The following are the demerits of electoral competition:
- It creates arguments between societies and one part of the society may get divided into more sub-fractions.
- With the urge to win electoral fights, long term policies do not get formed.
- Political parties point allegations against each other.
- The parties may play dirty politics to win.
- Because of the dirty tricks' parties use, good people do not get into politics to serve the country.
- The government money is misused by the present leaders to win the election.