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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>World Elections Archive</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/</link><description>Official election totals and the rules behind the count</description><item><title>How Australia’s 2023 Voice referendum counted the national and state majorities</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/australia-2023-voice-referendum-double-majority-results/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/australia-2023-voice-referendum-double-majority-results/</guid><description>The Australian Electoral Commission recorded 60.06% No and 39.94% Yes nationally in the 2023 referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. None of the six states returned a Yes majority. The Australian Capital Territory returned a Yes majority that counted in the national result.</description></item><item><title>Where seats changed hands in Australia’s 2025 federal election</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/australia-2025-house-seats-that-changed-hands/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/australia-2025-house-seats-that-changed-hands/</guid><description>The Australian Electoral Commission lists 20 House divisions where the successful party or independent affiliation differed from the previous party in its 2025 results table. Seven were in Queensland and five were in Victoria.</description></item><item><title>The eight quotas in Australia’s 2025 Senate election</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/australia-2025-senate-quotas-formal-votes-and-counts/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/australia-2025-senate-quotas-formal-votes-and-counts/</guid><description>New South Wales had a Senate quota of 712,405 votes in 2025. Tasmania had 53,113, although both elected six senators. The Australian Capital Territory had two vacancies and a quota of 97,825 votes.</description></item><item><title>How the official count progressed in Brazil’s 2022 presidential runoff</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/brazil-2022-presidential-runoff-count-reporting-milestones/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/brazil-2022-presidential-runoff-count-reporting-milestones/</guid><description>Brazil’s electoral court recorded 236,202 of 472,075 polling sections in the first update at or above half the count. At that point Jair Bolsonaro led the accumulated valid vote total by 363,745. The final record put Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ahead by 2,139,645 votes.</description></item><item><title>Canada’s 2025 federal election results by party</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/canada-2025-federal-results/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/canada-2025-federal-results/</guid><description>Canada’s federal election on 28 April 2025 returned 169 Liberal MPs and 144 Conservative MPs to the 343-seat House of Commons. Elections Canada recorded 19,641,663 valid votes across all candidates.</description></item><item><title>Advance voting rose in every Finnish constituency in the 2023 parliamentary election</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/finland-2023-parliamentary-election-advance-voting-by-constituency/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/finland-2023-parliamentary-election-advance-voting-by-constituency/</guid><description>Finland’s 2023 parliamentary election recorded 175,402 more advance voters among Finnish citizens living in the country than in 2019. The advance share rose in all 13 constituencies, although overall turnout barely moved nationwide. Compare districts to see where early voting made up the biggest part of the count.</description></item><item><title>How France’s 577 Assembly seats were decided across two rounds in 2024</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/france-2024-legislative-seats-by-round/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/france-2024-legislative-seats-by-round/</guid><description>France’s Interior Ministry recorded 76 seats decided in the first round of the 2024 legislative election and 501 in the second. Its national table reports 178 seats for the Union de la gauche candidate classification, 150 for Ensemble and 125 for Rassemblement National.</description></item><item><title>How Germany’s 2024 European Parliament votes translated into seats</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/germany-2024-european-parliament-results/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/germany-2024-european-parliament-results/</guid><description>Germany’s Federal Returning Officer counted 39.81 million valid votes in the 2024 European Parliament election. Fifteen parties won seats in the 96-member German delegation.</description></item><item><title>The 23 German constituencies without a direct seat in the 2025 election</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/germany-2025-bundestag-second-vote-coverage-constituencies/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/germany-2025-bundestag-second-vote-coverage-constituencies/</guid><description>In Germany’s 2025 Bundestag election, 23 constituencies did not return a direct member because the leading party candidate lacked coverage from second votes. The Federal Returning Officer’s final returns distinguish the first-vote leader from the allocation of a constituency seat.</description></item><item><title>How Greenland’s Inatsisartut seats shifted between 2021 and 2025</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/greenland-inatsisartut-election-2021-2025-votes-seats/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/greenland-inatsisartut-election-2021-2025-votes-seats/</guid><description>Demokraatit rose from three seats to 10 in Greenland’s 31-seat parliament. Naleraq doubled its seats to eight. The number of women elected rose from 10 to 14.</description></item><item><title>India’s 2024 Lok Sabha election turnout across 36 states and territories</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/india-2024-lok-sabha-turnout-state-territory/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/india-2024-lok-sabha-turnout-state-territory/</guid><description>The Election Commission of India recorded 646.4 million voters in the 2024 Lok Sabha election and a turnout rate of 66.1%. The national percentage excludes the uncontested Surat constituency. This archive shows the official count and turnout rate in each of the 36 states and union territories.</description></item><item><title>Ireland’s 2015 marriage referendum results across 43 constituencies</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/ireland-2015-marriage-referendum-constituency-results/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/ireland-2015-marriage-referendum-constituency-results/</guid><description>Ireland approved the marriage amendment on 22 May 2015 with 62.07% of valid votes. Roscommon-South Leitrim was the only constituency to vote No, and Donegal South-West voted Yes by 33 ballots. Compare the count and turnout in every constituency.</description></item><item><title>How eleven counts decided Dublin Central’s four seats in Ireland’s 2024 election</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/ireland-2024-dublin-central-stv-eleven-counts/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/ireland-2024-dublin-central-stv-eleven-counts/</guid><description>Dublin Central elected four TDs in the 2024 Dáil election. No candidate reached the quota of 6,551 on first preferences. Three passed it on later counts and Marie Sherlock took the final seat after the eleventh count. The official table shows which transfers changed the remaining contest.</description></item><item><title>Where Mexico’s 2024 presidential internet votes from abroad were registered</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/mexico-2024-presidential-internet-votes-abroad-residence/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/mexico-2024-presidential-internet-votes-abroad-residence/</guid><description>Mexico’s electoral institute received 122,497 internet votes for president from abroad in 2024. Of those, 71,760, or 58.6%, were associated with registered residents of the United States. Canada and Spain were the next largest residence groups in the institute’s breakdown.</description></item><item><title>How special votes changed New Zealand’s two 2020 referendum margins</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/new-zealand-2020-referendums-ordinary-special-votes/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/new-zealand-2020-referendums-ordinary-special-votes/</guid><description>New Zealand backed the End of Life Choice proposal and rejected the cannabis proposal in 2020. Special ballots narrowed the cannabis No lead from 167,950 to 67,662.</description></item><item><title>How New Zealand voters split their party and electorate choices in 2023</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/new-zealand-2023-party-electorate-split-votes/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/new-zealand-2023-party-electorate-split-votes/</guid><description>New Zealand’s Electoral Commission reported 1,018,112 split candidate votes in its 2023 general election summary. The rate varied by party vote, from 15.76% among National voters to 72.13% among ACT voters.</description></item><item><title>How Norway distributed its 169 Storting seats across districts in 2025</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/norway-2025-storting-district-seat-apportionment/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/norway-2025-storting-district-seat-apportionment/</guid><description>Norway recalculated how many parliamentary seats each electoral district would return in 2025. Akershus gained one seat and Finnmark lost one. The other 17 districts kept their 2021 allocations, and the total stayed at 169.</description></item><item><title>Portugal’s 2025 turnout and invalid ballots by constituency</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/portugal-2025-legislative-election-turnout-overseas-invalid-ballots/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/portugal-2025-legislative-election-turnout-overseas-invalid-ballots/</guid><description>Turnout was 58.25% nationally in Portugal’s 2025 legislative election. The two overseas constituencies accounted for nearly 67% of invalid ballots.</description></item><item><title>How Scotland’s 32 council areas voted in the 2014 referendum</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/scotland-independence-referendum-2014-council-results/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/scotland-independence-referendum-2014-council-results/</guid><description>The Scottish independence referendum returned 2,001,926 No votes and 1,617,989 Yes votes. Four of Scotland’s 32 counting areas returned a Yes majority.</description></item><item><title>How South Africa’s 400 National Assembly seats were allocated in 2024</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/south-africa-2024-national-assembly-seat-allocation/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/south-africa-2024-national-assembly-seat-allocation/</guid><description>The Electoral Commission allocated 200 regional seats and 200 compensatory seats in South Africa’s 2024 National Assembly election. The ANC had 159 seats in total, followed by the DA with 87 and MK with 58.</description></item><item><title>How Swiss cantons voted on two pension proposals in March 2024</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/switzerland-march-2024-pension-referendums-by-canton/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/switzerland-march-2024-pension-referendums-by-canton/</guid><description>Swiss voters backed a thirteenth annual old-age pension payment with 58.25% of valid votes on 3 March 2024. A separate initiative to raise the retirement age received 25.25% support and failed to win a majority in any canton.</description></item><item><title>The four ballot counts behind Taiwan’s 2024 legislative election</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/taiwan-2024-legislative-election-ballots-by-electoral-tier/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/taiwan-2024-legislative-election-ballots-by-electoral-tier/</guid><description>Taiwan’s 113 Legislative Yuan seats came from three electoral routes in 2024. There were 73 single-member district seats, six Indigenous seats split across two constituencies, and 34 national party-list seats. The election commission reports separate counts and turnout rates for the ballots used in each route.</description></item><item><title>How UK vote share and seat share differed in the 2024 general election</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/uk-2024-general-election-votes-and-seats/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/uk-2024-general-election-votes-and-seats/</guid><description>Labour won 411 of the UK’s 650 seats on 33.7% of the vote in the 2024 general election. Reform UK received 14.3% of votes and five seats, while the Liberal Democrats took 12.2% of votes and 72 seats. The comparison shows how constituency-level wins can differ from the national vote totals.</description></item><item><title>The 2024 U.S. presidential vote in two official records</title><link>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/united-states-2024-presidential-results/</link><guid>https://worldelectionsarchive.com/stories/united-states-2024-presidential-results/</guid><description>The National Archives records 312 electoral votes for Donald Trump and 226 for Kamala Harris in 2024. The Federal Election Commission’s state compilation records 77.3 million and 75.0 million popular votes respectively.</description></item></channel></rss>