By Tara Tepavac (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade) On the night of 25 October, Serbia witnessed a historic political turning point. A student-led movement that had not existed as an electoral actor two years earlier achieved a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections, wiping away both the ruling parties and most [...]
By Ieva Hofmane (University of Latvia) Latvia’s 2026 parliamentary election produced an unusually clear winner in a political system accustomed to fragmented outcomes. Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs’ United List (AS) won 35.29% of the vote and 41 of the Saeima’s 100 seats, the largest parliamentary delegation ever secured by a single political force in Latvia. [...]
By Jonathan Polk (Lund University) There are eight parliamentary parties in Sweden and in the 2026 electoral campaign they cluster into two blocs of varying cohesiveness. On the right, there are the three parties of government, the Moderates (M), Christian Democrats (KD), and Liberals (L), with support from the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD). The red-green [...]
By Nikandros Ioannidis (Cyprus University of Technology) DISY and AKEL kept every seat, but ELAM doubled its strength, two outsider parties entered parliament, and the president lost most of his original parliamentary support base. Cyprus's parliamentary election of 24 May produced a result that was simultaneously reassuring and disruptive. With a turnout of 66.9%, the [...]
By Tigran Torosyan (Center for Perspective Research and Initiatives and Russian-Armenian University) Introduction Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on June 7, 2026, the final results of which were announced on June 14. 19 parties submitted documents to participate in the elections, and 58.9 percent of voters chose the composition of the parliament. According to [...]
By Roderick Pace (University of Malta) The Labour Party (Partit Laburista, PL) secured a comfortable parliamentary majority in the general election held on Saturday, 30 May. Prime Minister Robert Abela was sworn in for another term on Monday morning. While the PL finished ahead by just under 22,000 votes, the Nationalist Party (Partit Nazzjonalista, PN) [...]
By Daniel Oross (ELTE Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy) and Bálint Mikola (CEU Democracy Institute) Since 2010, Hungary has been controlled by the illiberal politics of Viktor Orbán and his party to such an extent that the main issue leading up to the 2026 elections was whether Hungary can still be seen [...]
By Mylen Lyubenov (Sofia University) The eighth parliamentary elections in five years in Bulgaria have led to a political earthquake. The Progressive Bulgaria coalition, led by former President Rumen Radev, won a landslide victory. The new formation received 44.5% of the vote and an absolute majority of 131 deputies in the 240-seat National Assembly. How [...]
By Alenka Krašovec (University of Ljubljana) and Tim Haughton (University of Birmingham) This time it was different. For almost two decades Slovenia has provided plenty of material for scholars of new political parties. The country’s elections always seemed to follow a familiar script. A new party formed a few weeks or months before an election [...]
By Jørgen Elklit (Aarhus University) It was a little surprising that Danish Prime Minister, Ms Mette Frederiksen, in late February called a snap election to the parliament (Folketinget) to be held on March 24th. The four year parliamentary term would only end in late October, and her slim majority coalition government was not doing too [...]