Voters go to the poll to elect local officials for the first time ...
436703
About 1,000 candidates are running for 300 municipal seats in West Bank villages and towns. It will be the first electoral test before the January 9 presidential elections.
284621
Palestinians cast their votes yesterday for local councils in 26 towns and villages of the West Bank, opening an election season that officials say will underline the Palestinian Authority&#39;s commitment to democracy.
530392
People across the north-east of England are voting in a referendum on whether they should have a regional assembly.
719041
Iraq's election authorities begin sending ballot boxes to provincial towns ahead of Sunday's election.
201213
The vote, which could shape the way the island handles relations with China, was the first since Mr Chen narrowly won the presidency in March.
370249
Some female voters came in buses and others stepped out of chauffeur-driven cars at polling stations Thursday, as women in Kuwait voted in parliamentary elections for the first time.
577367
Serbs went to the polls in local  elections on Sunday in the first test of voter opinion since  they chose pro-Western President Boris Tadic in June.
184078
Bosnians are voting in local elections - the first held by the Bosnian authorities since the end of the war in 1995.
755820
Hungarians have voted in local ballots seen as the first key test of socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany since his admission that he lied about the economy triggered riots and demands for his resignation.
190423
Zambian voters are going to the polls to elect a president, members of parliament and local councillors.
261720
JERICHO, WEST BANK -- Thousands of Palestinians crammed polling stations in scattered West Bank towns to vote in municipal elections yesterday that were a warmup for next month&#39;s presidential ballot and the first time the ruling Fatah movement and the
445810
A supporter puts up a poster for Bucharest mayor Traian Basescu. BUCHAREST, Romania  -- Romanians, angered by poverty and corruption, began voting Sunday in a closely contested election to decide who ...
670491
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip  - Palestinians voted on  Thursday in the first municipal elections in the Gaza Strip in  decades, a test of strength between new President Mahmoud Abbas  and the militant Hamas group.
753583
For the first time in recent elections, Northeastern voters will figure prominently in choosing the presidential nominees.
313157
Indonesians are voting for the first time to elect their nation&#39;s president and vice president. Polls opened early Monday morning with 140,000 police officers deployed across the
592418
Middle East News, RAMALLAH, West Bank, Palestinians voted on Thursday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly three decades, a dress rehearsal for a presidential ballot next month to choose Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor.
657163
In the city, some 250,000 to 300,000 immigrants-turned-US citizens will vote Tuesday.