"free and fair" are relative terms, the meaning of which needs to be defined. In the 1950s, Joe Stalin was routinly reelected in the Soviet Union by a whopping 98 percent.
When Aldolf Hitler came to power in 1933, do you think all that was "free and fair"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March_1933
What I am saying, without some compass to define free and fair, they question you pose is a useless exercise to comment on.
Do you think elections in a democratic country like India are free and fair ???
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