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* 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]]).
* 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]]'' 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.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'' has two such elections, for vice president and president. Let's just say that the colonials got what they voted for when they elected Baltar.
* ''[[Gilligan's Island
** 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]]'' 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]] ==
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**** [[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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