Labor - and I'll sperg as to why.
Being in possession of the Presidency is a stressful and difficult task - thankfully for the Federalists, they still will not know that feeling. When we first took the White House in February, Labor had to begin making considerations that previously were not a part of its MO. Until that point, we were the loud, rapidly-growing and raucous minority, but we had to drive the policy and dialogue in this game once that all changed.
As many have heard me bitch about for quite some time, Labor has been the only actual party that in recent months has articulated clear policy initiatives and stances, and saw that they were enacted. It's certainly a larger responsibility when your party controls the Presidency. Because we no longer control the Presidency, we are no longer tasked with the total responsibility of driving this debate. This will leave us with more time to focus on other endeavors. Personally, I believe there is a clear correlation between Labor's slight decline and its increasing involvement in driving Senate affairs.
In terms of net, we hold just as many seats as we did in the last session -
and the seats that we do hold are more unified in terms of ideology and party loyalty than ever before. We won three regional Senate seats against the Federalists' 2 seats -
that 3/2 split is something that has not been done since the last great hoorah of the JCP/RPP in October 2011. We came within 4 votes of winning 4 regional Senate seats,
something that has never been done. This is f[inks] phenomenal, especially when you consider that a heavily anti-Labor crusade has been led by many outside forces for the past four months (since Rimjob). Obviously, the people spoke as to the caliber of our candidates and - despite picking an independent for President - clearly spoke as to who they want to see in power in the Senate.
Labor's presidential debacles for the most part were expected, if not somewhat engineered. I told Duke quite some time ago that I would be perfectly fine with him being President and was planning on even first preferencing him in between the time that Bacon King dropped out and Dr Cynic entered the race. The first goal in this presidential election was to ensure that only a loyal Laborite received the nomination - if we were to lose, then we were to lose with someone who genuinely cared about the party at the top of the ticket. That was first done with the BK/AG ticket, followed by the Cynic ticket (though the primary vote's outcome was not pushed via PM by either ticket seeking the nomination). In the end, the party spoke.
So in conclusion: Labor started a pro-consolidation dialogue four months ago. Since then, the idea's popularity has skyrocketed from 35% to 65%. We expanded our effective Senate clout and held our overall number of seats. Our party also contributed to the election of a independent conservative - the same conservative who backs similar proposals of consolidation and federal expansion that the Labor Party has been advocating all this time. It's also reassuring to see that in terms of track record and past cooperation, the first conservative elected in more than two years may very well be the most pro-Labor conservative in the game. The People and The Party make a great pair.
A conservative President - bolstered to victory by the Federalists - was just elected with more than 65% of the vote and he broadly shares the Labor Party's mindset on regional consolidation.
Thanks, Atlasia, for rewarding Labor yet again!(See, Duke: I told you everyone would try to claim your victory as theirs 
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