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Candidates of the 2019 Australian federal election
Candidates of the 2019 Australian federal election: 1,514 nominees (1,056 House of Representatives, 458 Senate) who contested the 18 May 2019 election for the 46th Parliament, the first requiring the new section 44 qualification checklist.
Candidates of the 2022 Australian federal election
Candidates of the 2022 Australian federal election: 1,624 nominees (1,203 House, 421 Senate) under 61 registered parties, including about 20 teal independents of whom seven won seats, ending nine years of Coalition government.
Candidates of the 2026 Victorian state election
Candidates of the 2026 Victorian state election, also called nominees for the 28 November 2026 poll, contest 88 Assembly districts and 8 Council regions; nominations ran 4-9 November 2026 under new Electoral Amendment Act rules including party disendorsement.
Cannabis in Massachusetts
Cannabis in Massachusetts: medical marijuana legalized by the 2012 ballot initiative, adult use by 2016 Question 4; regulated by the Cannabis Control Commission, over $8 billion in adult-use sales, reformed by 2026 Chapter 65 with a repeal question on the November 2026 ballot.
Cantons of France
Cantons of France: electoral constituencies within departments created by the law of 22 December 1789. Since the 2013 law each canton elects one woman and one man to the departmental council; 4,035 cantons were halved to 2,054 in 2015.
Cardinal electors in the 2025 conclave
The cardinal electors in the 2025 conclave were the 133 cardinals under 80 who elected Pope Leo XIV on 8 May 2025 after Francis's death; 108 were Francis appointees, from 71 countries, the most diverse conclave ever.
Carleton in the 2025 Canadian federal election
Carleton (Ontario, district 35020) in the April 28, 2025 Canadian federal election: Liberal Bruce Fanjoy defeated Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre by 4,513 votes on a 91-candidate ballot with 81.4% turnout.
Catalan declaration of independence
Catalan declaration of independence (Declaració d'independència de Catalunya): resolution passed by the Parliament of Catalonia on 27 October 2017, 70-10, proclaiming a Catalan Republic after the disputed 1 October referendum; unrecognized, countered by Article 155, and legally without effect.
Chamber of Representatives of Colombia
The Chamber of Representatives (Cámara de Representantes) is Colombia's lower congressional chamber, created by the 1821 Constitution. 187 seats, four-year terms, territorial and special constituencies; it elects the Defensor del Pueblo and originates tax bills.
Change for Chile
Change for Chile (Cambio por Chile) is a Chilean right-wing electoral coalition of the Republican, Christian Social, and National Libertarian parties, registered in August 2025 for the November 2025 parliamentary election.
Checkers speech
The Checkers speech, also called the Fund speech, was Richard Nixon's September 23, 1952 televised defense of an $18,235 political fund that saved his 1952 vice-presidential nomination, named for his family's cocker spaniel.
Clacton in the 2024 United Kingdom general election
Clacton constituency at the 2024 UK general election: Nigel Farage won the Essex seat for Reform UK with 46.2% and a majority of 8,405 over Conservative Giles Watling, on 58.7% turnout.
Classes of United States senators
Classes of United States senators: Class I, II, III, the constitutional three-way division of the 100-member Senate (33-33-34) that staggers six-year terms so one third faces election every two years.
Claudia De la Cruz
Claudia De la Cruz is an American political organizer, popular educator, and theologian who ran for president in 2024 as the Party for Socialism and Liberation nominee.
Close-margin United States House election results
Close-margin United States House election results compile the narrowest certified House victories, including three one-vote races, Indiana's 4-vote race in 1984, and Iowa's 6-vote race in 2020.
Columbus mayoral elections
The Columbus mayoral elections are nonpartisan citywide contests electing Columbus, Ohio's strong mayor in odd-numbered years, under rules set by the 1914 charter; Andrew Ginther won in 2015, 2019, and 2023.
Common Wealth Party
Common Wealth: British socialist party founded July 1942 from the 1941 Committee and Forward March; won the Eddisbury, Skipton, and Chelmsford by-elections against the wartime electoral truce, kept only Chelmsford in 1945, and dissolved into Labour.
Count Binface
Count Binface, satirical candidate created by comedian Jonathan David Harvey (formerly Lord Buckethead), contests UK elections in a bin-helmet costume under the Count Binface Party. Best results: 92,896 London mayoral votes 2021; 2026 Clacton by-election challenger to Nigel Farage.
Covfefe
Covfefe: nonsense word from Donald Trump's May 31, 2017 midnight tweet "Despite the constant negative press covfefe," widely read as a typo for "coverage"; deleted after six hours, 2.6 million mentions, lasting meme and political shorthand.
Creator Economy Caucus
Creator Economy Caucus (Congressional Creators Caucus), bipartisan US House caucus launched June 2025 by Reps. Clarke and Van Duyne with MatPat; Senate counterpart by Booker and Kennedy in 2026; supports creator tax, AI, and likeness issues.
Crossfire Hurricane (FBI investigation)
Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI counterintelligence investigation opened July 31, 2016 into Trump campaign Russia ties, examined by the DOJ Inspector General for Carter Page FISA failures and by Durham.
Croydon London Borough Council elections
Croydon London Borough Council elections: whole-council elections every four years choosing 70 councillors by first past the post in 28 London wards, held alongside the directly elected Mayor of Croydon since 2022; in 2026 Labour won 30 of 70 seats with no overall control.
Daisy (advertisement)
Daisy, officially "Peace, Little Girl," is the 1964 Lyndon Johnson campaign ad against Barry Goldwater showing a girl counting flower petals before a nuclear explosion; it aired once on NBC and became a landmark of fear-based political advertising.
Daniel Kelly (Wisconsin judge)
Daniel Kelly (born 1964), former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice 2016-2020, appointed by Scott Walker, lost 2020 race to Jill Karofsky and 2023 race to Janet Protasiewicz; later paid by GOP for 2020 election work.
Darth Vader in Ukrainian politics
Darth Vader in Ukrainian politics: a legally renamed candidate (formerly Viktor Shevchenko) of the Internet Party of Ukraine who ran for president, parliament, and Odessa mayor in 2014–2015, was barred from voting for refusing to unmask, and inspired a Darth Vader Bloc of 44 same-named council candidates.
Dean Phillips
Dean Phillips, Minnesota congressman (MN-3, 2019–2025) and Phillips Distilling businessman, ran a long-shot 2024 Democratic primary challenge to Biden, launched October 27, 2023 in New Hampshire, suspended March 6, 2024, and endorsed Biden.
December 2025 Kosovan parliamentary election
Snap parliamentary election in Kosovo held 28 December 2025, the second of 2025. Vetëvendosje (LVV) won 51.1% and 57 of 120 seats, ending a year-long deadlock, though a presidential impasse and a June 2026 election followed.
Declaration of Independence of Ukraine (Акт проголошення незалежності України)
The Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine (Акт проголошення незалежності України), Verkhovna Rada Resolution 1427-XII of 24 August 1991, declared Ukraine independent; confirmed by the 1 December 1991 referendum with 90.32% yes.
Delhi Legislative Assembly
Delhi Legislative Assembly (दिल्ली विधान सभा), unicameral 70-member legislature of the National Capital Territory of Delhi under Article 239AA; cannot legislate on police, public order, or land; BJP won 47 seats in 2025.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), founded 1916, is the Democratic Party's Senate campaign arm recruiting candidates, fundraising, and making independent expenditures; counterpart to the NRSC, FEC ID C00042366, chaired by Kirsten Gillibrand for 2026.