Elections & voting fact checks

பீகார் தேர்தல் பிரச்சாரத்தின் போது ராகுல் படத்தை வைத்து பெண்களுக்கு 5 லட்சம் சானிட்டரி பேட்களை காங்கிரஸ் கட்சி வழங்கவுள்ளது.

Publisher’s rating: misleading

Congress distributed 5 Lakhs Sanitary pads to women as a campaign during Bihar Elections with a picture of Rahul. RahulGandhi, who does even give you such unique ideas ?

Publisher’s rating: fake

「期日前投票は不正し放題」「鉛筆だと書き換えられる」?

Publisher’s rating: 誤り

बिहार विधानसभा चुनाव की तारीख का एलान हो गया

Publisher’s rating: झूठ

Election Commission of India has released the schedule for the 2025 Bihar Assembly Elections.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY reports that, as of 03 July 2025, the Election Commission had not released the 2025 Bihar Assembly election schedule. It says the schedule circulating online was for the 2010 Bihar Assembly elections.

जोहरान ममदानी ने न्यूयॉर्क मेयर के चुनाव में जीत हासिल की

Publisher’s rating: भ्रामक

The review found the claim misleading: Mamdani had won the Democratic mayoral primary and become the party’s nominee, not won the mayoral election. It states that the city’s mayoral election was still scheduled for November.

都議選・八王子で開票に不正?

Publisher’s rating: 誤り

The review examines claims that vote-counting fraud caused San Party candidate Sayuri Yokura’s loss in Hachioji’s June 22, 2025 Tokyo assembly election. It finds that the cited exit-poll discrepancy, pauses in interim tallies, and 2,598 invalid ballots do not establish fraud; Hachioji’s invalid-ballot rate was 1.14%, jointly the lowest among the 62 municipalities.

The recent Supreme Court landmark decision discarding the second placer rule in local elections applies to the electoral protest of Bienvenido Abante Jr and Luis “Joey” Chua Uy in the 2025 Manila 6th District congressional race.

Publisher’s rating: Needs context

Zohran Mamdani has been elected as the Mayor of New York.

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The review says Mamdani had won the Democratic primary and become the party’s nominee, but had not yet been elected mayor. It reports that he described himself as the Democratic nominee on June 25, 2025, ahead of the general election scheduled for November 2025.

東京新聞が都議選の開票不正を報じた?

Publisher’s rating: 誤り

The Japan Fact-Check Center found no Tokyo Shimbun report supporting the claim. It notes that the newspaper’s June 24 articles did not cover vote-counting machine problems or fraudulent counting.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a communist.

Publisher’s rating: False

Research from related reporting describes Mamdani as a democratic socialist and says political opponents have portrayed him as a communist. It does not establish that he is a communist: one report identifies him as part of a democratic socialist movement, while another describes his platform as economic populism. [S1, S2]

Ce post Facebook affirmant que le ministre Kobenan Kouassi Adjoumani a annoncé la révision de la liste électorale en Côte d’Ivoire

Publisher’s rating: False

都議選の投票率16%?

Publisher’s rating: 誤り

The review explains that 16.77% was the estimated turnout at 2 p.m. on June 22, 2025, not the final turnout. The confirmed turnout was 47.59%.

தன்னை மீறி அடிமை அதிமுகவுடன் கூட்டணி அமைத்த தமிழ்நாடு பாஜக படுதோல்வி அடைந்து நாசமாய் போக மிளகாய் அரைத்து ஊற்றி அபிஷேகம் செய்து கொண்ட அண்ணாமலை.

Publisher’s rating: sarcasm

Fight for 11A seat

Publisher’s rating: false

(Video) “Gloria Naveillán, diputada del PNL, dice que prefiere votar por Evelyn Matthei y por Carolina Tohá, antes que Kast”: #Engañoso

Publisher’s rating: https://x.com/Soy_Tu_Aji/status/1935105294754885722

Picha hii iliyochapishwa X (awali Twitter) inayodai kuonyesha kibao chenye ujumbe kuhusu uchaguzi wa Oktoba 2025

Publisher’s rating: Altered

Ce communiqué publié sur Facebook annonçant que le Rassemblement démocratique du peuple camerounais (RDPC) a choisi Jean Nkuete comme son candidat à l’élection présidentielle

Publisher’s rating: False

link being circulated within WhatsApp groups in Uganda, claiming the country’s Electoral Commission (EC) is recruiting

Publisher’s rating: Hoax

TikTok post claiming that Kampala Central Division Member of Parliament Muhammad Nsereko has launched his own political party as he eyes the 2026 presidency

Publisher’s rating: Partly False