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Were They Elected?

For each of these national leaders, select whether they were elected to their position of power, or if they came to power some other way.
For this quiz's purposes, we will consider "being elected" as either being a party's leader during a parliamentary election or someone who is directly elected as leader.
Sham elections, political trickery, or otherwise unorthodox methods of obtaining power will not be regarded as a leader being elected.
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Last updated: June 7, 2022
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1. Nelson Mandela after Apartheid
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa on May 10, 1994.
2. Harry S. Truman after World War II
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
While not elected for his first term in office, Truman famously won the 1948 election over Thomas Dewey.
3. Napoleon Bonaparte in France
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
Napoleon overthrew the unpopular Directory with a coup d'etat on November 9, 1799.
4. Mahatma Gandhi as India's leader after independence
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
Gandhi's leadership in India was informal, as he was never prime minister.
5. Winston Churchill during World War II
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
The outgoing prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, advised the king to make Churchill the prime minister. Churchill would of course be elected later on.
6. Julius Caesar as consul of Rome
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
Caesar was elected consul of Rome for the year of 59 BCE. He declared himself dictator ten years later.
7. George Washington in his first term as president
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
Washington won an election that ran from December 15, 1788, to January 10, 1789.
8. Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in 1932
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
Influential politicians pressured President Hindenburg to appoint Hitler Chancellor in 1932. Hitler's party, however, won 37% of seats (more than any other party) in the June 1932 election but failed to garner enough additional support to form a coalition government.
9. Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
Not much interesting here... he was first elected in a massive upswing in popularity for the Liberal Party on October 19, 2015.
10. Idi Amin as president of Uganda in 1971
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
Nothing about this was democratic. He took power from another dictator in a coup d'etat.
11. Che Guevara as Revolutionary Leader of Cuba
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
Che Guevara has never been the leader of Cuba nor any other country.
12. Mussolini as Prime Minister of Italy
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
Mussolini took power on October 27-28, 1922, from the March on Rome.
13. Vladimir Putin as President of Russia in 2000
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
While Putin probably enjoyed a significant advantage being the Acting President and could benefit from state resources, the election was mostly legitimate.
14. Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector of England
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
Oliver Cromwell had dissolved the Rump Parliament and was put into power by his loyalists in the Council of Officers.
15. Rodrigo Duterte as 2016 President of the Philippines
He was elected! ✓
He was NOT elected! ✓
He won a fair election.
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