Eliminate every opponent that runs against you until the election, then the game will notify you after the election that the people are upset that you killed him, and a new opponent will run. It will still think its election time, after a new twelve months, but you will never have to run again! For the best effect, when its coming up to the last month of election, issue an order to have your opponent made "heretic". If youre too fast make the next one the same, and so forth.