What makes the election democratic or discuss the functions of democratic elections.
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Democratic Elections :-
➪ An election is a way people can choose their candidate or their preferences in a representative democracy or other form of government.
➪ Most democratic countries hold new elections for their national legislature every few years.
➪ The legislature chooses the government, usually by majority vote in the legislature.
All the democratic countries hold elections. There are more than one hundred countries in the world in which elections take place to choose people's representatives. The conditions pr functions of democratic elections are:
1. Firstly, everyone should have one vote and every vote should have equal value.
2. Secondly, parties and candidates should be free to contest elections and should offer some real choice to the voters.
3. Elections must be held regularly after every few years.
4. Fourth, the candidate preferred by the people should get elected.
5. Fifth, the elections should be conducted in a free and fair manner where people can choose as they really wish.