by the time news was breaking that there
was contention in the vote telling
railaudinga says he was already meeting
his team pentagon
on the way forward welcome to watch mojo
and today we're counting down our picks
for the top 10 contested elections
party won but then the military rulers
of this country
they annulled the results this is no
longer an election this is like alice in
wonderland
14 latin american countries do not
recognize the result for this list we're
looking at the most
infamous and consequential cases where
election results were challenged by one
or more candidates
which election would you vote for our
top spot let us know in the comments
number 10 the 2000 united states
presidential election
it's going to be a much happier
thanksgiving for the bush family
george walker bush the 43rd president of
the united states
at around 2 30 a.m on november 8 2000
the networks declared republican
candidate george w bush as the next
president
about two hours later though democratic
candidate al gore
caught up to bush by just under 2 000
votes in florida
this is no longer an election this is
like alice in wonderland
the margin was so close that a recount
was legally required
although a 5-4 supreme court ruling
stopped it
after almost a month of confusion bush
was deemed the winner
but gore might have won if the ballots
had been tallied differently
good morning finally a president-elect
george w bush will become the 43rd
president of the united states
the debacle led to the discontinuation
of punched card ballots
but also greatly decreased americans
confidence in the electoral process
it also ramped up republican accusations
of voter fraud
versus democrat accusations of voter
suppression a debate that's taken center
stage today
in the end bush became president and
served two terms
gore continued his political life as an
advocate for
action against climate change meanwhile
americans continue to debate the
efficacy of the u.s electoral system
and voting procedures across each state
number nine
the 2008 zimbabwean general election
with unemployment up to 94 in 2008
zimbabwe was struggling under the
leadership of robert mugabe
who had been president of the african
country for almost three decades
mugabe faced his greatest political
rival yet in morgan's fangirai
giving some zimbabweans hope that they
finally have a new president
mugabe is now not only a president of
the country he is the institution
that has run our country for the last 30
years
and look at look at the results
unprecedented levels of decay and misery
and repression the results were
controversially not released for more
than a month
although svangirai emerged ahead of
mugabe it was
only by a small margin however leading
to a runoff
and eventually violence fearing for his
supporters
svangidai withdrew and mugabe remained
in power
it wouldn't be until 2017 that mugabe's
own party staged a coup
ousting him from office in the televised
address an army spokesman denied
that a coup was underway saying it was
targeting what it called criminals
around the world's oldest leader
the spokesman blamed mugabe's aides for
causing quote social and economic
suffering
then vice president emerson menon gagwa
would take mugabe's place
becoming zimbabwe's third president
number eight
the 2014 turkish local elections
while these were municipal elections
they loomed
large as a referendum on prime minister
recep tayyip erdogan's decade-long
tenure
they call it here the polls of polls
especially with all
the polarization and allegations of
corruption that came
into effect for the last several weeks
or several
months his time in office had been
marked by corruption and democratic
erosion
sparking anti-government protests in
2013.
the biggest civil uprising in the
history of the turkish republic
kicked off in istanbul at 5am on friday
may 31st
adding to the stakes erdogan had hinted
that he'd run for president soon after
in terms of irregularities this election
had it all
intimidation bribery accidental power
cuts
and reportedly straight up ballot
burning
unsurprisingly erdogan's party emerged
ahead
amid accusations of fraud multiple
candidates refused to recognize the
results
resulting in protests recounts and even
repeat
elections the opposition's chp trailed
with 26 to 28 percent in an election
campaign which has seen the government
tighten its grip on the courts
purge thousands of police and block
access to twitter and youtube as it
tried to stem a flow of graft
allegations
within months erdogan would go on to
storm the presidential elections and
extend his grip on power number 7 the
2006 mexican general election
in mexico 2006 was defined by a
controversial general election in the
political crisis that followed
in an especially close race national
action party candidate felipe calderon
beat opponent andres manuel lopez
obrador by a .58
margin although lopez obrador and the
party of the democratic revolution
contested these results
the federal electoral tribunal refused
to do a total recount
calderon was declared the victor but
lopez obrador's party wasn't about to
take the sitting down what ensued was a
whole year of political unrest
complete with protests that modeled
after street fairs
seriously booths were set up where you
could watch soccer play chess and listen
to music
number six the 2020 bella russian
presidential election
when candidate sergey tychanovsky was
arrested just months before this heated
election
svetlana tikanaskaya decided to step up
in her husband's place
against incumbent president alexander
lukashenko described in the press as
quote
europe's last dictator
i don't consider that person my main
rival it's you who made the poor little
thing my main rival
but she says quite honestly that she has
no idea what she's doing
lukashenko who's been president since
1994
claimed a sixth term with an eighty
percent vote although tikanovskaya and
her
followers challenged this landslide they
weren't alone
with the eu uk canada and other
countries also refusing to accept the
results
even the pope is paying attention to
what's happening
allah calling for rights to be respected
sanctions have been placed on belarusian
officials with european council
president xiao michel
accusing them of quote violence
repression and election fraud
as of writing protests are ongoing
tiganovskaya was exiled to lithuania
and the outcome remains up in the air
lukashenko lock him up
they're saying here europe's longest
serving leader
may have passed the point of no return
number five the 2009 iranian
presidential election
mahmoud ahmadjad faced three other
candidates in his pursuit of a second
term
near hussein mosavi was largely seen as
his most formidable rival which made it
all the more jarring when he only
received
33.86 percent of the votes first the
challenger mir hossein musavi
claimed in spite of dirty tricks at the
poll evidence showed that
he was the winner god enjoyed
an hour later sources in president
mahmoud ahmadinejad's camp claimed that
he'd won
while ahmadinejad apparently pulled off
a landslide of 62.63
many suspected the incumbent president
of rigging the election
all wrong and the people knows that
but we cannot do it all because all
people know that but
they can't do anything they can't change
this they can't change this
because because of the fear of the of
the society
millions of musavi supporters took to
the streets the country's biggest and
most chaotic protests
since the iranian revolution it was
dubbed the iranian green movement or
persian spring some carried banners
saying where is my vote
others accuse the government of stealing
the election public figures who voiced
their support were arrested
including musavi who remains under house
arrest
to this day supporters of the protest
movement continue
to agitate for reforms number four
the 2007 kenyan general election
early on it appeared orange democratic
movement leader ryla odinga was out in
front of this election
yet it wasn't long until incumbent
muakibaki caught up with 46.4 percent of
the vote
surpassing odinga by a narrow margin
this means
honorable money back is the winner
however
it was widely argued that the results
were tampered with while kibaki was
sworn in for a second term
civil unrest erupted across the country
armed groups on a revenge mission
attacked this house belonging to
opposition leader raila odinga's
community hundreds died
up to 600 000 were displaced and havoc
continued to spread for just over two
months the kenyan crisis finally came to
an end
when odinga and kibaki reached an
unconventional compromise to share power
the situation was finally resolved early
in 2008
through a government of national unity
through the national accord and
reconciliation act
kibaki remained president while odinga
became the country's first prime
minister in more than 40 years
number 3 the 2018 venezuelan
presidential election
14 latin american countries do not
recognize the result five years after a
close and contested victory against
enrique capriles radonski
nicolas maduro found himself at the
center of another intense election
unlike last time the results were not
close
with maduro claiming 67.8 percent of the
vote
against opponents henry falcone and
javier bertucci
however falcone bertucci cried foul
citing
numerous irregularities the national
assembly declared maduro a usurper on
the day of his inauguration
and named speaker juan guido the acting
president
this did not go over well with maduro's
followers
guido and his supporters could clearly
not get in
the man who calls himself interim
president even tried to climb the
railings
members of the national guard stopped
them entering the building
with the venezuelan presidential crisis
in full swing guido was briefly arrested
the dispute over maduro's presidency
persists to this day
for the first time i'm not voting
because i don't believe in these
elections
number two the 2004 ukrainian
presidential election
the race between incumbent victor
yanukovych and victor yushenko
was bitter to say the least not only did
yushenko survive an assassination
attempt
he was disfigured by dioxin poisoning
although he did recover the campaign was
just starting to get ugly
with accusations of ballot stuffing
falsification
and intimidation the election results
were so close that a runoff was held
with russia's support yanukovych was
deemed the winner which yushenko
challenged
for weeks thousands of protesters
assembled in kiev's independence square
sparking the orange revolution but
following nationwide protests in what
became known as the orange revolution
the result was annulled and yanukovych
was defeated
in the revolt the ukrainian supreme
court thus held a second runoff
with yushenko prevailing this time
yanukovych would be elected president in
2010
but would exit office early due to the
2014 ukrainian revolution
members of the parliament who decisively
abandoned yanukovych
after this week's bloodshed stood
applauded and sang the national anthem
after it was declared the president was
constitutionally unable to carry out his
duties
before we tally the votes for our top
pick here are some honorable mentions
the 2019 bolivian general election abel
morales declared the winner
leading to protests and his resignation
the 2006 italian general election yet
another scandal for silvio berlusconi
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the 2016 united states presidential
election
there are sore losers and then there are
sore winners
trump still has not retracted his false
claim that massive voter fraud in 2016
deprived him of the popular vote win
his own lawyers however argued the
opposite in a court while opposing a
michigan ballot recount just weeks
earlier
they wrote all available evidence
suggests that the 2016 election was not
tainted
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number one the 1876 united states
presidential election
the u.s has seen its fair share of
contested elections although
this was a particularly bizarre case why
because both republican rutherford b
hayes and democrat samuel j tilden
declared victory
while tilden was ahead with 184
electoral votes disputes arose in
florida
louisiana and south carolina both
parties claim to have carried those
states it's not clear who is elected
rejecting the results republicans
accused democrats of intimidating black
voters
the democrats agreed to accept hayes as
president if the republicans pulled
federal troops from the southern states
with the south back under democratic
control the reconstruction era was
brought to an end
and years of racial discrimination and
disenfranchisement followed
if it doesn't even make sense now from
this distance 140 years later that the
dude who lost the popular vote
and who lost the electoral college vote
with these weird votes outstanding
that they would give the presidency to
him anyway
what although this is generally known as
the compromise of 1877
some historians feel the great betrayal
is a more appropriate name
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