If no candidate has more than then there will be a second round of the election.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Croatia's electoral commission says Social Democrat candidate Ivo Josipovic won the most votes in the first round of Croatia's presidential poll with more than 32 percent of the vote.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

In the first round, more than a million ballots, most of them for Mr.Karzai, were declared fraudulent by the U.N.-run Election Complaints Commission, depriving Mr.Karzai of what he claimed was an outright electoral victory.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Teng Theng Dar is the council's chairman. He says Asia-Pacific businesses want to see a conclusion next year to the Doha round of world trade negotiations, which have been stalled for more than seven years.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Final results from Mauritania's electoral commission show former General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz winning more than half of the ballots cast making him president without a second round of voting in which his main political opponents had vowed to unite against him.

VOA: standard.2009.07.19