An interesting and somehow groundbreaking paper about disputed elections in presidential democracies has won this year’s IDEA/EIP award for the best graduate student paper on electoral integrity. The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) together with the Electoral Integrity Project (EIP; Harvard University & University of Sydney) announced the results of the 2015 ...
Nearly 90% of the world’s countries has set the minimum voting age at 18. However, according to some analysts “momentum is building around the world to lower the voting age to 16 years. Some nations have already made the shift, with voting in national or local elections occurring at age 16 in Austria, Germany, Norway, ...
Mexican voters headed to the polls on Sunday June 7th to vote for 500 seats in the lower house of Congress (Chamber of Deputies), nine of 31 governorships, 641 federal deputies in 17 federal entities, 993 mayor offices in 16 states, and 16 borough heads for the Federal District. Here we present some interesting facts about ...
The UNDP has launched the Global Programme for Electoral Cycle Support (GPECS), a program to sensitize and train indigenous communicators and journalists in electoral cycle dynamics and on new information technologies so that participants can share their knowledge within their own indigenous communities. GPECS, is a three-year global initiative to help developing countries improve their electoral ...
On November 30, Uruguayans will head back to the polls to elect a successor to Jose “Pepe†Mujica. During the first round, Tabare Vazquez, candidate for the Broad Front, received 1,134,187 votes (47,8%) while Luis A. Lacalle, representing the National Party, received 732,601. A total of 2,620,791 registered voters are expected at the precincts. In the first round, ...
This year, approximately 1.5 billion people have elected their representatives in 96 elections held in five continents. That’s the equivalent of 21% of the world population. Asia, a continent with 4.427 billion people, saw some 800 million people casting a ballot. India (553 million voters) and Indonesia (134 million voters) accounted for almost half of the ...