Electoral authorities said partial results showed the two conservative candidates were virtually tied — and far ahead of the governing left-wing party.

Gavin Newsom is already thinking about the 2028 presidential election – and the controversies that are certain to come out of it, RadarOnline. com can report.

Western Trust Wealth Management compiled the data on S&P 500 index returns by presidential term year from 1950 to 2023. Consistent with other analyses, it finds that the combined returns of years three and four add up to an average gain of 24.5%, while the first two years see a combined gain of only 12.5%.

Emerson College's latest polling shows that the proportion of people who would vote for Newsom in the Democratic presidential primaries has increased by 13 points from August to December. While he has not announced a formal run for president, the governor told CBS News in October he would decide after the 2026 midterm elections.

In an extraordinary twist, San Antonio de Flores with its 4,996 registered voters could help decide the outcome of Honduras' presidential election.

Honduras is still waiting for final election results, more than a week after voting for a new president. As of Monday, 88% of the ballots have been counted.

Gov. Jared Polis cuts the ceremonial ribbon celebrating the substantial opening of the North I-25 Express Lanes project at a ceremony at the I-25 bus slip in Loveland on Dec. 7, 2023. The new express lanes and two general purpose lanes will open Dec. 15, 2023. | © Miles Blumhardt/The Coloradoan / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN images

Ultraconservative candidate José Antonio Kast is the front-runner in Sunday's runoff presidential election, where he faces Communist candidate Jeannette Jara, a former minister under outgoing left-wing President Gabriel Boric.

Honduras is expected to start a special recount in coming days to resolve tally sheet irregularities, election officials said on Thursday, amid the chaotic aftermath of the still-undecided November 30 presidential election that has thrown the Central American nation into political uncertainty.

Jose Antonio Kast won Chile’s presidential election on Sunday, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to take the country to its sharpest rightward shift since the end of dictatorship in 1990.