Guyana's president sweeps to re-election
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana  - Guyana's President Bharrat   Jagdeo, a free-market advocate, has won re-election after   sweeping to victory in peaceful elections on Monday in the   former British colony, authorities said on Thursday.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil, Oct. 1 -- President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the first round of Brazil's presidential election Sunday, but fell short of earning enough votes to avoid a runoff later this month against the second-place challenger.
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Madagascar's Marc Ravalomanana is re-elected as president of the Indian Ocean island country.
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The presidential election process in Lebanon has finally been put on track after much speculation regarding an amendment to the Constitution in order to give President Emile Lahoud another term.
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Cameroon's President Paul Biya won a  landslide re-election after taking more than 75 percent of the  vote in Monday's presidential poll, according to almost  complete results published by the government.
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Liberian legend George Weah returns to Liberia to launch his bid for the country's presidency.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva appears sure to be re-elected Sunday, but he has lost much political clout due to corruption allegations involving his inner circle.
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As South Africa&#39;s president he led the ANC back to power in elections in April with a two-thirds majority. The economy is booming, inflation is low and jobs, finally, are being created.
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The candidate of Namibia's ruling Swapo, Hifikepunye Pohamba, is elected president after a landslide victory.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- More than two weeks after Afghanistan's first presidential election, vote counting wrapped up yesterday and interim leader Hamid Karzai emerged with a resounding victory.
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Zambia went to the polls on Thursday to   elect a new president after a razor-tight race pitting the   internationally respected incumbent against a fiery populist   who has promised to give impoverished Zambians a bigger share   of their nation's copper riches.
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Hugo Chávez, the strong-arm president of the oil power, Venezuela, has shown once again that he&#39;s a survivor. He beat back an attempted coup in 2002, and on Sunday handily won a hotly contested referendum that sought to remove him from office.
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Bolivia&#039;s first Indian president, Evo Morales, is hoping for a big win by his socialist allies in elections Sunday to choose an assembly that will rewrite the constitution.
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Cameroon's President Paul Biya is re-elected with 75% of the vote, say officials, with just a few results to come.
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Barack Obama won a clean sweep over rival Hillary Clinton in Saturday's three Democratic presidential nominating contests, as Republican Mike Huckabee gave John McCain a run for his money.
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LONDON, Nov 3 (IPS) - The re-election of U.S. President George W. Bush   comes as a clear signal for parliamentary elections in Britain  around  the middle of next year.
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Zambia's Electoral Commission said Monday that President Levy Mwanawasa was re-elected to a second term, collecting 43 percent of the votes cast in last week's balloting.