Gaza voters want jobs and security as Palestinian elections approach | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Gaza voters want jobs and security as Palestinian elections approach | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – Ahmad Mohsen, 24, sits in a shop selling prepaid internet access cards in Deir el-Balah. Three years ago, before Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza started, he imagined a different future. He had graduated with a degree in nursing and was preparing to complete the procedures required to obtain his professional licence….

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How 16 undecided voters are weighing their 2026 election options

How 16 undecided voters are weighing their 2026 election options

James Morton isn’t sure which party he’s going to support in November’s elections, and he doesn’t like his options. Morton, a 67-year-old retired truck driver in Colorado, said Democrats have “gone too far to the left towards socialism,” while Republicans are “globalists” who “don’t care about the working-class people in this country.” Morton, an independent…

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Africa: Cross-Pressured Voters in Africa: Patterns of Loyalty, Defection, and Abstention

Africa: Cross-Pressured Voters in Africa: Patterns of Loyalty, Defection, and Abstention

When performance evaluations conflict with partisan leanings, which way do voters turn? In many electoral contexts, voters are increasingly cross-pressured between long-standing identity attachments and evaluations of economic performance. While cross-pressured voters have been shown to behave differently in advanced democracies, far less is known about how they navigate electoral choice in African contexts. We…

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Gorton and Denton by-election tests Labour’s grip on heartland voters | Elections News

Gorton and Denton by-election tests Labour’s grip on heartland voters | Elections News

Internal rifts, growing support for smaller parties are challenging Labour’s dominance in Greater Manchester. A by-election in northern England that should have been routine for the governing Labour Party is instead becoming a test of how fragmented British politics has become. Voters in the Gorton and Denton constituency of Greater Manchester are set to cast ballots…

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