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Race tightens in Guinea presidential run-off (Reuters)

November 13th, 2010

Guinea presidential candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo leaves a polling station after casting his ballot in the Dixinn neighborhood of Conakry, November 7, 2010. REUTERS/Joseph PenneyReuters - Guinea’s former Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo held a small lead on Saturday in the West African state’s presidential election, but results so far showed his rival making…

Guineans vote peacefully in presidential run-off (Reuters)

November 7th, 2010

Presidential candidate Alpha Conde (R), leader for Rassemblement du Peuple de Guinea (RPG), and fellow candidate Cellou Dallein Diallo from Reuters - Guineans voted peacefully on Sunday in a presidential run-off aimed at returning the country to civilian rule, though worries remained over the potential for ethnically-driven violence once the…

Brazil’s Rousseff facing runoff presidential vote (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Dilma Rousseff, presidential candidate for the Workers Party, right, is kissed by Tarso Genro, candidate for Governor of Rio Grande do Sul, next to an electronic ballot box after voting in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. Brazilians vote Sunday in national elections that could see front-running candidate Dilma Rousseff become the country's first female president, succeeding her popular ally and mentor, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - Official vote returns indicate Brazil’s leading presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff has been forced into a second-round runoff.


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Rousseff leads in Brazil vote, but runoff likely (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Dilma Rousseff, presidential candidate for the Workers Party, right, is kissed by Tarso Genro, candidate for Governor of Rio Grande do Sul, next to an electronic ballot box after voting in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. Brazilians vote Sunday in national elections that could see front-running candidate Dilma Rousseff become the country's first female president, succeeding her popular ally and mentor, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - A one-time Marxist guerrilla chosen by Brazil’s beloved leader to succeed him took a wide lead in Sunday’s presidential election, but a second-round vote seemed likely, an exit…

Poland set to vote in tight presidential run-off (Reuters)

July 3rd, 2010

A Polish nun walks past a picture of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski outside the presidential palace in Warsaw July 3, 2010. Poland's centrist presidential candidate Bronislaw Komorowski faces a tight run-off vote against his right-wing rival Jaroslaw Kaczynski on July 4 after beating him by only a few percentage points during the first round of voting two weeks ago. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (POLAND - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS RELIGION)Reuters - Poles choose a new president on Sunday in an election run-off that will help decide the speed and scale of economic reforms and set the tone for Warsaw’s…

Runoff looms in Polish presidential election (AP)

June 20th, 2010

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, presidential candidate of Poland's Law and Justice Party speaks at his party election headquarters for  his supporters after acknowledging exit polls for the early Presidential elections in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, June 20, 2010.   (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - A somber election season in Poland was prolonged by two weeks Sunday when a first round of voting produced no immediate successor to Lech Kaczynski, the president killed…

Ex-defense chief wins Colombia runoff in rout (AP)

June 20th, 2010

Presidential candidate for the Social National Unity party, Juan Manuel Santos, makes the victory signal upon his arrival at a polling station during the presidential elections runoff in Bogota, Sunday, June 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)AP - A former defense minister who oversaw a major weakening of Colombia’s leftist rebels won Sunday’s presidential runoff election in a rout over an eccentric outsider.


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Colombia vote: Uribe minister wins but runoff set (AP)

May 30th, 2010

AP - A former defense minister promising to build on President Alvaro Uribe’s security gains has convincingly won Colombia’s presidential elections but is headed for a runoff with a maverick…