Has a government ever been elected with the full 100% of the votes?
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- 99.8 percent in Ethiopia.
- 100 percent, with 99.97 percent turnout in North Korea. The article explains the purpose of the NK elections, which includes accounting for defectors.
- Then there are cases where unopposed candidates run, even in generally democratic nations. Would you count that?
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Kim Jong Un was elected to the legislature with not a single vote against, state media reported:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/10/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-elected-assembly-vote-against
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Yes, Saddam Hussein, previously had got circa 98 % of the votes, then in his last election he improved and got 100%. No surprise both elections were rigged.I remember debating that at university and people saying it was their Iraqi culture People can be so fool in the West. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2331951.stm
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François "Papa Doc" Duvalier was confirmed as president for a further 6 years in the 1961 Haitian presidential referendum with 100% of the vote. The result was largely seen as fraudulent, as was the result of the 1964 referendum that made him president for life in which he "only" got 99.9% of the vote.
In the 1994 Tunisian presidential election Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was elected unopposed with 100% of the valid votes, as was the case in the previous election in 1989. 0.1% of invalid votes were rejected. Similarly, Habib Bourguiba was elected unopposed as president with 100% of the vote in 1959, 1964, 1969 and 1974.
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In any election that is described as "unanimous", the winner achieved 100% of the vote. George Washington was unanimously elected twice (by the electoral college), and remains the only US president to have achieved this.
In 2002, Saddam Hussein claimed to have achieved all 11 million votes in a single-candidate presidential election. Other examples can be found at the same link, which argues that the recent Falkland Islands referendum "would seem to stand as the only example of near national unanimity in a free and fair vote", but was not 100%.
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