Italian-born Sonia Gandhi seems set to become India's next Prime Minister after the Congress Party's surprise victory in the recent elections

Continuing our wall-to-wall coverage of this event, here is a reasonable approach to coping with it. Commentary one year when Spain gave Germany an inordinate number of points: "I see Mallorca has just cast its votes."

Anthony Wells looks at some of the fringe candidates standing in Britain's elections to the European Parliament

The NY Times takes an interesting look at the American electoral chessboard. As expected, both the Bush and Kerry campaigns will have an even harder time tracking down the marginal American voter than Bush and Gore had in 2000.

The Guardian's Euroblog - a record of the European election campaign written by three British MEPs - Roger Helmer, Richard Corbett and Sarah Ludford (found via Doctor Vee)