Big elections? They were huge… Let’s start with Thailand – its record-high voter turnout turned into massive wins for the opposition parties, with the youth-led Move Forward Party claiming at least 151 of the 500 seats in the House of Representatives and Pheu Thai claiming 141. The incumbent military-backed government, which came to power in a coup and has ruled Thailand for 9 years, won 36 seats… But they’re not entirely out of the game because of a military-era rewriting of the constitution – it has a large say over who becomes Thailand’s next leader when the parliament meets in July. Also kicking it down the road is Turkey, where neither 20-year leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan nor his democracy-focused challenger Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu received 50% of the vote. A runoff election is scheduled for 28 May, and Erdoğan is the favourite to win – a prospect that has disappointed financial markets.