Question

What do candidate centered elections look like?

Answer 1

Answer:

Elections centered on candidates and not on political parties have characteristics that make them particular and give them their own imprint. Thus, these elections are based not on general political platforms but on particular ideologies, which develop personalisms and political positions that are dangerous at times, given that they do not have the support (or responsibility) of organized groups such as political parties behind them.

In other cases, these types of elections have political parties actively participating and supporting each of the candidates, as was the case in the 2016 elections in the United States between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but even so, the candidates end having a greater predominance than that of the political parties.