Voter Guides
From the UN geoscheme[]
Africa[]
AU Members: Algeria | Angola | Botswana | Benin | Burkina Faso | Burundi | Cameroon | Central African Republic | Chad | Comoros | Cape Verde | Côte d'Ivoire | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Djibouti | Equatorial Guinea | Egypt | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Gabon | The Gambia | Ghana | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Kenya | Lesotho | Liberia | Libya | Madagascar | Malawi | Mali | Mauritania | Mauritius | Mozambique | Namibia | Niger | Nigeria | Republic of the Congo | Rwanda | São Tomé and Príncipe | Senegal | Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Somalia | South Africa | South Sudan | Sudan | Swaziland | Tanzania | Togo | Tunisia | Uganda | Western Sahara (SADR) | Zambia | Zimbabwe
Non-AU States: Morocco
Dependencies:
UK: Indian Ocean Territory | St. Helena (Ascension Island Tristan da Cunha)
France: Mayotte | Réunion
Portugal: Madeira
Spain: Canary Islands | Plazas de soberanía
Americas[]
Central America and the Caribbean[]
States: Aguascalientes | Baja California | Baja California Sur | Campeche | Chiapas | Chihuahua | Coahuila | Colima | Durango | Guanajuato | Guerrero | Hidalgo | Jalisco | México | Michoacán | Morelos | Nayarit | Nuevo León | Oaxaca | Puebla | Querétaro | Quintana Roo | San Luis Potosí | Sinaloa | Sonora | Tabasco | Tamaulipas | Tlaxcala | Veracruz | Yucatán | Zacatecas
Federal District: Mexican Federal District
Central America
Nations: Belize1 | Costa Rica | El Salvador | Guatemala | Honduras | Mexico2 | Nicaragua | Panama
(1) The European Union excludes Belize from its definition of Central America.
(2) The European Union and most other sources exclude Mexico from their definition of Central America.
Caribbean
Nations: Antigua and Barbuda | Barbados | Cuba | Dominica | Dominican Republic | Grenada | Haiti | Jamaica | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Saint Lucia | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Trinidad and Tobago
Dependencies:
UK: Anguilla | British Virgin Islands | Cayman Islands | Montserrat
Netherlands: Aruba | Netherlands Antilles
France: Guadeloupe | Martinique
United States: Navassa Island | Puerto Rico | United States Virgin Islands
South America[]
Nations: Argentina | Bolivia | Brazil | Chile | Colombia | Ecuador | Guyana | Paraguay | Peru | Suriname | Uruguay | Venezuela
Territories:
UK: Falkland Islands | South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
France: French Guiana
Asia[]
Nations: Afghanistan | Armenia | Azerbaijan1 | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Bhutan | Brunei | Cambodia | People's Republic of China | Cyprus | East Timor2 | Egypt3 | Georgia1 | India | Indonesia2 | Iran | Iraq | Israel | Japan | Jordan | Kazakhstan1 | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan | Laos | Lebanon | Malaysia | Maldives | Mongolia | Myanmar | Nepal | North Korea | Oman | Pakistan | Philippines | Qatar | Russia1 | Saudi Arabia | Sabah5 | Sarawak6 | Singapore | South Korea | Sri Lanka | Syria | Republic of China (Taiwan)4 | Tajikistan | Thailand | Turkey1 | Turkmenistan | United Arab Emirates | Uzbekistan | Vietnam | Yemen
Territories: Hong Kong (PRC) | Jammu/Kashmir (India/Pakistan/PRC) | Macau (PRC) | Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan) | Nakhichevan (Azerbaijan) | Palestinian territories (Israel/Palestine) | Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Cyprus)
(1) Partly in Europe; (2) Partly or wholly reckoned in Oceania; (3) Mostly in Africa; (4) See Status of Taiwan (5) See Status of Sabah (6) See Status of Sarawak.
Europe[]
EU nations: Austria | Belgium | Bulgaria | Croatia | Cyprus 1| Czech Republic | Denmark | Estonia | Finland | France | Germany | Greece | Hungary | Ireland | Italy | Latvia | Lithuania | Luxembourg | Malta | Netherlands | Poland | Portugal | Romania | Slovakia | Slovenia | Spain | Sweden | United Kingdom
Non-EU nations: Albania | Andorra | Belarus | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Georgia | Iceland | Kosovo | Liechtenstein | Macedonia | Moldova | Montenegro | Norway | Russia 1| San Marino | Serbia | Switzerland | Turkey 1| Ukraine | Vatican City
Dependent territories: Åland (Finland) | Gibraltar (UK) | Greenland (Denmark) | Faroe Islands (Denmark) | Svalbard (Norway)
(1) Geographically in Asia;
States: Burgenland | Carinthia | Lower Austria | Salzburg | Styria | Tyrol | Upper Austria | Vienna | Vorarlberg
Régions: Alsace | Aquitaine | Auvergne | Basse-Normandie | Bourgogne | Bretagne | Centre | Champagne-Ardenne | Corse (special status) | Franche-Comté | Haute-Normandie | Île-de-France | Languedoc-Roussillon | Limousin | Lorraine | Midi-Pyrénées | Nord-Pas de Calais | Pays de la Loire | Picardie | Poitou-Charentes | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Rhône-Alpes
Région d'outre-mer (overseas regions): Guadeloupe | Martinique | French Guiana | Réunion
Bundesländer (Federal States): Baden-Wuerttemberg | Bavaria | Berlin | Brandenburg | Bremen | Hamburg | Hesse | Lower Saxony | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | North Rhine-Westphalia | Rhineland-Palatinate | Saarland | Saxony | Saxony-Anhalt | Schleswig-Holstein | Thuringia
Cantons (states): Aargau | Appenzell Ausserrhoden1 | Appenzell Innerrhoden1 | Basel-City1 | Basel-Country1 | Bern | Fribourg | Geneva | Glarus | Graubünden | Jura | Lucerne | Neuchâtel | Nidwalden1 | Obwalden1 | Schaffhausen | Schwyz | Solothurn | St. Gallen | Thurgau | Ticino | Uri | Valais | Vaud | Zug | Zürich
(1) These cantons are represented by only one councillor in the Council of States.
Oceania[]
Australia: Australia | Norfolk Island | Christmas Island | Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Melanesia : East Timor | Fiji | Maluku Islands & Western New Guinea (part of Indonesia) | New Caledonia | Papua New Guinea | Solomon Islands | Vanuatu
Micronesia : Guam | Kiribati | Marshall Islands | Northern Mariana Islands (US) | Federated States of Micronesia | Nauru | Palau
Polynesia : American Samoa (US) | Cook Islands | French Polynesia | Hawaii (US) | New Zealand | Niue | Pitcairn | Samoa | Tokelau | Tonga | Tuvalu | Wallis and Futuna
Parliamentary electorates for the 2002 and 2005 elections
North Island electorates: Auckland Central | Bay of Plenty | Clevedon | Coromandel | East Coast | East Coast Bays | Epsom | Hamilton East | Hamilton West | Helensville | Hutt South | Mana | Mangere | Manukau East | Manurewa | Maungakiekie | Mt Albert | Mt Roskill | Napier | New Lynn | New Plymouth | North Shore | Northcote | Northland | Ohariu-Belmont | Otaki | Pakuranga | Palmerston North | Piako | Port Waikato | Rangitikei | Rimutaka | Rodney | Rongotai | Rotorua | Tamaki | Taranaki-King Country | Taupo | Tauranga | Te Atatu | Tukituki | Wairarapa | Waitakere | Wellington Central | Whanganui | Whangarei
South Island electorates: Aoraki | Banks Peninsula | Christchurch Central | Christchurch East | Clutha-Southland | Dunedin North | Dunedin South | Ilam | Invercargill | Kaikoura | Nelson | Otago | Rakaia | Waimakariri | West Coast-Tasman | Wigram
Maori electorates: Ikaroa-Rawhiti | Tainui | Tamaki Makaurau | Te Tai Hauauru | Te Tai Tokerau | Te Tai Tonga | Waiariki
(Note that a substantial number of MPs are elected on party lists so as to approximate proportional representation.)
Triennial local government elections 13 October 2007
- (all regional councils, city councils, district councils, the Chatham Islands council, district health boards, and various trusts)
Links to each territorial authority (city, district, and Chatham Islands) are at New Zealand Councils. Most of them can be expected to have candidate profiles and/or statements, eg http://www.pcc.govt.nz/sweb_content.asp?id=100040330.
See Also[]
- Wiki Voter Guides - How can Wiki voter guides help inform voters
External links[]
Resources to help guide the crafting of non-partisan voter guides include:
- Voter Education Online - From Democracies Online
- How to Make an Online Voter Guide - From the California Voter Foundation
- Voter Education and Civic Education - From the ACE Electoral Knowledge Network
- Select2008 Compare and support candidates to the 2008 US Presidential Election
- Ontheissues.org
- Voter Information Guides - U.S. National Conference of State Legislatures on Voter Information Guides
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