How can I lose an election?

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I tried my best to be the worst dictator in history of Tropico 4.

  • I set wages for uneducated to 1, high school educated to 2 and college educated to 3.
  • I built not a single housing building, so everyone was living in shacks except for my soldiers and generals
  • Not a single church or cathedral
  • Not a single garbage dump or pollution-reducing edict
  • I declined every faction demand, except when it was something I would have done anyway
  • Every criminal got executed without trial

Some positive things I did out of necessity or laziness:

  • Soldiers and generals got normal wages - I needed a happy military because of unsurprisingly strong rebel activity
  • My military lived in an army base with military modernization, which gave them proper housing and health care
  • I had some entertainment, but priced in a way that only the army could afford them
  • I built one (1) clinic, because critical specialists dieing due to bad health care became a problem
  • I had proper food supply to prevent important workers from starving
  • I admit that I had a grade school, high school and college - I needed these to qualify people for my army and some administrative buildings.
  • I had some police - executing criminals got tedious
  • Some media buildings because the campaign goals required them. I didn't bother to demolish them after the goals were reached

I was following this strategy in campaign missions 13, 14 and 16 and expected that elections might become problematic, but to my surprise people still kept voting for me. Even though I didn't even bother to have a campaign speech or do election fraud I still got over two thirds of the votes.

What else could I do wrong so I need to actually put in some effort to win an election?






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