77% of eligable voters turned out in Spain and ousted the current government who had governed for 8 years.

The Popular Party of Jose Maria Aznar was defeated by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialist party.

Socialists (PSOE): 43%
Popular Party (PP): 38%
Catalan Regional Party (CiU): 3%
Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC): 2.5%
United Left (IU): 5%

The Socialists did not win an absolute majority in the 350 seat House of Deputies, and had not been showing well in the polls earlier this week and prior to the bombings in Madrid. They won the popular vote last election.
A profile of Zapatero is here.
Germany has asked for emergency talks with the EU interior ministers as rumours and suspicion turn to Islamic fundamentalist involvement in the Madrid bombings.
The links I’ve provided show some of the election issues -PP corruption scandals, ETA, the oil spill, Madrid bombings, economics, etc.

Russia
Russia is receiving US criticism for it’s presidental elections.
Vladimir Putin has been re-elected by 69%(exit poll) in an election that took in 109 million voters over 11 time zones. This is the third election for president since the USSR collapsed in 1991.
A major fire in a historic building in Red Square is being reported as being of suspicious origin in some US media. The BBC reports that Moscow emergency officials don’t know the cause of the blaze, but are saying it may have been an electrical fault.