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- Show_election abstract "A show election, also known as a sham election or rubber stamp election, is an election that is held purely for show, that is, without any significant political purpose.Show elections are a common event in dictatorial regimes that still feel the need to establish some element of public legitimacy. Results predictably show nearly 100% voter turnout and implausibly high support (close to 100 percent in many cases) for the prescribed candidate(s) or for referendums that favor the political party in power. Dictatorial regimes can also undertake show elections with the result numbers simulating those usually watched in democratic countries. This can be done in order to achieve the look of democracy and legitimacy while preserving dictatorial powers.Examples of such elections include Elections in Fascist Italy in 1929 and 1934, elections in Nazi Germany, most Communist states (East Germany, the Soviet Union, North Korea, etc.), Indonesia under Soeharto rule, and Baathist Iraq. A predetermined conclusion is always established by the regime, either through suppression of the opposition, coercion of voters, vote rigging, forged number of "votes received" (e.g., the State of Vietnam referendum, 1955), or some combination. In an extreme example Charles D. B. King of Liberia claimed he received 243,000 votes in the 1927 general election, which exceeded the number of eligible voters over 15 times.Ballots in a show election may contain only one "yes" option. In case of a simple "yes or no" question, people who pick "no" are often persecuted, thus making the "yes" choice the only option (false dilemma). An example of this is the election of the People's Parliaments in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1940 shortly after the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states; those who voted received stamps in their passport for voting and those who did not vote did not receive stamps and were persecuted as an enemy of the people.In some cases, show elections can backfire against the party in power, especially if the regime believe they are popular enough to win without coercion or fraud. See, for example, the Burmese general election, 1990.Show election is not to be confused with elections with a landslide victory where the latter, while the winner of the election is won by a significant margin, is still a legitimate election and not for show. (It happened twice in Canada that a political party won all seats in a provincial election, resulting in a legislature without an opposition party.)".
- Show_election wikiPageID "870646".
- Show_election wikiPageRevisionID "606152351".
- Show_election hasPhotoCollection Show_election.
- Show_election subject Category:Electoral_fraud.
- Show_election subject Category:Voter_suppression.
- Show_election comment "A show election, also known as a sham election or rubber stamp election, is an election that is held purely for show, that is, without any significant political purpose.Show elections are a common event in dictatorial regimes that still feel the need to establish some element of public legitimacy.".
- Show_election label "Scheinwahl".
- Show_election label "Show election".
- Show_election label "Wybory pokazowe".
- Show_election label "انتخابات صورية".
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- Show_election sameAs Wybory_pokazowe.
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- Show_election wasDerivedFrom Show_election?oldid=606152351.
- Show_election isPrimaryTopicOf Show_election.