Have societies with democratic forms of government ever been able to stop or reverse an anti-democratic takeover during the 19th or 20th centuries in the space of a single electoral cycle? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

Have societies with democratic forms of government ever been able to stop or reverse an anti-democratic takeover during the 19th or 20th centuries in the space of a single electoral cycle?

by jimbecile

I started thinking about the mistakes the Spanish Republicans made during their civil war, and then I couldn't think of any examples of monarchist/fascist takeovers being reversed.

ReaperReader

You may be interested in this comment by u/myrmecologist on the Indian Emergency in the 1970s, in India (unsurprisingly, given the name.)

This wasn't an attempted monarchist/fascist takeover, but it was anti-democratic.