Ballots in a show election may contain only one "yes" option.

Show elections, in which only one candidate can win, are sometimes considered to be electoral fraud, although they may comply with the law.

Popular vote data is necessarily aggregated at several levels, such as counties and states, which are then colored to show election results.

However, they actually underwent periodic renewals of mandate that were usually show elections.

Show elections are a common event in dictatorial regimes that still feel the need to establish some element of public legitimacy.

The elections are essentially show elections, or alternatively, a type of veto election.

The table below shows election dates starting with the first election that was held on a Saturday in 1951:

Dictatorial regimes can also undertake show elections with the result numbers simulating those usually watched in democratic countries.

"We are determined to go ahead with our decision to resign and will not participate in a show election," said Ali Mazroui.

Show election - election that is held purely for show, that is, without any significant political purpose.

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.

In 1979, the CNR was dissolved, and Kérékou arranged show elections where he was the only allowed candidate.

Dewberry appeared in the first test-of-skills challenge in the CBBC political reality television show Election.

Communist parties in Eastern Europe, meanwhile, though they did win elections at around the same time, did so under circumstances regarded by some as mere show elections.

Therefore the Soviets followed semi-legal procedures: they took control of the government institutions, installed a new puppet government, and carried out show elections to the People's Seimas.

One of the engravings by Valentine Green, shows election of a Mayor of Garratt (1781) in front of the Leather Bottle.

In Autumn 2008 she hosted the CBBC show Election, and the ITV2 reality show CelebAir.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) published a detailed report on election day why they considered the elections a show election.

LEAD: Because of a mechanical error, a chart yesterday showing election results omitted a figure in some copies for the Democratic nominee for the Senate from North Carolina.

Just before the polls closed Tuesday night, a group of Vietnam-era veterans in their 50's gathered around a wall-mounted television set showing election results; most had voted earlier at a nearby polling site.

On July 1, the People's Government dissolved the Fourth Seimas of Lithuania and announced a show election to the People's Parliament to be held on July 14.

Note that the use of the phrase generally assumes that the returns were the product of a legitimate election; show elections to fraudulent legislatures regularly produce incredibly strong majorities for the ruling party(s).

Before the 2005 election, the President of Egypt was nominated by a two-thirds majority of the rubber-stamp People's Assembly and approved under a referendum process that resembles a show election in authoritarian countries.

Prior to the 2011 revolution which dispossessed Hosni Mubarak, elections in Egypt were criticized by the domestic opposition as well as international observers as being grossly fraudulent, bordering on show elections.

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.