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Problem:SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Sunday held its first parliamentary elections under the leadership of Kim Jong-un, who was expected to use the polls and a newly elected legislature to elevate officials loyal to him and further consolidate his power. 
  
 North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly has served as a rubber-stamp Parliament, endorsing whatever decisions were made by the top leader and his inner circles, who dominate the top echelons of the ruling Workers’ Party, the People’s Army and the government. 
  
 In the last parliamentary election, held five years ago when Mr. Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, was still alive, a single candidate ran unopposed in each of the 687 districts, and all the deputies were elected with 100 percent support. The government reported voter turnout of 99.98 percent. 
  
 The North Korean authorities run parliamentary elections as an effective political census, a chance to check up on the whereabouts and the political allegiance of citizens, as well as the ability of local Workers’ Party officials to mobilize residents. People pile into voting booths casting unmarked ballots in rapid succession. Those who oppose the state-selected candidate are supposedly allowed to pause to cross out the candidate’s name, effectively making the process a monitored event, according to defectors from the North. 
  
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 Some of the North Koreans who entered China and ended up defecting to South Korea after the famine in their home country in the mid-1990s have said they did so because they feared punishment back home for failing to show up for parliamentary elections. ||||| Image copyright Reuters Image caption North Korean leader Kim Jong-un voted in Pyongyang 
  
 North Koreans have been voting in a five-yearly election to approve members of the rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme People's Assembly. 
  
 Each of the 687 districts had only one candidate running for office, with electors required to write only "Yes" or "No" on the ballot paper. 
  
 Campaign posters across the capital, Pyongyang, urged a "Yes" vote. 
  
 Observers say the candidate list is an opportunity to see who is in or out of favour with the leadership. 
  
 Analysis The North Korean vote is a ritual, the result of which has already been largely determined. The Supreme People's Assembly meets rarely and has very little power but you would not know it from the official turnout. There is only one candidate for each district, and one name on each ballot paper. The democratic duty for the electorate is simply to write "Yes" beside it. Writing anything else might be seen as treachery, rather than democracy. That is especially true if you live in the district of Mount Paekdu - the constituency of current North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. State media have devoted entire reports to the excitement of voters at the Mount Paekdu polling station, on seeing his name on the ballot paper. The only real value in these polls, analysts say, is in watching for any signs of change in the list of state-approved candidates. 
  
 In the last election in 2009, turnout was 99%, with 100% of votes in favour of the given candidates. 
  
 The election is the first to be held under the leadership of Kim Jong-un, who came to power in December 2011 after the death of his father, Kim Jong-il. 
  
 Mr Kim was registered as a candidate in Mount Paekdu, venerated in party propaganda as the birthplace of Kim Jong-il. 
  
 The leader was shown on state media casting his ballot in Pyongyang. 
  
 The vote was held in a holiday atmosphere in the capital, Pyongyang, with performances taking place in the street. 
  
 "Through this election we will fully display the might of the single-hearted unity of our army and people," said Hyon Byong-chol, chairman of a preparatory committee for one of the sub-districts in the election. 
  
 He told the Associated Press news agency that North Koreans were "firmly united" behind their leader. 
  
 Pyongyang resident Ri Song-gun told AP he had cast his vote of approval for his district's candidate. 
  
 Image copyright AP Image caption The election is the first to be held under the leadership of Kim Jong-un 
  
 Image copyright AP Image caption Voters queued to cast their ballots - but there was only one choice on the ballot paper 
  
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Voting 'yes' to the named candidate is seen as the electorate's duty 
  
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Entertainment was laid on in the streets of the capital, and voters were encouraged to celebrate 
  
 "I will devote all my intelligence and strength to fortify our socialist system centred on the masses, which was built and developed by our great generalissimos," he said. 
  
 The vote comes three months after the brutal and sudden execution of Mr Kim's once-powerful uncle, Chang Song-thaek. 
  
 North Korea announced on 13 December it had executed Chang after convicting him of "acts of treachery". ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. |||||
Solution:
It's election time in North Korea, meaning there's only one candidate running per office in the Supreme People's Assembly, and voters have two options: writing "Yes" or "No" on the ballots, the BBC reports. Not only that, voters who don't support the ruling Workers' Party must enter a separate booth, the Telegraph reports. Sound like a mockery of democracy? Sure, but outside observers can still see which officials are tapped by Kim Jong Un for top positions, and, the New York Times notes, a shake-up allows him to replace followers of his not-so-dearly departed uncle, Jang Song Thaek.