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[james_davis_nicoll]

What are the noteworthy election-related SF novels?

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[nwhyte]

Here's a few which haven't been mentioned:

Philip K. Dick's Cantata-140 aka The Crack in Space is about the first African-American presidential candidate.

Orson Scott Card's Alvin Journeyman (the fourth of that series) ends with William Henry Harrison being elected President of the United States, and Andrew Jackson his Vice-President.

Tim Powers' Expiration Date is set against the background of the Clinton/Bush contest in 1992.

Douglas Hurd and Andrew Osmond's near-future thriller Scotch on the Rocks, set in the late 1970s but written in the late 1960s, begins with an election where the Scottish Nationalists hold the king-maker role at Westminster and a Conservative government without a majority is forced to make concessions to them.

James Smythe's recently published No Harm can Come To A Good Man is set during a near-future election.

Mira Grant's Feed - the same, after the zombie apocalypse.

In Gareth Roberts' Doctor Who novel The Well-Mannered War, K-9 runs for president of one of the warring factions.

I'm sure there are more.