When Russia, Syria, Belarus or others fake "elections" and "referendums" it can be like 100k people came voting "for", 500k voted "against", but the official results are "2M for and 100k against". I'm not even exagerating.

When you say that your Western elections are "rigged" you are really talking about some minor interference in the elections and maybe sometimes about some small actual votes calculation fraud.

Now you see little to no support for him in cities like Aleppo, Hama and even his support in Alawite coast privinces is questionable.