Parliament of Recommendations

[GregTheGreat657]

R/Indie coalition (though mostly Indie), with a dead heat for a leadership election between Abdullah and Christian Man

[GregTheGreat657]

The Upstate Congress aka The National Assembly
41/80 seats needed for a majority
Independent 37 seats (46.3%) (led by Abdullah)
Republican 16 seats (20%) (led by Christian Man)
Democratic 11 seats (13.8%)
Other 9 seats (11.3%)
Socialist 5 seats (led by AverageFoodEnthusiast) (6.3%)
The Grumps Party 1 seat (1.3%)
Constitution 1 seat (1.3%)

[GregTheGreat657]

The Congress of Midland
84/166 seats for a majority
The Libertarians: 37 (+36)
Socialist: 35 seats (+23)
Republican: 29 seats (-18)
Populist-Conservative Front: 17 seats (-11)
Abdullah's Midland Party: 13 seats (-5)
Midland Green Party: 10 seats (+7)
Christian Democrats: 8 seats (new)
Good Government Party: 7 seats (new)
Tim Turner's Party: 3 seats (+3)
Liberal: 1 seat (new)*
Independent Socialist: 1 (new)
Independent Green: 1 (new)
Independents: 4 (-9)**

*led by AGA

**Laki, Cathcon, Dr. MB, Xeuma

Party Key:
The Republicans: Fmr. PM Cao and PM GregTheGreat came to the negotiating table as Dabbing Santa retired from politics (at least for the time being). The two resolved to rejoin the Republican Party as many members of the party retired and as the right splintered among many other parties. GregTheGreat and Cao ran against each other for the leadership but Fmr. PM Cao did not campaign actively being viewed by some as a "sacrificial lamb" candidate for party leader. PM GregTheGreat won 62% of the primary vote (won 18 recommendations to 9 to 1 to 1). Cao became the Republicans' Deputy Leader after the leadership race.

Other party members include Zenobiyl and Thunder98.

The Democrats: The Democrats, like the Republicans, imploded in this election cycle.

Utah Neolib emerged as the party's leader and sole member. She switched to the Good Government Party before inauguration day for the new Congress.

The Libertarians

Fmr. Republican Leader Conservatopia joined the Libertarians and delivered amazing success to the party. The party is considered by some as a personality cult surrounding him.

Socialist: Mr. R left the Constitution Party and entered the Socialist Party running against longtime Socialist-In-Name-Only Muaddib. Muaddib was the initial frontrunner for Socialist leader but Mr. R gained momentum as the campaign went on, eventually winning 64% of the vote. Muaddib was tapped as party deputy.

AverageFoodEnthusiast ran as a Socialist but pledged to serve as an Independent Socialist. The Socialist Party was accused of being a Socialist-Party-In-Name-Only.

Green: Party Leader Lourdes ran for Leader again but lost in a landslide as fhtagn entered the Green Party winning over 90% of the primary vote as her supporters flooded the small party. Lourdes served as an Independent Green in the new Congress.

Populist-Conservative Front: The Pieman toppled PCF leader Christian Man in a close primary vote of 44%-32% on the first round. Christian Man exited the party and formed his own Christian Democratic Party (ideology is self-explanatory) but did not rule out cooperation with the PCF.

Other party members include LT and Sprouts.

Good Government Party: The GGP was formed as the Democrats imploded. The party is officially big-tent and anti-corruption and center-left to left-wing in practice.

Party members include WB, wxtransit, Scott, Ishan, Utah Neolib, and tmth. WB was chosen as party leader by acclamation at the party convention.

Notes
Early in the campaign, not many candidates announced runs for office. Some expressed concern about the consolidation of the Green and Socialist parties into the hands of right-wing politicians and the collapse of the Democrats.

Despite projections of a major collapse in voter turnout, voter turnout was on par with the previous election.

PM GregTheGreat sought a sixth term in office as his party fell to being the third-largest party. Conservatopia stunned election observers as his party rode into first-party status. Prominent members of the media said that Conservatopia's Libertarians would go nowhere and the Socialist Party was long considered an impotent vanity project of Representative Mr. R, however, that party made it to second party status.

Conservatopia became Prime Minister with Mr. R as his deputy. The largest three parties formed a coalition notably excluding The Pieman's PCF.

April 2022 Midland Vote by Ideology (approximations based on the results)
Conservative/(Right-)Libertarian 44%
Left/Liberal 29%
Moderate 27%

Time for a comeback szn

[GregTheGreat657]

The House of Commons & Senate of Midland
31/61 seats for a House majority; 21/40 seats for a Senate majority
The Democrats: H 19 (+6) / S 16 (—)
House Leader: alex
Senate Leader: Alben Barkley
Populist-Conservative Front: H 13 (+2) / S 5 (—)
House Leader: Christian Man
Senate Leader: Pink Panther
Republican: H 10 (-24) / S 8 (—) in the Senate
House Leader: GregTheGreat
Senate Leader: NCYankee
Conservative Party of Midland: H 5 (new) / S 1 (—)
House Leader: None official (Mr. R in practice)
Senate Leader: None official
Good Government Party: H 4 (-8) / S 4 (—)
House Leader: None official
Senate Leader: None official
Socialist: H 4 (-6) / S 2 (—)
House Leader: AFE
Senate Leader: King TChenka
The Libertarians: H 4 (-5) / S 2 (—)
House Leader: lfromnj
Senate Leader: Conservatopia
Green Party of Midland: H 1 (-1) / S 1 (—)
House Leader: None official (Lourdes in practice)
Senate Leader: None official
Independents/Other*: H 1 (-6) / S 1 (—)

*Independents/Other Party members: LBJer, Skunk, Dr. MB, TimTurner, thumb, Progressive Realist (all Democratic caucusing); Spark (PCF caucusing); David Hume (no caucus)

Independent/Other #s include only noncaucusing Independents/Other Party members. Caucusing party members are included in that party's total.

Additional Party Information
The Republicans: Fmr. PM GregTheGreat retained his post as Republican leader, winning 30% of delegates in the first round and winning by acclamation by round three.

Other party members include NC Yankee, PQG, kongress (caucuses with the Democrats), DT, E-Dawg, and TheReckoning.

The Democrats: Congresspeople elected for the Democrats include former party leader khuzifenq, incumbent MP Badger, Utah Neolib, TiltsAreUnderrated, South Dakota Democrat, WD, VBM, and GWBFan.

Populist-Conservative Front: The Pieman retired from Congress and Christian Man became the party leader once again with 58% of party delegates in the first round.

ShadowOfTheWave became the party's whip in the House and freshman Senator HockeyDude was active in party leadership before being recalled shortly after the election.

After the PCF made a coalition agreement with the Democrats, ShadowOfTheWave resigned as party whip.

Good Government Party: GGP party members voted once again to not merge with the Democrats, by a margin of 53%-47%. The national convention became deadlocked and after several rounds of balloting, the party resolved to adopt an unorganized, unofficial party leadership scheme for the next government.

In the face of declining public support for the AMP, Fmr. PM Abdullah's party became defunct as the former PM joined the GGP. Party veterans Scott, Ishan, WB, and party newcomer Abdullah were the frontrunners for the leadership.

The Election:
Midland saw its lowest voter turnout in 42 years, the fourth-lowest voter turnout in Midland history.

Christian Man supporters celebrated as the PCF surged past the Republicans as the results came in. However, the Democrats had a late-night surge meaning that a Christian Man-led coalition would only make up 28 seats with the Republicans and Conservatives. The GGP ruled out a coalition with the right ahead of the election. Likewise, a Democratic-GGP-Socialist-Green coalition would also only yield 28 seats. After many negotiations and securing some concessions, 11/13 PCF members agreed to join a Democrat-led coalition under Alex, the first Democratic PM in Midland history. The coalition government was also joined by the GGP which signed an aid-and-supply agreement with the Democrats allowing the Democrats an effective 34-seat majority. GregTheGreat conceded the election on election night and became the Official Opposition Leader and Christian Man became Deputy PM once again.

In the Senate, 3 PCF caucus members joined the Democrats along with aid-and-supply from the whole GGP giving the Democrats a 23-seat majority.

I’ll be back (: