VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda won the most votes in a weekend presidential election, officials said Monday, but he still faces a runoff in two weeks against Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė. Nausėda won 44% of the votes and Šimonytė nearly 20%, according to preliminary results published by Lithuania’s Central Electoral Commission. There […]
May 11—A cliche in politics is that candidates win elections with turnout: It all comes down to whose supporters show up in greater numbers to cast ballots. In the runoff election between incumbent Mayor Dave Bronson and former Assembly Chair Suzanne LaFrance, that truism is being repeated again and again by the campaigns, their surrogates […]
Iran’s hard-liners won most of the remaining seats in an election run-off to give them full control over the country’s parliament, authorities said on Saturday, while not sharing any details on the turnout. The result, and that of the previous vote in March, gives hard-liners 233 of the 290 seats in Iran’s parliament, according to […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s hard-liners won most of the remaining seats in an election run-off to give them full control over the country’s parliament, authorities said Saturday, while not sharing any details on the turnout. The result, and that of the previous vote in March, gives hard-liners 233 of the 290 seats […]
May 4—In the runoff election to be Anchorage’s next mayor, former Assembly Chair Suzanne LaFrance has a sizable advantage in the amount of money being spent on her candidacy by independent expenditure groups. Incumbent Mayor Dave Bronson, who benefited from a deluge of spending on his behalf from political action groups in the 2021 runoff, […]
May 4—The Anchorage mayoral runoff election is underway, and voters are choosing between incumbent Dave Bronson and former Assembly chair Suzanne LaFrance to lead the city for the next three years. The rivals have a history: LaFrance chaired the Assembly during the first two years of Bronson’s term, leading a supermajority that often clashed with […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A candidate seeking the Republican nomination for a North Carolina congressional seat announced Thursday that she’s suspending her campaign, citing her rival’s endorsement by former President Donald Trump in their upcoming runoff. Johnston County attorney Kelly Daughtry had finished first among 14 candidates in the March 5 Republican primary for the […]
By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve announced plans on Wednesday to slow the speed of its balance sheet drawdown, after having spent much of the earlier part of the year warning of this shift. The Fed said that starting on June 1 it was reducing the cap on Treasury securities it allows […]
The second time was the charm for Kim Downing. Downing defeated Clarence Daniels with nearly 53% of the vote Tuesday in Haines City’s runoff election for Seat 4 on the City Commission, according to unofficial results on the Polk County Supervisor of Elections website. Downing captured 824 votes to Daniels’ 736, a difference of 88 […]
Polish voters chose mayors in hundreds of cities and towns where no candidate won outright in the first round of the country’s local elections two weeks ago. Mayors were chosen in a total of 748 places, including in the cities of Krakow, Poznan, Rzeszow and Wroclaw. The local and regional elections are being seen as […]
Apr. 18—Cooke County Republicans can get one last, in-person look May 2 at the candidates in next month’s runoff. The county’s Republican Women’s Club will host a forum Thursday, May 2, at First Christian Church. It starts at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend. The candidates will face […]
Voters in Slovakia were casting ballots on Saturday to decide a tight race for president. Opinion polls indicated a neck-and-neck contest between Peter Pellegrini, who is the current parliamentary speaker, and the former foreign minister and diplomat Ivan Korčok. The incumbent Zuzana Čaputová did not run for a second five-year term despite her continued popularity. […]