Within the United States, the only state I can think of is Nebraska, and while those elections are officially "non-partisan", we UNOFFICIALLY know the party affiliation of all the members of the state house.
And in almost every instance, the contests in NE tend to be between obvious party members. Unfortunately, the heavily GOP legislature is filled to the brim with RINOs.
Some of the Pacific island countries, perhaps.
Checking, Samoa has one dominant party.
Here we go, Tuvalu.
“There are no formal political parties and election campaigns are largely based on personal/family ties and reputations.”
Might be others.
Parties and partisanship get a lot of crap from self-righteous idiots on both sides of the political spectrum. They are a natural feature of democracy, and when one of the parties wants to outright destroy the country, “hyper-partisanship” is only reasonable course. How do you “work together” when you want opposite things? You don’t. Lions and gazelles don’t work together. Muggers and little old ladies don’t work together.
We need an “Era of bad feelings” to grind the enemy into dust.
Thank you for your replies. Very interesting. Yes.