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The article looks at recent elections in several locations including Alberta, Great Britain, Spanish municipalities, and Poland, discussing the possible meaning of the election results in the context of the upcoming Canadian election. The author points to the success of anti-status quo candidates, whether from left-wing or right-wing parties. Topics include the win of incoming Alberta Premier Rachel Notley of the New Democratic Party.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues such as "The $35-Billion Build" by Tim Querengesser in the January/February 2017 issue and the remembering of past elections where character of candidates are more meaningful rather than brands and labels.

The article offers information about Beatrice Wright, the only woman to win a by-election in the Second World War.

The article discusses the changing demographics of the electorate that elected Barack Obama as President of the United States in 2008. It is noted that Obama is the only elected president in recent history to claim residence in a major American city. Obama out-paced his predecessors in the number of votes generated from urban voters, not only among black, Latinos, but urban whites as well. The President's plan to support urban renewal is mentioned.

Discusses the role of the Electoral College system in selecting the United States President. History of the Electoral College; How a candidate can loose the Electoral College along with the presidency but win the popular vote; Reform efforts of the College.

Discusses the history of democratic voting in open and free elections in Canada. Manner of voting during the 19th century; Features of the colonial government in Canada; Implications of the Constitutional Act of 1791 on voting rights of people in Canada; Year the first secret ballot was used in Canada. INSETS: FACT FILE.;POWER IN NUMBERS..

Provides information on election-year lawmaking and a brief summary of the context and results of presidential elections from 1980 to 1996. Increase of the minimum wage by President Bill Clinton in 1996; Actions taken by President Ronald Reagan in 1988; Result of the 1980 presidential elections.

The article discusses the historic elections in Myanmar and the questions that need to be resolved in the country including the treatment of the Rohingya population, the role of the military, and provision of the Myanmar Constitution on several references to Defence Services personnel.

The article offers brief information on the 2015 election campaign in Canada. Particular focus is given to how the Canadian government should get involved with the Syrian refugee crisis. Additional topics discussed include the escalation of the migrant crisis and insights on Campaign pledges from political parties including the Conservative, Liberal, Green and New Democratic Party (NDP).

Presents images of a United States presidential election ballot from 1888. Details of the election in which votes were bought; Use of glass ballot boxes to ensure that bought voters stayed bought; Details of the election between Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison; Outcome and efforts to abolish the practice of buying votes.

Describes the evolution of the practice of voting in the United States. Use of the voice voting and corn and bean methods during colonial times in the United States; Advent of paper ballots; Invention of voting machines.

The article considers the history of the House of Commons in Parliament in Great Britain in the 19th century, focusing an 1880 book "Election Agent & Returning Officer," a guide for election officials, and incidents of violence or voter intimidation in elections in that period.

The article considers an election for a seat in the House of Commons in Great Britain in Liverpool, England in 1818, focusing on the introduction of 21 different candidates by the two leading political parties of the time.

The article focuses on politics and government in Arkansas. U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln trails a possible Republican opponent in public opinion polls. Republicans also hope to win elections in House seats currently held by Democrats. The state's history of voting for both Democratic and Republican candidates for different offices in the same election is considered.

The article, one in a series of columns in an article entitled "Quick Fixes," discusses the elimination of the position of vice president in the U.S. in order to quicken the end of the recession. Initially, the author states, the position was meant to be a consolation prize to the person who came in second place during presidential elections.

This article discusses 2006 government elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After 32 years of Mobutu Sese Seko's dictatorship and two devastating wars, Congo voters have been promised that they will finally have their say on July 30, 2006. If all goes well, it will be the Democratic Republic of Congo's first free and fair vote in 45 years.

Presents the Web sites featuring statistics on British elections for mathematics teachers to use as teaching aids. Data offered by election.co.uk; Display of three-dimensional maps; Number of women legislators at statistics.gov.uk/statbase; Demonstration provided by bbc.co.uk/election97/interactive/swing.htm.

Presents trivia on the history of the general elections in Great Britain. Candidates having the fewest and the most votes; Politician with the most campaigns; Voting requirements; Oldest and youngest prime minister.

Presents an obituary for former Minnesota Governor and perennial Republican presidential candidate Harold Stassen, who died on March 4, 2001 at the age of 93. Details of his nine failed presidential bids between 1948 and 1992; The jokes he faced about his electoral failures; Childhood and youth; Early success in Minnesota and national politics; Naval service during World War I; Republican opposition to his liberal views; His other achievements, including presidency of University of Pennsylvania.

Reports on the statistical likeliness that the winner of the 2000 United States presidential election will die in office. Presidents who have died in office, including Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy; Percentage of Canadian Prime Ministers elected in years ending in zero.

Discusses close election results in Canada in comparison to the 2000 United States Presidential campaign. Election in which Alex Campbell was elected premier of Prince Edward Island by a close margin; Election in which Pierre Trudeau was elected prime minister after several recounts.

Focuses on Connecticut's `Hartford Times' newspaper's idea for broadcasting election returns in 1920, before radio and television, using a searchlight station 400 feet above street level in the Travelers Insurance building. Details of the planned broadcast; Problems encountered with bad weather during the elections.

Presents a list of World Series winners for election years 1920 to 1992 in the United States. Includes baseball teams Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators and New York Yankees.

Reports that out of some 30,000 Leyton electors who promised to vote for Gordon Walker, 14,000 failed to redeem their pledge. Murky aspects of the by-election campaign; Chief causes of the vote's poor outcome.

Highlights the defeat of British politician Margaret Thatcher in her first parliamentary election on October 25, 1951. Reputation; Career history.

Commemorates former British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's October 13, 1924, election radio broadcast. Occasion as the first election-related radio broadcast in Great Britain.

Recalls how the town of Skipton in Yorkshire, England dealt a blow to then Prime Minister Winston Churchill's government in 1944. Defeat of a Tory candidate in a by-election in the town; Politics in the town.

Offers an historic looks at voters who have felt that entrenched power in Washington has thwarted the will of the people. Politics of Andrew Jackson; Image of GOP Whip Newt Gingrich; Suggestion that Gingrich cares less about reforming the levers of power than he does about getting his hands on them; Prevailing political cry, `Give us back our democracy.'

Presents Kingsley Martin's London Diary column comments on prospects for the general election in Great Britain on June 23, 1945. Includes comments on the implications of the intervention of a Labour Party candidate; Implications of the presence of rival Communist and Labour candidates in Hornsey.

Focuses on elections in Britain and reflects on how elections used to be. The voting in campaigns for councils in England and Wales on May 4, 1995; What these results may indicate about national politics.

Presents an excerpt from the March 30, 1979 issue of the `New Statesman' magazine. Prospects for a parliamentary majority of the Tories; Conduct of a hard-fought campaign between Margaret Thatcher and James Callaghan.

Looks back on the campaign years of the 1950s and the 1960s. Campaign slogans; Political conventions; Search for new excitement in the current political campaigns.