Breakdown of seats in Moldova’s new parliament after 98 percent of votes counted

September 30th, 2009 A look at Germany's voting systemBERLIN — Germans each have two votes in the country's Sept. 27 parliamentary election — one for a directly elected representative and the other for a party.

August 31st, 2009 Karzai keeps big lead in new Afghan vote resultsKABUL — Afghanistan's election commission says President Hamid Karzai still has a big lead with ballots now counted from almost half the country's voting stations. In the latest results released Monday, Karzai has 45.8 percent of votes counted, while top challenger Abdullah Abdullah has 33.2 percent.

August 28th, 2009 Moldova's Parliament elects new speakerCHISINAU, Moldova — Moldova's pro-Western coalition government has chosen a new parliament speaker in a vote that was boycotted by the Communist legislators. Last month, the four-party coalition won a narrow victory in a national election in Moldova, a former Soviet republic.

June 29th, 2009 Albania counts parliamentary election votesTIRANA, Albania — Officials say Albania held parliamentary elections that were free of incidents that could threaten the tiny country's bid to join the European Union. Central Election Commission spokesman Leonard Olli says there is no clear winner after Sunday's vote, though early exit polls conducted by three international companies indicate Prime Minister Sali Berisha's Democratic Party is in the lead.

June 13th, 2009 TEHRAN - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seemed set for a second term as Iran's president as he took an insurmountable lead in the country's presidential vote, according to preliminary results Saturday. First results released by the interior ministry showed Ahmadinejad had 65.24 percent of votes, with 78 percent of votes counted, the official IRNA news agency reported.

June 12th, 2009 Breakdown of Iranian electorateA look at Iran's electorate SIZE: There are 46.2 million eligible voters in a population of about 70 million. About a third of the voters are under 30 — born after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

June 8th, 2009 LONDON - Britain's ruling Labour Party appeared Sunday to be heading for a mauling in the elections for the European Parliament as first results showed a sharp fall in support compared with 2004. Results in the North-East region, a Labour stronghold, were down by nine percent, compared with 2004.

June 3rd, 2009 New elections set for deadlocked MoldovaCHISINAU, Moldova — Moldovan lawmakers failed for a second time Wednesday to elect a president, meaning the Parliament elected in April will be dissolved and a new election will be held this summer. The country has been in political paralysis since the last parliamentary elections, on April 5.

May 16th, 2009 SHIMLA - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was leading in all the four parliamentary constituencies of Himachal Pradesh as counting of votes cast for the Lok Sabha election was underway Saturday, a poll official said. The counting of votes began at 8 a.m.

May 16th, 2009 RAIPUR - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was leading in 10 out of Chhattisgarh's 11 Lok Sabha seats as votes were being counted Saturday. The state's ruling party is looking to repeat its performance in the 2004 parliamentary polls.

May 16th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Saturday won two seats and was leading in 14 of Kerala's 20 Lok Sabha constituencies, including the surprise win of its legislator K. Sudhakaran who ousted the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) from its bastion Kannur.

May 16th, 2009 BHOPAL - Counting of votes for all the 29 parliamentary seats in Madhya Pradesh began simultaneously in 50 district headquarters across the state Saturday with the postal ballots being tabulated in the first round. 'Counting of EVM votes is being preceded by counting of postal ballots.

April 26th, 2009 Early signs of win for Iceland's left-wing partiesREYKJAVIK — Iceland's leftist government was headed Saturday for a strong victory in the country's general election, a rejection of the pro-business Independence Party that ran the government last fall when the banking system failed, preliminary results show. Early results showed that a left-wing coalition made up of the Social Democratic Alliance and the Left Green Movement has won 35 out of the 63 seats in parliament.

March 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Elections to pick a new Lok Sabha will take place over five phases starting April 16 and ending May 13, with the votes to be counted on May 16, the Election Commission announced Monday. Chief Election Commissioner N.

February 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Older MPs were far more active than younger ones in the 14th Lok Sabha that drew to an end Thursday, suggest statistics prepared by an independent research body that aims to strengthen legislative debate. ''Young' MPs (those aged less than 40) participated the least in the Lok Sabha proceedings.