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What would be the disadvantages to not having primary elections, but to simply having all the candidates run?
Heather, darling, you could have as many candidates as you want. Here's a hypothetical situation for you. Imagine five candidates run, lets call them candidates a,b,c,d, and e. The results of our hypothetical election could be:
a: 10% of the votes
b: 15% of the votes
c: 16 % of the votes
d: 34 % of the votes
e: 25 % of the votes
Doesn't candidate c have the majority of the votes in our hypothetical election?
sorry, d, and I didn't thumbs down anyone
3 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Primaries are a good time for the public to read about the candidates and see what they stand for. It draws a lot of attention to the race which increases voter turnout I believe.
- HeatherLv 61 decade ago
If you had 4 or 5 candidates running, no one person would have the majority of votes. It wouldn't work.
But there's no absolute majority. Someone has to have at least 50% of the votes.
