Why is this happening? Because the independent vote is split.
We have STV/IRV, so "vote-splitting" actually, like, literally doesn't happen.
Also you guys (Alliance, this weird Progressive Union revival thing, etc.) keep acting like Federalists are doing a bad thing by winning so much. But it's the opposite--we're winning because we're actually the only ones keeping the game halfway active! It's not our fault everyone else is falling asleep at the wheel. If it wasn't for Federalists like People's House Speaker Yankee, President fhtagn, Vice President PiT, and Southern Speaker Reactionary, we'd have basically no game. I'm trying not to bash you guys because most of you I like personally (wxtransit is one of the better new additions to the game), and I am sorry if I'm coming across as grumpy, but it drives me
crazy to see the facts completely turned on their head like this.