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With just 35 days until Britons head to the polls, the leaders of seven political parties battled it out on the small screen to win votes in a televised debate.

Wright State University has applied to host one of the 2016 general election presidential debates.

If Las Vegas is chosen, the agency said the debate would happen sometime between the end of September and mid-October 2016 and be held at the school’s Thomas & Mack Center.

The result has been mixed with polls differing on who performed best.

Prime Minister David Cameron won the first TV encounter of a close national election in Britain, an opinion poll showed, but opposition Labor leader Ed Miliband leveraged a rare opportunity to promote himself on a national stage.

It wasn’t quite a debate, but back-to-back live televised interviews of Prime Minister David Cameron and opposition leader Ed Miliband were billed Thursday as the unofficial campaign kickoff six weeks before Britain’s general election.

One would think the world’s oldest democracies have everything fixed come election time. But in the case of Great Britain that isn’t true, judging by the debate that is raging over how, when and if there will be a debate in the run-up to the May 7 general elections.

Live showdowns between candidates are spreading around the world. Outsiders are most frequently the beneficiaries

Recognising that debates can play a vital role in enabling Trinidad and Tobago to join the growing community of nations that have made debates an integral part of their election process, the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce lead the drive for the establishment of the Trinidad and

David Cameron last night agreed to a single TV debate during the election campaign. The Prime Minister is expected to attend a seven-way session at the start of April, to be shown on ITV.

La campaña presidencial de 2015 ofrece a los candidatos presidenciales la oportunidad única de llevar el diálogo político a otro nivel.

Netanyahu and Herzog's absence made them the biggest losers of all, leaving the stage open for smaller parties.