Single-winner electoral systems

The Court of Appeals on April 15 once again failed to elect a new president in the 16th round of the election that has been underway since the end of March, finding itself in a deadlock.

In a rather unique turn of events following Sunday's local election runoff in Bulgaria, six villages across the country failed to elect a mayor in the second round, leading to new partial local elections. Among these villages is Cherna Gora in the Pernik district, where a perfect tie in votes occurred, leaving the decision to the president to schedule new elections.

Gallup International Balkan has conducted a detailed analysis of the voting profiles in the second round of Sofia's local elections, revealing distinct demographic preferences among Vasil Terziev and Vanya Grigorova's supporters.

As Bulgaria gears up for the crucial second round of local elections on Sunday, an estimated 5,900 polling stations are poised to introduce machine voting. The Central Elections Commission (CEC) has been working diligently to ensure the successful implementation of this technology, with discussions and collaborations involving multiple institutions.

The number of votes cast in the ballot boxes set up abroad for the presidential election runoff has already surpassed the first round's figures, though the voting continues at the customs gates till May 28, when the runoff will take place at home.

Voting ended at the diplomatic missions abroad on May 24 for the presidential election runoff, slated for May 28 at home, while citizens abroad can still cast their votes at border gates.

The Supreme Election Council (YSK) has reinstalled ballot boxes at 167 points in 151 representative offices across 73 countries for the runoff election.

After the worries of Bulgarians from the US that it is possible that the ballots from Bulgaria will not arrive by Sunday, the first shipments were received yesterday.

A presidential election in North Macedonia that gave voters another chance to express an opinion on their country's new name will go to a runoff after turnout in the first round of voting Sunday was too low for a candidate to win outright, election officials said.

Conservative candidate Ivan Duque won the first round of Colombia's presidential election but fell short of the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff next month.

Elections to pick the leader of Greece's new center-left party will take part on November 12, it was announced Monday.

A runoff vote, if necessary, will be held a week later on November 19.

The ballot was postponed to safeguard the transparency of the process, organizers said.