Few in Turkmenistan Turn Out for Election
557376
Polling stations were nearly empty throughout Sunday&#39;s Parliament election in Turkmenistan, forcing officials to carry ballot boxes door to door.
383481
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul failed to win enough votes in the second round of a presidential election on Friday to become president, an AK Party deputy told Reuters, but he is expected to clinch enough votes next week.
254444
Voters in the Gulf state of Bahrain go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new parliament.
408602
Turkmenistan&#39;s new president was given a gold-and-diamond award weighing around 1 kg (2.2 lb) by parliament on Friday to mark his achievements, local media reported.
279591
Uzbeks voted on Sunday in an election widely expected to extend President Islam Karimov's 18-year rule and condemned by the opposition and human rights activists as a Soviet-style one-man contest.
634560
Preliminary results of the Lithuania&#39;s parliamentary elections released Monday showed that no single party garnered 71 seats, the minimum number of seats needed for a party to form a government .
45100
People in the breakaway region of Azerbaijan vote in the hope their bid for independence will be boosted.
699619
SHAHBET, Afghanistan  - Plans for Afghanistan's  first democratic election in October mean little to Ismail Khan  as he strides across a hill top, satellite phone in hand,  flanked by commanders and a battle tank at his back.
11063
Uzbekistan has voted in an election that featured only parties loyal to autocratic President Islam Karimov, who said he would not tolerate "revolutions" such as those which shook Ukraine and Georgia.
713070
GROZNY, Russia -- The Russian government's choice for president of Chechnya appeared to win in an election that unfolded yesterday in ghostly emptiness in the capital as many residents fled or stayed indoors to avoid potential violence.
722006
They lack solid political bases and support from ruling party elders. One felt the wrath of voters just four years ago when he lost his Diet seat.
570171
People in Uzbekistan vote in a presidential election widely expected to be won by incumbent Islam Karimov.
380266
Far fewer men than expected have registered to vote in next year&#39;s Saudi municipal elections, although the vote offers the first chance to go to the polls in four decades.
387290
The people of Turkmenistan, ruled for more than two decades by an eccentric autocrat, began voting Sunday for his replacement in their first presidential election with more than one candidate &#151; but still only one party.
650212
According to the officials of the Central Election Commission the poll has been succesful and there were over 2 million citizens of the country votes.
500066
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan  - Uzbekistan voted Sunday in  a election that featured only parties loyal to autocratic  President Islam Karimov, who said he would not tolerate  "revolutions" such as those which shook Ukraine and Georgia.
32955
Tens of thousands of Israelis of Iraqi descent have the right to vote in the Jan. 30 elections &#151; including a former defense minister and a comedian known for his sidesplitting imitations of Saddam Hussein &#151; but it's hard to find anyone interested in actually casting ballots.