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{{quote|''"Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob."''|'''[[James Madison]]'''}}
Humanity has seen better days.
This isn't as foolhardy as it seems at first, though it ''can'' potentially doom the survivors. If the group of survivors is small, they may decide that rather than [[Divided We Fall|pulling in different directions]], electing a leader will give them better odds of survival. Alternately, they may decide to "[[The Mutiny|mutiny]]" against a self
If the group is much, much larger, then the survivors will band together and try to organize. It usually happens in a [[
Depending on the implementation, this trope usually helps prove [[Rousseau Was Right]]
{{examples}}
* In ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'', Shidou stages an 'election' amongst the survivors fleeing by bus, after the bus is packed with his
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* In ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'', Shidou stages an 'election' amongst the survivors fleeing by bus, after the bus is packed with his cult of personality.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In [[Marvel Comics]]' ''[[Secret Wars]]'', practically the first thing the heroes do after the Beyonder transports them to Battleworld is to elect a leader (unsurprisingly, it turns out to be [[Captain America (comics)]]).
* In ''[[JLA-Avengers]]'' when the two teams team up Cap is once again chosen as the leader of all.
* In ''[[The Walking Dead (
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The
* ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' has an election between two of the boys. Despite the more level headed candidate getting in, ultimately things descend into chaos.
* Similar to ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'', the ''[[Gone (novel)]]'' series features a population of children coming together to survive after all the adults suddenly disappear and they find themselves trapped inside a giant ethereal dome. The first book features an [[Affably Evil]] young man stage a quasi-peaceful takeover of things only to be deposed when his corrupt "government"'s dirty secrets are exposed and things turn violent.
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Tunnel
* ''[[The Stand]]'' has a pretty lengthy scene dealing with this, as the new Boulder residents have their [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] as they vote to reinstate the US Constitution. Then they actually have to get down to the nitty-gritty of running the place and the protagonists ultimately form a ruling council with [[Magical Negro]] Abagail at its head, because she's the reason everyone settled in Boulder in the first place.
* [[Cory Doctorow]]'s short story ''When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth'' starts with the main character in question (who survived the apocalypse by being inside a building with a bunch of servers and filtered air) running a campaign and then election for the Prime Minister of the Internet. It doesn't last long, although he is known as the Prime Minister forever after by geeks.
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* In [[World War Z]] the ability to hold to the democratic process in the midst of a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] is a major part of one of the survivors' stories.
== [[Live
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* ''[[Gilligan's
** Which is why they [[Too Dumb to Live|deserve to die]].
* ''[[Jericho]]'' legally elected a new, (and less competent) mayor not long after the catastrophe.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* Despite ''[[
* ''[[Survivor (TV series)|Survivor]]'' has this sort of politicking in spades, though it works a bit differently since elections don't decide the leader, they decide who's [[Voted Off the Island]]. The [[Realpolitik|nature of the game]] plus casts full of strong-willed personalities means it's almost ''never'' simple.
* There's a messed up version at the end of ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'' season 2. Rick is being heavily questioned and generally the butt of everyone's frustration when they're forced to flee the farm and he reveals a secret he'd been hiding from the end of season 1. Feeling that he wasn't getting any credit for keeping them alive despite all odds, he basically pulls a "vote of no confidence" ''on himself!'' He dared all the other survivors to either band with him or, if they were as angry and convinced that he was incompetent as they said, go their own way. The season ends with everyone mutely staying in their makeshift camp.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Despite being all monarchies, ''[[Dragon Age]]'' has the [[Player Character]] able to influence (or dictate) two elections for King during the oncoming Blight apocalypse. While just placing a new monarch guarantees soldiers, depending on the choices made beforehand is whether the kings (and/or queen) do well in the resulting peacetime.
* In ''[[Fallout 2]]'' the United States government, which lives inside an abandoned oil rig and is thus called "The Enclave", holds presidential elections just like in the times before the nuclear war. However, it is hinted that there is only one candidate who would rule for years. In any case, only about a thousand people lived on the rig, and so the franchise is miniscule and definitely not representative of the will of the American people.
** In ''[[Fallout 3]]'' {{spoiler|John Henry Eden}} didn't even try this and he can be talked into killing himself because of it.
*** Likewise Dave, of the Republic of Dave, asks that you help with the election. The five voters are inclined to vote for Dave, but the player can perform some election fraud to get somebody else elected, who immediately declares himself dictator for life.
**** [[Take a Third Option|How about]] [[You Kill It, You Bought It|The Republic Of Player?]]
**** Or you can rig the election for [[Only Sane Man|Rosie]] to win, since she has a much clearer head than anyone else in the republic.
** There's also the New California Republic, which is a tribal village made up of Vault 15 survivors turned US [[Expy]]. By ''[[Fallout: New Vegas|New Vegas]]'' it has grown exponentially, having taken all of California through aggressive expansion and is looking to colonise [[Viva Las Vegas|the Mojave Wasteland]]. Generally, its government mostly resembles the United States, but is probably a little more corrupt (and currently trending towards authoritarianism).
*** Specifically, a little more corrupt and currently trending towards authoritarianism compared to ''our'' United States. They've a long, long way to go before they reach the corruption and authoritarianism of the pre-War USA of Fallout (for one thing, they don't use peaceful protestors for human experimentation).
** Not to mention the detailed story of Vault 11, which involved holding elections for a sacrifice, although to be fair, that was kind of doomed for disaster from the start, and didn't need much prodding to descend into madness.
** When talking with Mr. House in ''New Vegas'', if you object to his plans to rule over humanity as a benevolent but authoritarian dictator, he'll respond by telling you that if you want to see where democracy leads, then you just need to "look out the window."
* The country of Zeal in ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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