Editing Elections in Eritrea (section)

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{{Politics of Eritrea}}

There have not been national '''elections in Eritrea''' since independence in 1993.<ref name="NoElections">{{cite news|last1=Lynch|first1=Tiffany|title=The Country That's Never Had an Election|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/11/06/the-country-thats-never-had-an-election/|work=[[Foreign Policy (magazine)|Foreign Policy]]|date=6 November 2013}}</ref> In theory, elections choose representatives from the country's six regions for the [[National Assembly of Eritrea|National Assembly]]. Elections would also occur to elect representatives for the country's [[Regional Assemblies of Eritrea|regional assemblies]] and other posts within the country's [[Districts of Eritrea|districts]]. However, local elections have been regularly held in the past.<ref name="WhoNeedsElections">{{cite news|title=Does Eritrea Need National Elections|url=http://www.madote.com/2014/04/does-eritrea-need-national-elections.html|access-date=18 December 2017|work=Madote|date=4 April 2014}}</ref> {{unreliable source|date=August 2023}} Eritrea was the least electoral [[democracy in Africa]] in 2023 according to [[V-Dem Democracy indices]] with a score of 0.073 out of 1.<ref name="vdem_dataset">{{cite web |last=V-Dem Institute |date=2023 |title=The V-Dem Dataset |url=https://www.v-dem.net/data/the-v-dem-dataset/ |access-date=14 October 2023}}</ref><ref name="vdem report">[https://www.v-dem.net/documents/29/V-dem_democracyreport2023_lowres.pdf Democracy Report 2023, Table 3, V-Dem Institute, 2023]</ref>