Incumbent Sauli Niinisto made political history in Finland yesterday by becoming the only winner on the first round of voting since direct Presidential elections were introduced in 1994. Sweeping to victory with a crushing 62.6 per cent of the vote, the conservative National Coalition (KOK) candidate, running as a nominal independent, lived up to his […]
Month: January 2018
Election result: Cyprus Presidency 2018, first round
Incumbent Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades topped the ballot in today’s first round election, winning 35.5 per cent of the votes on a much-reduced turnout. The conservative former leader of Democratic Rally (DISY) will be joined in the run-off on Sunday 4 February by Stavros Malas, an independent backed by the island’s communist party, AKEL, who […]
Election result: Czech Presidency 2018, 2nd round
Former Social Democrat Prime Minister Milos Zeman narrowly held off a strong challenge from independent centrist Jiri Drahos to retain the Czech Republic’s Presidency in today’s run-off round. Zeman won his second term by just under three percentage points and by only 152,000 votes out of nearly 5.57 million cast – some 51.4 per cent […]
Varadkar and Fine Gael both slip in first B & A poll of 2018
Ireland’s minority ruling Fine Gael party sees its support fall by two percentage points today in the first Behaviour & Attitudes poll of the year, carried out for the Sunday Times. However it retains a healthy six-point lead in voting intentions over the main opposition, Fianna Fail. And to put this slight dip into context, […]
Lower Austria vote is first test for Kurz
Voters will go to the polls a week today in Austria’s largest region, Niederoesterreich (Lower Austria) in what will be the first electoral test for the new coalition government in Vienna led by Sebastian Kurz of the OVP (Austrian People’s Party). This will be the first in a series of regional elections in the Alpine […]
Poll shock for SPD as Schulz struggles to sell Grand Coalition deal
The first German opinion poll with all interviews carried out since last week’s outline deal to form a Grand Coalition brings crushing news for the Social Democrats (SPD) tonight. For the first time they sink below 19 per cent of voting intentions, recording their lowest ever score with INSA who carried out the research for […]