…uncontested candidates

If the latter part of your statement is true, then by all means, the city or province they're running should be a cut above the rest of the Philippines. If not, then, fear and waste of time and money are what potential competitors see. Two cents.

Candidates with no opponent will not just sail through or be immediately declared the winner by default... he/she still needs the 50% + 1 votes of the total population of registered voters... so if the people are wise enough and they know that that person do not deserve the position... then all they need to do during election time is do nothing but stay at home and wait for the DILG to appoint an OIC...

We can't really tell if that uncontested politician is very good at what he's doing or if he's really a notorious crooked person. I guess it depends on where this uncontested person is running and what the history of that place is. If this place reeks of political killings then there's no doubt the incumbent politician is involved in it. There are cases wherein the politician is so good that the people would love for him/her to run again or at least one of their kin.

It happen in some other areas wherein the incumbent officials run the community for people sake. Why people wants to remove them from office if they know that the official doing their best to give them what they need. Do they need to replace an evil officials? But if the officials are corrupt they deserve to be oust of the office and throw into the garbage can

Both he might be a hoodlums with armed men and others are afraid to die if will go against him or he is making good of his promised to the people if not approachable and is down to earth in dealing with his constituents.

I am from China and I'd like to say it's too normal in chinese election, since our chairman is never elected by citizen, no competition and no opponents.

I cannot say to those places where there are no opposing candidates. I have no idea how the place is organized. But mostly, the places where there are uncontested candidates are the ones that are ruled by either tyrant one or a very strong contender that no one has dared to go against that leader. I can see in my place here in San Juan, Metro Manila that even though there are some who dares to oppose the Estrada family they seem like they are just dummy just to show that they have an opponent but in the end the voters would not have a choice but vote for the Estrada's since their opponent would not even attempt to campaign for himself there so we can see the result to be favorable to the ruling family.

Here in our province, we have two uncontested candidates for the election. One is for mayor and the other one is for the governor. The one running for Mayor was the former Mayor. He have to let his wife be the mayor the past years, because he was over his term. But this time, he run again but uncontested . As to the governor, he is still the encumbent one. Well, as for me i know that are so fitted for the positions, because they have done many improvements for the province.