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Opinion polling for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum
Opinion polling for the 2016 UK EU membership referendum (Brexit referendum polls) tracked Remain versus Leave voting intention from September 2015 to 23 June 2016; online and telephone polls diverged sharply, most final polls overstated Remain, and Leave won 51.9%.
Opinion polling on Scottish independence
Opinion polling on Scottish independence tracks Yes/No referendum voting intention since the 2014 vote (55% No, 45% Yes). Covers question wording, post-referendum polling shifts, Brexit's effect, and the roughly 50% support level since 2020.
Opinion pollings on the Trump presidency
Opinion pollings on the Trump presidency measures public favorability, noting his first-term average was 41.1%, four points lower than any other president in Gallup's polling era.
Oscar Underwood
Oscar Wilder Underwood was a Democratic politician from Alabama who led Democrats in both houses of Congress, wrote the Underwood Tariff Act of 1913, and ran for president in 1912 and 1924.
Palauan Compact of Free Association referendums
A series of eight referendums held between the mid-1980s and 1993 on approving a Compact of Free Association with the United States, finally passing in 1993 after Palau lowered its 75% approval threshold.
Papabile
Papabile (plural papabili), Italian for "popeable," describes a cardinal considered likely to be elected pope. Lists are unofficial journalistic guesses; front-runners often lose, as in 2025 when non-papabile Robert Prevost became Leo XIV.
Parliament
Parliament: a national legislative assembly that makes laws, consents to taxation, and holds the executive accountable; 189 national parliaments exist, 82 bicameral and 107 unicameral, with about 36 percent of democracies parliamentary.
Party and institutional elections
Party and institutional elections are elections held under an organization's own membership rules, covering party leadership contests, legislative selections, and historic ecclesiastical elections such as papal conclaves.
Party lists for the 2026 Israeli legislative election
Party lists for the 2026 Israeli legislative election: 38 ranked candidate slates filed with the Central Elections Committee on September 7–8, 2026 for the October 27, 26th Knesset vote, including the Beyachad Bennett–Lapid merger, Likud, Yashar!, Ra'am, and the renewed Hadash–Ta'al–Balad Joint List.
Party lists in the 2020 New Zealand general election
Party lists in the 2020 New Zealand general election filled 48 of 120 MMP seats. 17 registered parties submitted lists of 548 names; Labour took 19 list seats, National 10, Greens and ACT 9 each.
Party lists in the 2026 New Zealand general election
Party lists in the 2026 New Zealand general election: ranked lists lodged by the 17 registered parties contesting the party vote on 7 November 2026, totaling 443 list candidates, with lists due 8 October 2026.
Patriotic Electoral Bloc
Patriotic Electoral Bloc (Blocul Electoral Patriotic, BEP), pro-Russian Moldovan electoral alliance led by Igor Dodon, uniting communists, socialists, Heart of Moldova, and Future of Moldova parties; won 24.2 percent and 26 seats, second place, in the 2025 parliamentary election.
Paula Jean Swearengin
Paula Jean Swearengin, West Virginia progressive activist and coal miner's daughter, ran for U.S. Senate against Joe Manchin in 2018 and won the 2020 Democratic primary before losing to Shelley Moore Capito.
Peace – Romania First
Peace – Romania First is a Romanian Senate parliamentary group, also known as PACE – Romania First Group. It was formed by renaming the S.O.S. România group in September 2025.
Pending Laurier—Sainte-Marie federal by-election
The pending Laurier—Sainte-Marie federal by-election is an upcoming single-district election in Montreal called after Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault resigned his House of Commons seat in August 2026.
Pending Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie federal by-election
Pending federal by-election in Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie (No. 24065), Quebec, vacated August 26, 2026 by Alexandre Boulerice's resignation; date to be announced by February 22, 2027, earliest polling day October 12, 2026.
Pending Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot—Acton federal by-election
Pending federal by-election in Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot—Acton, Quebec, triggered by Bloc Québécois MP Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay's June 2026 resignation to run for the Parti Québécois; vote must be announced by December 19, 2026.
Pending Scarborough North federal by-election
Pending Scarborough North federal by-election: a future Canadian by-election for Ontario riding 35095, vacant August 17, 2026 after Liberal MP Shaun Chen's health-related resignation; earliest vote date October 5, 2026, with Chen's 2025 Liberal margin at 13,931 votes.
Pennsylvania's congressional delegations
Pennsylvania's congressional delegations: the state's U.S. House members and two senators under each census apportionment. 17 districts after 2020 (18 under the 2011 act); 13-5 Republican 2012-2016, 9-8 Democratic after 2018, 10-7 Republican after 2024.
Permanent time observation in the United States
Permanent time observation in the United States: year-round standard time (Hawaii, most Arizona, territories) versus permanent DST, which requires congressional action; the 1974 year-round DST trial was repealed after one winter.
Pizzagate conspiracy theory
Pizzagate was a debunked 2016 conspiracy theory claiming Democrats ran a child sex ring in the basement of Comet Ping Pong, a Washington D.C. pizzeria; it arose from leaked Podesta emails, led to an armed shooting, and seeded QAnon.
Podesta emails
The Podesta emails were messages hacked from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's Gmail in March 2016 by Russia's GRU units 26165 and 74455 via spear-phishing, and published by WikiLeaks starting October 7, 2016, an hour after the Access Hollywood tape; the Mueller investigation found no Trump campaign coordination.
Polish Plebiscite Commission
The Polish Plebiscite Commission (Polski Komisariat Plebiscytowy) was the Polish representative body in Upper Silesia under the Inter-Allied Commission, led by Wojciech Korfanty from Bytom, 1920 to 1922.
Political party loyalty of United States counties
County-level party loyalty in US elections: which party counties back repeatedly, measured by two-party vote share and partisanship indices; Democratic dominance of the 100 largest counties since the 1990s, Republican strength in small counties, and the 1996-2008 realignment.
Political status of Puerto Rico
Political status of Puerto Rico: unincorporated U.S. territory (Estado Libre Asociado, Commonwealth since 1952), U.S. citizens without voting representation; seven nonbinding plebiscites favoring statehood, with Congress holding sole authority to change status.
Popular Alliance (Bolivia)
Popular Alliance (Bolivia), an electoral alliance of MTS, PSR, and MATE, competed in the 2025 general elections. It secured 8 legislative seats and placed fourth in the presidential vote.
Preferred prime minister opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election
Preferred prime minister polling for the next UK general election: YouGov head-to-heads and Ipsos open questions on who would be best PM, showing Andy Burnham leading Farage, Badenoch, Polanski, and Davey in 2026, with methodology and historical benchmarks.
President of the World Bank Group
President of the World Bank Group: chief executive and board chair of the five-institution World Bank Group, selected by Executive Directors for five-year terms; since 1946 nominated by the United States. 14th president Ajay Banga took office June 2, 2023.
Presidential transition of Barack Obama
The 2008-2009 presidential transition of Barack Obama: handover from George W. Bush after the November 4, 2008 election, led by Podesta, Jarrett, and Rouse, with pre-election Bush cooperation and 75% Gallup approval.
Presidential transition of Joe Biden
Presidential transition of Joe Biden: the 2020-21 transfer of power from Trump to Biden. Co-chaired by Ted Kaufman and Jeff Zients; delayed 20 days by GSA ascertainment; led to the 2022 Presidential Transition Improvement Act.