party in the house. Notably the newly formed far-right MAGA-like Sanseitō is predicted to gain as many as 13 seats.

June 2025

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15United StatesNew York. New York City. It's Cuomover (again): Mamdani wins first round of Democratic Primary election, Cuomo seemingly concedes
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13United StatesNew York. New York City. New York City mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested at an immigration court "after he linked arms with a person that authorities were attempting to detain."
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3United StatesNew York. New York City. Bernie Sanders endorses Zohran Mamdani in election for mayor of New York City.
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17United StatesNew York. New York City. New York City's main newspapers anti-endorse Zohran Mamdani in election for mayor of New York City, appearing to reluctantly and implicitly endorse Andrew Cuomo. (The election, however, will give people ranked-choice voting options.)
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10United StatesNew York. New York City. Mike Bloomberg is funding a PAC to elect Andrew Cuomo as Mayor of New York City.
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12United StatesA new election has been called after the DNC ousted David Hogg and Malcolm Kenyatta from their seats as Vice Chairs.
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15United Kingdom Reform has lost its chairman Zia Yusuf over a newly elected Reform MP requesting for a burka ban. The Standard reports that the “Bad Boy of Brexit” Arron Banks, could replace him. Update: Yusuf returned to his position after 48 hours.
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14United KingdomScotlandA surprise win for Scottish Labour in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse after a "toxic" and "racist" campaign by Nigel Farage's Reform UK. New MSP Davy Russell said, "This community has sent a message to Farage and his mob: the poison of Reform isn’t us, it isn’t Scotland and we don’t want your division here."
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26South Korea Lee Jae-myung, the liberal (by South Korean standards) candidate, wins presidential election.
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6Poland Conservative historian Karol Nawrocki wins Polish presidential vote

May 2025

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35Romania Centrist Nicușor Dan beats neo-fascist George Simion in Romania's presidential election. Simion refuses to concede.
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11Albania Incumbent Albanian prime minister Edi Rama's Socialist Party has won a historic fourth term with 52% of the vote. International observers have questioned the integrity of the election, and opposition leader Sali Berisha has vowed not to accept the results.
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31United StatesNorth Carolina. The Republicans' attempts to overturn the results of the last state supreme court election have failed.
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27Australia Labor party increases its majority, taking a projected twelve seats from the conservative Liberal National coalition, including that of opposition leader Peter Dutton.

April 2025

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17Canada Liberals projected to win most seats in election, although it appears that they will fall short of a majority
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19Ecuador Incumbent Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa has been reelected with almost 56% of the vote. His opponent Luisa González has claimed that there was "grotesque" voter fraud, a claim which has been rejected by various international bodies and members of González's own party.
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35United StatesWisconsin. Elon Musk's attempt to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat fails: Susan Crawford handily defeats the Musk-endorsed Brad Schimel, by (at present) a margin of 54% to 45%.

March 2025

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29Turkey Ekrem Imamoglu, a rival to President Erdogan and likely candidate in the 2028 presidential election, has been arrested and charged with corruption. His arrest has resulted in protests.
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22Greenland The opposition centre-right Democrats won the biggest share of the votes against the current left-wing Inuit Ataqatigiit in the latest general elections in Greenland. However, one of the five parties that have been voted for in Greenlandic parliament, the Inatsisartut, supports American sovereignty over the island-nation. An article in English - BBC
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20Canada Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, has won the Liberal Party leadership election and will replace Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada.
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28Romania Romania's Central Electoral Bureau has rejected the presidential candidacy of far-right pro-Russian Călin Georgescu, due to his financial affairs.
Update: The Constitutional Court has upheld the CEB's decision to reject Georgescu's candidacy, as such he has no chance to stand. Prosecutors have now launched an investigation on ally and fellow candidate George Simion, after he calls for officials to be ‘skinned’.

February 2025

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16United StatesNew York. New York City. Because it seems someone doesn't know when to quit, Andrew Cuomo is running to be mayor of New York City.
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29CanadaAmid Trump's threats, the Canadian Liberal Party has rebounded against the Conservatives, and now leads the polls for the first time since 2021.
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35RomaniaRussiaRomanian presidential election frontrunner Călin Georgescu has been detained by police for questioning about Russia's financial support for his campaign. His campaign's Facebook page denounced the move as undemocratic.
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14Germany Far-right AfD wins the second-highest number of seats in Germany's parliamentary elections, behind the conservative CDU/CSU.
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40United StatesKentucky. Mitch McConnell won’t run for reelection in 2026.

January 2025

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33United StatesIowa. Democrats flip an Iowa state senate seat from the Republicans during a special election. Trump had won voters in that district against Harris by a 21-point margin.
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34Belarus Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko wins a totally-not-rigged election with 87% of the vote, sparking more condemnation and sanctions from Western governments.
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19United States Several tech companies are shelling out millions of dollars for Trump's inauguration fund.