Here are a few presidential election statistics to consider while we are worrying about the legitimacy of governments in the non-western world. They are all dictatorships with negative human rights records.
Algeria - Abdelaziz Bouteflicka was re-elected in 2009 with 90% of the vote.
Azerbaijan - Ilhaim Aliev won with 88,7% of the vote in 2007; he inherited his presidency from his father in 2003.
Burundi - Pierre Nkurunziza was re-elected, with no opponent, in 2010 with 91.62% of the vote.
Dijbouti - Ismail Omar Guelleh won election in 2005 with 100% of the vote.
Equatorial Guinea - Teodore Oblang Nguema Mbasogo was elected in 1989 with 99.9% of the vote, and in 2009 with 96.7%.
Kazakhstan - Noursoultan Nazarbaiev was re-elected in 2011 with 95% of the vote; one of his opponents even said that he voted for Nazarbaiev.
Ouzbekistan - Islam Karimov was elected in 2000 with 91% of the vote and was re-elected in 2007 with 87%.
Syria - Bachar Al-Assad took over the presidency when his father died in 2000; he was elected on 2007 with 97.62% of the vote.
Ruanda - Paul Kagame was elected in 2009 with 93% of the vote.
Turkmenistan - Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow was elected in 2007 with 89% of the vote; his predecessor won with 99% in 1995.
To put these results into perspective, the most popular post-World War II American president, Ronald Reagan, won his first election in 1980 by 500,000 votes, and in the second election, he won by one of the largest landslides ever recorded, with a little more than 60% of the vote.
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