Rodrigo Duterte wins 2016 Philippines Presidential Election

Anti-crime candidate and mayor of Davao City, Rodrigo Duterte has won the 2016 presidential election of the Philippines by a landslide victory.

•  He will become the 16th President-elect of Philippines.
•  In the Presidential election held on 9 May 2016, Rodrigo Duterte secured 39% (15.36 million) of the votes.

Philippines :

1. Capital - Manila
2. Currency- Philippine peso

EC launches mobile app e-voter for Kerala assembly polls

 The Election Commission of India (ECI) has launched an innovative mobile application titled e-voter with comprehensive details about the forthcoming 2016 Assembly polls in Kerala. 

• The app is envisaged for voters’ facilitation for search in electoral roll, information regarding candidates, location of polling station, affidavit filed by them, filing of complaint and so on.

About e- voter app :

•  The e-voter app was developed by the state IT Mission.
•  It aims at ensuring great transparency and conduct of free and fair elections.
•  The app has ‘know your candidate’ option that would provide constituency wise details of candidates. 
• It has ‘constituency list’ option that would give segment wise details of voters (total number of voters, number of male voters and female voters) and total polling stations. 
• The app will also provide information about previous elections results and names of Chief Ministers.
•  The e-voter app can be downloaded from the Google Play store and can be installed on any android phone