TIL that in 2018, during a local election for mayor in Makassar, Indonesia, a man ran unopposed and received more than 260,000 votes. He lost to a blank ballot, which received over 300,000 votes.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Makassar_mayoral_election
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