Sinn Fein emerges as largest party at end of marathon council elections count The final of 462 council seats across Northern Ireland was filled shortly after midnight on Sunday. The Independent UK · May 20, 2023
Siddaramaiah | An AHINDA leader’s new innings The Hindu profiles: Siddaramaiah | An AHINDA leader’s new innings The Hindu · May 20, 2023
NI council elections 2023: Sinn Fein becomes largest party in Northern Ireland local government The counting across 11 council areas in Northern Ireland is nearing completion Evening Standard · May 20, 2023
Flexes and banners galore in Bengaluru, but no action yet As the new government was sworn in on Saturday, the city was dotted with thousands of flexes and banners, despite a clear ban in place The Hindu · May 20, 2023
₹2,000 notes banned with an eye on polls: Isaac The decision to pull out the ₹2,000 denomination currency notes from circulation is a surgical strike of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government ahead of the coming Parliament and Assembly elections, former Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac has said. The Hindu · May 20, 2023
Akhilesh skips Karnataka govt. swearing-in, dashing dreams of a united Opposition in U.P. Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav’s decision to skip the swearing-in ceremony of the new Congress government on May 20 made it clear that any hope of a joint Opposition front against the BJP in Uttar Pradesh is a distant dream. The Hindu · May 20, 2023
Call for ‘greater co-operation’ to maximise unionist vote in elections Leaders have raised concerns about the number of unionists who are not voting. The Independent UK · May 20, 2023
Andhra Pradesh: groupism surfaces in YSRCP in Nellore YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) student wing State secretary Hajji was injured in an attack with knives and other lethal weapons by six persons, alleged to be the followers of Nellore MLA Anil Kumar Yadav, here late on May 19 (Friday). The Hindu · May 20, 2023
Council election results overshadowed by question of when Stormont will return Sinn Fein is on course to replicate its success in last year’s Assembly elections, and become the largest party at council level. The Independent UK · May 20, 2023
Sinn Fein remains on course to be largest party in Northern Ireland councils Counting continues to fill 462 seats across 11 council areas. Evening Standard · May 20, 2023
O’Neill hails ‘momentous’ result as party set to become largest in councils Counting continues to fill 462 seats across 11 council areas. The Independent UK · May 20, 2023
In first meeting, Karnataka Cabinet decides to implement 5 guarantees of Congress Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the estimated cost for implementation of the five schemes would be ₹50,000 crore per annum The Hindu · May 20, 2023
Counting resumes in Northern Ireland local elections as Sinn Fein storms ahead COUNTING has resumed in the Northern Ireland council elections with Sinn Fein remaining on course to become the largest party in local government. The National (Scotland) · May 20, 2023
Counting resumes in Northern Ireland local government elections Sinn Fein remains on course to become the largest party across the 11 councils. The Independent UK · May 19, 2023
Belfast Live · May 19, 2023 NI Election: Council poll results send message that Stormont must return insists Sinn Fein In terms of the share of the first preference votes, Sinn Fein had 31.1% of first preferences of votes counted so far
Belfast Live · May 19, 2023 NI election analysis: Big wins for Sinn Fein while Alliance surge stalls While votes are still being counted and many seats have yet to be filled, the broad picture is largely mirroring last year's Stormont poll
The Hindu · May 19, 2023 Under-reading and over-reading the Karnataka vote The vote in the Karnataka Assembly election in 2023 is n occasion for a wild democratic celebration
The Independent UK · May 19, 2023 Council election results send message that Stormont must return – Sinn Fein The DUP has said its vote is holding up as counting continues across 11 council areas in Northern Ireland.
Evening Standard · May 19, 2023 ‘Now is not my time’ - Nick Rogers exits London Tory mayoral race, endorsing Paul Scully Nick Rogers, a Conservative on the London Assembly, had said earlier this year that he hoped to ‘stand up for millennial Londoners’ as his party’s candidate for Mayor
The Independent UK · May 19, 2023 Sinn Fein makes strong start as local government election votes counted The party led the way with the most number of representatives elected on the first day of the count on Friday.
Irish Mirror · May 19, 2023 DUP candidate 'threatened' at polling station as counting in NI local elections gets underway Dawn Higgins was 'verbally threatened and had leaflets torn from her hand' during the Northern Ireland local elections, DUP party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has claimed.
The Hindu · May 19, 2023 MVA's LS poll seat-sharing not fixed yet, but our 19 seats will remain with us: Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on May 19 asserted that although the seat sharing formula among the Maha Vikas Aghadi partners for the next year’s Lok Sabha elections is yet to be finalised, the number of 19 seats that the Shiv Sena (undivided) won in the last election will…
The Hindu · May 19, 2023 Congress got Prashant Kishore protege to set narrative in Karnataka from war room in Bengaluru The Congress had set up a war room in Bengaluru for the Assembly elections in Karnataka. According to a key person in the war room, “We had the right kind of people, almost 100 of them, to carry out very focused work.”
The Independent UK · May 18, 2023 California lawmakers block bill allowing people to sue oil companies over health problems California legislative committees in the Assembly and Senate blocked two big climate bills Thursday
ABC News · May 18, 2023 Victoria's Indigenous voters choose champions for historic treaty talks A special election is underway in Victoria to choose the next First Peoples' Assembly members, who will sit down opposite government to negotiate a statewide treaty.