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Thai opposition leader Pita Limjaroenrat says he is "ready to be prime minister" after a stunning election result that left his upstart progressive party as the biggest in parliament. SOUNDBITE
UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer hails his party's victory in the Mid Bedforshire by-election. SOUNDBITE
Zimbabwe's opposition leader Nelson Chamisa claims victory in the country's election after challenging results that saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa winning a second term in office. SOUNDBITE
The leader of Turkey's ultra nationalist Victory Party, Umit Ozdag, and opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu sign an agreement protocol for the runoff presidential election. Opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu vows to send all refugees back home within two years if he is elected president on Sunday. IMAGES
Finland's centre-right leader Petteri Orpo claimed victory in Sunday's general election, with the far-right Finns Party in second place ahead of Prime Minister Sanna Marin's Social Democrats in third. (COMPLETES VIDI33CJ7WK_EN) IMAGES
Podolsk, Sep 19 (EFE/EPA).- Polling places in the European portion of Russia closed on Sunday after three days of voting in legislative elections in which the governing United Russia party claimed victory and appears to have retained its majority in the Duma, or lower house of Parliament.United Russia general secretary Andrei Turchak said at a political rally at the Moscow headquarters of the party that President Vladimir Putin had "obtained a clean and honest victory."The official vote count so far, with 27.82 percent of the ballots tabulated, gives United Russia 44.92 percent of the votes and the communists - who emerged as the big winners in this electoral round - 21.97 percent, their best result since 1999 and far above their performance in the 2016 election, when they garnered 13 percent. (Camera: MAXIM SHIPENKOV). SHOT LIST: THE MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL ELECTION COMMISSION COUNT BALLOTS AT A POLLING STATION DURING THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AT A LOCAL SCHOOL IN PODOLSK OUTSIDE MOSCOW, RUSSIA.