General elections were held in Turkey in 1923.

Early general elections were held in Jordan on 23 January 2013.

The first free local elections following the fall of communism took place in 1990.

The presidential election was held in Finland in January and February.

Indeed, Colombia s recent presidential election was truly historic.

On January 17, 1953 elections for the Chamber of Deputies (also known as the National Assembly) took place.

Education its quality more than its coverage was a key issue in Chile s recent presidential elections.

An historical ending to a tense electoral period took place in Senegal on March 25, 2012.

And no wonder that voters in almost two thirds of eurozone countries have turned out the incumbents in their most recent elections.

You really believe that if there are democratic elections in Egypt now, that a government could emerge that espouses some of the values you've spoken about so inspiringly?

Indeed, Serbia s last presidential election became something of a referendum on Milosevic and hence on Serbia s relations with the West and the wider world.

Last November s Congressional elections dealt President George W. Bush a sharp rebuff over his Iraq policy.

Vladimir Putin s massive electoral triumph in this week s Duma elections has put the lie to that notion.

The 2004 elections for the European Parliament had already shown that the level of discontent with the Union was high.

The story starts in Kenya in December of 2007, when there was a disputed presidential election, and in the immediate aftermath of that election, there was an outbreak of ethnic violence.

For the first time in the multi party era, local elections took place on 21 November 2000, with the UDF party winning 70 of the available seats.

We have also seen it this year in Lebanon, where democratic elections have taken place free from outside interference, symbolizing new found freedom and national unity.

That is the sad lesson of Poland s parliamentary election two weeks ago, and of Sunday s indecisive presidential election (which will be decided by a run off between Donald Tusk and Lech Kaczynski on October 23rd.)

Much has been made of the massive defeat Prime Minister Shinzo Abe s Liberal Democratic Party suffered in the recent election to Japan s Upper House.

But in the Gaza Strip local elections soon afterward, radical Islamists who use terrorism won seven of the ten municipal councils.

The Republicans defeat in this month s mid term Congressional elections is a sign that Americans want to sanction their leaders for their strategic and ethical shortcomings, and they did so with gusto.

The Opposition Coordination Council was chosen in an online election in October, with tens of thousands participating in the vote, notwithstanding threats and hacking.

neweurasia offers a photo reportage from the Kyrgyz presidential elections that took place last Sunday, noting that for the first time in the history of independent Kyrgyzstan, the presidency is shifting from one person to another in a peaceful way.

The parliamentary and provincial elections held on 18 September the first in Afghanistan in more than 30 years marked important steps on Afghanistan's road to recovery, peace and stability.

Saudi Municipal elections took place in 2005 and some journalists saw this as a first tentative step towards the introduction of democratic processes in the Kingdom, including the legalization of political parties.

Though exiled two years ago, Liberia s former President Charles Taylor still looms large in the country s first elections since the end of its brutal civil war.

America s Why Not Election

The most striking demonstration of this Republican alliance was the 2002 Presidential election, when, with Socialist support, Jacques Chirac, the Gaullist incumbent, received 85 of the popular vote in the run off against Jean Marie Le Pen.

On the aftermath of Brazilian municipal elections that took place on October 7, 2012, the Facebook page Quem suja agora vai sujar depois (Who messes now will mess afterwards) shares photos and videos showing electoral propaganda waste in streets across the country.

Election and coup.

Election and coup.

The promotion of human rights and the improvement of democracy went hand in hand. Indonesia had held three elections in 2004, one of which had been the first presidential election, in which almost 120 million people had cast their vote.

A joke making rounds in Moscow nowadays goes like this Americans didn't know who their President was two months after their last presidential election, but we Russians knew who was going to occupy the Kremlin two years before our recent election.

Most of the amounts have been cleared.

The Western Asia matches were played on 26 May, while the Eastern Asia matches were played on 23 June.

Britain s Silent Election

Nigeria s Critical Election

Elections Without Winners

Iraq s Critical Election

First democratic election

'Historic' poll

The current government took office in 2001 and was re elected for its third term in the last elections in 2007.

Since the elections of 1929, there have been two general elections that resulted in hung parliaments in the UK.

She's under the underdogs.

With every visit to a house you would hear greetings and the questions How are you?