Kazakhstan’s presidential election came with no surprises on April 26. After his 25-year rule, the Central Asian country’s incumbent leader Nursultan Nazarbayev won a fifth consecutive term, with a massive 97.7 percent of the vote. Passed this quarter-century, you probably knew that Nazarbayev was expected to continue governing Kazakhstan. But, Did you know?... About the country: The ...
The importance of electoral process on the consolidation of democracy in African countries has been recently highlighted by Said Adejumoby in his book “Democratic renewal in Africa, Trends and Discourses†(Chapter 3: Beyond Authoritharism: Elections and the changing dynamics of state –society relations in Africa) published by Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire UK in 2015. Dr Adejumoby, Chief ...
The hugely successful delivery of the recent Independence referendum demonstrated that Scotland is leading the way in terms of democratic engagement and effective election administration. With almost 85% of the electorate turning out to vote, an unprecedented proportion in recent decades, the referendum put Scottish democracy firmly on the map, not just in the UK, ...
Nigeria received April with a new president: General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who became the first Nigerian politician to unseat a sitting leader in a democratic election. Buhari, a former military ruler, won 21 states (with 15,424,921 votes 53.96%), while incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan from the People's Democratic Party (PDP) took ...
According to a recent survey carried out by Mancunian marketing agency, Tecmark and polling company YouGov, 63% of adults in the UK think that online voting would boost turnout in elections. The strongest support was found amongst women, people living in London, and young people aged 25 to 39. Â I-voting is most popular amongst Northerners and ...
Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev, has resubmitted to the Parliament his request for a national referendum on electoral rights. The activation of a plebiscite on election rules aims to inquire Bulgarians on three key issues: whether they want to elect lawmakers directly trough a majority system (rather than from party lists), to make voting compulsory and ...