Every time there’s an election, there’s a vote-matcher-widgety-hoojamaflit-thingie. Yes, that’s a technical term and the one at EUProfiler.eu is pretty good. According to its outputs, my closest UK party is the LibDems; the main reason it didn’t give me the Labour Party, it would appear, is that I am more liberal on law and order. [...]

As I wrote here, there have been elections in the Basque Country; there were simultaneously elections in Galicia. The result there is rather clearer as the Popular Party have an absolute majority of 39 out of 75. Previously, Galicia had been governed by a coalition of PSdeG (Partido Socialista de Galicia, the local flavour of [...]

There have been elections in two of the autonomous regions of Spain – the Basque Country and Galicia. This post will look at the results in the Basque Country; another one will look at Galicia. The elections in the Basque Country are something of an upset; it is at least possible that, for the first [...]

One of the least attractive features of the current presidential campaign in the USA has been the scaremongering around Barack Obama. There have been allegations, which are just about understandable, if asinine, that he is some kind of dangerous socialist. What I have found rather more worrying is the branding of Obama as a Muslim. [...]

As of five days ago, people in the USA, beginning with the state of Wyoming, will be voting for the next President; absentee ballots are accepted in Wyoming from forty days before the general election. Following a decision by the Ohio Supreme Court, voters in that state, where absentee voting is possible from today, will [...]

I think there are three points that come out of this. Firstly, I will be interested to see how Mr Davis, now re-elected, keeps the issue in the public eye. I dislike single-issue elections as Mr Davis will represent his constituency on the whole range of public issues. Although David Davis (according to ConservativeHome) has [...]

If I were able to vote in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, I would vote for Shan Oakes, the Green Party candidate and I encourage anyone who lives in the constituency to vote for Shan. Her blog is here; her party website is here; her Facebook is here; and her Wikipedia entry is here. Mr [...]

On May 1, Londoners will choose the Mayor and London Assembly for the next four years. In 2004, low turnout in the London elections allowed the BNP to receive 4.9% of the London Assembly vote — dangerously close to the 5% threshold required to win a seat. You can register to vote using the information [...]

This is a very good argument for always having “Re-Open Nominations” (rather than “None of the Above”) as a candidate. Essentially, Corsham Town Council in Wiltshire is made up of people who don’t stand on party political platforms, in the main. There is a ward with one councillor and one Michael Simpkins has been elected [...]