HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:06:49 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://welections.wordpress.com/comments/feed/ x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:06:49 GMT etag: "3863673cacb963544b13f82e6b284a71" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 18.sin _bur MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=sin, cache;desc=MISS;dur=320.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:06:49 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:06:49 GMT etag: W/"3863673cacb963544b13f82e6b284a71" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 35.sin _bur MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=sin, cache;desc=MISS;dur=306.0 https://welections.wordpress.com Elections, referendums and electoral sociology around the world Fri, 04 May 2018 13:52:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ https://welections.wordpress.com/2018/05/04/costa-rica-2018-presidential-runoff/#comment-33669 Fri, 04 May 2018 13:52:03 +0000 https://welections.wordpress.com/?p=6846#comment-33669 It’s probably of no consequence, but one question comes to my mind: Did the electorate change much between the first and second rounds? In other words, what percentage of the second round voters did NOT vote in the first round? And who did they vote for?

]]> https://welections.wordpress.com/2017/12/22/honduras-2017/#comment-33630 Fri, 04 May 2018 02:10:05 +0000 https://welections.wordpress.com/?p=6814#comment-33630 […] or that PLN candidate Antonio Álvarez Desanti’s campaign was receiving money from the Honduran Rosenthal family (listed on the US Treasury’s foreign narcotics kingpins […]

]]> https://welections.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/costa-rica-2018/#comment-33629 Fri, 04 May 2018 02:09:56 +0000 https://welections.wordpress.com/?p=6828#comment-33629 […] Twitter Facebook RSS Feed ← Costa Rica 2018 […]

]]> https://welections.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/guest-post-netherlands-provincial-elections-2015/#comment-33456 Sat, 28 Apr 2018 22:12:22 +0000 https://welections.wordpress.com/?p=4422#comment-33456 […] contributed a rather exhaustive analysis of the election results, with plenty of maps and charts, as guest post to the World Elections blog, and it’s also on Medium. Maybe see you […]

]]> https://welections.wordpress.com/guide-to-the-2014-south-african-election/race-ethnicity-and-language-in-south-africa/#comment-33065 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:01:06 +0000 https://welections.wordpress.com/?page_id=3592#comment-33065 […] Map: Look at this map of South Africa, and dig deeper with this map-based analysis of how race and language influence elections there. […]

]]> https://welections.wordpress.com/2017/12/22/honduras-2017/#comment-31303 Tue, 20 Feb 2018 21:52:17 +0000 https://welections.wordpress.com/?p=6814#comment-31303 […] Twitter Facebook RSS Feed ← Honduras 2017 […]

]]> https://welections.wordpress.com/guide-to-the-2014-south-african-election/race-ethnicity-and-language-in-south-africa/#comment-29880 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:37:19 +0000 https://welections.wordpress.com/?page_id=3592#comment-29880 […] race-ethnicity-and-language-in-south-africa. [Online] July 26, 2017. https://welections.wordpress.com/guide-to-the-2014-south-african-election/race-ethnicity-and-languag… […]

]]> https://welections.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/french-senate-2011/#comment-28635 Sun, 17 Sep 2017 01:05:02 +0000 https://welections.wordpress.com/?p=1980#comment-28635 […] This is not to say that provincial and local government has no influence on national government. Senators are elected from each Province by an electoral college composed of lower-ranking such as mayors, municipal councilors, and even MPs, although 90% of these electors are from municipal government. The number of electors sent by a municipality depends upon its population. However, due to the number of less populous municipalities, municipalities with fewer than 3,500 make up half of the Senatorial electors despite representing less than 34% of the population. (10) This has given the Senate a strong rural, conservative bias, and has made it largely static in terms of ideological composition for most of its existence. (11) […]

]]> https://welections.wordpress.com/guide-to-the-2014-south-african-election/race-ethnicity-and-language-in-south-africa/#comment-28422 Fri, 08 Sep 2017 02:46:36 +0000 https://welections.wordpress.com/?page_id=3592#comment-28422 […] African” i.e.79.2% of South Africa, there are only 8.9% Colored and 8.9% white population 6. Despite being a small portion of the population, the white supremacy still prevail in this area. […]

]]> https://welections.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/slovakia-2012/#comment-27245 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:50:20 +0000 https://welections.wordpress.com/?p=2299#comment-27245 […] the electoral margins. In 2010, HZDS won 4% of the vote and was kept out of parliament; in 2012, it won a miserable 0.9%, and was dissolved forever in 2014. Naturally, the nomenklatura inside the party […]

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