2019 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225, Background, Track
The track is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) tri-oval speedway in Sparta, Kentucky, which has hosted ARCA, NASCAR and Indy Racing League racing annually since it opened in 2000. The track is currently owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports. The speedway has a grandstand capacity of 69,000.


2019 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225, Practice, First practice
Harrison Burton was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 29.920 seconds and a speed of 180.481 mph (290.456 km/h).


2019 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225, Practice, Final practice
Brett Moffitt was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 29.693 seconds and a speed of 180.481 mph (290.456 km/h).


2019 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225, Qualifying
Grant Enfinger scored the pole for the race with a time of 29.678 seconds and a speed of 181.953 mph (292.825 km/h).


2019 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225, Race, Summary
Grant Enfinger started on pole, but Sheldon Creed took the lead within the first turn and pulled away. He eventually held a two-second lead over Enfinger and won Stage 1.


2019 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225, Race, Summary
With 5 laps remaining in Stage 2, Enfinger and Brandon Jones tangled together while battling for the lead. Enfinger dove underneath Jones but lost control and ended up pulling them both into the outside wall. Matt Crafton won the stage under caution. Tyler Ankrum passed Crafton soon after the caution and dominated until he had to pit and was overtaken by Brett Moffitt. He then led for 10 laps until Dylan Lupton and Crafton both took the lead on separate occasions.


2019 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225, Race, Summary
Brett Moffitt retook the lead on lap 125, but had to pit for fuel on the final lap. This gave the lead to Ankrum, who ultimately led a race-high 40 laps. Ankrum won the race with a 7-second lead over runner-up Stewart Friesen (who had to start in a backup truck).


2019 Bucknell Bison football team
The 2019 Bucknell Bison football team represents Bucknell University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They are led by first-year head coach Dave Cecchini and play their home games at Christy Mathewson–Memorial Stadium. They play as a member of the Patriot League.


2019 Bucknell Bison football team, Previous season
The Bison finished the 2018 season 1–10, 1–5 in Patriot League play to finish in last place. In January 2019 the Bucknell Athletics Department announced that Joe Susan would be stepping down as head football coach to serve in a new position within the department. Susan compiled a 38−61 record during his nine-year tenure with the Bison, winning the Patriot League Coach of the Year in 2014. On February 6 it was announced that Dave Cecchini, the former head coach of Valparaiso, would be the 27th Bob Odell Head Football Coach at Bucknell University.


2019 Bucknell Bison football team, Preseason, Preseason coaches' poll
The Patriot League released their preseason coaches' poll on July 30, 2019 (voting was by conference head coaches and sports information directors). The Bison were picked to finish in seventh (last) place.


2019 Bucknell Bison football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Patriot League team
The Bison had two players selected to the preseason All-Patriot League team.


2019 Budapest Assembly election
The 2019 Budapest Assembly election was held on 13 October 2019, concurring with other local elections in Hungary. Voters elected the Mayor of Budapest, and the mayors of the 23 districts directly, while 9 seats in the assembly were distributed proportionally, taking into account votes cast for losing district mayoral candidates.


2019 Budapest Assembly election, Mayor
Gergely Karácsony was elected mayor with 50.86% of the vote, defeating incumbent István Tarlós who held the office since 2010.


2019 Budapest Assembly election, District mayors
In case of joint candidates, bold denotes the party to which the candidate personally belongs. In the 23 districts, 14 opposition or opposition supported candidates won, with 9 government-aligned or government-supported mayors. This is a sharp improvement for the opposition as they previously only occupied 4 of these mayorships.


2019 Budapest Assembly election, District mayors
In most of the cities, the assembly majority is composed of members aligned with the mayor, except:


2019 Budapest Assembly election, District mayors
In XXIII., the mayor's civil organization together with Fidesz-KDNP members have a majority.


2019 Budapest Assembly election, Party list seats
Number in parentheses is the candidate's original position on the list, as some list candidates were elected to a mayorship.


2019 Budapest Assembly election, Party list seats
Tarlós announced on 15 October 2019, that he won't take his seat. This caused Attila Ughy (list position 15) to take his seat instead. Zsolt Wintermantel did not take either his seat on 28 October; he was replaced by Gábor Pintér, according to the request of the Fidesz–KDNP alliance. Botond Sára (9.) and Tamás Hoffmann (11.) were elected into the local representative bodies in their districts, therefore they were excluded from the party compensation list.


2019 Budapest Assembly election, Breakdown of seats
The opposition won a majority in the Assembly, breaking over 15 years of a Fidesz majority.


2019 Budapest Formula 2 round
The 2019 Budapest Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races held on 3 and 4 August 2019 at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród, Hungary as part of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. It was the eighth round of the 2019 FIA Formula 2 Championship and was run in support of the 2019 Hungarian Grand Prix.


2019 Budapest Formula 3 round
The 2019 Budapest FIA Formula 3 round is a motor racing event held on 3 and 4 August 2019 at the Hungaroring, Budapest, Hungary. It was the fifth round of the 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship, and ran in support of the 2019 Hungarian Grand Prix.


2019 Budapest Formula 3 round, Classification, Qualifying
The Qualifying session took place on 2 August 2019, with Christian Lundgaard scoring pole position.


2019 Budapest mayoral election
The 2019 Budapest mayoral election was held on 13 October 2019 to elect the Mayor of Budapest (főpolgármester). On the same day, local elections were also held throughout Hungary, including the districts of Budapest which will determine the composition of the General Assembly. The election is run using a first-past-the-post voting system. The winner of the election will serve for a term of 5 years.


2019 Budapest mayoral election, Candidates
On 10 October 2018, István Tarlós announced that he will run for a third term as Mayor, after negotiating about his future role with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Also in October, independent publicist Róbert Puzsér declared his run for the mayorship, and published his manifesto Walking Budapest.


2019 Budapest mayoral election, Candidates, Opposition primary
In December 2018, the Hungarian Socialist Party reached an agreement with independent candidate Róbert Puzsér about a two-round primary. According to that, there would be a first round (in February), where the socialists and their allies would participate, and a second round (in June) where the "candidate of the centre" would join them.


2019 Budapest mayoral election, Candidates, Opposition primary
The first round was conducted between 28 January and 3 February. Two candidates participated: Csaba Horváth (MSZP group leader in the General Assembly) and Gergely Karácsony (Dialogue, mayor of Zugló).


2019 Budapest mayoral election, Candidates, Opposition primary
After the first round, a second round between Karácsony and Puzsér was planned in July. Opposition parties Politics Can Be Different and Jobbik endorsed Puzsér, with the condition that he takes part in the primary. Multiple forums and debates were held between the two, but on 8 April Puzsér announced he would not take part, citing a recent agreement about district mayoral candidates which did not include the parties supporting him.


2019 Budapest mayoral election, Candidates, Opposition primary
The European Parliament election caused a major change in the balance of power, as the Socialists-Dialogue alliance gained only 6% of the votes, with the Democratic Coalition taking 16% and new party Momentum (M) taking almost 10%. This prompted Momentum to announce their candidate, entrepreneur Gábor Kerpel-Fronius (hu) on 3 June, followed by the Democratic Coalition on 6 June, their candidate being television host Olga Kálmán.


2019 Budapest mayoral election, Candidates, Opposition primary
The second round was conducted between 20 and 26 June with online and in-person voting. On 23 June a televised debate was held between the three candidates on the channel ATV.


2019 Budapest mayoral election, Candidates, Opposition primary
According to the organizers' self-imposed criteria, the primary was valid, as more than 50 000 valid votes were cast.


2019 Buenos Aires provincial election
Elections in the province of Buenos Aires were held on 27 October 2019, alongside national elections. On that day, elections were held to elect the governor, vice governor, provincial deputies, provincial senators and municipal offices.


2019 Buenos Aires provincial election
The candidatures were defined in the open, simultaneous, and mandatory primaries (PASO), which took place on 11 August 2019. Lists that won at least 1.5% of the votes (including blanks) qualified to the general election.


2019 Buenos Aires provincial election
The election resulted in the defeat of incumbent governor María Eugenia Vidal (PRO) to former finance minister and current national deputy Axel Kicillof. This accompanied the national trend, in which incumbent president Mauricio Macri lost to Alberto Fernández. Vidal is the first governor to seek re-election and lose, while Kicillof becomes the eighth governor (sixth peronist) since the return of democracy in 1983. It was the most polarized election since 1999, with the two most voted candidates summing 90.68% of the votes.


2019 Buffalo Bandits season
The Buffalo Bandits are a lacrosse team based in Buffalo, New York playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2019 season is their 28th season in the NLL


2019 Buffalo Bandits season, Regular season, Final standings
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


2019 Buffalo Bandits season, Roster, Entry Draft
The 2018 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 25, 2018. The Bandits made the following selections:


2019 Buffalo Bills season
The 2019 season was the Buffalo Bills' 60th overall, 50th in the National Football League (NFL), fifth full under the ownership of Terry and Kim Pegula and third under the head coach/general manager tandem of Sean McDermott and Brandon Beane.


2019 Buffalo Bills season
During the offseason, Buffalo acquired several players who would make major contributions on offense. The Bills improved on their 6–10 record from the previous season with a 37–20 win over Miami Dolphins in Week 11, then clinched their second winning season in three years with a 26–15 win over the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day.


2019 Buffalo Bills season
Despite losing 24–17 to the Baltimore Ravens in Week 14, the Bills' 9–4 record marked the first time since 1996 (during the Marv Levy/Jim Kelly era) that the team won at least nine of their first 13 games and matching their highest full-season win total (2004, 2014 and 2017) in the 21st century with four games remaining.


2019 Buffalo Bills season
With a 17–10 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 15, not only did the Bills clinch their second playoff berth in three years, but they reached 10 wins for the first time since winning 11 in 1999, which was also the last time the team made the playoffs until 2017.


2019 Buffalo Bills season
The Bills defense finished an impressive season with just 259 points allowed, second in the league behind only the New England Patriots. The defense allowed more than 20 points just five times all season, and more than 30 points only once (in Week 8 against the Philadelphia Eagles). Overall, the Bills had the lowest-scoring games in the league with just 573 total points scored and allowed.


2019 Buffalo Bills season
The Bills attempted to win their first playoff game since 1995 in the Wild Card round, but were defeated by the Houston Texans 22–19 in overtime after giving up a 16–0 lead, just like they did against the Tennessee Titans. The loss extended their playoff win drought to 25 years.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Transactions, Free agency
The Bills freed up cap space after paying off the dead money for players from the Doug Whaley era they had either cut or traded over the past two offseasons, including WR Sammy Watkins, CB Ronald Darby and DT Marcell Dareus. To address the team's offensive woes from the previous season, numerous offensive players such as WRs John Brown, Cole Beasley and Andre Roberts, C Mitch Morse, RBs Frank Gore and T. J. Yeldon and others were added in free agency, with Beane angrily dismissing the notion that "free agents don't want to play for Buffalo."


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Preseason
The Bills went undefeated in their preseason games for the first time in franchise history. The team had only once before won their first three preseason games in 1966 before losing the preseason finale.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at New York Jets
Despite four first-half turnovers, two of which were interceptions by QB Josh Allen and being down 16–0 in the third quarter, the Bills scored on three consecutive drives afterwards, with the defense stifling Jets QB Sam Darnold and RB Le'Veon Bell for the most part, but it was an injury to Jets LB C. J. Mosley, along with misses on an extra point and a field goal by Jets K Kaare Vedvik (ultimately leading to his subsequent release), that paved the way for Buffalo's largest comeback win since Week 3 of the 2011 season, when the Bills came back from a 21–0 first-half deficit to upset the New England Patriots 34–31.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at New York Giants
With the win, not only did Buffalo earn its first 2–0 start since 2014, but also became the first team to win back-to-back road games in the same stadium since the 2006 Chicago Bears, who ultimately went on to lose Super Bowl XLI to the Indianapolis Colts.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Cincinnati Bengals
Buffalo dominated the first half, holding the Bengals offense to just 76 yards and occupying 22:57 of ball possession, compared to just 7:03 for Cincinnati, but were only able to hold a 14–0 lead due to some miscues on offense, including a T. J. Yeldon fumble in the red zone.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Cincinnati Bengals
After Allen threw an interception to the Bengals defense in the third quarter, Cincinnati surged to 17 unanswered points, but Buffalo scored on its final drive, which featured a 49-yard pass from Allen to rookie TE Dawson Knox in which Knox broke two tackles and was capped by a touchdown run by RB Frank Gore. Bengals QB Andy Dalton was intercepted by CB Tre'Davious White for the second time on Cincinnati's ensuing drive, sealing a 21–17 victory for Buffalo. With the win, the Bills earned their first 3–0 start since 2011.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. New England Patriots
The game was a defensive battle, as both Allen and Patriots QB Tom Brady struggled throughout the game. However, the Patriots took an early 13–0 lead following a Brandon Bolden rushing touchdown and a blocked punt returned for a touchdown. After leading the Bills to 10 points, Allen was knocked out of the game in the fourth quarter after sustaining a helmet-to-helmet hit with Patriots CB Jonathan Jones during a scramble. The Patriots defense stifled backup quarterback Matt Barkley, keeping the Bills offense out of the end zone for the rest of the game. With their first loss of the season, the Bills fell to 3-1, failing to earn their first 4–0 start since 2008. On a positive note, Gore became the fourth running back in NFL history to attain 15,000 career rushing yards.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Tennessee Titans
In another defensive game, Buffalo scored first with an Allen pass to TE Lee Smith in the second quarter, while Titans QB Marcus Mariota was sacked four times in the first half. The Titans responded in the third quarter with a Derrick Henry rushing touchdown and were on the way to taking the lead in the fourth quarter. However, in a reversal of luck compared to the Music City Miracle from 20 years earlier, the Titans were denied a Mariota passing touchdown when it was determined that Mariota crossed the line of scrimmage prior to making a forward pass.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Tennessee Titans
The resulting penalty forced the Titans to settle for a field goal by K Cairo Santos, which was blocked by the Bills defense. Santos wound up missing his other three field goal attempts, finishing 0-for-4 on the day (ultimately leading to his subsequent release). Following the miss, the Bills drove 80 yards down the field, capitalizing with a go-ahead touchdown from Allen to receiver Duke Williams as Tennessee was unable to respond. With the win, Buffalo improved to 4–1 heading into the bye week. WR Zay Jones was traded to the Oakland Raiders the day after this game.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Miami Dolphins
Against the winless Dolphins, the Bills trailed at halftime 14–9 following a strong second quarter from Miami QB Ryan Fitzpatrick, who was Buffalo's starter from 2009-2012. The Dolphins looked to extend their lead in the third quarter, but White intercepted Fitzpatrick at the Buffalo 2-yard line. The Bills then regained the lead with two Allen touchdown passes to WRs John Brown and Cole Beasley, respectively, with the latter occurring after White forced the Dolphins to fumble near their 30-yard line. Though the Dolphins scored again later in the fourth quarter, the Bills iced the game after safety Micah Hyde returned Miami's ensuing onside kick for a 45-yard touchdown. With the win, the Bills improved to 5–1 for the first time since 2008.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Philadelphia Eagles
During a rain-swept, windy game, the Bills took an early 7–3 lead, but after an Allen fumble shortly before halftime, the Eagles stormed back, outscoring the Bills 28–6 afterwards and finishing with 218 rushing yards under RBs Jordan Howard and Miles Sanders. With the loss, the Bills fall to 5–2. It was the only game all season, including the playoffs, in which the Bills defense allowed more than three touchdowns, or more than 25 points.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Washington Redskins
The Bills won against the Redskins with 140 total yards from rookie RB Devin Singletary, improving to 6–2, making this their best start since 1993, also the same year the Bills last made a Super Bowl.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at Cleveland Browns
In a game featuring a showdown between Allen and fellow 2018 draftee Baker Mayfield, Cleveland scored first with a Mayfield touchdown pass to Jarvis Landry and dominated the time of possession in the first half, but the Bills defense provided two goal-line stands in the second quarter, causing a turnover on downs and limiting the Browns to a field goal, respectively.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at Cleveland Browns
Allen passed for a career-high 266 yards and had two rushing scores, the second of which gave Buffalo a 16–12 lead late in the fourth quarter, but Mayfield then drove Cleveland down the field to retake the lead with a touchdown pass to Rashard Higgins. The Bills drove to the Cleveland 35-yard line on the ensuing drive, but K Stephen Hauschka missed the potential game-tying field goal attempt, sealing the loss for Buffalo and dropping them to 6–3 on the season.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Miami Dolphins
In the rematch against Miami, the Bills defense sacked Fitzpatrick seven times and limited the Dolphins to 23 rushing yards, but the special teams unit allowed a 101-yard kickoff return touchdown from Dolphins KR Jakeem Grant and an onside kick. Offensively, Allen and Brown posted strong performances as the Bills cruised to over 400 total yards and Hauschka rebounded from his poor performance in Cleveland, making all three of his field goals with a long of 51 yards. With the dominating win, Buffalo improved to 7–3, improving on their 6–10 record from 2018.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Denver Broncos
Against a strong Broncos defense, Allen's streak of games without throwing an interception came to an end at five, as he threw one to Broncos S Justin Simmons in the second quarter. Nonetheless, Allen still passed for two touchdowns and Buffalo's rushing offense recorded 244 yards. RBs Singletary and Gore each hit notable milestones, as Singletary recorded his first career 100-yard rushing game and Gore surpassed Barry Sanders on the NFL's all-time rushing list, taking over third place for career rushing yards. Defensively, the Bills had another strong performance and shut down the Denver offense, limiting the Broncos to just 134 net yards and a 45-yard field goal midway through the third quarter in addition to sacking QB Brandon Allen four times. The Bills improved to 8–3 with the win.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Dallas Cowboys
Buffalo traveled to Dallas for its first Thanksgiving game since 1994, when they lost 35–21 to the Detroit Lions. Despite an opening-drive touchdown pass from Cowboys QB Dak Prescott to TE Jason Witten, the Bills defense kept the Cowboys' top-ranked offense out of the end zone for the rest of the first half and most of the second half and forced two turnovers from Prescott. The Bills would respond in the second quarter when Beasley, making his first return to Dallas since signing with Buffalo in free agency, caught a 25-yard touchdown pass from Allen.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Dallas Cowboys
They took the lead for good when they scored on a trick play 28-yard pass from Brown to Singletary just before halftime. Buffalo wound up scoring 26 unanswered points before allowing a 15-yard touchdown pass from Prescott to Ventell Bryant in garbage time. With the 26–15 win, the Bills improved to 9–3, clinching just their fourth winning season since 1999.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Baltimore Ravens
Against the top-ranked Ravens and MVP candidate Lamar Jackson, the Bills defense limited the Ravens to less than 100 total yards in the first half with an interception of Jackson, but the Ravens defense likewise limited the Bills offense, scoring a touchdown after forcing Allen to fumble deep in Bills territory.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Baltimore Ravens
Baltimore took a commanding 17–6 lead three plays into the third quarter after Jackson found TE Hayden Hurst for a 61-yard touchdown through blown coverage and extended their lead with a long touchdown drive following a Bills field goal and a missed pass interference call after Ravens CB Jimmy Smith pushed Bills WR Robert Foster in the back.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Baltimore Ravens
Buffalo would respond with an Allen touchdown pass to Beasley and successful two-point conversion and had one final chance to tie the game after penalties by Baltimore, but the drive stalled at the Baltimore 18-yard line when CB Marcus Peters batted down the ball with just over a minute to go, sealing a 24–17 loss that dropped the Bills to 9–4.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Pittsburgh Steelers
This game was originally scheduled to air at 1:00pm ET on CBS, but during the New England Patriots–Houston Texans primetime game in Week 13, it was announced that the game would be flexed to 8:20pm ET on NBC. This marked the first Sunday primetime game for the Bills since 2007, when they hosted the Patriots (who were attempting to complete a perfect 16-0 regular season) and lost 56–10. The Bills won the defense-heavy game 17–10 as Brown led the Bills offense with 99 receiving yards. Defensively, the Bills forced five turnovers, including four interceptions of Steelers quarterback Devlin Hodges. This win snapped a six-game losing streak against the Steelers dating back to 1999, and was the Bills’ first win at Pittsburgh since 1993.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Pittsburgh Steelers
With the win, Buffalo improved to 10–4, clinching both a playoff berth and its first season with 10 or more wins since 1999.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at New England Patriots
Despite New England holding the ball for much of the first half, Buffalo tied it up at halftime after stopping a fourth-down conversion, then subsequently marching down the field in 38 seconds and capitalizing with a Josh Allen touchdown pass to offensive tackle Dion Dawkins. The second half saw the Bills and Patriots alternate leads, with the Patriots scoring a go-ahead touchdown late in the fourth quarter with a Rex Burkhead touchdown run and subsequent two-point conversion.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at New England Patriots
Similar to the game against the Ravens, Buffalo then drove down the field into the redzone on its final possession, but was unable to score the game-tying touchdown as the drive stalled at the New England 14-yard line. With the loss, the Bills fell to 10–5 and allowed New England to clinch the divisional title.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at New England Patriots
Later in the weekend, the other AFC teams contending for Wild Card spots in the playoffs, namely the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tennessee Titans, both lost to fall to 8-7. With only one game remaining, neither team could reach 10 wins and match the Bills' win total. Therefore, the Bills clinched the #5 seed and a road game against the #4 seed in the AFC playoffs.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. New York Jets
The Bills' final regular season game against the Jets had no implications for their playoff seeding, as they had already locked up the #5 seed in the AFC. After initially announcing that many starters would play, head coach Sean McDermott limited playing time for many players in order to rest up for the playoffs. The Bills played many of their reserves for much of the game, leading to a low-scoring contest which the Jets were able to win, 13-6.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Postseason, Game summaries, AFC Wild Card Playoffs: at (4) Houston Texans
In their third consecutive playoff game against the AFC South, the Bills jumped out to an early lead including a trick play touchdown from receiver John Brown to Josh Allen on their first drive, and were able to contain Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson in the first half. The Bills expanded their lead to 16-0 in the third quarter before the Texans came back with three straight scores to take a 19-16 lead.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Postseason, Game summaries, AFC Wild Card Playoffs: at (4) Houston Texans
After exchanging turnovers on downs, the Bills were able to get the ball back with just over a minute remaining and set up a field goal to force the game into overtime. Both teams punted on their first possession of overtime, although the Bills had made it into field goal range but were pushed back by a blindside block penalty on offensive lineman Cody Ford, forcing the punt.


2019 Buffalo Bills season, Postseason, Game summaries, AFC Wild Card Playoffs: at (4) Houston Texans
On the ensuing drive, the Texans advanced to the Bills' 44 yard line where, facing 2nd & 6, Watson escaped multiple Bills defenders to avoid a sack, and completed a pass to former Bill Taiwan Jones to the Bills' 10 yard line, setting up the game-winning field goal kicked by Ka'imi Fairbairn with 3:20 remaining in overtime. The Bills were eliminated with the loss, and the Texans advanced to play the Kansas City Chiefs in the divisional round.


2019 Buffalo Bulls football team
The 2019 Buffalo Bulls football team represented the University at Buffalo in the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulls were led by fifth-year head coach Lance Leipold and played their home games at the University at Buffalo Stadium as members of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference.


2019 Buffalo Bulls football team, Previous season
The Bulls finished the 2018 season with a 10–4 overall record, including going 7–1, in MAC play to finish first in the East Division and clinch their first ever MAC East Division title before losing to Troy in the Dollar General Bowl.


2019 Buffalo Bulls football team, Preseason, MAC media poll
The MAC released their preseason media poll on July 23, 2019, with the Bulls predicted to finish in third place in the East Division.


2019 Buffalo State Bengals football team
The 2019 Buffalo State Bengals football team represents Buffalo State College in the 2019 NCAA Division III football season. The team is led by first-year head coach Christian Ozolins  and play their home games at Coyer Field in Buffalo, New York. This marks their first season as members of the Liberty League.


2019 Buffalo State Bengals football team, Game summaries, at Hobart
at Boswell Field at David J. Urick Stadium, Geneva, NY


2019 Buhi local elections
Local elections were held in  Buhi, Camarines Sur on May 13, 2019, within the Philippine general election, for posts of the mayor, vice mayor and eight councilors.


2019 Buhi local elections, Overview
The incumbent mayor, Margarita Aguinillo of Nationalist People's Coalition ran once again for mayoral post against vice mayor Rey Lacoste from PDP–Laban party.


2019 Buhi local elections, Results
The candidates for mayor and vice mayor with the highest number of votes win. They are voted for separately. Therefore, they may be of different parties when elected.


2019 Buhi local elections, Results, Municipal Council elections
Voters elected eight councilors to comprise the Municipal Council or the Sangguniang Bayan. Candidates were voted separately so winning candidates may come from different political parties. The eight candidates with the highest number of votes won the seats.


2019 Bulacan local elections
Bulacan local elections were held on May 13, 2019 as part of the 2019 Philippine general election. Voters selected their candidates of choice for all local positions: a town mayor, vice mayor and town councilors, as well as members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, the vice-governor, governor and representatives for the four districts of Bulacan and the lone district of San Jose del Monte City.


2019 Bulacan local elections, Gubernatorial and Vice Gubernatorial election, Governor
Incumbent Governor Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado was term-limited; he switched places with incumbent Vice-Governor Daniel Fernando, who ran for governor. Fernando's opponents are incumbent Malolos mayor Christian "Agila" Natividad and former councilor Teddy "Aguila" Natividad.


2019 Bulacan local elections, Gubernatorial and Vice Gubernatorial election, Vice Governor
Incumbent Vice-Governor Daniel Fernando was term-limited; he switched places with incumbent Governor Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado, who will ran for Vice-Governor. Asiong Mendiola, the running mate of Teddy Natividad, withdrew his candidacy. Sy-Alvarado's opponents were Nelson dela Merced and incumbent Bocaue councilor Anjo Mendoza, son of former Bulacan governor Joselito Mendoza.


2019 Bulacan local elections, Congressional elections, 3rd District
Incumbent Lorna C. Silverio ran for her second term. She faced former Governor and 3rd District Representative Joselito Andrew Mendoza and her late husband's son Ricardo S. Silverio, Jr.


2019 Bulacan local elections, Congressional elections, 4th District
Incumbent Linabelle Ruth Villarica was term-limited; she ran as City Mayor of Meycauayan instead. Her husband, incumbent Meycauayan City Mayor Henry Villarica ran unopposed for her seat.


2019 Bulacan local elections, Congressional elections, San Jose del Monte
Incumbent Florida Robes ran for her second term, and won against incumbent councilor Irene del Rosario with a margin of 10,896 votes (6.52%).


2019 Bulacan local elections, Sangguniang Panlalawigan Elections
All 4 Districts of Bulacan elected members of the Bulacan Provincial Board. The first (including Malolos) and fourth (including San Jose del Monte) districts send three board members each, while the second and third districts send two board members each. Election is via plurality-at-large voting; a voter can vote up to the maximum number of board members his district is sending.


2019 Bulacan local elections, Sangguniang Panlalawigan Elections, 1st District
Incumbent Board Members Ayee Ople and Toti Ople were term-limited; Incumbent Board Member Allan Andan ran for his second term.


2019 Bulacan local elections, Sangguniang Panlalawigan Elections, 2nd District
Incumbent Board Member Buko dela Cruz was term-limited; his sister and incumbent Baliuag councilor Pechay dela Cruz ran in his stead. The husband of incumbent Board Member Baby Monet Posadas, former Senior Board Member Monet Posadas, ran in her stead.


2019 Bulacan local elections, Sangguniang Panlalawigan Elections, 3rd District
Incumbent Board Member Nono Castro is term-limited; his brother Romeo Castro ran in his place. Incumbent Board Member Emily Viceo ran for her second term.


2019 Bulacan local elections, Sangguniang Panlalawigan Elections, 4th District
Incumbent Lita delos Santos did not run for reelection; her nephew, former Board Member Jon-jon delos Santos, ran in her stead. Incumbent Board Members Alex Castro and Allan Ray Baluyut ran for their second and third terms, respectively.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections
All cities and municipalities of Bulacan also elected their new mayor and vice-mayor in this election. The candidates for mayor and vice mayor with the highest number of votes won the respective seats; they were voted separately, and may therefore have come from different parties. Below is the list of mayoralty candidates of each city and municipality, grouped per district.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, First district, Malolos City
Incumbent Mayor Christian Natividad was term-limited and he ran for Governor. Bebong Gatchalian won with a margin of 4,545 votes (4.85%).


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, First district, Malolos City
Incumbent Vice Mayor Gilbert "Bebong" Gatchalian was term-limited and he ran for Mayor. His running mate, incumbent Councilor Noel "Len" Pineda, faced incumbent Board Member Ayee Ople for Vice Mayor. Pineda won with a percentage of 39.42% against Toots Bautista's 30.32% and Ople's 29.80%.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, First district, Bulakan
Incumbent Mayor Patrick Neil Meneses was term-limited, and ran for Vice Mayor. His brother, incumbent Councilor Piccolo, ran for Mayor against former PBA player and JRU Heavy Bombers head coach Vergel Meneses. Vergel won with a margin of 6,993 votes (17.51%).


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, First district, Bulakan
Incumbent Vice Mayor Alberto "Berting" Bituin was term-limited, and ran for councilor. Patrick Neil Meneses won with a margin of only 39 votes (0.1%).


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, First district, Calumpit
Incumbent Mayor Jessie de Jesus ran for his third term unopposed.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, First district, Calumpit
Incumbent Vice Mayor Zar Candelaria was term-limited, and ran for Board Member under PDP-Laban. The candidates for Vice Mayor were incumbent Councilors Thelma Antonio-Dansalan and Victor "Aboy" de Belen.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, First district, Hagonoy
Incumbent Mayor Raulito "Amboy" Manlapaz ran for his third and final term. He faced the daughter of incumbent Governor Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado, Ate Charo Sy-Alvarado, and ABC President Jhane dela Cruz.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, First district, Hagonoy
Incumbent Vice Mayor Pedro Santos ran for his third consecutive term.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, First district, Paombong
Incumbent Mayor Mary Ann Marcos ran for her second term. Her opponent was former Mayor Isagani Castro.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, First district, Paombong
Incumbent Vice Mayor Cristina Gonzales ran for her second term.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, First district, Pulilan
Incumbent Mayor Maritz Ochoa-Montejo ran for her second term unopposed.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, First district, Pulilan
Incumbent Vice Mayor Ricardo "Rec" Candido ran for his second term against incumbent Councilor Enoc "Jayjay" Santos.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Second district, Balagtas
Incumbent Mayor Eladio "JR" Gonzales ran for his second term.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Second district, Balagtas
Incumbent Vice Mayor Alberto "Bobby" Carating ran for his second term.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Second district, Baliuag
Incumbent Mayor Ferdinand Estrella ran for his second term against former Mayor Carolina Dellosa.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Second district, Baliuag
Incumbent Vice Mayor Christopher Clemente ran for his third term.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Second district, Bocaue
Incumbent Mayor Eleanor "Joni" Villanueva-Tugna ran for her second term against former Provincial Administrator Jim Valerio.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Second district, Bocaue
Incumbent Vice Mayor Aldrin Sta. Ana ran for Councilor. Mayor Villanueva's running mate was incumbent Councilor Noriel German who was up against former Vice Mayor Jose Santiago, Jr.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Second district, Bustos
Incumbent Mayor Arnel Mendoza was term-limited and ran for Vice Mayor.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Second district, Bustos
Incumbent Vice Mayor Ading Leoncio ran for Mayor. Incumbent Mayor Arnel Mendoza ran against former Vice Mayor Loida Rivera and incumbent Councilor Romulo Lazaro.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Second district, Guiguinto
Incumbent Mayor Ambrosio "Boy" Cruz ran for his third term. His opponent was incumbent Vice Mayor Banjo Estrella.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Second district, Guiguinto
Incumbent Vice Mayor Banjo Estrella ran for Mayor. The candidates for Vice Mayor were incumbent Councilors JJ Santos and Ricky Jose


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Second district, Pandi
Incumbent Mayor Tinoy Marquez ran for his second term. Among his opponents was former Mayor Rico Roque.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Second district, Pandi
Incumbent Vice Mayor Noel Roxas ran for his second term.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Second district, Plaridel
Former Mayor Anastacia "Tessie" Vistan, mother of incumbent Mayor Jocell Vistan-Casaje, ran unopposed.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Second district, Plaridel
Incumbent Vice Mayor Imelda "Mhel" Gatdula-de Leon ran for her second term unopposed.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Third district, Angat
Incumbent Mayor Leonardo de Leon ran for his third and final term.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Third district, Angat
Incumbent Vice Mayor Gilberto "Reggie" Santos ran for his second term against former Vice Mayor Reynante "Jowar" Bautista.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Third district, Doña Remedios Trinidad
Incumbent Mayor Ronaldo Flores was term-limited, and ran for Vice Mayor; his wife Marita ran for Mayor.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Third district, Doña Remedios Trinidad
Incumbent Vice Mayor Larry Cruz ran for his second term.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Third district, Norzagaray
Incumbent mayor Fred Germar ran for his third term. He had been removed from office for grave misconduct on August 10, 2016,  a decision reversed by the Supreme Court on November 23, 2018. His opponents were the incumbent vice mayor and former acting mayor Ade Cristobal and former mayor Matilde Legaspi.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Third district, Norzagaray
Incumbent councilor Boyet Santos ran for a full term as vice mayor; he was elected as the top Municipal Councilor in 2016, and as such had been acting vice mayor while Germar was out of office.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Third district, San Ildefonso
Incumbent Mayor Carla Galvez-Tan ran for her second term even as she was suspended for 9 months on 29 August 2018. She was up against her cousin, former Mayor Gerald Galvez.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Third district, San Ildefonso
Incumbent Vice Mayor and Acting Mayor Luis Sarrondo ran for his second term. He was up against incumbent Councilor and Acting Vice Mayor Zander Galvez and incumbent Councilor Rocky Sarmiento.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Third district, San Miguel
Incumbent Mayor Marivee Mendez-Coronel ran for her second term against former Mayor Roderick Tiongson and Atty. Jose Francisco S. Cabochan.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Third district, San Miguel
Incumbent Vice Mayor John "Bong" Alvarez ran for his second term.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Third district, San Rafael
Incumbent Mayor Cipriano "Goto" Violago ran for his third and final term.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Third district, San Rafael
Incumbent Vice Mayor Edison Veneracion ran for his third and final term.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Fourth district, Meycauayan City
Incumbent Mayor Henry Villarica ran for Representative of the 4th district; his wife, Deputy Speaker and incumbent Representative Linabelle Villarica, ran for Mayor.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Fourth district, Meycauayan City
Incumbent Vice Mayor Rafael "Jojo" Manzano was term-limited; his party nominated incumbent Councilor Jojie Violago, who ran unopposed.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Fourth district, Marilao
Incumbent Mayor Juanito "Tito" Santiago did not seek reelection; his party nominated former Municipal ABC President Ricky Silvestre.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Fourth district, Marilao
Incumbent Vice Mayor Henry Lutao ran for his second term.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Fourth district, Obando
Incumbent Mayor Edwin Santos ran for his third and final term against incumbent Councilor Artus Sayao.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Fourth district, Obando
Incumbent Vice Mayor Arvin dela Cruz ran for his second term against former Vice Mayor Danilo de Ocampo.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Fourth district, Santa Maria
Incumbent Mayor Russell Pleyto ran for his second term against former Mayors Bartolome "Omeng" Ramos and Jesus "Ato" Mateo.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, Fourth district, Santa Maria
Incumbent Vice Mayor Ricky Buenaventura ran for his second term against incumbent Councilor Nelson Luciano.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, San Jose del Monte City
Incumbent Mayor Arthur Robes ran for his second term against former City Mayor Reynaldo San Pedro.


2019 Bulacan local elections, City and Municipal Elections, San Jose del Monte City
Incumbent Vice Mayor Efren Bartolome Jr. ran for his second term unopposed.


2019 Bulgarian Cup Final
The 2019 Bulgarian Cup Final was the final match of the 2018–19 Bulgarian Cup and the 79th final of the Bulgarian Cup. The final took place on 15 May 2019 at Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria. It was refereed by Nikolay Yordanov from Sofia.


2019 Bulgarian Cup Final
The clubs contesting the final were Botev Plovdiv and Lokomotiv Plovdiv, who traditionally take part in the Plovdiv derby. Both teams have met on multiple occasions in the competition but never in the final itself.


2019 Bulgarian Cup Final
Lokomotiv won the final with the score of 1–0, claiming their first ever Bulgarian Cup title.


2019 Bulgarian Supercup
The 2019 Bulgarian Supercup was the 16th Bulgarian Supercup, an annual Bulgarian football match played between the winners of the previous season's First Professional Football League and Bulgarian Cup. The game was played between the champions of the 2018–19 First League, Ludogorets Razgrad, and the 2019 Bulgarian Cup winners, Lokomotiv Plovdiv.


2019 Bulgarian Supercup
This was Ludogorets's seventh Bulgarian Supercup appearance and Lokomotiv Plovdiv's third. The two teams played each other in the 2012 Bulgarian Supercup, with Ludogorets winning 3−1.


2019 Bulgarian Supercup
Ludogorets won the Supercup for a 4th time after a 2–0 win over Lokomotiv Plovdiv. The goals were scored by Mavis Tchibota and Jody Lukoki.


2019 Bulgarian local elections
The first round of the local elections for mayors and municipal councilors on both the local and provincial level in Bulgaria were held on 27 October 2019. The second round of the election took place on 3 November, as per the decree signed by the President of Bulgaria. 6,227,901 Bulgarians were included on the voter lists and were eligible to vote, a 136,000 voter reduction compared to the 2015 local elections.


2019 Bulgarian local elections
Following the final results, the results on the provincial level showed that the ruling GERB party had lost 6 mayorships in comparison to the previous election. The Socialist Party gained four, the Bulgaria for Citizens movement gained one, the Union of Democratic Forces and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms kept their previous result by obtaining one each, and two independent candidates were elected.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Electoral system
The elections to Bulgaria's municipal councils are conducted via proportional representation with an open list preferential voting system.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Electoral system
The mayoral elections take place within the context of a majoritarian two-round system. The first round of the elections was held on 27 October. If no candidate in a given constituency managed to gain 50% of the vote, a runoff election was held for that constituency in the second round on 3 November.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Electoral system
Voting is officially mandatory, but in practice there is no punishment for failing to vote and the law itself isn't strictly enforced.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Electoral system
Voters further have the option to vote against all proposed candidates.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Electoral system
A recent change in Bulgaria's electoral code made it mandatory for all candidates in the local elections to have had a permanent address registration within their respective constituency for at least 6 months prior to the election in order to be permitted to stand for election in that constituency.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Electoral system
Machine voting did not take place, as this type of voting was removed from Bulgaria's electoral code in July, under the pretext that it would be "too complicated" for voters to vote in local elections using machines.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Electoral system
Bulgarian law imposes strong restrictions on campaign agitation. Each piece of electoral propaganda must clearly show the candidate which it represents and must contain the phrase "the buying and selling of votes is a crime". The use of Bulgaria's flag or coat of arms on election materials is strictly forbidden. Religious symbols, as well as symbols representing foreign countries or regions are also banned. All campaign materials must be issued in the Bulgarian language only. No agitation is permitted on 26 October, the day before the election. Candidates may also only present their platforms before the media after concluding a written contract. Agitation within public transport, as well as all state or local institutions, as well as corporations with over 50% state ownership are banned.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Electoral system
Voting takes place between 7:00 and 20:00, which can be extended to 21:00, if by 20:00 there are still people waiting in line to vote. After the votes are collected, they are transported by the Bulgarian police to Arena Armeec, where they are subsequently verified and counted.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Electoral campaign
The electoral season officially began on 27 September. A total of 59 political parties, 7 coalitions and numerous independents announced their intention to field a total of 12,000 mayoral candidates and 36,000 candidates for members of the municipal councils.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Electoral campaign
All of Bulgaria's political parties spent a total sum of 1,3 million Bulgarian lev in the electoral campaign in the run-up to the elections. IMRO spent the largest amount of money on the campaign, totaling nearly 300,000 lev. The Movement for Rights and Freedoms came second in terms of spending with over 145,000 lev spent, while the Bulgarian Socialist Party came in third with around 140,000 lev.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Electoral campaign
The Mayors of Montana and Gotse Delchev set the record for longest mayoral terms, with both of them standing for election for the seventh consecutive term.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Electoral campaign, Funding changes
A few months before the election, Bulgaria's National Assembly accepted a government bill, which cut public party subsidies from 11 down to just 1 lev per vote. The bill also permitted unlimited donations to political parties by private individuals or corporations for the first time in Bulgaria's history. The change was criticised by Bulgaria's opposition as a "hit by a bat" from the government in time for the local elections.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Mayorship of Sofia
The election for the position of Mayor of Sofia, Bulgaria's capital and largest city, was expected to be hotly contested in particular. Twenty people announced their intention to run for that position, including incumbent mayor Yordanka Fandakova from the ruling GERB party, former Ombudsman and parliamentary deputy head Maya Manolova, IMRO President Angel Dzhambazki, and Volen Siderov, the leader of the ATAKA party, who resigned from his seat in the National Assembly in order to announce his candidacy.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Mayorship of Sofia
Fandakova based her campaign around continuing the work she had begun during her previous tenures. Manolova's campaign revolved around fixing the aftermath of various scandals surrounding municipal renovations that had happened during Fandakova's previous term, digitalization of municipal services and ensuring kindergarten access for all young children in the city. Dzhambazki focused his campaign on dismantling ghettos inhabited primarily by Bulgaria's romani minority, as well as banning the annual Sofia Pride gay parade as part of what he described as a 'law and order' campaign.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Mayorship of Sofia
The election was expected to be a very tight race between Fandakova, who had run the city for three consecutive mandates and Manolova, who is one of the only two Bulgarian politicians with an approval rating of above 50%. Dzhambazki was expected to come in third.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Mayorship of Sofia
The election was also noteworthy for the fact that it breaks the typical electoral mould. Sofia is traditionally known as a stronghold of centre-right and right-wing politics and is usually considered a very safe election for the ruling GERB party, yet Maya Manolova, who hails from the leftist Socialist Party, was predicted to be one of the top two candidates. If elected, she would have become the first left-wing Mayor of Sofia since the end of the socialist period.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Mayorship of Sofia
A pre-election study found it necessary for a candidate to receive around 6000-7000 votes in order to be elected into Sofia's municipal assembly.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, First round
The first round of the election took place on October 27. The electoral commission ordered the seizure of all preference vote ballots in the town of Pleven due to what it deemed a "technical error".


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, First round
The ruling GERB party's campaign announced that it would ask Bulgaria's electoral authorities to punish television broadcaster BTV for airing footage which GERB deemed to have negatively affected their electoral result during the voting day. BTV stated that they would refuse to comment before they receive a copy of the complaint.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, First round
The IMRO party complained of what they deemed to be "vote buying, voter intimidation and harassment". IMRO's candidate in Plovdiv decried what he deemed to be "monsterous" electoral manipulation and stated that he would refer the matter to Bulgarian public prosecution.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, First round
Maya Manolova's campaign raised concerns over what they deemed to be "organized vote buying" in favour of Fandakova in three of Sofia's districts, pointing to large discrepancies between the candidates in several electoral sections, in which Fandakova has 10 times more votes than all other candidates combined, despite polling at around 30% in opinion polls and not being native to those districts. Manolova later alleged that the "entire Bulgarian underground was mobilized" to engage in widespread electoral fraud in favour of her opponent Yordanka Fandakova from the ruling GERB party. Fandakova denied the allegations and stated that it would be impossible for her to win the Sofia election via vote buying.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, First round
Three cases of major fraud were investigated in the town of Byala Slatina, in which undefined figures broke the secrecy of the ballot by observing which candidates voters were casting their ballot for. In addition, hundreds of voters voted in special mobile voting booths using allegedly fake medical documents. Some of these voters admitted that they were illiterate, that they had no real medical documents and that the voting booth officials "helped them secretly" to make a decision on whom to vote for. An illegally unsealed ballot box was also allegedly found to have been used during the voting process in the town.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, First round
Due to long waiting times during the counting of the ballots, the central electoral commission provided government-funded Sorry! board games, playing cards, Plasma TVs which play Bulgarian movies and various other tabletop games in an attempt to please the counters of the electoral vote. The commission also separated the entry points to the counting arena, in order to attempt to avoid a repeat of the 2015 elections, in which the counting authorities were locked in without food for over 3 days and wrote SOS messages on Arena Armeec's windows in what was described as analogous to a "hostage crisis". Despite these measures, two civilian counters and one policeman fell unconscious during the counting process.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, First round
Numerous errors were discovered during the ballot verification process. Bulgaria's electoral authorities refused to specify the amount of the errors.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, First round
ATAKA's Volen Siderov arrived at the ballot counting premises and insisted to be allowed in. He was denied entry by the policemen guarding the area and left by midnight after a long argument with the authorities, which stated that Bulgarian electoral law makes no provision for election candidates to observe the counting process.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, First round
The independent mayor of Nesebar, who was running for a new term, was arrested the day before the election and held in detention throughout the first round election. Several socialist party councillors were also arrested alongside him by police. Despite this, he managed to win the election while still under arrest by defeating GERB's candidate for the position.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, First round
A local court later ordered that he continue to be held in detention, which rendered the newly re-elected mayor unable to attend the oath-taking ceremony at the local council, thus raising legal questions as to whether or not he would be eligible to take up the position for another mandate. The arrestees were accused by prosecutors of taking part in a vote buying ring, an allegation dubbed "hilarious" by the mayor's attorney, which stated that the prosecution had only summoned a single witness, which allegedly rambled on stories with an "unexpected" ending.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, First round
The arrests came after a request by State Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov to the Central Electoral Commission for the removal of the legal immunity of the mayor, the socialist party councillors, as well as several candidates from the "21 Movement", was granted by the commission. The chairman of Nesebar's Municipal Assembly, himself hailing from the socialist party, stated that he believed the only explanation for these arrests were a "political order" as part of a "war" to seize power in the town.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, First round
Despite these events, Bulgaria's electoral authorities stated that the first round of the vote had taken place successfully "without major incidents".


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, First round, Aftermath
Following civil protests in favour of Nesebar's re-elected Mayor, who was held in detention, Bulgarian authorities eventually agreed to allow him to give his oath of office. He was escorted in a police van to the local municipal assembly by a dozen officers and became the first elected Bulgarian official to give his oath of office while wearing handcuffs. He pledged to serve the town and denied all accusations levied against him. Following his oath, he was taken back to jail by the police. His inauguration was ceremonial, as he would not be permitted to run the town from his jail cell. In addition, Bulgarian prosecutors stated that they were considering the option of calling for the annulment of the Nesebar election and the termination of his term.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, Second Round
Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission stated that numerous reports were made about illegal vote buying and improper electoral agitation during the election day.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, Second Round
Maya Manolova's electoral campaign in Sofia stated that it allegedly had evidence of organized electoral fraud organized by the ruling GERB party. It stated that it had dozens of reports of vote buying, exit poll rigging and violations of Bulgaria's electoral law, adding that the electoral commission had refused access to any of her campaign's authorized representatives to the vote counting premises at Arena Armeec, despite them having the legal right to do so. For these reasons, her campaign declared that it did not recognize the election results and would attempt to have the Sofia election annulled and re-run.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, Second Round
The Bulgarian Socialist Party stated that it did not have the legal right to ask for a re-run of the election, as Manolova had formally run as an independent, instead of a Socialist Party candidate. Despite this, the party declared that it would support her bid for a re-run, promising to "remain on the same team" as her and adding that it would "remain eternally loyal to Miss Manolova". Tomislav Donchev from the ruling GERB party denied that his party had been involved in electoral manipulation, stating that GERB's "various opponents had always complained of electoral fraud", adding that he was not concerned with them.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, Second Round
On the nationwide scale, the Socialist Party's leader Korneliya Ninova stated that the elections wеre skewed by "vote buying" and an "atmosphere of fear" among voters. She lamented both the conduct of the elections and the recent changes to Bulgaria's electoral code and raised concerns over the election over the mayorship of the Shumen Province, where the candidate supported by GERB defeated the Socialist Party's nominee by just 77 votes, while the electoral authorities declared over 400 ballots as 'invalid'.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, Second Round
She also stated that the socialist party's candidate in the Lovech Province had also lost the election to GERB's nominee by just 347 votes and alleged that in that case the number of invalidated ballots was also "huge". She finished by stating that her party was considering filing a petition before the Bulgarian courts for the annulment and rerunning of the elections in these provinces.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, Second Round
A newly elected mayor hailing from the Alternative for Bulgarian Revival stated that a fellow local councillor and party member in the city of Strelcha was ambushed and badly beaten during the dark hours of the day due to his local political activities in favour of the party. He further alleged that the party had been targeted with "pressure" during the elections, which he described as a "swamp".


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, Second Round
Large irregularities during the verification of ballots in several villages in Varna Province led to a case being filed with the Bulgarian Administrative Court, as a third of all ballots cast were declared to be "blank".


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, Second Round
Several political analysts asserted that the elections in several provinces and localities were allegedly won by illegal vote buying. A sociologist further called the elections "the most corrupt elections in the country" and alleged that one of the political parties had even announced a campaign, where it would pay 50 lev to any citizen, which signs up as a party member.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, Second Round
The former mayor of Garmen was arrested by police for alleged illegal vote buying. A candidate for the Blagoevgrad municipal council was also interrogated by Bulgarian police over vote buying allegations.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, Second Round
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev stated that he believed the electoral process had been "compromised" and called on all citizens to vote in order to dilute the effect of the alleged mass vote buying campaigns. He further stated, that he would invite the Bulgarian Police, Central Electoral Commission and Parliamentary parties to a discussion on what should be the response to what he deemed to be the "retreat of fairness from the electoral process".


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, Second Round, Aftermath
A week following the second round of the election, Maya Manolova officially filed a petition for the annulment of Sofia's Mayoral election, stating that she had deposited 14 folders full of evidence of alleged fraud and errors in both the voting and counting process. She further alleged that nearly 6700 residents of EU-member states, which are enfranchised in local elections, had been denied their right to vote as the local administration only included 44 such residents on the electoral rolls.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, Second Round, Aftermath
The Socialist Party further filed petitions for the annulment of the elections in three of Sofia's districts - Iskar, Lyulin and Krasna polyana, in which the socialist candidates were all very narrowly defeated by GERB candidates, with the socialists alleging that they had evidence these electoral victories were due to illegal vote buying.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Conduct, Second Round, Aftermath
The GERB candidates denied the allegations, while Bulgarian Prime minister and GERB leader Boyko Borisov reacted sharply by declaring that GERB's victory in Sofia had been "undebatable" and adding that in the same vein that Manolova wanted to annul the mayoral election, he himself would like to annul the 2016 Bulgarian presidential election which GERB lost, but that it would be pointless as the president's mandate was already coming to an end.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, First round
Following the first round on 27 October, the ruling GERB party remained Bulgaria's strongest political party. It won 90 localities in the first round, compared to 65 in the 2015 elections. Despite this increase, GERB's overall support had actually decreased, in what some political scientists described as an "erosion", a "serious challenge" for the party, and a "heavy hit". On the provincial level, the party obtained a plurality of Bulgaria's provinces, winning the mayoral elections on the first round in 8 regions, and qualifying for a runoff in all but three other regions.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, First round
The Bulgarian Socialist Party won 35 localities in the first round and qualified for the runoff election in 50 more. The party is going to compete against GERB in a runoff election in 9 major cities, compared to the zero it had during the previous election. The party enjoyed a considerable overall increase in support, but still lagged behind GERB by a non-negligible margin. On the provincial level, while the party didn't win any mayoral positions in the first round, it qualified to the runoff election in 13 of Bulgaria's regions.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, First round
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms won the Kardzhali mayoral election on the provincial level in the first round and qualified for the runoff in the Targovishte Province.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, First round
IMRO – Bulgarian National Movement, the Union of Democratic Forces, the Bulgaria for Citizens Movement, the "Direct Democracy" movement and two Independent candidates didn't win any mayoral positions on the provincial level in the first round of the election, but qualified for one runoff election each.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, First round, Sofia
GERB doubled its number of councillors among Sofia's districts. At the same time, GERB's mayoral candidate in Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova, saw only 36% voter support in comparison to 60% in 2015. Furthermore, while GERB had won between 18 and 20 of Sofia's districts in the first round during the previous election, the party failed to muster the same support this time around, thus forcing every single district of Sofia into a second round runoff election.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, First round, Sofia
The Socialist Party's Maya Manolova managed to obtain 27% of the vote, thus securing a runoff election with the incumbent Fandakova from the GERB party and marking a huge increase from the previous election, in which the Socialist Party's Mihail Mirchev polled third with only 8% of the vote. The party also more than doubled its representation in Sofia's municipal assembly, becoming the second largest party in the chamber by surpassing the "urban rightist" coalitions.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, First round, Sofia
The Democratic Bulgaria coalition, a union of centre-right and right-wing parties which represent Sofia's traditional "urban rightists" came in third, with its candidate Borislav Ignatov securing 12% of the vote.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, First round, Sofia
Boris Bonev from the widely pro-European localist "Save Sofia" movement came in fourth with just under 11% of the vote. Despite the fact that he was not elected as Mayor of Sofia, he was nonetheless elected as a municipal councillor, as he had been a candidate for both Mayor and municipal councilor in the same election.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, First round, Sofia
The IMRO's Angel Dzhambazki fared far worse than expected, polling in fifth at under 4% voter support, despite the fact that the IMRO had spent the largest amount of money for its election campaign.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, First round, Sofia
The rest of Bulgaria's nationalist parties, including ATAKA and the National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria, also fared relatively poorly, receiving less support than in the country's European Parliament election that same year, as well as when compared to the previous local elections in 2014. ATAKA's Volen Siderov polled in at just over 1% of the vote.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, Second Round
GERB managed to win the majority of Mayoral positions on the provincial level after the second round, thus securing its position in first place, despite obtaining a noticeably poorer result than in the previous election and losing several regions. GERB's largest success in the election, however, was managing to narrowly secure their control of Sofia City Province and Plovdiv Province, which were strongly contested by the Socialist Party and IMRO respectively.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, Second Round
The Socialist Party marked a major increase in support, managing to secure 4 mayoral positions, including the very hotly contested Pernik Province. On the local level, the socialist party won the runoff in 26 localities, thus bringing the total number of local settlements under the party's control up to 61 - more than double the party's result from the previous local election.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, Second Round
Two independent candidates won mayoral positions by defeating the two main parties' candidates in the second round - one in Pazardzhik Province and the other in Pleven Province.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, Second Round
The UDF managed to avoid being taken off the Bulgarian provincial map by winning the Vidin Province.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, Second Round
The Bulgaria for Citizens Movement defeated GERB's candidate and won the election in the Dobrich Province.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, Second Round
The "Direct Democracy" movement entered the Bulgarian local scene by securing the Yambol Province.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, Second Round
Bulgaria's central electoral commission reported that total voter turnout was at 42,1%.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, Second Round, Sofia
Although she failed to achieve a majority, GERB's Yordanka Fandakova won the election by managing to score at just over 4% more support than her primary opponent - Maya Manolova, and was thus re-elected for another term as Mayor of Sofia.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, Second Round, Sofia
In an unexpected turn of events, a large percentage of the centre-right and right-wing voters, which had previously supported the "Democratic Bulgaria" coalition or the IMRO's Angel Dzhambazki, voted mostly in favour of Manolova, the candidate supported by the leftist Socialist Party, instead of Fandakova from the centre-right GERB party. Despite this, political analysts noted that the newly-added option for voters to cast a ballot for none of the above allowed Fandakova to secure another mandate as Mayor of Sofia.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, Second Round, Sofia
GERB, however, took a very heavy hit in Sofia's local districts. The GERB-UDF coalition managed to win only 11 of Sofia's 25 local mayoral positions, as opposed to the 2015 elections in which GERB alone won 23.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, Second Round, Sofia
The candidates of the "Democratic Bulgaria" coalition fared well, winning control over 11 local mayoral positions, the vast majority of which were held by GERB in the previous election.


2019 Bulgarian local elections, Results, Second Round, Sofia
The Bulgarian Socialist Party entered into the field of Sofia's local politics, as it won control of two of Sofia's districts - Izgrev and Mladost, whereas it lacked any local mayoral seats in Sofia in the previous election.


2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack
On 15 July 2019, a massive data breach of the National Revenue Agency (NRA) of Bulgaria was revealed. The hacker responsible for the breach sent an email to major Bulgarian media outlets, detailing the scope of the attack.


2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack
The leaked data amounted to 57 folders with .csv files detailing the names and national identification numbers of some 5 million Bulgarian citizens, as well as records on revenues, tax and social security payments, debts, online betting data and company activities dating back as early as 2007, and as recently as June 2019. According to some researchers, nearly every adult in the country had their personal data compromised.


2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack, Background
Successive Bulgarian governments have spent nearly two billion leva ($1.15 billion) on e-government projects since 2002, producing few results. The National Revenue Agency is one of only five entities that provide e-government services to citizens. A 2018 government report indicated a very low level of cybersecurity at government entities, citing a lack of qualified IT employees in public agencies and noncompetitive salaries compared to the private sector.


2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack, Background
In 2017, personal data including addresses and names of 1.2 million Bulgarian children was openly accessible on a Ministry of Education website and the leak was not addressed until it was revealed by a report on investigative journalism website Bivol.bg.


2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack, Background
Serious doubts over government capacity to handle data continued in August 2018, when the Bulgarian Commercial Register, which contains the entire database of the Bulgarian economy, crashed. A total hard disk drive failure caused by sloppy maintenance left 25 terabytes of company data inaccessible for more than two weeks, essentially halting business transactions. Following the crash, the e-Government State Agency began an audit of software and hardware used by all government entities. Later that year, a Cybersecurity Law came into effect, establishing a National Cybersecurity System along with several government positions related to cybercrime and accident prevention.


2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack, Background
A few days before the NRA hack was revealed, a white hat hacker reported serious vulnerabilities in the Bulgarian Commission for Personal Data Protection website; the hacker had "begged" the Commission to fix the issues for three years. The Commission did not take any action to protect the data, which included emails and phone numbers of more than 14,000 citizens.


2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack, Attack
On 15 July, an anonymous hacker emailed Bulgarian media outlets with details of an attack carried out against "servers of the Ministry of Finance". The leak revealed 11 gigabytes of data taken from National Revenue Agency databases. The 57 folders included .csv files, some with more than 1 million lines, containing full names, national identification numbers, revenue figures, personal debt information, health and pension payments, and a register of online gambling website users. The email also claimed that the entire volume of data amounted to 110 folders and 21 gigabytes. The message called the Bulgarian government "retarded", its computer security "parodic", and called for Julian Assange to be freed.


2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack, Attack
On the following day, the NRA confirmed the authenticity of the data. According to the agency, its servers were accessed through a rarely used VAT refund service for deals abroad, and the breach had affected about 3% of their total database.


2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack, Attack
The hacker deployed a SQL injection and randomly collected data from the servers.


2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack, Aftermath, Arrest of Kristiyan Boykov
Kristiyan Boykov, a 20-year-old employee of a cybersecurity company, was arrested on 16 July by police in Sofia and charged with breach and theft of personal data.


2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack, Aftermath, Arrest of Kristiyan Boykov
According to police, the released data also contained a lock file with information about the attacker's computer and username, which matched the one Boykov used in social media. The lock file, however, was dated before the supposed time of the attack.


2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack, Aftermath, Arrest of Kristiyan Boykov
Boykov was released on 18 July, on the grounds that his attack had not affected critical NRA databases. He denied carrying out the attack, stating that police had asked him "uncomfortable questions", used "slight intimidation", and attempted to extract a forced confession. His lawyer announced that the evidence against Boykov is "non-existent", and that the accusation neither points to a specific time period or even a perpetrator. According to Boykov and his employers, a market competitor may have used the occasion to frame him and cause damage to their company.


2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack, Aftermath, Commission for Personal Data Protection hack attempt
On July 22, the Commission for Personal Data Protection announced that an unsuccessful cyber attack had been carried out against it. It remains unknown if the database was targeted, but the attacker had used the local Wi-Fi network and was apparently in the vicinity of the Commission's headquarters.


2019 Bulgarian revenue agency hack, Reactions, Industry
Bulgarian IT professionals launched an online petition demanding open source software infrastructure for government services. The petition also demanded clarity on the billions spent on e-government since 2002 without noticeable results.


2019 Bulls (rugby union) season
In 2019, the  Bulls participated in the 2019 Super Rugby competition, the 24th edition of the competition since its inception in 1996. They were included in the South African Conference of the competition, along with the  Jaguares,  Lions,  Sharks and  Stormers.


2019 Bulls (rugby union) season
The Bulls won eight, drew two and lost six of their matches during the regular season of the competition to finish second in the South African Conference, and in 5th place overall to qualify for the finals as a wildcard team. They lost in their quarterfinal match to the  Hurricanes.


2019 Bulls (rugby union) season, Personnel, Coaches and management
The Bulls coaching and management staff for the 2019 Super Rugby season were:


2019 Bulls (rugby union) season, Personnel, Squad
The following players were named in the Bulls squad for the 2019 Super Rugby season:


2019 Bulls (rugby union) season, Standings
The final standings for the 2019 Super Rugby season are:


2019 Bulls (rugby union) season, Standings, Round-by-round
The table below shows the Bulls' progression throughout the season. For each round, their cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position:


2019 Bulls (rugby union) season, Matches
The Bulls played the following matches during the 2019 Super Rugby season:


2019 Bulls (rugby union) season, Player statistics
The Super Rugby appearance record for players that represented the Bulls in 2019 is as follows:


2019 Bulls (rugby union) season, Player statistics
(c) denotes the team captain. For each match, the player's squad number is shown. Starting players are numbered 1 to 15, while the replacements are numbered 16 to 23. If a replacement made an appearance in the match, it is indicated by . "App" refers to the number of appearances made by the player, "Try" to the number of tries scored by the player, "Con" to the number of conversions kicked, "Pen" to the number of penalties kicked, "DG" to the number of drop goals kicked and "Pts" refer to the total number of points scored by the player.


2019 Buriram United F.C. season
The 2019 season is Buriram United's 8th season in the Thai League. The club enters the season as the Thai League defending champions, and will participate in the top level league. They will also participate in two domestic cups (FA and League Cup), Champions Cup and AFC Champions League.


2019 Buriram United F.C. season
This is the first season in the league that Buriram will face only other 15 instead of 17 teams since the football association reduced the top league teams from 18 to 16. And this is also the first season that Buriram doesn't win any titles of the season (excluding Thailand Champions Cup) since the club's first season, 2010.


2019 Buriram United F.C. season, Transfers, In
Note 1: Go Seul-ki returned from loan before heading to Port FC for another loan.


2019 Burkina Faso government resignation
On 19 January 2019, the government of Burkina Faso dissolved due to the resignation of Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thieba and all members of his cabinet. President of Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré announced that he intends to form a new government; on 21 January, he began the process of appointing a new government by naming Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré as the new Prime Minister, but his cabinet remains vacant. In the days leading up to the resignation of the government, the country faced a number of attacks from militant terrorist groups, and opposition members of government had previously called for the prime minister and defense ministries to step down, citing an inability to address terrorist attacks.


2019 Burkina Faso government resignation, Background
The resignations were announced on television by President Kaboré, but his announcement did not state any reasons for why his government resigned. Northern provinces of the country, particularly ones bordering Mali and Niger, have been in a state of emergency since 31 December, following a rise in jihadist attacks. In the week preceding these resignations, Burkina Faso's government extended the state of emergency for an additional six months in regions where terror attacks were reoccurring.


2019 Burkina Faso government resignation, Background
According to the ACLED, at least 200 militant attacks were suspected throughout the country – including southern and western provinces – from 1 January 2018 to 12 January 2019. It is estimated that violence in the northern provinces has displaced at least 54,000 people since 2016. At least 60 attacks were confirmed by the ACLED to have happened in the country's eastern provinces since February 2018.


2019 Burkina Faso government resignation, Background, Attacks on the French Embassy and Burkinabé Army headquarters
In the capital city Ouagadougou on Friday, 2 March 2018, jihadists initiated a coordinated attack against France's embassy to Burkina Faso as well as the Burkina Faso army headquarters. Eight were killed and more than 80 wounded. Burkina Faso security forces later killed all eight militants involved. French authorities were alerted once gunfire began, and French citizens in the area were told to stay inside. Windows were shattered at the Burkinabé Army headquarters and heavy smoke could be seen from the army chief of staff's office in Ouagadougou, with explosions being reported around the area. The United Nations condemned the attacks and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres requested that the nations of the world work to "promote national reconciliation and create the conditions for sustainable peace and development" in Burkina Faso. French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with the Burkinabé President to express his condolences.


2019 Burkina Faso government resignation, Background, Kidnapping and murder of Canadian nationals
Days before the government resigned, it was confirmed by officials that a Canadian geologist, Kirk Woodman, was abducted and killed at a mine exploration camp in the country's northern provinces near the border with Mali. He was the second Canadian national to be killed in the country within a span of weeks. The Foreign Ministry of Canada condemned the attacks and stated that it will work with the government of Burkina Faso to pursue those responsible, and the Foreign Ministry of Burkina Faso stated that it will open an investigation.


2019 Burkina Faso government resignation, Background, Kidnapping and murder of Canadian nationals
The Security Ministry of Burkina Faso believes that Islamist militants from outside of the country are responsible. Other Canadian nationals in Burkina Faso, including Edith Blais and her Italian partner Luca Tacchetto, have been known to be missing since December. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that to the best of his knowledge, Blais is still alive, and that Canadian authorities are working to gain information about her disappearance in Burkina Faso. In response to these abductions, Canada has issued travel warnings for Burkina Faso, warning of banditry and kidnappings. The United States issued a similar warning the same day, advising against travel to Burkina Faso's northern and eastern provinces. In the interests of public safety, Burkina Faso's government imposed a curfew in Orodara from 19 to 23 January, citing severe threats of terrorism and kidnappings.


2019 Burkina Faso government resignation, Announcement of resignation
On the afternoon of 19 January, Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thieba submitted to the President his resignation, as well as the resignation of his cabinet. President Kaboré reportedly "accepted the resignation" and expressed "all his gratitude to Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thieba and all its ministers for their commitment to the service of the nation". In the months leading up to the resignation, opposition ministers have requested the resignation of the Prime Minister, as well as the resignation of those in charge of the security and defense of the country. The President announced that he intends to form a new government in the near future, but his televised announcement of the resignations did not include an explanation for why his government resigned.


2019 Burkina Faso government resignation, Announcement of resignation
On Monday, 21 January, President Kaboré begun forming a new government by naming Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré, once a health minister under former President Blaise Compaore, as the country's Prime Minister. The new government has not yet been named, and the cabinet remains vacant as of 21 January. Dabiré had also represented Burkina Faso at the West African Economic and Monetary Union. He was appointed by presidential decree. Secretary-General Stéphane Sanou announced the appointment via television.


2019 Burnaby South federal by-election
A by-election was held in the federal riding of Burnaby South on February 25, 2019 following the resignation of incumbent New Democratic MP Kennedy Stewart on September 14, 2018.


2019 Burnaby South federal by-election
Jagmeet Singh, the federal leader of the NDP since October 1, 2017, won the by-election after having served as his party's leader without a seat in the House of Commons for over a year.


2019 Burnaby South federal by-election, Background, Riding profile
The riding of Burnaby South was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was first contested in the 2015 federal election.


2019 Burnaby South federal by-election, Background, Riding profile, Demographics
According to the 2016 Canadian Census, Chinese Canadians make up a plurality of the riding's population, while a majority of the riding's population speaks a mother tongue that is neither English nor French.


2019 Burnaby South federal by-election, Background, Resignation of Kennedy Stewart
On May 10, incumbent MP Kennedy Stewart publicly revealed that he was considering a run for mayor of Vancouver in the city's 2018 elections. Stewart formally confirmed his candidacy for Vancouver mayor on May 14, announcing that he would resign his seat in Parliament before the election.


2019 Burnaby South federal by-election, Candidate nominations, People's
The People's Party of Canada announced Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson as their party's candidate for the by-election on January 8, 2019. She had previously been a host on the Canadian edition of The 700 Club and had earlier run to be a trustee on the Burnaby Board of Education in November of the previous year.


2019 Burnaby South federal by-election, Candidate nominations, Independent candidacies
Valentine Wu, who was the BC Greens candidate in the 2017 provincial election for the riding of Burnaby-Edmonds, announced on January 17, 2019 that he would contest the by-election.


2019 Burnaby South federal by-election, Candidate nominations, Non-contesting parties
The Green Party had previously promised not to run a candidate against Jagmeet Singh if he were to run in a by-election. Green Party Leader Elizabeth May reiterated the party's plans to give Singh "leader's courtesy" on August 16 after he announced his candidacy.


2019 Burnaby South federal by-election, Candidate nominations, Non-contesting parties
Although the Libertarian Party had announced on its blog the selection of Rex Brocki as their candidate, he did not register and ultimately did not appear on the ballot.


2019 Burnie International
The 2019 Burnie International was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the sixteenth (men) and tenth (women) editions of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Burnie, Australia between 21 and 27 January 2019.


2019 Burnie International, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Burnie International, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2019 Burnie International, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:


2019 Burnie International, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking:


2019 Burnie International, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Burnie International – Men's Doubles
Gerard and Marcel Granollers were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2019 Burnie International – Men's Doubles
Lloyd Harris and Dudi Sela won the title after defeating Mirza Bašić and Tomislav Brkić 6–3, 6–7(3–7), [10–8] in the final.


2019 Burnie International – Men's Singles
Stéphane Robert was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Maverick Banes.


2019 Burnie International – Men's Singles
Steven Diez won the title after defeating Banes 7–5, 6–1 in the final.


2019 Burnie International – Women's Doubles
Vania King and Laura Robson were the defending champions, but neither player chose to participate.


2019 Burnie International – Women's Doubles
Ellen Perez and Arina Rodionova won the title, defeating Irina Khromacheva and Maryna Zanevska in the final, 6–4, 6–3.


2019 Burnie International – Women's Singles
Marta Kostyuk was the defending champion, but lost to Wang Xiyu in the second round.


2019 Burnie International – Women's Singles
Qualifier Belinda Woolcock won the title, defeating Paula Badosa Gibert in the final, 7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–4).


2019 Burnley Borough Council election
The 2019 Burnley Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Burnley Borough Council in England. This election was held on the same day as other local elections. One third of the council was up for election, and each successful candidate will serve a four-year term of office, expiring in 2023. These seats were last contested in 2015.


2019 Burnley Borough Council election
In 2017, four members of the local Liberal Democrats (including Charlie Briggs and Mark Payne) left the party over its stance on Brexit, to form the Burnley and Padiham Independent Party. However in early 2019 Christine White (elected in 2016) stepped down following a complaint from a resident, prompting a by-election in the Rosehill with Burnley Wood ward which was won by Peter McCann of the Liberal Democrats. After the 2018 election, Bill and Margaret Brindle (both Coalclough with Deerplay ward) who had been sitting on the council as independents after also splitting with the local Lib Dems, joined the Labour group.


2019 Burnley Borough Council election
Following the election Labour lost control of the council and a coalition of all the other parties formed a new executive with Charlie Briggs returning to the role of Council leader to replace Mark Townsend.


2019 Burundi landslides
The 2019 Burundi landslides were a series of rapidly occurring natural disasters in 2019. On December 4, 2019, less than two months after the October celebration of the International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR), heavy rains precipitated the deadly series of landslides that followed later that night into the next day, affecting a total of 9,935 people in Nyempundu, Gikomero and Rukombe of the northwestern provinces of Cibitoke, bordering Rwanda, and Bubanza as well as the northeastern province of Cankuzo. At least 27 people died and 10 remained missing as of the December 11 human toll.


2019 Burundi landslides
7 injured persons were admitted into Cibitoke referral hospital, 6 of whom were discharged, and the seventh was transferred to the Kigobe hospital, managed by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders-Burundi (MSF-B). Significant property damage was incurred as well, leaving 1,081 people (551 females and 530 males) of 206 households (on average, roughly 5 persons per household) displaced.


2019 Burundi landslides
Another flood event happened on December 22 affecting 787 people in the northern neighbourhoods in Bujumbura. As per the Burundi Red Cross Society (BRCS) Rapid Assessment, the December 22 floods disaster affected 787 people (219 households), completely destroyed 47 households, partially destroyed 40 households and submerged 132 households. 33 people were reported injured and 14 people dead.


2019 Burundi landslides, Background
Since January 2019, heavy rainfall triggered flash floods, mudslides and landslides in various provinces, especially Bujumbura (Mairie and Rural), Cibitoke, Bubanza, Muyinga, Cankuzo, and Muramvya provinces. Resultingly, almost 13,000 people were displaced, and 45 people died. Furthermore, these natural disasters caused extensive damage to local infrastructure systems, and hampered access to essential sources of food, water, education and healthcare. This is also brought a heightened risk of the transmission of infectious disease due to the resulting proliferation of mosquitoes as vectors.


2019 Burundi landslides, Background
As of September 2019, there were 103,412 Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Burundi, of which roughly 79,600 or 77% were displaced due to natural disasters (including over 8,400 displaced since January 2019), mainly in the regions bordering Lake Tanganyika, and the north-western and central provinces, according to the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix.


2019 Burundi landslides, Background
According to the European Union's Directorate-General for European Civil-protection and Humanitarian-aid Operations (DG ECHO) the risk of natural disaster continued to increase day-by-day with the early onset of the Burundian September 2019 rainy season and above-average rainfall forecasted by the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US NOAA). The US Agency for International Development's (USAID's) Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET) reported that the greater horn of Africa region received up to 300 per cent above average rainfall from October to mid-November 2019. UNOCHA now considers Burundi to be among the twenty most vulnerable countries to climate change and natural hazards.


2019 Burundi landslides, Background
East Africa currently experiences unseasonably heavy rains caused by the higher-than-average temperatures of the Indian Ocean, potentially due to cyclical dipole weather phenomenons and global warming. The heavy rains and previous floods which inflict Burundi appear to be the resulting manifestations of these factors.


2019 Burundi landslides, Background
According to a Save the Children count based on United Nations and government figures, more than 1,200 deaths across East and Southern Africa have been caused by floods, landslides, and a cyclone in 2019. In addition, the UN has found that floods have displaced nearly half a million people in southern Sudan, 200,000 in Ethiopia and at least 370,000 in Somalia in 2019.


2019 Burundi landslides, Background
Soil erosion as a result of overgrazing and the expansion of agriculture into marginal lands, may have contributed to the Burundian susceptibility and vulnerability to devastating landslides.


2019 Burundi landslides, Background
The recently launched Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) indicates that Natural disasters pose substantial risks to the approximately 80 per cent of Burundians depend on subsistence farming, and that 1.74 million people will be in need in 2020.


2019 Burundi landslides, Disaster
From December 4 onwards, at least a dozen hills around Nyempundu, in Mugina commune in Cibitoke, were collapsed by severely damaging landslides, precipitated by torrential rains.