A Comparative Approach of Elections. The electoral geography can be widened today to a geography of democracy. Democracy overflows now out of the sphere of the Western States. A comparative approach of the elections becomes possible, notably due to a simplified access to the electoral data. This development initiates specific problems of signification to be given to the electoral results. The distinction between exchange vote, community vote or opinion vote is a possible way to compare democracy "here" and democracy "elsewhere". From "universal" democracy to "specific" democracy, the comparative approach of the elections opens the question of culturalism or ethnocentrism. In all cases, the democratic transition opens a new field of studies to geographers.