According to ABC Australia the outgoing Prime Minister of Australia John Howard has conceded the defeat and congratulates Rudd on election victory in Australia.

General parliamentary elections in Pakistan will be held on January 8, 2008, Mohammad Farooq, head of the Electoral Commission, said on Tuesday.

A party led by ex-guerrilla Hashim Thaci has won Kosovo's parliamentary election, according to unofficial results, and is set to lead it into a showdown with Serbia on the ethnic Albanian majority's demand for independence.

Serbia's predominantly Albanian province of Kosovo is holding parliamentary elections Saturday, amid the breakaway region's drive for officially recognized statehood.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said on Friday it would not be monitoring parliamentary polls in Russia on December 2 due to "delays and restrictions" imposed by Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says a win for his party in parliamentary elections next month would give him a moral mandate to influence Russian politics, even after he steps down from the Presidency.

Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski is conceding defeat as exit polls give a pro-business party a large lead over his ruling nationalists in Sunday's parliamentary elections.

Poles are set to choose between their nationalist incumbent prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and center-right pro-business challenger Donald Tusk at Sunday's parliamentary elections.

The final votes in Ukraine's parliamentary elections were counted on Friday, with pro-West blocs gathering enough votes to form a coalition government. Following elections on September 30, five blocs made it into the Supreme Rada, with the pro-Russian Party of Regions headed by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych leading with 34.32%.

Ukraine's Orange Revolution allies are likely to win parliamentary elections. Near-final results show that they will be able to form a strong coalition to unseat Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

A possible coalition of two pro-Western parties in Ukraine appears to be holding a slim lead over the party of the country's pro-Russia prime minister and its likely partners.

Ukraine's Electoral Commission says Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's ruling party has edged slightly ahead of the opposition in the latest results of Sunday's parliamentary elections.