what do you mean by democratis elections

Democratic election is an election in which any people can participate and can present his thought and ideas about present status and development.HE/SHE has freedom to express his views and thoughts and anybody cannot stop him from doing so as it is his/her right.
In democratic election peoples are free to cast their vote to any candidate.He/she can't be forced by anyone to vote for a particular party.
After the winning of the particular party peoples are not forced to accept its each and every proposal, they can do peacefull demonstrations to reject it.
These are the several points which make election democratic in India.

Democratic elections are competitive. Opposition parties and candidates must enjoy the freedom of speech, assembly, and movement necessary to voice their criticisms of the government openly and to bring alternative policies and candidates to the voters.

The 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of electoral contests organized by the Democratic Party to select the 4,051 delegates to the Democratic National Convention held July 25–28 and determine the nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The elections took place within all fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories and occurred between February 1 and June 14, 2016. An extra 716 unpledged delegates (712 votes) or "superdelegates" are appointed by the Party independently of the primaries' electoral process. The convention will also approve the Party's platform and vice-presidential nominee. The Democratic nominee will challenge other presidential candidates in national elections to succeed President Barack Obama at noon on January 20, 2017, following his two terms in office.

A total of six major candidates entered the race starting April 12, 2015, when former Secretary of State and New York Senator Hillary Clinton formally announced her second bid for the presidency. She was followed by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, former Governor of Maryland Martin O'Malley, former Governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee, former Virginia Senator Jim Webb and Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig. There was some speculation that incumbent Vice President Joe Biden would also enter the race, but he chose not to run. A draft movement was started to encourage Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to seek the presidency, but Warren declined to run. Prior to the Iowa caucuses on February 1, 2016, Webb and Chafee both withdrew after consistently polling below 2%.^[2] Lessig withdrew after the rules of a debate were changed such that he would no longer qualify to participate.^[3]

Clinton won Iowa by the closest margin in the history of the state's Democratic caucus. O'Malley suspended^[b] his campaign after a distant third-place finish, leaving Clinton and Sanders the only two candidates. The electoral battle turned out to be more competitive than expected, with Sanders winning the New Hampshire primary while Clinton scored victories in the Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary. On four different Super Tuesdays, Clinton secured numerous important wins in each of the nine most populous states including California, New York, Florida, and Texas, while Sanders scored various victories in between.^[5]

On June 6, 2016, the Associated Press and NBC News stated that Clinton had become the presumptive nominee after reaching the required number of delegates, including both pledged and unpledged delegates (superdelegates), to secure the nomination. In doing so, she had become the first woman to ever be the presumptive nominee of any major political party in the United States.^[6] On June 7, Clinton officially secured a majority of pledged delegates after winning in the California and New Jersey primaries.^[7] President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren formally endorsed Clinton on June 9, 2016.^[8][9] Sanders confirmed on June 24 that he would vote for Clinton over Donald Trump in the general election^[10] and, on July 12, 2016, formally endorsed Clinton in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.^[11]

On July 26, 2016, the Democratic National Convention officially nominated Clinton for President and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine for Vice President.^[12]