Election is a process of legitimizing a person’s/persons’/entities’ position in a given setup. At times it is done democratically, i.e., by majority vote of concerned/delegated individuals in a particular affair. National political electioneering is an aspect of this process that involves all eligible voters of a country, with the objective of electing national office holders. To be sure, not all office holders can be classified as leaders. In principle, the whole idea of national electioneering is to elect individuals that will promote the interests of the large majority of the populous/voters. In an electoral system of ‘winners take all’, even garnering 49.9% of the popular vote, can hardly land the big time loser an opening in national administration. The implied assumption behind this particular system is; winners (as national office holders) would also be forced to look after the interests of the defeated electorate, as this segment of the general public still constitute a good portion of the population and would also remain probably active in the coming election!

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