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Gov. David A. Paterson proclaimed his candidacy for election, issuing a defiant challenge to those who have encouraged him to quit.

The Sunni wing of Iraq's leading nonsectarian political coalition is dropping out of next month's elections, saying the vote ...

Amid sinking poll numbers and a spate of retirements by veteran lawmakers, Democrats have one early advantage heading into November's congressional elections: money.

President Barack Obama, defending his economic stimulus plan on its first anniversary, is dispatching his Cabinet across the country to try to calm an anxious public as Democrats head into potentially devastating congressional elections in November.

Myanmar's ruling junta released the deputy leader of the country's pro-democracy party from nearly seven years in detention, but offered no indication that he or still-detained party leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be allowed to take part in this year's elections.

Defeated Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko "will never recognize" the victory of her rival Viktor Yanukovich in Sunday's closely-fought election, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Nearly complete poll results showed Viktor F. Yanukovich to be the winner of Ukraine’s presidential election but Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko refused to concede.

Elections results in Costa Rica have put Laura Chinchilla on course to be the country's first woman president.

A female suicide bomber detonated a vest rigged with explosives among a crowd of Shiite Muslim pilgrims in northeastern Baghdad on Monday, killing 54 and wounding 109, marking the latest in a string of attacks that had unnerved the city ahead of pivotal national elections in March.

The nation owes a substantial debt to Justice Samuel Alito for his display of unhappiness over President Obama's criticisms of the Supreme Court's recent legislation -- excuse me, decision -- opening our electoral system to a new ...