NPC Elections - Rules and Results Thread

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The Lincoln Tricolor Party will also be contesting the regional elections (though it may withdraw from some later)

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Heads up, the campaign period ends tomorrow, in approximately 33 hours. I can only say that I've been impressed with the amount of work people have put into it, and very much look forward to calculating and releasing the final result.

I can say voting will be assumed to be taking place across Saturday, and then I'll have a week to calculate, write and release the whole thing, along with taking up questions/suggestions/criticisms from this first iteration and devising what comes next for August (among other things, I'm considering releasing polls at the start of the campaign so people have a better grasp on where the parties stand).

The polling would definitely be better, also maybe some polling on their views on political issues, since I think that could make more effective campaigning, if for instance, people knew that being pro-choice was very important in Massachusetts, or if people knew that being pro-life was important in Oklahoma, it would allow for people to cater their campaigns towards those issues.

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Not sure if this is the appropiate thread to say this, but Labor will, as is tradition federally, be allied with the Peace Party.

Labor will also have alliances with the Tricolor party in Lincoln and with the Southern Trans Rights Party in the South.

Confirming this (forgot to confirm before the election), and Tricolor representatives will caucus with the Labor Party.

Also great work on these results, I'm looking forward to the next round of elections!

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Tricolor will be standing and will seek an alliance with the Labor Party, pending Labor's approval

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Tricolor would like to continue our alliance with Labor in Lincoln

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Thank you Lumine for the polls (a little disappointing, but still good to know)! On a somewhat related note, I made county maps for the NPC elections thus far. These obviously aren't canonical, but I think they're pretty cool and a (relatively) accurate representation of what went down. I have the July and August elections thus far (EDIT: Now fully updated!)



Please don't hesitate if you have any questions about my (statistically questionable) methodology. Generally, I took recent election results and adjusted them to both match the raw NPC numbers and better represent the different coalitions in Atlasia.

So, some quibbles with this map, first of all Southern whites still exist ITTL, so those Appalachia numbers are very unrealistic, especially since you have more cosmopolitan areas leaning conservative, even though those cosmopolitan areas have become more diverse and many of the whites there have college degrees. This is not a demographic open to right wing politics, especially not with the unique influence of social issues in politics here compared to the rest of the west. Even looking at economics, Missouri's rural areas voted against a Medicaid Expansion measure in this year's primary (same thing happened in OK, too), so rural areas aren't full of closet populists. Even with the usual caveats of this isn't IRL, these areas are simply gone even for left-wing economic policy. Even if you given them left-wing economic policy with right wing social policy, they won't bite when given the all conservative alternative. Even back when economics were more important, (1968 is honestly the last time that I think economics took prevalence over social, (maybe 1980, but that was also part foreign policy)), social issues were important to the South, especially on issues of segregation. Roe was probably another part of this shift as it kickstarted the evangelical right. They were of course met with opposition from northern liberals, the fact that recently our own Supreme Court was deeply divided and basically handed down a ruling equivalent to Casey, when they could have gone much further in either direction honestly, is a sign of this social polarization. Also if upstate NY flips no way, Westchester doesn't. It isn't just rich whites (which is the stereotype), places like Mount Vernon have a sizable African American vote (there's a reason why Engel lost Westchester in the IRL primary). Also again with Wisconsin, Milwaukee is at least 40% African American, it is flipping if Driftless flips. And one last note with New York, Rochester is not voting for a right wing party, full stop

I like the idea of having a map, but I think it could use some work, and this comment isn't just to you, it's a general comment towards everyone, especially since some people (you know who you are) have been fighting with me recently over this type of characterization of regional politics.

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Can we get indications of where turnout is high? I always liked that little detail and it adds suspense lol

Early reports indicate [good/bad] turnout for [insert party here]