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Elections & voting fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about elections & voting. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

5,412 published reviews in this topic

PA MediaElections & voting

Claims have circulated online that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will scrap next year’s local elections. One of the claims said this was the first time this has happened since the Second World War.

Publisher’s rating: A new Government white paper includes plans to restructure some local government in England. To aid in this process it is possible that local elections could be postponed. The reforms will likely merge some councils into larger bodies, which will lead to fewer separate elections. Such mergers have happened many times in the past and elections have been postponed as a result.

日本ファクトチェックセンター(JFC)Elections & voting

池上彰氏が「トランプ圧勝は不正」「共産社会は理想」と番組で発言？

Publisher’s rating: 誤り

The review found no such statement about Trump’s victory in the November 6, 2024 broadcast; TV Asahi told JFC that “there was no such statement” in the program. For the “communist society is ideal” clip, TV Asahi said the remarks had been excerpted, and the review describes the clip as taken from an explanation of communist society.

FACTLYElections & voting

Hindustan’ newspaper clippings showing that in the Katehari and Phulpur constituencies, both the winning BJP candidates and the trailing SP candidates received 78,289 votes and 66,984 votes, respectively, which hints EVM manipulation.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review says the viral clippings were digitally edited. It reports that the original figures matched in Phulpur, but in Katehari BJP candidate Dharmraj Nishad received 104,091 votes and SP candidate Shobhawati Verma received 69,597.