Hong Kong democrats win more seats
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Democrats have tightened their grip on Hong Kong&#39;s legislature, but still have no mandate to push their agenda of universal suffrage in the southern Chinese enclave.
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Taiwan's opposition parties, which favor closer ties with China, claimed victory in the parliament elections on Saturday, beating President Chen Shui-bian's pro-independence party after a tight race.
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The 1.784 million voters that participated in Hong Kong&#39;s 2004 Legislative Council Election gave a clear signal that they want democracy sooner rather than later.
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Results from the Legislative Council elections in Hong Kong came too late for the region&#39;s press, but papers on both sides of the political spectrum welcome the high turnout as a victory for democracy.
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Togo's governing RPT party wins a majority of seats in parliamentary elections, the electoral commission says.
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Democracy candidates picked up at least one more seat in parliament, according to exit polls. By Robert Marquand | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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The opposition Jamaica Labour Party gained another seat in parliament on Wednesday in ongoing recounts of Monday's election which ended the 18-year reign of the ruling People's National Party.
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Our China correspondent, John Taylor, says while pro-democracy parties and candidates made gains in Hong Kong&#39;s parliamentary elections, they have failed to win the most seats.
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Republicans renewed their grip on the Senate last night and reached out for more, capturing a string of Democratic seats across the South.
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After a campaign marred by scandal and alleged intimidation, the people of Hong Kong voted Sunday under gray skies in legislative elections that could give pro-democracy figures more clout than they have held since China reclaimed Hong Kong in July 1997.
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A record 1.7 million Hong Kong voters cast ballots Sunday for an election that sent a fresh contingent of pro-democracy opposition politicians to the legislature, but apparently not as many Beijing&#39;s allies had feared.
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Taiwan's main opposition Nationalist  Party (KMT) soundly beat the ruling party in legislative  elections on Saturday, boosting its bid to retake the  presidency in March and auguring improved relations with China.
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For Hong Kong&#39;s democracy activists, the results of legislative elections announced yesterday suggest that the deck will remain stacked against them for years to come.
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Democrats claimed another  seat in the House of Representatives on Tuesday in a runoff  election that pitted two Latinos against each other, capping  the party's recapture of Congress last month.
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YESTERDAY&#39;S legislative elections in Hong Kong threw up a surprise winner in outspoken and colourful pro-democracy activist Leung Kwok-hung.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton won the vote, giving her a second consecutive victory, but Barack Obama won more delegates to the national convention.
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Hong Kong pro-democracy candidates,  stung by scandal, made limited gains against the Beijing camp  in legislative polls as voters wary of alienating their  communist rulers chose stability, results showed on Monday.