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On July 5, weeks after VE Day, Britain voted, counting delayed to allow service ballots, and on July 26 Labour's 393 seats against...

After the winter of discontent's strikes paralyzed Britain, Thatcher's campaign pledge to restrain union power and the Conservativ...

The May 1981 runoff's night of the first-time left gave France its first socialist president of the Fifth Republic, Francois Mitte...

Germany's last free election before the Nazi era, November 6, 1932, saw Hitler's NSDAP decline from July's 37.3 percent to 33.1 pe...

The April 18, 1948 election, with Marshall Plan stakes and Soviet-backed communism on the ballot, became the Cold War's first grea...

The October 1982 election delivered the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Felipe Gonzalez 46.6 percent and 202 of 350 seats, the...

Under the round table agreement of April 1989, June's semi-free election reserved 65 percent of Sejm seats for the party while the...

Boris Yeltsin, polling in single digits in January, engineered a comeback through Western-backed loans-for-shares oligarch financi...

The November 21 runoff between Viktor Yushchenko, poisoned by dioxin during the campaign, and prime minister Viktor Yanukovych was...

The September 18 election, called a year early after Schroeder lost a state, ended in virtual deadlock: Merkel's CDU/CSU took 35.2...

On July 2, 2000, Vicente Fox of the National Action Party defeated the Institutional Revolutionary Party's Francisco Labastida 42....

Brazil's November 15 and December 17 rounds were the first direct presidential election since 1960, following two decades of milit...

On October 27, 2002, Lula, the metalworker and PT founder defeated in 1989, 1994, and 1998, finally won, taking 61.3 percent of th...

The October 30, 1983 election, the first free national vote since 1973, gave the Radical Civic Union's Raul Alfonsin 51.7 percent ...

On September 4, 1970, Salvador Allende, a Marxist running for the fourth time, won a 36.6 percent plurality over conservative Jorg...

Amid collapse after the 1989 Caracazo riots, banking crises, and entrenched corruption, former paratrooper Hugo Chavez, jailed aft...

The February 25, 1990 election, mandated by the 1987 Central American peace plan, united the contra war, the economy's collapse, a...

From April 26 to 29, 1994, after decades of apartheid and 350 years of racial exclusion, South Africans of all races voted togethe...

Zambia's October 31, 1991 election, forced by strikes and debt collapse after Kaunda agreed to reintroduce multiparty politics, sa...

The February 1980 election, monitored by Commonwealth observers under the Lancaster House ceasefire after seven years of war, drew...

The June 12, 1993 election, judged Nigeria's cleanest ever, pitted southern Yoruba businessman Moshood Abiola against northern Mus...

The March 1977 election, Indira Gandhi's surprise concession after lifting her 1975-77 Emergency, punished her jailing of opponent...

Nine phases over five weeks, 814 million eligible voters, and 66.4 percent turnout made 2014 the largest election in history. Nare...

Ferdinand Marcos, twenty years in power, called a February 7, 1986 snap election to legitimize himself against Corazon Aquino, wid...

The May 27, 1990 election, promised by the junta after crushing the 1988 uprising, delivered the National League for Democracy 392...

The August 30, 2009 election on 69 percent turnout delivered the Democratic Party of Japan 308 of 480 seats, reducing the Liberal ...

On May 1, 1997, Labour under Tony Blair, rebranded as New Labour and committed to keeping Conservative spending plans, won 418 of ...

Held in phases from October 1951 to February 1952, India's first general election was the largest democratic exercise the world ha...

With sixteen candidates fragmenting the vote in the first round on April 21, 2002, incumbent Jacques Chirac led with 19.9 percent,...

Held on August 14, 1949, months after the Basic Law took effect in the western occupation zones, the first Bundestag election gave...

Mass protests in the June Democratic Struggle of 1987 forced the military-backed government to accept direct presidential election...

Opinion polls and early results in the December 27, 2007 election suggested a lead for opposition leader Raila Odinga, but the ele...

Held two years after a peace agreement ended Liberia's long civil wars and the departure of Charles Taylor, the 2005 election was ...

On July 1, 2018, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, running for the third time after narrow and disputed losses in 2006 and a defeat in ...

Held on December 7, 1970, Pakistan's first general election under universal adult suffrage was organized by the military governmen...