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31 January 2026

Samik Bhattacharyya, West Bengal State BJP President, addresses in Barrackpore, West Bengal, India, on January 31, 2026, as the party targets the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government ahead of the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections.

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18 January 2026

Former Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah, also known as Balen, gestures after arriving at the party office of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) in Kathmandu, Nepal, on January 18, 2026, formally joining the party to contest the March election. The rapper-turned-mayor is presented as the next Prime Minister by the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP). The former rapper, who wins the local election of 2022 from the Nepali capital, also assumes the charge of senior leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP). On December 28, Balen strikes a deal with the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) where it is agreed that he will be the next Prime Ministerial candidate from the party. As per the 7-point agreement, RSP chair Rabi Lamichhane continues as the party's central chairman, while Shah is presented as the party's parliamentary leader after the elections and its prime ministerial candidate. The RSP emerges as the fourth largest political force, winning 21 seats in the dissolved House of Representatives within a year of its establishment. With candidacy filing scheduled for January 20, Shah prepares to contest from the Jhapa-5 constituency in the March 5 elections, with the declared aim of beating four-time prime minister and CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli in his own constituency. Balen promises to institutionalize the agenda raised by September's Gen-Z movement. The electoral battle in Jhapa-5 shapes up to be an intriguing contest this time.

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#13213195

18 January 2026

Former Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah, also known as Balen, arrives at the party office of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) in Kathmandu, Nepal, on January 18, 2026, formally joining the party to contest the March election. The rapper-turned-mayor is presented as the next Prime Minister by the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP). The former rapper, who won the local election of 2022 from the Nepali capital, also assumes the role of senior leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP). On December 28, Balen strikes a deal with the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) where it is agreed that he will be the next Prime Ministerial candidate from the party. As per the 7-point agreement, RSP chair Rabi Lamichhane continues as the party's central chairman, while Shah is presented as the party's parliamentary leader after the elections and its prime ministerial candidate. The RSP emerges as the fourth largest political force, winning 21 seats in the dissolved House of Representatives within a year of its establishment. With candidacy filing scheduled for January 20, Shah prepares to contest from the Jhapa-5 constituency in the March 5 elections, with the declared aim of beating four-time prime minister and CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli in his own constituency. Balen promises to institutionalize the agenda raised by September's Gen-Z movement. The electoral battle in Jhapa-5 shapes up to be an intriguing contest this time.

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18 January 2026

Former Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah, also known as Balen, rings a traditional bell after arriving at the party office of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) in Kathmandu, Nepal, on January 18, 2026, formally joining the party to contest the March election. The rapper turned mayor is presented as the next Prime Minister by the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP). The former rapper, who wins the local election of 2022 from the Nepali capital, also assumes the charge of senior leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP). On December 28, Balen strikes a deal with the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) where it is agreed that he will be the next Prime Ministerial candidate from the party. As per the 7-point agreement, RSP chair Rabi Lamichhane continues as the party's central chairman, while Shah is presented as the party's parliamentary leader after the elections and its prime ministerial candidate. The RSP emerges as the fourth largest political force, winning 21 seats in the dissolved House of Representatives within a year of its establishment. With candidacy filing scheduled for January 20, Shah prepares to contest from the Jhapa-5 constituency in the March 5 elections, with the declared aim of beating four-time prime minister and CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli in his own constituency. Balen promises to institutionalize the agenda raised by September's Gen-Z movement. The electoral battle in Jhapa-5 shapes up to be an intriguing contest this time.

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30 July 2025

BRUCE, CANADA – JULY 27: A Federal By-election campaign poster for Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative candidate for Battle River–Crowfoot, is displayed in Bruce, Alberta, Canada, on July 27, 2025. With over 200 candidates running, voters will need to write the name of their chosen candidate by hand on election day, August 18, due to the unusually long ballot.

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30 July 2025

RYLEY, CANADA – JULY 27: Federal by-election campaign posters for Katherine Swampy (NDP) and Pierre Poilievre (Conservative), candidates for Battle River–Crowfoot, are displayed in Ryley, Alberta, Canada, on July 27, 2025. With over 200 candidates running, voters will need to write the name of their chosen candidate by hand on election day, August 18, due to the unusually long ballot.

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#12598852

30 July 2025

RYLEY, CANADA – JULY 27: A Federal By-election campaign poster for Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative candidate for Battle River–Crowfoot, is displayed in Ryley, Alberta, Canada, on July 27, 2025. With over 200 candidates running, voters will need to write the name of their chosen candidate by hand on election day, August 18, due to the unusually long ballot.

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30 July 2025

BRUCE, CANADA – JULY 27: A Federal By-election campaign poster for Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative candidate for Battle River–Crowfoot, is displayed in Bruce, Alberta, Canada, on July 27, 2025. With over 200 candidates running, voters will need to write the name of their chosen candidate by hand on election day, August 18, due to the unusually long ballot.

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30 July 2025

BRUCE, CANADA – JULY 27: Federal by-election campaign posters for Katherine Swampy (NDP) and Pierre Poilievre (Conservative), candidates for Battle River–Crowfoot, are displayed in Bruce, Alberta, Canada, on July 27, 2025. With over 200 candidates running, voters will need to write the name of their chosen candidate by hand on election day, August 18, due to the unusually long ballot.

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30 July 2025

BRUCE, CANADA – JULY 27: A Federal By-election campaign poster for Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative candidate for Battle River–Crowfoot, is displayed in Bruce, Alberta, Canada, on July 27, 2025. With over 200 candidates running, voters will need to write the name of their chosen candidate by hand on election day, August 18, due to the unusually long ballot.

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30 July 2025

BRUCE, CANADA – JULY 27: Federal by-election campaign posters for Katherine Swampy (NDP) and Pierre Poilievre (Conservative), candidates for Battle River–Crowfoot, are displayed in Bruce, Alberta, Canada, on July 27, 2025. With over 200 candidates running, voters will need to write the name of their chosen candidate by hand on election day, August 18, due to the unusually long ballot.

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30 July 2025

BRUCE, CANADA – JULY 27: A Federal By-election campaign poster for Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative candidate for Battle River–Crowfoot, is displayed in Bruce, Alberta, Canada, on July 27, 2025. With over 200 candidates running, voters will need to write the name of their chosen candidate by hand on election day, August 18, due to the unusually long ballot.

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30 July 2025

BRUCE, CANADA – JULY 27: Federal by-election campaign posters for Katherine Swampy (NDP), Pierre Poilievre (Conservative) and Grant Abraham (United Party), candidates for Battle River–Crowfoot, are displayed in Bruce, Alberta, Canada, on July 27, 2025. With over 200 candidates running, voters will need to write the name of their chosen candidate by hand on election day, August 18, due to the unusually long ballot.

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6 October 2024

A bottle of indelible ink for election purposes is seen at a polling station during the presidential election in Ariana, a suburb of Tunis, Tunisia, on October 6, 2024. Tunisians go to the polls to choose their president between incumbent President Kais Saied and two other candidates in a controversial presidential election that sees parliamentary approval of a change to the electoral law, as well as tensions between the Independent High Authority for the Elections (ISIE) and the administrative court and some excluded presidential candidates.

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17 September 2024

Election posters are seen in Frankfurt an der Oder on 17 September, 2024. The German state of Brandenburg will hold local elections on Sunday with the far-right, anti-immigration party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) polling strongly after recent wins in Thuringen and Saxony. A win for the AfD would mean losing face for the incumbent Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) party which has been in power since 1990.

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1 June 2024

A man is showing his inked finger after casting his vote at a polling station during the seventh and final phase of the Indian General Elections in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, on June 1, 2024. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is fighting from the constituency of Varanasi for the Indian General Elections.

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