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[[File:Mock Election Day.jpg|thumb|A mock voting booth at a US [[elementary school]]]]
A '''mock election''' is an [[election]] for educational demonstration, amusement, or political protest reasons to call for [[election|free and fair elections]].  Less precisely it can refer to a real election purely for advisory (essentially without power) committees or forums such as some student councils, particularly those that chiefly emulate a real legislative body.

== For educational purposes ==
[[Secondary school]]s sometimes organize mock elections to introduce [[youth|young people]] to the concept of elections before they have reached their [[voting age]]. The elections aim to give the participants an understanding of [[democracy]], the role of government and parliament. The experience helps encourage future young voters to cast a ballot. They can have real or fake candidates depending on the school and what the mock election is for.

== For a change to democratic elections ==
As a way to introduce democratic [[elections in Bhutan]], in preparation for the [[2008 Bhutanese general election|Bhutanese general election]] in 2008, a mock election was held on April 21, 2007, to prepare the Bhutanese for the imminent change to democracy. This election featured 4 pretend political parties and randomly-selected high school students as candidates.

== For amusement and parody ==
[[File:Benjamin_Robert_Haydon_(1786-1846)_-_The_Mock_Election_-_RCIN_405824_-_Royal_Collection.jpg|thumb|''[[The Mock Election]]'' by [[Benjamin Robert Haydon]], depicting a mock election in a British [[debtor]]s prison, 1827.]]
In the United Kingdom before the [[Great Reform Act 1832]] a mock election is known to have been held in the grounds of a notable [[debtors' prison]], Kings Bench Prison in 1827, shown by a painting of one of the inmates. In the painting, which is not very subversive to the [[status quo]], is a red flag-like banner that reads "Liberty of the Subject", whilst showing some chaotic frivolity and [[sherry]] glasses, and a gilt or bronze-tipped policeman's truncheon with a decorative bow. Turnkeys (guards) participated in the revelry but the governor faced censure and questions in parliament.

== See also ==
* [[Humours of an Election]], a series of four [[oil painting]]s and later [[engraving]]s by [[William Hogarth]] that illustrate, creatively, [[Oxfordshire in the 1754 British general election|the election]] of a [[Parliament of Great Britain|member of parliament]] in [[List of Parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire|Oxfordshire]] in 1754.
* {{Annotated link|Mock election in the King's Bench Prison}}
* [[Mock trial]]
* {{Annotated link|Garrat Elections}}

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