Polls Africa
Looking at elections in Africa differently
Elections are about numbers. Numbers speak to us explicitly.
When combined with words, the story becomes more comprehensive. At the heart of Polls Africa is deep data analysis and regular publications from well-informed journalists. We’ll expound for you the parties, candidates,campaigns, history and all that pertains to elections for every single country in Africa.
Comoros elections; the same old
January 2024 | By Africa Center for Strategic Studies
President Assoumani’s evasion of term limits has eroded that democratic progress and stability.
President Assoumani sidestepped term limits
Read more
Madagascar. Crucial presidential poll
Novermber 2023 | By Joseph Siegle and Candace Cook
The island nation’s 30 million citizens are handicapped with a political system that has concentrated power in the executive branch.
There is a lot at stake
Read more
First-Past-the-Post and Proportional Representation are both electoral systems and/or methods used to elect representatives during elections into power.