134. Despotic Elections

Classnotes (Case Study, Party Politics)

Despotic Election

A despotic election is one in which one or all of the following conditions are met:

i) The opposition party gets less than 3% of total votes.

ii) The entire campaigning budget for the opposition party is less than 50$.

iii) The candidate of the opposition party doubles as the chief campaign manager of the ruling party.

iv) Total turn out for the election is more than 98%.

v) The Election Commission is set up only during the election.

vi) The opposition party has no headquarters, no registered members and no clear political agenda.

vii) The opposition party had come to existence only after the current ruling party had come into power.

viii) Any other party that had existed earlier are not present in any form.