The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Bangkok - Apirak Kosayodhin, a deputy leader of the opposition Democrat Party, swept Bangkok's gubernatorial election over the weekend, winning almost half of the votes in the 16- candidate race, according to official results announced Monday. Apirak...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
... sworn in not more than 15 days after the National Electoral Commission (NEC) announces the final results.NEC President Prof. Chrysologue Karangwa on September 26 announced the final official results of the elections that were held for four subsequent days from September 15.The elections which were applauded by thousands of local and international observers were conducted both...
Farang Pai Nai (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... massage parlors who last week punched out a TV news anchor for asking confrontational questions.If official results confirm the exit polls, Apirak, a former cell phone company executive, will serve another four years as governor, or mayor, of a metropolis that is both vibrant and beset by traffic jams, pollution and corruption scandals.A Suan Dusit University exit poll showed Apirak...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... parlors who last week punched out a TV news anchor for asking confrontational questions.
If official results confirm the exit polls, Apirak, a former cell phone company executive, will serve another four years as governor, or mayor, of a metropolis that is both vibrant and beset by traffic jams, pollution and corruption scandals.
A Suan Dusit University exit poll showed...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... massage parlors who last week punched out a TV news anchor for asking confrontational questions.If official results confirm the exit polls, Apirak, a former cell phone company executive, will serve another four years as governor, or mayor, of a metropolis that is both vibrant and beset by traffic jams, pollution and corruption scandals. A Suan Dusit University exit poll showed Apirak...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... massage parlors who last week punched out a TV news anchor for asking confrontational questions.If official results confirm the exit polls, Apirak, a former cell phone company executive, will serve another four years as governor, or mayor, of a metropolis that is both vibrant and beset by traffic jams, pollution and corruption scandals.A Suan Dusit University exit poll showed Apirak...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... massage parlors who last week punched out a TV news anchor for asking confrontational questions.If official results confirm the exit polls, Apirak, a former cell phone company executive, will serve another four years as governor, or mayor, of a metropolis that is both vibrant and beset by traffic jams, pollution and corruption scandals.A Suan Dusit University exit poll showed Apirak...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... massage parlors who last week punched out a TV news anchor for asking confrontational questions.If official results confirm the exit polls, Apirak, a former cell phone company executive, will serve another four years as governor, or mayor, of a metropolis that is both vibrant and beset by traffic jams, pollution and corruption scandals.A Suan Dusit University exit poll showed Apirak...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's ruling Workers' Party won mayor's races in at least four state capitals on Sunday and could win several more in a run-off vote this month, exit polls and early results showed.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
... capital of Vitoria, as well as the northern state capitals of Porto Velho, Palmas and Rio Branco, official results showed.Party officials said they had also done well in smaller cities and celebrated the election results."We are satisfied. This is our best performance yet (in municipal elections)," Paulo Ferreira, PT Treasurer, told Reuters.In the financial capital Sao...
politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... About half a million or so postal votes are still being counted in Austria, with final election results due next week - official results are here . An historic election in the history of the Second Republic, with the worst post-war scores for both the Social Democrats and the People’s Party, and the biggest ever score for the parties of the right, with 29% for the Freedom Party...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
... from candidates for office, some of whom have already pledged to challenge suspicious election results officially and "wait until all valid votes are counted and all serious challenges resolved before conceding defeat." These pledges are being sought and posted online by StandingForVoters.org. Among the first candidates to sign is Green Party Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney,...
Forbes (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
... occurred in Montenegro in 2006. In recent years, a decentralized system of releasing election results first at the constituency level, combined with the spread of mobile phones, has allowed opposition parties and monitors to construct their own version of the "real" election results in Africa:--During the Sierra Leonean elections of 2007, National Election Watch coordinated 500 election...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
President Rafael Correa of Ecuador scored yet another victory at the ballot boxes with official results showing the weekend's referendum on a new constitution had been approved by over 64 percent of voters. The new constitution received 64.02 percent "yes" votes, with nearly 92 percent votes counted, Ecuador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) said in a communique Monday . Only two of...
Newley Purnell (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
... 90 percent of ballots counted, 64 percent of Ecuadorean voters approved the measure, according to official results. Correa got the majority he needed in all but two of Ecuador’s 24 provinces. The 20th constitution in the history of this chronically unstable nation considerably broadens Correa’s powers and will let him run for two more consecutive terms, consolidating what he calls...
