Not all disputed elections lead to violenceAcross Africa, disputed presidential elections degenerated into post-election violence in Ethiopia (2005), Nigeria (2007), Zimbabwe (2008), Ivory Coast (2010) and more recently in Gabon (2016), among others. Data on election violence during those elections come from the Social Conflict Analysis Database by Idean Salehyan, Cullen Hendrix and others. Of these 390 elections, I found that 132 elections experienced significant pre-election violence and 91 saw major post-election violence. As an indicator of faith in the new independent judiciary, election petitions increased from single digits before 2013 to 187 after the 2013 elections and 288 after the 2017 elections. His research centers on political institutions, democratization and election violence in Africa.

Source: Washington Post November 22, 2017 17:13 UTC