Sweden faces cliffhanger election
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Swedish citizens gear up to vote in what could be the closest fought general election in decades.
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The plans of Finland's Social Democratic Party (SDP) to postpone naming its presidential candidate until autumn are giving a headache to parties close to it.
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Voting is under way in the German state of Saarland, with polls predicting another  defeat for the Social Democrats.
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A center-right opposition vowing to streamline Sweden's famed welfare state ousted the Social Democratic government in a close parliamentary election Sunday, ending 12 years of leftist rule in the Nordic nation.
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Voters are set to elect a new parliament Saturday for the first time since the Baltic nation settled into a new era of stability by joining the European Union and NATO in 2004.Comment
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The people of Croatia are to elect a new president in a second and final round of voting.
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People in Poland will shortly begin voting in a parliamentary election called two years ahead of schedule.
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Sweden's long-ruling Social Democrats were locked in a dead heat in elections Sunday with the center-right opposition that campaigned on a promise to revamp the Scandinavian country's cherished welfare system.
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By Kim McLaughlin and John AcherSTOCKHOLM - Sweden voted in a closely fought parliamentary election on Sunday in which a centre-right alliance could topple the long-ruling Social Democrats on pledges to ...
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Sweden's next prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt was to get down to work to form a centre-right government after winning weekend elections, with only minor changes expected to be made to the Swedes' cherished welfare state.
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Sweden votes on Sunday in a close   election that could see a centre-right alliance take power from   the Social Democrats who forged the country's long-cherished   welfare state.
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Poland's ruling Kaczynski twins risk losing control of the government in a closely fought election on Sunday that will have implications beyond the borders of the European Union's biggest former communist state.
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CANBERRAâAustralians will vote on Oct. 9 in a cliff-hanger election pitting the conservative government against centre-left Labor, with national security and the economy as major issues, Prime Minister John Howard said today.
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The Spanish government Monday called general elections for March 9, launching what is shaping up as a close race between Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez's ruling Socialists and opposition conservatives.
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MADRID -- Spaniards go to the polls on Sunday to elect local and regional officials who are responsible for such services as garbage collection, schools, and running the village fiestas. But the way the campaign is being run, it feels like an election for the next prime minister.
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Sweden began voting in a   parliamentary election on Sunday in which a centre-right   alliance could oust the long-ruling Social Democrats on pledges   to fine-tune the country's welfare state.
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Sweden's centre-right opposition, headed by 41-year-old Fredrik Reinfeldt, was seen ousting Prime Minister Goeran Persson's Social Democrats from power after elections, according to two exit polls.