Florida’s six-week abortion ban takes effect this week, and both parties are using it to make their cases to voters across the country ahead of November’s elections.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis met privately with former President Donald Trump for several hours on Sunday morning to talk, in part, about fundraising ahead of the 2024 general election, several sources familiar with the meeting tell CBS News. The meeting was made at the request of DeSantis, according to a senior Trump source with knowledge of the meeting. It was arranged by real estate investor and longtime Trump donor Steve Witkoff. The meeting was first reported by the Washington Post....
One Waco resident is once again working the polls on Election Day. This is his way of giving back to his community.
Defeat in Blackpool South means the Conservatives have now lost 11 by-elections since the 2019 general election.
Jean Mensa The Electoral Commission (EC) has dismissed allegations of collusion with a political party to manipulate the outcome of Tuesday’s by-election in Ejisu. The claims were made by the campaign team of the Independent Candidate Kwabena Owusu Aduomi, who accused the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of engaging in ballot stuffing. In response to these […]
The attorney running the Republican National Committee’s “election integrity” effort has been criminally charged by the state of Arizona for her efforts to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 election. This turn of events highlights the Orwellian meaning of the phrase “election integrity,” as used by Trump and the Republican Party: An effort to win […]
Labour also stole a Conservative seat in a by-election.
Parties have issued statements setting out their agendas ahead of today’s vote (May 2). The Labour group, which controls Leeds City Council, said the vote was the last chance people have to make their voices heard before the next general election Councillor James Lewis, Leeds Labour leader, said: “We are building new council houses and supporting people sleeping rough. We have raised the wages of some of the lowest paid in Leeds and are working to protect social care from Tory cuts and the Tory...
Neither Cllr Tom Hunt, the leader of the council, nor Cllr Shaffaq Mohammed, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, have to stand this year – but Cllr Douglas Johnson from the Green Party does. Cllr Johnson, the leader of his group, was able to win comfortably in 2021 and now he is aiming to do that again, keeping the City ward a Green ward. He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “I’m a councillor for City ward, I was elected in 2016 and again in 2021. “I chair the council’s housing...
Labour’s Oliver Coppard has been re-elected as Mayor of South Yorkshire following the 2024 local elections. With 138,611 votes, Mr Coppard beat out competitors from the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives, Green Party and Social Democratic Party to win a second term as Mayor. Following his initial election as Mayor in 2022, a fresh mayoral race was declared just two years into his four-year term following the decision to combine the offices of Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner. Get the...
Communities around the Texas Panhandle and High Plains are set to make their voices heard on May 4 during regular general elections and local special elections. Election results will be updated live in this article as they are reported.
Rivals had said February election won by former general was undermined by state interference and unfair rule changesIndonesia’s electoral commission has formally declared Prabowo Subianto president-elect in a ceremony, after the country’s highest court rejected challenges to his win by rival candidates.Prabowo, 72, a former general dogged by allegations of human rights abuses, won a landslide victory in February’s elections, but his two opponents claimed that the vote had been undermined by...