History PlayingWith / LandslideElection

** Alice is the ruler of PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny; the election is rigged and nothing but a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity publicity stunt]].
** The country is not yet ''quite'' a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny, as there is still a semi-functional democratic multi-party system that could theoretically get rid of the current president, Alice. However, she's a PresidentEvil who has been using her power to intimidate political opponents, dismantle the free press, spread propaganda and suppress voters in areas that prefer Bob. Her underhanded tactics pay off when she receives seventy-five percent of the votes.

* '''Defied''': Bob, the opposition leader in PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny, is warned that President Alice intends to rig the upcoming election and sets out to find evidence of those plans.

* '''Inverted''': DecidedByOneVote

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is elected unanimously. Even other candidates votes for her.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is elected unanimously. Even Bob votes for her.

** Despite the difference in sheer vote count, Alice's party still doesn't have an absolute majority in the Parliament, and a run-off vote is required.

** Many votes for Alice were withheld and/or many votes for Bob were [[VoteEarlyVoteOften duplicates]], so her landslide victory is restored.

** Bob is unpalatable to most voters. Alice's party conspires to help him win his party's nomination, hoping that it'll give Alice an easy curb-stomp victory in the final round of the election.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice gets all votes.

** The country is not yet ''quite'' a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny, as there is still a semi-functional democratic multi-party system that could theoretically get rid of the current president, Alice. However, she's a PresidentEvil who has been using her power to intimidate political opponents, dismantle the free press, spread propaganda and suppress voters in areas that prefer Bob. Her underhanded tactics pay off when she receives 75% of the votes.

* '''Played or Laughs''': Bob is the current president, and is doing an awful job. This doesn't stop him from spending his entire campaign [[GiftedlyBad bragging about how he's the best president ever]] and [[TemptingFate that he's guaranteed to win re-election in a landslide]]. He is ''not'' happy when Alice gets ninety percent of the votes.
* '''Played or Drama''': Alice wins re-election with ninety percent of the votes because she's a PresidentEvil who intimidates political opponents, works to destroy the free press, spreads propaganda and suppresses voters that favour her opposition. Her large margin of victory indicates that the public has largely given up the fight against her increasingly tyrannical regime.

* '''Straight''': AliceAndBob are both running for president, and Alice gets a 75% of the votes.

* '''Downplayed''': Alice gets 60% of the votes in a country where no candidate has ever received more than 55% of the votes before.

* '''Double Subverted''': Alice gets the required majority after curbstomping Bob again in the run-off.

** The results are blatantly rigged in Alice's favour, e.g. by claiming she got 100 million votes even though there are only 5 million citizens in the country.

** The results claim that Alice somehow got 169% of the votes.
** Alice gets 100% of the vote - as in that Alice's vote for herself was the ''only'' vote cast. Everyone else [[SkewedPriorities was too busy watching TV to bother with the election]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob wins the first round with 49% of the votes, and Alice gets 25%, with the remainder scattered between various third-party candidates, but a run-off vote between the top two candidates is required due to Bob not getting 50% or more of the vote. Due to Bob being hit by a major scandal in-between the first and second rounds of the election, and the third-party voters all siding with Alice, the second round results in Alice winning with 70% of the vote to Bob's 30%.

** Bob's opponents launch massive smear campaigns against him, and keep going long after it's clear that he almost certainly can't win. They don't just want an Alice victory - they want to give Bob a crushing defeat from which he can never recover.
** Bob is unpalatable to most voters. Alice's party conspires to help him win his party's nomination, hoping that it'll give Alice an easy curbstomp victory in the final round of the election.
** Alice is a PresidentEvil who systematically works to undermine the opposition so that she can "win" re-election in a landslide and use her "popularity" to justify pushing her nefarious agenda.
** Bob is an in-universe celebrity who never wanted to be President. [[SpringtimeForHitler His candidacy is merely a PR stunt that went too far]]. Once he - to his horror - becomes his party's presidential candidate, it's too late to resign, so all he can do is make his campaign as unpalatable as possible to ensure that he'll get curbstomped in the general election.

* '''Discussed''': "Bob is a terrible candidate. There is no way he'll get more than like 20% of the votes."
* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob is the current president, and is doing an awful job. This doesn't stop him from spending his entire campaign [[GiftedlyBad bragging about how he's the best president ever]] and [[TemptingFate that he's guaranteed to win re-election in a landslide]]. He is ''not'' happy when Alice gets 90% of the votes.
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice wins re-election with 90% of the votes because she's a PresidentEvil who intimidates political opponents, works to destroy the free press, spreads propaganda and suppresses voters that favour her opposition. Her large margin of victory indicates that the public has largely given up the fight against her increasingly tyrannical regime.

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* '''Exaggerated''': The only person who voted for Bob was himself. Everyone else went with Alice.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob is the current president, and is doing an awful job. This doesn't stop him from spending his entire campaign [[GiftedlyBad bragging about how he's the best president ever]] and [[TemptingFate that he's guaranteed to win re-election in a landslide]]. He is ''not'' happy when Alice gets 80% of the votes.
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice wins re-election with 80% of the votes because she's a PresidentEvil who intimidates political opponents, works to destroy the free press, spreads propaganda and suppresses voters that favour her opposition. Her large margin of victory indicates that the public has largely given up the fight against her increasingly tyrannical regime.

** Bob's party has been in power for a while, and has been ''spectacularly'' terrible at governing. The majority of the electorate is desperate to get rid of them.

** Despite the difference in sheer vote count, Alice's party still doesn't have an absolute majority in the Parliament, and a second round is required.

* '''Double Subverted''':
** Alice finds a legal loophole and manages to get the second round cancelled.
** Alice curbstomps Bob again in the second round and gets the required majority.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob wins the first round with 49% of the votes, and Alice gets 25%, with the remainder scattered between various third-party candidates, but a second round is required due to Bob not getting 50% or more of the vote. Due to Bob being hit by a major scandal in-between the first and second rounds of the election, and the third-party voters all siding with Alice, the second round results in Alice winning with 70% of the vote to Bob's 30%.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice gets 80% of the votes because she's a PresidentEvil who intimidates political opponents, works to destroy the free press, spreads propaganda and suppresses voters that favour her opposition. Her large margin of victory indicates that the public has largely given up the fight against her increasingly tyrannical regime.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob is the current president, and is doing an awful job. This doesn't stop him from spending his entire campaign [[GiftedlyBad bragging about how he's the best president ever]] and [[TemptingFate that his landslide victory is guaranteed]]. He is ''not'' happy when Alice gets 80% of the votes.
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice gets 80% of the votes because she's a PresidentEvil who intimidates political opponents, works to destroy the free press, spreads propaganda and suppresses voters in areas that favour her opposition. Her large margin of victory indicates that the public has largely given up the fight against her increasingly tyrannical regime.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

** Alice is the ruler of PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny; the election is nothing but a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity publicity stunt]].
** Bob's party has fallen apart during the campaign; this undermined his chances of winning.

* '''Subverted''': Despite the difference in sheer vote count, Alice's party still doesn't have an absolute majority in the Parliament, and a second round is required.

* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob, embarassed and depressed over his defeat, puts his political career to an end.

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%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
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* '''Enforced''': ???

** Alice curbstomps Bob again in the second round.

* '''Averted''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Defied''': Bob, the opposition leader in PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny, is warned that President Alice intends to rig the upcoming election and sets out to find evidence of those plans to discredit Alice.

* '''Defied''': ???

* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Inverted''': ???