Japan has had five prime ministers in five years
Japan's leader answers to the ruling party rather than to voters directly, so a bad poll or a scandal can end a premiership within a year.
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Cambodia's 1993 election was the UN's biggest peacekeeping bet
In May 1993 the UN staged Cambodia's election under a 22,000-strong force. The royalists won 58 seats to 51, and the coalition that followed broke up in 1997.
A vote on autonomy, and East Timor's road to independence
East Timor's 1999 UN ballot asked about autonomy within Indonesia, yet everyone read it as an independence vote. Violence followed, then a UN mission.
Texas started a US map war that the Supreme Court then widened
Since 2025 US states have redrawn House districts mid-decade, led by Texas. The Supreme Court's Louisiana v Callais ruling made racial bias harder to prove.
Congress counts the votes that name the next US president
Every four years Congress opens the sealed electoral votes, counts them in one joint session, and reads out who won. Here is how that day works.
Australia's parliament passed compulsory voting in under an hour
A senator from Tasmania proposed the 1924 bill. Both houses passed it unanimously in under an hour, and turnout has stayed above 90% since.