Let's get real-people voted for West_Midlander because he was the Labor/Peace candidate and MB and I asked them to. So yeah, it is a violation of the trust voters placed in him. Whether it is a 'stain on democracy' is semantics, you can quibble with language but I do think it is distasteful and wrong for office-holders to switch parties. I think he should now follow the Vern precedent and resign, and hopefully the South has special gubernatorial elections so the voters can decide for themselves whether they want a Federalist or Labor Governor.
He was also elected governor because he voted for himself in a 35 -34 race 
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I don't get this logic. If WestMidlander was a Fed on the ballot, almost all, if not all all his 34 other votes would have gone to someone else in the first place.
