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The nacion.com website has live results in Spanish of today's general election in Costa Rica.

General Elections in Costa Rica now includes a description of the Central American country's electoral system, as well as results of presidential and legislative elections held between 1953 and 2006.

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La web de nacion.com tiene resultados en vivo de las elecciones generales celebradas hoy en Costa Rica.

Elecciones Generales en Costa Rica incluye ahora una descripción del sistema electoral del país centroamericano, así como los resultados de las elecciones presidenciales y legislativas celebradas entre 1953 y 2006.

Czech President Václav Klaus announced yesterday that elections to the Chamber of Deputies - the lower house of the Central European country's bicameral Parliament - will be held next May 28 and 29.

In March of last year, the Czech Republic's center-right coalition government of Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek collapsed after losing a parliamentary vote of confidence, and the country was to hold an early legislative election the following October. In the meantime, President Klaus appointed an interim government headed by Jan Fischer, the non-party chairman of the Czech Statistical Office.

I wrote a piece for Global Economy Matters about the cabinet crisis, titled Topolánek's toppling leads to early Czech election, but as it was the early vote never materialized: last September, the Constitutional Court struck down the law which reduced the length of the Chamber's term. Both houses of Parliament then passed a constitutional amendment to allow an early election to be held the following November, but the dissolution vote failed after the main opposition party, the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) had a change of heart and decided to oppose it, along with the Communists and the Greens.

Parliamentary Elections in the Czech Republic - Elections to the Chamber of Deputies has an overview of the Czech electoral system, as well as lower house election results since 1996.

Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine has updated results of the first round of Ukraine's 2010 presidential election, published yesterday by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Serhij Vasylchenko now has 2010 presidential election maps by raions and cities of Ukraine on his personal website. Finally, 2010 presidential election maps are also available at Ukraine Election Map (2004 to 2010).

Portfolio.hu reports that Hungarian President László Sólyom has set the date of Hungary's regularly scheduled parliamentary election to April 11 and 25. An election campaign is now underway in the Central European country, and recent polls indicate that Hungary's main opposition party, the right-of-center Fidesz remains set to score a landslide victory over the ruling, post-communist Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) - which has been in deep trouble for most of the past four years, as I've noted in my previous blog postings on Hungary over at Global Economy Matters (available here and here).

Hungary's 386-seat unicameral National Assembly is elected by one of the world's most complicated electoral systems, combining French-style runoff voting in single-member constituencies with regional-level party-list proportional representation and a cumbersome top-up national list that partially compensates parties for the disparities between votes and seats introduced by runoff voting at the constituency level and (to a lesser degree) PR at the county level. Nonetheless, if opinion poll figures hold, Fidesz's already enormous popular vote would in all likelihood translate into a parliamentary supermajority of two-thirds or more.

Elections to the Hungarian National Assembly has detailed results of parliamentary elections in Hungary since 1990, as well as a review of Hungary's electoral system; see also my comments on a discussion of electoral reform in Hungary at Fruits and Votes.

Ukraine will be holding a presidential runoff election on Sunday, February 7, 2010, and Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine has detailed results of the first round held last January 17, as well as results for the 2004 repeat presidential runoff and the Supreme Council elections of 2006 and 2007.

Note that 2010 election statistics were aggregated from polling station-level data published on Ukraine's Central Election Commission's 2010 presidential election website, which as of January 20 included invalid ballot and voter registration figures.

Chile and Ukraine are holding presidential elections today, in both instances under the runoff voting system. The vote in Ukraine is a first round in which no candidate is expected to win an outright majority, in whose case a runoff election among the top two candidates would be held next February 7. Meanwhile, Chile already held presidential and parliamentary elections last December 13, but no candidate secured an absolute majority in the presidential poll, and Chilean voters will choose today between the top two candidates in last December's first round, namely Sebastián Piñera Echenique of the center-right Coalition for Change and former president Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle of the center-left Concertación, which has ruled Chile since 1990.

I've commented about both elections over at the Fruits and Votes blog posting on Presidential elections in Chile and Ukraine; more detailed postings will be available soon on Global Economy Matters.

In the meantime, Presidential and Legislative Elections in Chile has detailed results of Chilean general elections since 1989 (including last December's vote), while Chile's democratic restoration, two decades on presents an overview of Chilean politics since the restoration of constitutional rule in the South American nation in 1988-89.

Finally, I do not have an Ukraine page yet, but Ukraine holds an early parliamentary election has a comprehensive review of political developments in Ukraine since the Eastern European country attained independence in 1991, up to their early parliamentary poll in 2007.

Update

Sebastián Piñera Echenique has been elected President of Chile. With nearly all polling stations tallied, Piñera narrowly prevailed over former president Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle by a margin of 51.6% to 48.4%.

The Chilean Interior Ministry's 2009 Election Results website has live presidential runoff election results in Spanish.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's Central Election Commission website has live 2010 presidential election results here, in Ukrainian. Early figures have Viktor Yanukovych in first place but short of an absolute majority, with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko firmly in second place. As for incumbent president Viktor Yushchenko, he is currently trailing in a distant fifth (that's right, fifth) place.

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Presidential and Legislative Elections in Chile now has constituency- and district-level results of Senate and Chamber of Deputies elections held in the South American country since 1989, as well as a description of the electoral system in place for the upcoming December 13 general election.

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Elecciones Presidenciales y Legislativas en Chile cuenta ahora con los resultados a nivel de circuncripción y de distrito de las elecciones al Senado y la Cámara de Diputados celebradas en el país sudamericano desde 1989, así como una descripción del sistema electoral en vigor para las elecciones generales del próximo 13 de diciembre.

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A partir de los resultados preliminares de las elecciones congresionales celebradas en México el pasado domingo, la distribución de escaños en la Cámara de Diputados sería la siguiente: PRI, 237; PAN, 143; PRD, 71; PVEM, 21; PT, 13; PANAL, 9; C, 6.

El total estimado para el PRI se compone de 183 diputados electos por mayoría relativa (incluyendo a 46 en coalición con PVEM) y 54 por representación proporcional; normalmente, al PRI le corresponderían 79 escaños de lista, pero en dicho caso el partido terminaría con un total de 262 escaños, ó 52.4% del número total de diputados. Sin embargo, según la Constitución de México a ningún partido se le puede adjudicar una proporción de escaños en la Cámara que exceda su proporción del voto a nivel nacional por más de ocho puntos porcentuales, sin tomar en cuenta los votos nulos o los votos emitidos para partidos con menos de dos por ciento. Al haber obtenido un 39.5% de los votos emitidos para los siete partidos con al menos dos por ciento de los votos, el PRI solamente puede elegir 237 diputados, es decir un 47.4% del total de escaños.

Entre tanto, los estimados de escaños para el PVEM y el PT incluyen a cuatro y tres diputados por mayoría relativa, electos en coalición con el PRI y Convergencia, respectivamente.

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On the basis of preliminary results of last Sunday's congressional election in Mexico, the distribution of seats in the Chamber of Deputies would be as follows: PRI, 237; PAN, 143; PRD, 71; PVEM, 21; PT, 13; PANAL, 9; C, 6.

PRI's estimated total is composed of 183 deputies elected by first-past-the-post (including 46 in coalition with PVEM) and 54 by proportional representation; normally, PRI would be entitled to 79 list seats, but in that case the party would end up with a total of 262 seats, or 52.4% of the total number of deputies. However, according to the Constitution of Mexico no party can be awarded a proportion of Chamber seats exceeding its nationwide vote proportion by more than eight percentage points, disregarding invalid ballots or votes cast for parties with less than two percent. By having obtained 39.5% of the votes cast for the seven parties with at least two percent of the vote, PRI can only elect 237 deputies, that is 47.4% of the seat total.

Meanwhile, seat estimates for PVEM and PT include four and three first-past-the-post deputies, elected in coalition with PRI and Convergencia, respectively.