Talk:Show election

Untitled
"Cuba's despot Fidel Castro, in repeated but futile attempts to feign that his iron-grip regime is not a dictatorship..." does this qualify as NPOV?


 * Changed to less modified sentence. 68.39.174.238 00:47, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

The information on Cuba contains wholly inaccurate material. Please address requests for citation immediately, and in the mean time read this guide to Cuba's recent electoral process this.--Zleitzen 02:19, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) "Cuba's ruler Fidel Castro, in repeated attempts to give legitimacy to his one-party regime", please verify
 * 2) "periodically has held presidential elections" - Cuba does not hold presidential elections the elections to the general assembly take place every 5 years
 * 3) "invariably "winning" them all" - Castro and the other 608 nominated candidates do not win or lose elections they have been chosen through a pyramidic system based upon sectors of society in a process which begins at municipal/local level.

Basically, there are no sources for the bizarre paragraph which includes Cuba - it is clear misinformation. --Zleitzen 10:15, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Distinctions
Is every one-candidate election a show election? Or how about a plebescite on the legitimacy of a constitution?

South Korea held an vote on either its 'dictator' or its constitution in the early part of the last quarter of the 20th century? Sorry to be vague, I don't remember the details. In this case, it seems to have led to a "real" Liberal democracy.

Iraq, after the US-led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam, held 2 or 3 votes on their new constitution. Were these show elections? Or have any opponents of the new regime argued that they were? --Uncle Ed 16:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


 * No. A plebiscite is not considered a show-election per se. Most plebiscites provide for two equal choices, a positive and a negative one, and qualify as genuine elections. Of course, there are sham plebiscites, such as those famous ones carried out in Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s. In regards to one man elections, I can think of two types of one-man elections that could be genuine elections - one where, in an open system, permitting multiple candidates access to the ballot, there was only one candidate that wanted to contest the elections (and this happens quite frequently in very small municipal elections for some menial (but elected) positions in the US) and the second, where that vote is carried out for impeachment/dismissal of a certain person, again permitting yes/no votes with equal weights. --Xanthar 13:32, 24 July 2007 (UTC)


 * It's not always small municipal elections: Hamilton County, Ohio (containing the city of Cincinnati, generally has a fair number of the county positions be won unopposed.  By state law, these elections are automatically won by the sole candidate.  In this case, the main reason so many of them have been uncontested is that the whole of Southwest Ohio more or less (excepting the city of Cincinnati itself) has been staunchly Republican for decades.  As such, it's traditionally been difficult for Democrats to get elected in Hamilton county.  This is starting to change somewhat, as the suburbs continue to move outward into Butler, Warren, and Clermont counties.  -Graptor 74.215.60.149 (talk) 19:51, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Tony Blair held one in 2005 and 2001![]--86.25.49.76 (talk) 16:56, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

USA?
There are only two relevant political parties in the US who are both molding by different lobby groups and Billionaires (Oligarchs) have a strong influence on them too. Theoretically the elections in the USA can be classified as Show elections.--141.19.228.15 (talk) 11:13, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Blatantly not neutral and unsourced accusations
There's no source on the soviet elections (or the others, excluding Liberia) being show-elections. Indeed, western observers have noted that all workers could vote in the soviet electoral system and that frequently non-party candidates would be elected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.249.230 (talk) 03:07, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Indeed, the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_Soviet_Union directly contradicts this particular snippet of Western propaganda-editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.249.230 (talk) 03:14, 10 June 2018 (UTC)