Parliament of Recommendations

[Drew]

Drewtopia's Second Parliamentary Election

Methodology: I went back and looked at recommendations on the posts that I've made since the inaugural election a few months ago.  The poster with the greatest number of recommendations within their respective party was named that party's leader.  The tiebreaker for the aforementioned criteria was overall post count.  I went strictly by users' current avatar colors and did not take into account their actual ideology based on the content of their posts.

Summary of Results: The overall makeup of the House of Drew remains largely the same, with the main changes being in leadership roles.  Drewtopians For Progress, now led by Simple Union Jack (D-PEI), remains intact as the governing coalition, while A New Way For Drew, still led by Sun Belt Booster (fka Illiberal Progressive) (I-FL) continues to be relegated to the opposition.  Because the two parliaments resulted in a different number of seats, I expressed the seat changes as percentages.  Despite Democrats' continued frustrations of not getting a majority, their coalition remains intact after growing its overall share.  The left-of-center government likely takes a turn to the left with a few more socialists being elected.  The center-right ANWFD opposition experiences an influx of Republicans, though their share still trails that of Independents.  Libertarians gain a couple more members, while other opposition minor parties range from reduction (The O Bros and the AAA) to elimination (Constitution). 

Party        Election 1 (71 seats)   Election 2 (97 seats)  Change
                    #   %            #       %   
Democratic - Simple Union Jack (PEI)        35   49.30%   46    47.42%   -1.87%
Socialists - SRA IKZIA SICHES (fka SR GARBIEL BORIC) (MA)          3   4.23%    8      8.25%    +4.02%
Green - P. Clodius Pulcher (FL)                 3   4.23%    4      4.12%   -0.10%
DFP government                               41   57.75%   58     59.79%     +2.05%
               
Independent   - Sun Belt Booster (fka Illiberal Progressive) (FL)    11   15.49%   14   14.43%   -1.06%
Republican - Free Sanchez! (CA)        5         7.04%   11   11.34%   +4.30%
The O Bros - Sprouts Famers Market (PHI)         7   9.86%    7    7.22%   -2.64%
Anti-Avatar Alliance (AAA) - Ljube (Undisclosed location)           4   5.63%   4    4.12%   -1.51%
Libertarian   - dead0man (NE)          1   1.41%   3   3.09%   +1.68%
Constitution - No representation     2   2.82%   0   0.00%   -2.82%
ANWFD   opposition                            30   42.25%   39   40.21%   -2.05%

[West_Midlander]

The Congress of Midland aka The House of Delegates
66/130 seats for a majority
Republican: 64 (-12)
The Democrats: 13 (-15)
Populist-Conservative Front: 13 (-31)
Abdullah's Midland Party: 11 (-36)
Constitution: 5 (-18)
Scott's Party: 3 (+1)
Midland Green Party: 2 (-1)
Socialist: 2
Conservative Patriot Party: 2 seats (new)
Beesley's Party: 2 seats (new)
Horus' Party: 2 seats (new)
The Libertarians: 1 (-8)
The TimTurner Party: 1 seat (new)
Independents: 9 (-5)

Party Key:
The Republicans: PM GregTheGreat retained his position as party leader by acclamation at the party convention as he prepared to run for a fourth term. Fmr. PM Cao was considered a shoo-in for the vice chairmanship of the Republican Party. However, DabbingSanta made gains after successive votes at the convention, eventually leaving the party tied on the issue of the vice chairmanship. Fmr. PM Cao stepped aside and took on the role of party whip, allowing DabbingSanta to become the party's vice-chairman.

Some hardliner Cao supporters accused DabbingSanta of unethical schemes having been carried out by the candidate to tie the convention vote. However, Cao spoke highly of his competitor as he stepped aside, ignoring these allegations. Supposedly, DabbingSanta held blackmail over some delegates to shift their votes. However, this is unproven. (I thought my most recent post at the time of writing this was likely to have been recommended by DabbingSanta so I refreshed the page and it was so I counted that "vote.")
Party members by caucus size
• GregTheGreat, 30 caucus members; Party Leader
• DabbingSanta, 8 caucus members; Party Deputy
• Cao, 8 caucus members; Party Whip and Fmr. PM
• Fuzzy Bear; 4 caucus members; Party Conference Chair
• MT Treasurer; 2 caucus members; Party Outreach Chair
Other party members: Thunder98, Lone Star Politics, Averroës Nix, Roll Roons, kwabbit, Kander2020, Conservatopia, OSR, theflyingmongoose, Ghost_white, THG, Cody

The Democrats: Party leader khuzifenq ran for re-election but declined to run for party leader again. Utah Neolib was nominated as the party leader. He left the Party Deputy post vacant.
Party members by caucus size
• Utah Neolib, 2 caucus members
Other party members: swamiG, MATTROSE94, GeorgiaModerate, beaver2.0, VPH, progressive85, khuzifenq, Alex, Ray Goldfield, Sir Mohamed, Angry_Weasel

The Libertarians
Party members by caucus size
dead0man, 1 caucus member; Party Leader

Constitution
Party members by caucus size
Mr. Reactionary, 4 caucus members; Party Leader
Other party members: RoboWop

Socialist: Muaddib ran with the Socialist Party again in an attempt to "hijack" that party, according to some. However, the convention vote tied between him and PSOL. Muaddib and his delegates walked out of the convention and Muaddib ran under his new Conservative Patriot Party, a "personality cult" following his ideology.
Party members by caucus size
PSOL, 2 caucus members; Party Leader

Green: Party Leader Lourdes ran for Leader again, this time unopposed. The Green Party quickly began to develop into a personality cult following Lourdes.
Party members by caucus size
Lourdes, 2 caucus members

Populist-Conservative Front: ChristianMan declined to run for another term as party leader. The Pieman emerged as the PCF leader for the first time and Party Whip and Fmr. PM LT served as Deputy Party Leader. Neptunium entered party leadership for the first time, serving as Party Whip.
Party members by caucus size
• The Pieman, 6 caucus members; Party Leader
• LT, 5 caucus members; Party Deputy
• Neptunium, 3 caucus members; Party Whip
• Christian Man, 2 caucus members; proposed as Party Conference Chair (declined)
Other party members: Big Abraham, Sprouts

Independents: Hermit, Calthrina950, HisGrace, Pink Panther, SawxDem, Progressive Realist, bronze, Laki, Spark

*Parties named for an individual are typically personality cults that follow the ideology of the party leader

Notes
Midland saw a dramatic decrease in voter turnout. All parties lost seats and some dramatically so (e.g., the Constitution Party and Abdullah's party).

Longtime Leader of the Opposition and Fmr. PM Abdullah lost his post as his party slipped to third in the nation. Abdullah's Midland Party tied with the Democrats in the number of seats won; however, the Democrats finished slightly ahead of Abdullah's party in the popular vote. Abdullah took his case to the Supreme Court; however, the court ruled that the Democrats would be the Leader of the Opposition. Abdullah had argued that both he and Utah Neolib should be Co-Leaders of the Opposition, with both parties being recognized as the "second" party in the nation.

GregTheGreat secured an unprecedented fourth term as Prime Minister. The Republicans looked set to win an outright majority, something that has not happened in decades in Midland; however, the Republicans came two seats short of doing so.

Democrats sued against what they called "unfair electoral processes" to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled 8-3 against the move to abolish voter ID, declaring the requirement to vote, constitutional. Also, the Supreme Court rules 9-2 that provincial governments should be able to draw partisan gerrymanders. The Prime Minister and his allies declared that he and his Republicans do have a mandate since Republicans won a plurality of the vote in the election. Independent groups have stated that gerrymandering is limited in Midland, despite the claims of the opposition.

The government formed a majority coalition with the PCF, elevating The Pieman to the post of Deputy PM.

[Schiff for Senate]

1. I am counting S019 as a Democrat despite his sporting a GOP avatar, since he professes to, in reality, be a centre-left Democrat from New Jersey.
2. I will also NOT be tabulating any recommendations by Abdullah (sorry) since that will skew the results in favour of independent voters.
3. I will be tabulating each recommendation as one vote, so if one person recommends, say, 5 of my votes, and they are a Democrat, then that counts as 5 (not one) votes for Democrats.
4. I will be putting both raw votes and percentage of total votes for each party.
5. I will not be weighting my posts in any way.
6. Lastly, I will only be viewing the last 400 of my posts, as I believe they would be fairly representative of all my posts.



So here are the results given my 6 above rules, requirements, restrictions and regulations:
73 Democratic recommends (47.71%)
41 Republican recommends (26.80%)
20 Independent recommends (13.07%)
9 Socialist recommends (5.88%)
5 Other recommends (3.27%)
3 Libertarian recommends (1.96%)
2 NO AVATAR recommends (both from JM1295)

Here are the updated results. This time, I've given Abdullah his own category, but did not factor him into the final percentages for the sake of consistency (if he was included all other categories would fall by a lot and it would be harder to compare which parties gained ground and which parties lost ground):

46 Independent recommends (30.67%)
33 Republican recommends (22%)
32 Democratic recommends (21.33%)
14 Socialist recommends (9.33%)
11 Other recommends (7.33%)
7 NO AVATAR recommends (4.67%)
4 Green recommends (2.67%)
2 Constitutionalist recommends (1.33%)
1 Libertarian recommend (0.67%)
(28 Abdullah recommends)

The difference is honestly striking.
Admittedly most of my blue avatar recommends have been from GregTheGreat and flyingmongoose, but nonetheless, the GOP has beaten the Democrats by the narrowest of margins.
The Democrats have plummeted to third place from a solid first place.
The Independents have skyrocketed: earlier they were a distant, weak third - now, coming first by a very comfortable margin, and this is without including Abdullah as an independent! They have a powerful plurality. This is due largely to Christian Man and WM recommending my posts frequently.
The Greens have also done better - going from 0 seats to 3, and Constitutionalists have won their first two seats, while Libertarians have plummeted from 3 seats to one. NO AVATAR, Other and Socialists have also greatly improved.
My total recommends (not counting Abdullah's either time) have decreased slightly from 153 to a round 150.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

New elections! And with a major twist. The anti-Democratic coalition managed to ram through a reform that abolishes the Senate (noted for having an inherent pro-Democratic bias) while significantly expanding the Chamber of Deputies in return. The Chamber is still elected with the same old system, but it now forms a unicameral parliament.

Battista Minola's 8th Parliament - February 2022

Battista Minola's Chamber of Deputies:

Socialist - 83 (26.9%) - ▲43 (▲5.2%) Leaders: Nathan & Antonio V
Democratic - 59 (19.2%) - ▲13 (▼5.8%) Leaders: KaiserDave & Alcibiades
Independent - 53 (17.2%) - ▲5 (▼8.9%) Leaders: Progressive Realist & Scott
Other - 51 (16.6%) - ▲30 (▲5.2%) Leaders: Heat & Al
Republican - 35 (11.4%) - ▲24 (▲5.4%) Leaders: Cody & Joseph Cao
Green - 10 (3.2%) - ▲4 (▼0.1%) Leaders: Donerail & razze
Constitution - 8 (2.6%) - ▲7 (▲2.1%) Leaders: Mr. Reactionary & Cassius
Libertarian - 8 (2.6%) - ▲3 (▼0.1%) Leaders: Santander & lfromnj
No avatar - 1 (0.3%) - ▼5 (▼3%) Leader: dkxdjy

Total seats - 308 [▲124]



The new, unicameral, Parliament, delivers once again surprising results after wild swings. The Socialists are the ones who win the intra-coalition battle of "take the most credit and the least blame" this time, coming back to first place and now with a comfortable margin as well. Strong credit to Antonio V, possibly the most personally popular politician in the history of the country. Meanwhile the Independents lose a significant amount of votes, including to an Other Party which has overall moved to the left to some degree. The Democrats keep being victims of an irreversible decline, shrinking more and more from The Big Party Of Power to A Bunch Of Committed Loyal Nostalgics; in this election the big tent mostly sheds voters on the conservative side, propelling the 'official' right-wing parties to their best collective result ever (although it's still a paltry seventeen per cent or so).

In a rather unusual move, the Socialist Party decides to offer the Other Party to form a minority government together which will rely on alternate support from the Republicans or the Independents (or possibly someone else) depending on the situation. The Others after long deliberations and assurances about passing the hurdle of a confidence vote accept this, becoming part of the government for the first time. The transformation of the country from generic red avatar background dominance to Kołakowskian conservative-liberal-socialism is now complete.

[West_Midlander]

The Congress of Midland aka The House of Delegates
84/167 seats for a majority
Patriot: 31 seats (-33)
The Democrats: 29 seats (+16)
Populist-Conservative Front: 28 seats (+15)
Abdullah's Midland Party: 18 seats (+7)
Constitution: 16 seats (+11)
Main Street Republican: 16 seats (new)
Socialist: 12 seats (+10)
Midland Green Party: 3 seats (+1)
The Libertarians: 1
Unaligned Independents: 13 (+4)

Party Key:
The Republicans --> The Patriot Party: PM GregTheGreat saw approval ratings in the 20s leading party vice-chair Dabbing Santa to step into the race and Cao, the party whip, also ran. Unexpectedly, the Prime Minister entered the race and won by a hair at the convention. Dabbing Santa led for most of the race and it appeared that no candidate would secure a majority among the major three candidates running.

Cao seemed to be tied again with Dabbing Santa on the vice premiership vote leading Cao to form the Main Street Republican Party and he was joined by theflyingmongoose, PQG, Cody, and NCYankee in leaving the old Republican Party which was quickly renamed to the Patriot Party. Patriot success, however, seemed dampened by tensions between the PM and the Deputy Party Leader who along with Cao refused to drop out once the PM entered.

Party members by caucus size
• GregTheGreat, 9 caucus members; Party Leader
• DabbingSanta, 8 caucus members; Party Deputy
• PiT, 3 caucus members; Party Whip
• BigSerg, 2 caucus members
• DT, 2 caucus members
• Conservatopia, 2 caucus members; Fmr. Party Leader
Other party members: DeadPrez, Ghost_white, LordDrachir, heatcharger, THG

Main Street Republican: Center-right splinter party. Some considered NCYankee to be politically homeless after the Republicans splintered. He campaigned somewhat independent from his new party in the election.
• Cao, 8 caucus members; Party Chair and former PM
• theflyingmongoose, 2 caucus members
• PQG, 2 caucus members
Other party members: NCYankee, Cody

The Democrats: Khuzifenq returned as party leader and Badger served as his deputy. Democrats saw gains during this election while the PM's party bled support.

Interestingly, in this election hardliners and newcomers arrived at both the Patriot Party (formerly the Republicans) and the Democrats.
Party members by caucus size
• Khuzifenq, 5 caucus members; Party Leader
• Badger, 4 caucus members; Party Deputy
• Zyzz, 2 caucus members; Party Whip
Other party members: WD, Mr. Illini, FazyRoxy, Ferguson97, TarHeelDem, Forumlurker, Liam, President Johnson, OBD, BlueSwan

The Libertarians
Party members by caucus size
Alex, 1 caucus member; Party Leader

Constitution: Personality cult following Mr. R and his ideology. Mr. R's Constitution Party rebounded in this election.
Party members by caucus size
Mr. Reactionary, 16 caucus members; Party Leader

Socialist: Muaddib ran with the Socialist Party again in an attempt to "hijack" that party, according to some. However, the convention vote tied between him and left-wing candidates who joined forces to vote for no party leader to ensure Muaddib would not become the party leader. The convention vote tied again and as a result no party leader as selected. Muaddib remained registered with the Socialist as a "Socialist In Name Only." The Socialist party includes socialist elements but some members are left-wing but not socialist.
Party members by caucus size
Muaddib, 4 caucus members [NO FORMAL LEADERSHIP]
Other party members: morgieb, YE, King TChenka, omegascarlet

Green: Party Leader Lourdes ran for Leader again. The Green Party quickly began to develop into a personality cult following Lourdes.
Party members by caucus size
Lourdes, 3 caucus members

Populist-Conservative Front: Christian Man became party leader again and LT served as his deputy. The PCF, the Patriot Party, and Mr. R's Constitution Party coordinated campaign efforts in this election.
Party members by caucus size
• Christian Man, 8 caucus members; Party Leader
• LT, 7 caucus members; Party Deputy
• Sprouts, 4 caucus members; Party Whip
• Big Abraham, 3 caucus members; Party Conference Chair
• The Pieman, 2 caucus members*
Other party members: shua, ShadowOfTheWave, ElectionsGuy

*The Pieman was censured by the party on a narrow vote (but not expelled) due to controversial comments she made about Jewish refugees during WW2.

Independents:
Democratic-caucusing: TimTurner, Koopa, Scott, Horus (2 caucus members), Xing, WB
Socialist-caucusing: Crane (2 caucus members), MB, PSOL
Main Street Republican-caucusing: Spark
Unaligned: Xeuma, beesley, Cathcon, ugabug, MormDem, Calthrina950, Progressive Realist (2 caucus members), PinkPanther (2 caucus members), AverageFoodEnthusiast (3 caucus members)

**Party figures at the top of this post will include caucusing Independents.

***Parties named for an individual are typically personality cults that follow the ideology of the party leader.

Notes
Voter turnout improved somewhat since the last election.

Abdullah's party rebounded as did the Constitution Party

GregTheGreat sought a fifth term as PM. By election day his approval rating had improved to 40%. The PCF also made solid gains in this election but due to hemorrhaging of support from the old Republican, now Patriot, party the right lost -2 net seats, leaving their position practically unmoved. However, since the House expanded by about 30 seats due to improved turnout this seemed like a poor outcome for the Midland right.

Some called for a restoration of the Senate or the establishment of a House of Lords-esque body but these initiatives didn't go anywhere.

Deputy PM The Pieman's personal popularity was racked by her controversial comments during the election campaign, knocking her out of party leadership in the PCF and dropping her approval rating to 19% in Midland. The Pieman apologized for this remark and won re-election in her constituency with about 40% of the vote over 34% for the Democratic candidate.

Approval Ratings for Major Figures in Midland on Election Day (among those w/o a mentioned approval rating thus far):
Democratic Leader khuzifenq 44%
Patriot Deputy Dabbing Santa 46%
Fmr. PM LT 50%
PCF Leader Christian Man 54%
Mr. R 43%
Lourdes 29% (due to a large DK %)
"Socialist" Delegate Muaddib 41% (sizeable DK %)

The Socialists also saw big gains in this election. PM GregTheGreat remained on as PM. The four major right of center parties had a combined 91 seats (54% of seats). Excluding theflyingmongoose (Main Street R) who was reluctant to work with the governing coalition and including Muaddib (SOC) the government had 93 seats, approximately 56% of seats. Christian Man became Deputy PM once again and Khuzifenq became Leader of the Opposition.

[Mr. Morden]

Democrats seem to like my posts, as (going back four pages) a whopping 37 out of 60 of the unique people giving me recommendations had red avatars:

Democrat 62%
Socialist 10%
Other 8%
Republican 7%
Constitution 5%
Independent 5%
Green 2%
Libertarian 2%

Well, things have changed a lot in the last 2 years.  In my now 64 seat parliament, Democrats remain the plurality party, but way down from the 62% they had 2 years ago.  Now it’s:

Democrat 28%
Independent 17%
Republican 16%
Socialist 9%
Other 9%
Green 6%
Constitution 5%
Libertarian 5%
No avatar 3%
Forward 2%

So I guess the Dems lead a coalition government with the Socialists, the Greens, and about half the Independents.

[Pedocon Theory is not a theory]

The Imperial Diet of CalamityBlue

72/142 seats required for majority

Results for the election held January 26th to March 26th 2022 are as follows:

Democratic Party of CalamityBlue: 53 seats (37.3%).
United CalamityBlue Socialists: 18 seats (12.7%).
Republican Party of CalamityBlue: 13 seats (9.2%).
Liberal Party of CalamityBlue: 12 seats (8.5%).
Parti Ekologi CalamityBlue: 11 seats (7.7%).
True Republican Party of CalamityBlue: 9 seats (6.3%).
Revolutionary Communist Party of CalamityBlue: 5 seats(3.5%).
Libertarian Party of CalamityBlue: 4 seats(2.8%).


No Caucus: 6 seats(4.2%).

[West_Midlander]

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 PCF 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 two parties formed a coalition with aid and supply from GregTheGreat's Republicans. GregTheGreat refused an outright coalition with Conservatopia but agreed to vote with the government on key areas of agreement to allow Conservatopia, as the leader of the largest party, to lead a government. As a result, The Pieman became Leader of the Opposition as she was excluded from the new government.

Some local party officeholders from the Greens and the Socialists and some left-wing (especially socialist and communist groups) non-electoral organizations accused Libertarian supporters of ballot box stuffing.

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

PM Conservatopia's approval rating was 75% as he took office but the high approval rating was considered to be due to the hope of many Midlanders to finally see a new government and due to his honeymoon period as PM. Soon after the election, however, Fmr. PM GregTheGreat who turned down an offer to be the Government's official Whip as the leader of the third-largest party was considered to be an early frontrunner to succeed Conservatopia as PM in a rematch.

[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

[Conservatopia]

Wow, I won at last!

There's so many people I'd like to thank but none more deserving than myself.

[Brother Jonathan]

Members of the 2nd Parliament
-House of Commons-

Left Coalition- 65 Seats (+5.64%)
     Labor- 48 Seats(-2.52%)
        Prime Minister and Leader: OBD
        Deputy Leader: KaiserDave
        Government Chief Whip: Harry S Truman

     Socialist- 17 Seats (+11.48%)
        Deputy Prime Minister and Leader: Nathan
        Deputy Leader: Battista Minola
        Party Whip and Deputy Chief Whip: SawxDem

United Right- 32 Seats (+0%)
     Conservatives- 23 Seats (+1.97%)
        Leader of the Opposition: Rep. Joseph Cao
        Deputy Leader: RINO Tom
        Chief Whip: Louisville Thunder

     Populist Union- 6 Seats (N/A)
        Leader: GregTheGreat
        Deputy Leader: West Midlander

     Libertarians- 3 Seats (-1.7%)
        Leader: Ifromnj

Liberal- 10 Seats (N/A)
        Leader: Utah Neolib
        Deputy Leader and Chief Whip: IBNU

Crossbenchers- 8 Seats
        Chief Advocate: Cathcon

Just under two years since my last one of these, calculated only using recommendations since then. Surprisingly little change, though the parties have consolidated. The left retains its majority, though the right has started to solidify and the Liberal party has emerged and is holding its own on the opposition benches.

[brucejoel99]

First time! Went back 2 months & a week-&-a-1/2 to February 28th for a total of 288 posts & 573 recommends, a number that enables me to build a Parliament that'd be the size of the House if the Wyoming Rule were used. Here are the results:

Democratic Party: 261
Socialist Party: 117
Independents: 81
Others: 36
Republican Party: 27
Libertarian Party: 20
Green Party: 16
Constitution Party: 7
Unknown: 7
Forward Party: 1

Dems fall just 26 shy of a majority, but a Dem/Socialist coalition wins most, if not all votes with nearly a 2/3rds supermajority, & more than one if the Greens vote with them too. Add in assorted centrists & leftists categorized among Independents/Others & there's well beyond a comfortable majority for governmental policies, so Dems presumably head a minority government supported by assorted MPs amongst the Socialist, Green, Forward, Independent, & Other blocs.

President: brucejoel99 (D-FL)
Prime Minister: Badger (D-OH)
Deputy Prime Minister: Angry_Weasel (D-VA)
Chief Government Whip: Storr (D-NC)

Socialist Party Leadership: Alfred F. Jones, Fubart Solman, Nathan
Independent Group Facilitators: Abdullah, Scott, Progressive Realist
Independent Independents ("Others") Group Facilitators: WMS, TimTurner, jk2020
Republican Party Leadership: Cody, kongress, IndyRep
Libertarian Party Leadership: dead0man, Conservatopia (lol), lfromnj
Green Party Leadership: Lourdes, Lord Halifax, Old Europe
Constitution Party Leadership: Farmlands, AMB1996, Cassius
Assorted Independent ("Unknown") Facilitators: Charcolt, LostinOhio, Hollywood
Forward Party Leadership: ultraviolet

[West_Midlander]

The Congress of Midland
57/112 seats for a majority
Republican: 34 seats (+5)
The Democrats: 16 (+16)
Good Government Party: 12 seats (+5)
Populist-Conservative Front: 11 seats
Socialist: 10 seats (-25)
The Libertarians: 9 (-28)
Socialist National Union: 5 (new)
Abdullah's Midland Party: 3 seats (-10)
Green Conservative Party: 2 seats (new)
Green Left Party: 2 seats (new)
Tim Turner's Party: 1 seat (-2)
Independents: 7 (+3)**

*party numbers include non-party members who caucus with a particular party

**LBJer (Democratic caucusing), MormDem (GGP caucusing), MB, Spark, beesley (GGP caucusing), Koopa (Democratic caucusing), Forumlurker, Nutmeg, CentristRepublican, Horus, and Cokeland Saxton.

Party Key:
The Republicans: Fmr. PM GregTheGreat who was polling well in the general election (as the hypothetical party leader for this election) and who retained a lot of personal popularity was renominated. He faced no other major candidates and won 76% of the primary vote against various write-in and minor candidates. Cao was selected as the party's Deputy Leader.

Other party members include NC Yankee, PQG, UlmerFudd, kongress (caucuses with the Democrats), and OSR.

The Democrats: The Democratic Party rose from the ashes as many new voters and candidates flooded into the party. Newly elected MPs included leecannon, President Johnson, Pielover, SnowLabrador, Storr, Person Man, Georgia Moderate, Ferguson97, sea757232, Zyzz, Badger, and beaver2.0. Former Party Leader khuzifenq was also elected to another term and rose out of the fray to lead the party again. Khuzifenq led on the first ballot at the convention with just 14% but he eventually was chosen as party leader.

The Libertarians: PM Conservatopia saw some late success during the campaign but a deep depression dramatically reduced the popularity of the incumbent administration. GregTheGreat ran very successfully as an outsider candidate who would bring the country back from the brink despite his being a five-term PM seeking a sixth term. Lfromnj was elected as a Libertarian MP and served as the party's Deputy Leader leading into the election.

Socialist: Mr. R led the Socialists again but his close association with the administration tanked his party in the polls. Muaddib served as the Socialist deputy leader. Early polls showed that Mr. R could be in danger of losing the nomination to a united front of left-wingers in the party. Muaddib was written in by 13% of party voters during the primary and Mr. R won an outright majority of 53% of the vote. He entered the convention with over 2/3rds of pledged delegates with Muaddib's support.

Cassandra, Fubart Solman, CalamityBlue, and AverageFoodEnthusiast exited the party formally and formed the left-wing to far-left Socialist National Union. The party narrowly voted to choose a formal leadership after much debate and AFE was selected to lead the new SNU.

Green: Lourdes ran for party leader again and led in the early polling. However, fhtagn gained momentum and deadlocked the convention vote. This led the party to dissolve and two successor parties were formed, the Green Conservative Party led by fhtagn and the Green Left Party led by Lourdes.

Populist-Conservative Front: Christian Man and The Pieman ran against one another in the party leadership election. Each one stood at around forty percent of party delegates. LT's delegates were released at the convention and mostly unified behind Christian Man allowing him to succeed The Pieman as party leader. After losing the leadership election, The Pieman considered joining GregTheGreat's Republicans and taking her supporters with her or forming her own party but she ultimately declined and vowed to run for party leader again in the next election.

After this, The Pieman became the party's deputy, a post she was tapped for by Christian Man in a move to mend intra-party divisions. Fmr. PM LT declined to serve as the party's whip, instead opting to just serve as a backbencher for this term.

Good Government Party: The GGP resolved to not unify with the restored Democrats. Scott was chosen as the party's leader by acclamation. Ishan served as the party's deputy, Weatherboy as the party's whip, and wxtransit as the party's conference chair.

Some feared that the party would serve as a spoiler in case the Democrats and the GGP together could form a minority government but this fear did not come to fruition in this election.

Notes:
(Each election/post to my Parliament takes place "every four years" unless otherwise noted).

The Republicans saw some gains under Fmr. PM GregTheGreat and this was enough to secure them first party status, a great improvement from third party status in the last election. Turnout was expected to decrease dramatically since the past election and voter turnout did decrease significantly but not by as much as feared. Voter turnout was reduced and was the lowest voter turnout since the very low turnout of the 1992 Midland general election thirty years ago.

The GGP saw success, rising to third party status and a left of center party was restored to being the Party of the Opposition taking the place of the "Socialist in Name Only" Socialist Party of Mr. R. Khuzifenq served as Leader of the Opposition. Abdullah's AMP, the Socialists, and the Greens saw big losses, and the latter two parties split into two parts each. The governing Libertarians also saw huge losses, the most of any party.

GregTheGreat and his Republicans were accused of ballot stuffing (i.e., his recommending a lot of my posts after "losing" the last "election" [post] in Midland).

The left had hoped they might form a coalition government when more of the election results came in. Conservatopia's refusal to work with the first party Republicans made a coalition extremely difficult. GregTheGreat was eventually able to negotiate an incredibly narrow 1-seat majority with the support of Mr. R's Socialists, the PCF under Christian Man, and fhtagn's Green Conservatives. Mr. R served as the government's whip for the coalition, Christian Man served as the deputy PM, and fhtagn as the coalition's conference chair, a mostly ceremonial role. GregTheGreat's Coalition of the Many as he called it, striking a populist tone, was finalized securing him a sixth term as PM.

The incoming PM also called his coalition the Coalition for All Midland. Opponents of the new government called it the Coalition of the Old Guard since most of the leaders of the coalition were veterans of governmental service, especially to-be sixth term PM GregTheGreat.

The new government's opponents also called the governing coalition the Coalition of Fools, the Coalition for the Rich, The Troupe of Xenophobes, and The Rats Following the Pied Piper.

Adding more context: On election day, PM Conservatopia's job approval rating was 30% due to the poor economy. GregTheGreat had an approval rating of 50%.

Democrats appealed to the public after the election arguing if the old Senate was restored then the Democrats would have been the largest party in that chamber. This led to a movement for the restoration of the Senate as an almost equally powerful body to the House. This move had a 57% approval rating among the public and the government opposed the move. However, the 40% threshold for the opposition to bring a bill to the floor was passed and the vote for restoring the Senate passed by a vote of 58-50. The governing parties bled just enough support for the vote to pass alongside a mostly united informal coalition of opposition parties.

GregTheGreat's approval rating slipped to 40% for opposing the reform and opposition parties began talks of forming a Coalition for Midland Democracy after the next election. The Prime Minister called the developments, "Sad!" and referred to the coalition as "Very unbased!" and as the Catch-All Unfit-To-Govern Coalition.

GregTheGreat then survived a vote of no confidence by 57-55.

EDIT: Taking a quick glance at the numbers suggests that the left might have had as wide as a 24-seat majority controlling the Senate with 37 Senators to just 13 for the government. However, presumably the Coalition for Midland Democracy would include just enough members to make a coalition since the more parties in a coalition the more unstable it would become. A Democratic-GGP coalition with the support of many left of center Independents could easily hold a majority with khuzifenq being the Senate Majority Leader in that scenario and Cao possible serving as Senate Minority Leader assuming those two ran for Senate ITTL.

[West_Midlander]

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.

[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 (:

[Vice President Christian Man]

Just found this now but everyone knows that Abdullah is our eternal leader

[West_Midlander]

The House of Commons & Senate of Midland
42/83 seats for a House majority; 16/31 seats for a Senate majority
Republican: H 44 (+34) / S 10 (+2) in the Senate
House Leader: GregTheGreat
Senate Leader: heatcharger
Populist-Conservative Front: H 10 (-3) / S 3 (-2)
House Leader: Christian Man
Senate Leader: BG-NY
The Democrats: H 8 (-11) / S 8 (-4)
House Leader: BigVic
Senate Leader: Fubart Solman
Conservative Party of Midland: H 5 (—) / S 1 (—)
House Leader: Mr. R
Senate Leader: None
Good Government Party: H 3 (-1) / S 2 (-2)
House Leader: Ishan
Senate Leader: AGA
Socialist: H 3 (-1) / S 2 (—)
House Leader: AFE
Senate Leader: H. Ross Peron
Green Party of Midland: H 1 (-1) / S 1 (—)
House Leader: Lourdes
Senate Leader: ReallySuper
The Libertarians: H 1 (-4) / S 1 (-1)
House Leader: theflyingmongoose
Senate Leader: None
Independents/Other*: H 8 (+6) / S 3 (+1)

*Independents/Other Party members: Abdullah, leading a caucus of five; also, Farmlands, Muaddib (Republican-caucusing), Spark, Goldwater (Democratic-caucusing), LBJer (Democratic-caucusing), Koopa (Democratic-caucusing), nerd73 (Democratic-caucusing)

Party caucusing I/O members excluded from the totals above (and added to party totals)

Additional Party Information

The Republicans: Fmr. PM GregTheGreat retained his post as Republican leader winning 72% of delegates in the party primaries and winning at the party convention by acclamation.

The Democrats: Huge numbers of Democrats retired as the party saw big losses. Newcomer BigVic emerged as the party's leader.

Populist-Conservative Front: Party leader Christian Man held onto his position as his party lost seats in Congress.

Good Government Party: The GGP leadership imploded as the party saw losses again. Ishan and AGA emerged at the forefront of the decimated party.

The Election:
Midland saw increased turnout but accusations of ballot stuffing by GregTheGreat's Republicans were widespread.

The Republicans won an outright majority, securing another term as PM for GregTheGreat as a divided Senate resulted in a Republican-PCF-GGP-CON coalition of 16 seats. Fubart Solman became Official Opposition Minority Leader in the Senate and heatcharger was elected Senate Majority Leader.

[Schiff for Senate]

Trying new rules this time. The "party leader" is the poster from that group who has given me the most recommends, the "party whip" is the one with the 2nd most. So, for instance, if among blue avatars Greg gives me the most recommends, followed by Cody, then Greg would be the Republican leader and Cody the Republican whip. Their total seats is the total number of recommends given from that group, not the total number of people in that group who've recommended my posts. So if Greg recommends 4 of my posts, for instance, that's 4 seats, not 1. Lastly, I'll be going through the last 175 posts only.

Without further ado:

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Other-Unaffiliated Fusion:
Party Leader: Goldwater (O-CA)
Party Whip: TimTurner (O-TX)
Seats Won: 16

Democrats:
Party Leader: Ferguson (D-NJ)
Party Whips: Fubart Solman (D-CA), Progressive Pessimist (D-NJ)
Seats Won: 27

Socialists:
Party Leader: Scarlet (S-AZ)
Party Whip: Tchenka (S-Ontario)
Seats Won: 10

Independents:
Party Leader: Christian Man (I-MA)
Party Whip: PinkPanther (I-France)
Seats Won: 23

Republicans:
Party Leader: Cody (R-CA)
Party Whips: OSR (R-OR), Greg (R-NY)
Seats Won: 4
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Libertarians:
Party Leader: Flyingmongoose (L-CA)
Party Whip: Dead0Man (L-NE)
Seats Won: 4
(Both party members listed)

Greens:
Party Leader: Morgieb (G-Australia)
Party Whip: Lourdes (G-NJ)
Seats Won: 5
(Both party members listed)

Total Seats: 89

The poster who recommended the most of my posts from my last 175 was GOLDWATER (Other of California), who recommended nine posts. Surprisingly, just three Democrats recommended more than one of my posts, though scores recommended exactly one of my posts. Abdullah is also categorised as in independent and does not get his own category - surprisingly, I got just 1 recommend from him in all the hundreds of posts I checked. On the whole, if you'll see, Republicans preformed utterly abysmally. Out of 89 seats, they managed just 4 (two recommends from Cody and one apiece from Greg and OSR). This was on par with the Libertarians (three recommends from Flyingmongoose; one from Dead0man) - the two tied for last place - and behind the Greens (who got 5 seats - 4 recommends from Morgieb, and one from Lourdes), as well as every other party that won seats. Combining the Democrats, Greens, and Socialists into one left-of-centre coalition, they nonetheless fail to attain a majority - 42 out of 89 seats, three short of a majority. In practice, however, they should comfortably attain a majority as many in the Other-Unaffiliated Fusion (which consists of all the orange avatars who recommended my posts plus the one recommend I got from a No-Avatar poster, emailking) and the Independents are left-of-centre and should vote with the liberals.

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

(Snippy-snip)

Hey Mid, do I get benefits with this cabinet position?

[Goldwater]

I decided to try this using the same method as CentristRepublican, although I only went back 150 posts:

Democrats
Party Leader: Alex (D-Argentina)
Party Whip: Ferguson (D-NJ)
Seats won: 85

Socialists
Party Leader: Scarlet (S-AZ)
Party Whip: A.F.E. (S-OT)
Seats won: 54

Independents
Party Leader: Biden his time (I-FL)
Party Whip: West Midlander (I-NC)
Seats won: 44

Republicans
Party Leader: Courts (R-RI)
Party Whip : Greg (R-NY)
Seats Won: 22

The Orange Alliance
Party Leader: Ishan (O-PA)
Party Whips: Shua (O-VA) and Devout Centrist (O-AZ)
Seats won: 22

Greens
Party Leader: Khuzifenq (G-FL)
Party Whips: Morgieb (G-Australia) and Lourdes (G-NJ)
Seats won: 13

Constitution
Party Leader: Mr. Reactionary (C-VA)
Party Whip: Farmlands (C-Portugal)
Seats won: 10

Libertarians
Party Co-leaders/Whips: Mongoose (L-Norway) and Conservatopia (L-United Kingdom)
Seats won: 8

Total seats: 258

I imagine the most likely scenario is a ruling Democratic-Socialist coalition, with the Independents,Republicans, and Orange Alliance forming the opposition. Interestingly, Scarlet was the poster who gave me the most recommendations, having recommended 15 out of those 150 posts

[West_Midlander]

(Snippy-snip)

Hey Mid, do I get benefits with this cabinet position?

Just free coffee in the House chamber. It's not very good.

[支持核绿派 (Greens4Nuclear)]

Coorinna Coalition — Green politics, for dark green avatars and environmentalists of other colours. The party, colloquially known as the 'CoCo,' started as a single-issue anti-biodiversity-loss and anti-pollution party, but has since expanded into a broad 'environmentalist' coalition. The House Coorinna Coalition, led by khuzifenq, is mostly socially progressive, while the Senate Coorinna Coalition, led by Abdullah, lacks coherent messaging on most 'culture war' issues, instead focusing on the party's main priority of environmentalism, as well as the economy and 'kitchen table' issues.

Based description of the Green coalition, I have no problems with LARPing as a Green while I'm doing a meme avatar. Although I’m a bit miffed at the suggestion that I would focus on anything other than environmentalism and ‘kitchen table’ issues

December 2021 Kuumostan Legislative Elections

Desperate to reverse this trajectory, the Democratic leaders made a deal with the Green Party to bring back their governing majority. This was truly a last-resort solution as the Green Party was essentially in a civil war between the socially liberal, pro-nuclear wing led by khuzifenq and the anti-nuclear, anti-immigration wing led by Hades. Khuzifenq saw his chance to retain relevance and demanded that he be given co-leadership of the Democratic Senate caucus in exchange for his supporters in the Green Party backing the Democratic legislative agenda. After weeks of negotiations, Teflon Joe and KaiserDave agreed to the deal.

Based timeline.

The 4th khuzifenq regional parliament is based on the 200 posts from June 13 through the end of August 28, only counting Recommends accrued within that timeframe.

75 independent users, 173 total recommends

Two notable developments since the last Parliamentary caucus-

• While the Democrats are still the plurality party overall thanks to residual goodwill among the media and major institutions and a stronger showing in upper house elections, they have greatly suffered electorally from the implementation of ranked choice voting. RCV allowed segments of the party’s base to voice their disapproval of the current administration’s handling of various ongoing problems and a perceived managerial elite by voting in Independent parliamentarians, particularly in the lower house.
• The influx of Independents has ruptured the coalition of unaffiliated parliamentarians to the point where they can no longer be treated as a unified bloc. Most notably, the rise of firebrand Leipist Abdullah has drawn widespread criticism of the Indie alliance from both Socialist-aligned and Former Premier Q-aligned Independents.

“Thanks to FiveThirtyEight’s analysis of press release statements, voting records on legislation, campaign contributions, and analysis of their primary election support bases, we have split the Independent, Other, and null avatar MPs into 5 camps based on ideological placement relative to the major parties.”

• Abdullah Faction- all I-avatars, communitarian
• Socialist Faction- economically far-left, caucus with Socialists
• TimTurner Faction- mostly O-avatars, caucus with Democrats
• Pro-Q Faction- populist, anti-institution
• Forward Party Faction- the only true independents left

Abdullah Indies (Communitarian Left)  46 / 6
Atomic-Statism 1 (I-CA)
Cadeyrn 4 (I-BC)
Abdullah 31 (I-FL)
sawx 2 (I-NH)
Horus 5 (I-GA)
Forumlurker161 3 (I-CO)

Socialist Indies (Far Left)   4 / 4
L.D. Smith/mormdem 1 (I-TX)
Lord Halifax 1 (G-AK)
parochial boy 1 (O-CH)
PSOL 1 (I-IL)

TimTurner Indies (Ambiguous Left)  11 / 6
pikachu 2 (O-NYC)
RejectedOne123 2 (null)
TimTurner 3 (O-PR)
Goldwater 2 (O-CA)
ProudModerate2 1 (I-CA)
emailking 1 (null)

Pro-Q Indies (Ambiguous Right) 14 / 8
Sprouts 1 (O-PHI)
The Pieman 2 (I-AU)
West_Midlander 2 (I-NC)
Christian Man 4 (I-MA)
Farmlands 2 (C-PT)
shua 1 (O-VA)
Meclazine 1 (null)
Grumps 1 (null)

Forward Party Indies  9 / 7
Technocracy Timmy 1 (O-CA)
Adowemiti 1 (I-PA)
ishan 1 (null/O-PA)
peenie weenie 3 (C-CO)
Ebowed 1 (R-IT/I-AU)
JimJamUK 1 (O-UK)
bagelman 1 (I-OH)

Libertarians  8 / 5

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dead0man 2 (L-NE)
theflyingmongoose 2 (L-NO/CA)
Santander 2 (L-KY)
lfromnj 1 (L-NJ)
gerritcole 1 (L-CT)

Republicans  16 / 5

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Joseph Cao 8 (R-HK)
Cody 3 (R-CA)
Penn_Quaker_Girl 3 (R-TX)
omelott 1 (R-CO)
Del Tachi 1 (R-MS)

Democrats  44 / 24

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Stuart98 3 (D-UT)
Person Man 1 (D-FL/VA/UA)
Fubart Solman 3 (D-PE)
slimey56 10 (D-PHI/G-PHI)
Badger 3 (D-OH)
Beet 4 (D-TX)
Progressive Pessimist 1 (D-NY)
IBNU 1 (D-SG/TX)
NYDem 1 (D-NY)
Interlocutor 1 (D-CA)
The Ex-Factor 4 (D-CA)
LabourJersey 1 (D-NJ)
Cubby 1 (D-CT)
Indy Texas 1 (D-TX)
SnowLabrador 1 (D-MA)
Asenath Waite 1 (D-RI)
politicallefty 1 (D-CA)
jimmie 2 (D-CO)
SevenEleven 1 (D-LAX)
Adam Griffin 1 (D-GA)
tack50 1 (D-ES)
meepcheese16 1 (S-OR)
WesternDemocrat 1 (S-MA)
Alcibiades 1 (D-ES/UK)

Socialists  21 / 10

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Cassandra 1 (S-NC)
AverageFoodEnthusiast 4 (S-BY)
YE 1 (S-NV)
Sol 2 (S-NC)
omegascarlet 2 (S-AZ)
NOVA Green 2 (S-OR)
King of Kensington 4 (S-ON)
MB 2 (S-OR)
discovolante 2 (S-BE/MD)
Alfred F. Jones 1 (S-MA)

The Democrats can form a simple majority coalition in the lower house with just the Abdullah Indies (44 + 46 = 90/173), although their lower house majority also includes the TimTurner Indies in practice (44 + 46 + 11 = 101/173). However, a Democrats + Abdullah Indies + TimTurner Indies coalition is insufficient for a simple majority in the upper house (24 + 6 + 6 = 36/75)- which forces upper house Democrats to compromise with both the far-left and the (center-)right on legislation.

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The 4th khuzifenq regional parliament is based on the 200 posts from June 13 through the end of August 28, only counting Recommends accrued within that timeframe.

75 independent users, 173 total recommends

BONUS: I will also attempt to describe the party coalitions of my NationStates main accounts using Atlas members. I stopped caring about the ideological aspects of my in-universe party alignments some time before I joined the Leipverse, but thought it'd be fun to come back to this since it gives me an opportunity to explore cleavages within TalkElection's expansive left-of-center caucus that transcend avatar color. (Apologies for the color scheme)

Both Jamilkhuze and Syfenq's party systems are characterized by a dominant "establishment" big-tent coalition of smaller parties and interest groups, alongside two other major parties that are to the dominant party's right on economic and social issues respectively, and various smaller parties. The systems differ in the ideological orientation of the dominant big-tent coalitions (Jamilkhuze's Triple Green Coalition is broadly left-of-center, while Syfenq's Coalition for Justice and Development is broadly right-of-center), and in the nature of the smaller parties. Jamilkhuze has a large faction of Independents in the legislature that are rather difficult for the (relatively right-wing) non-dominant parties to form working coalitions with. Syfenq's parties have historically been more volatile due to greater levels of political freedom and corporate influence and the dominant coalition's general governance philosophy.


Jamilkhuze

Triple Green Coalition (87/173)- big-tent amalgamation of social democratic, progressive, pluralist, liberal-conservative, Green, agrarian, and healthcare/energy/academia interest groups

• parti socialiste: led by Beet
• Alternative for Jamilkhuze: led by slimey56
• Pakatan Pelangi: led by Abdullah

United Democrats (22/173)- socially conservative, pro-hierarchy, pro-tradition, pro-organized religion. One of the two "right-wing populist" parties.
led by Rep. Joseph Cao

Liberal Party (14/173)- economically free-market, pro-entrepreneurship, pro-meritocracy. The other main "right-wing populist" party.
led by Penn_Quaker_Girl

Tea-gray Independents (31/173)- group of non-aligned legislators whose policy preferences act as a counterweight against the other parties (i.e. true populism in that sense). United Democrats and Liberals are generally locked out of power due to being unable to convince independents to form a coalition with them.

Radical Front, Flowers for Nirbhaya  (21/173)- the "far-left". Animated by grievances against the Triple Green coalition for not being far left enough. Generally not a viable electoral force since the more left-y wings of the Triple Green Coalition try to co-opt their policy goals whenever possible.
led by Atomic-Statism, NOVA Green


Syfenq

Coalition for Justice and Development (69/173)- an amalgamation of  conservative-liberal, pro-business, Islamic democratic, pro-organized religion, pluralist, pro-monarchy, and pro-photovoltaics + pro-nuclear center(-right) parties.

• Pakatan Hizbullah: led by Abdullah
• Saffron Sangha: led by Penn_Quaker_Girl
• Dharma Wheel Assembly: led by Rep. Joseph Cao
• Dar al-Aman: led by TimTurner
• Citizens for Pancasila: led by peenie weenie
• Children of the Wadi: led by Indy Texas

Liberal Democratic Party (19/173)- neoliberal, free-market, pro-meritocracy, socially moderate
led by Fubart Solman

People's Labor Party (15/173)- traditionalist, Islamist, communitarian, pro-military/law enforcement
led by Christian Man

Humanity Above All (54/173)- secularist, anti-organized religion, socially liberal, social-democratic, anti-Islamist, anti-Coalition. It has gradually grown in power as the Coalition has increasingly partnered with the Liberal Democrats and People's Labor to maintain power.
led by slimey56

Shrine of Gaia Alliance (14/173)- dark green, eco-socialist. Noticeably more pro-religion than Humanity Above All, its founder is an ex-member of the Coalition.
led by AverageFoodEnthusiast

Keep Syfenq Splendid (4/173)- far-right conspiratorialism, anti-democracy, anti-establishment
led by The Pieman

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Triple Green Coalition (87/173):
pikachu 2 (O-NYC)
Lord Halifax 1 (G-AK)
Cadeyrn 4 (I-BC)
AFE 4 (S-BY)
King of Kensington 4 (S-ON)
Alfred F. Jones 1 (S-MA)
Abdullah 31 (I-FL) --> pakatan pelangi
Forumlurker161 3 (I-CO)
Stuart98 3 (D-UT)
Person Man 1 (D-FL/VA/UA)
Fubart Solman 3 (D-PE)
slimey56 10 (D-PHI/G-PHI) --> alternative for jamilkhuze
Badger 3 (D-OH)
Beet 4 (D-TX) --> parti socialiste
Progressive Pessimist 1 (D-NY)
NYDem 1 (D-NY)
Interlocutor 1 (D-CA)
The Ex-Factor 4 (D-CA)
Cubby 1 (D-CT)
Asenath Waite 1 (D-RI)
SevenEleven 1 (D-LAX)
Adam Griffin 1 (D-GA)
tack50 1 (D-ES)
Alcibiades 1 (D-ES/UK)

United Democrats (22/173):
Joseph Cao 8 (R-HK) -->
Cody 3 (R-CA)
Santander 2 (L-KY)
Christian Man 4 (I-MA)
Farmlands 2 (C-PT)
shua 1 (O-VA)
Meclazine 1 (null)
Grumps 1 (null)

Liberal Party (14/173):
dead0man 2 (L-NE)
flyingmongoose 2 (L-NO/CA)
lfromnj 1 (L-NJ)
gerritcole 1 (L-CT)
Goldwater 2 (O-CA)
PQG 3 (R-TX) -->
omelott 1 (R-CO)
Del Tachi 1 (R-MS)
Sprouts 1 (O-PHI)

Tea-green Independents (31/173):
RejectedOne123 2 (null)
IBNU 1 (D-SG/TX)
Indy Texas 1 (D-TX)
SnowLabrador 1 (D-MA)
jimmie 2 (D-CO)
L.D. Smith/mormdem 1 (I-TX)
Horus 5 (I-GA)
TimTurner 3 (O-PR)
ProudModerate2 1 (I-CA)
emailking 1 (null)
Technocracy Timmy 1 (O-CA)
Adowemiti 1 (I-PA)
ishan 1 (null/O-PA)
peenie weenie 3 (C-CO)
Ebowed 1 (I-AU)
JimJamUK 1 (O-UK)
bagelman 1 (I-OH)
The Pieman 2 (I-AU)
West_Midlander 2 (I-NC)

Radical Front + Flowers for Nirbhaya (21/173):
parochial boy 1 (O-CH)
PSOL 1 (I-IL)
sawx 2 (I-NH)
Atomic-Statism 1 (I-CA) -->
Cassandra 1 (S-NC)
YE 1 (S-NV)
Sol 2 (S-NC)
omegascarlet 2 (S-AZ)
NOVA Green 2 (S-OR) -->
MB 2 (S-OR)
discovolante 2 (S-BE/MD)
meepcheese16 1 (S-OR)
WesternDemocrat 1 (S-MA)
politicallefty 1 (D-CA)
LabourJersey 1 (D-NJ)

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Coalition for Justice and Development (69/173):
Beet 4 (D-TX)
IBNU 1 (D-SG/TX)
NYDem 1 (D-NY)
Indy Texas 1 (D-TX) -> Children of the Wadi
SnowLabrador 1 (D-MA)
politicallefty 1 (D-CA)
jimmie 2 (D-CO)
tack50 1 (D-ES)
Alcibiades 1 (D-ES/UK)
Joseph Cao 8 (R-HK) -> Dharma Wheel Assembly
PQG 3 (R-TX) -> Saffron Sangha
omelott 1 (R-CO)
Del Tachi 1 (R-MS)
Abdullah 31 (I-FL) -> Pakatan Hizbullah
Forumlurker161 3 (I-CO)
TimTurner 3 (O-PR) -> Dar al-Aman
Technocracy Timmy 1 (O-CA)
Adowemiti 1 (I-PA)
ishan 1 (null/O-PA)
peenie weenie 3 (C-CO) -> Citizens for Pancasila

Liberal Democratic Party (19/173):
dead0man 2 (L-NE)
flyingmongoose 2 (L-NO/CA)
Santander 2 (L-KY)
lfromnj 1 (L-NJ)
gerritcole 1 (L-CT)
Stuart98 3 (D-UT)
Person Man 1 (D-FL/VA/UA)
Fubart Solman 3 (D-PE) -->
Goldwater 2 (O-CA)
ProudModerate2 1 (I-CA)
emailking 1 (null)

People's Labor Party (15/173):
Cody 3 (R-CA)
West_Midlander 2 (I-NC)
Christian Man 4 (I-MA) -->
Farmlands 2 (C-PT)
shua 1 (O-VA)
Meclazine 1 (null)
Ebowed 1 (I-AU)
JimJamUK 1 (O-UK)

Humanity Above All (54/173):
Atomic-Statism 1 (I-CA)
Cadeyrn 4 (I-BC)
sawx 2 (I-NH)
Horus 5 (I-GA)
YE 1 (S-NV)
Sol 2 (S-NC)
omegascarlet 2 (S-AZ)
King of Kensington 4 (S-ON)
MB 2 (S-OR)
Alfred F. Jones 1 (S-MA)
L.D. Smith/mormdem 1 (I-TX)
parochial boy 1 (O-CH)
PSOL 1 (I-IL)
Badger 3 (D-OH)
bagelman 1 (I-OH)
slimey56 10 (D-PHI/G-PHI) -->
Progressive Pessimist 1 (D-NY)
Interlocutor 1 (D-CA)
The Ex-Factor 4 (D-CA)
LabourJersey 1 (D-NJ)
Cubby 1 (D-CT)
Asenath Waite 1 (D-RI)
SevenEleven 1 (D-LAX)
Adam Griffin 1 (D-GA)
meepcheese16 1 (S-OR)
WesternDemocrat 1 (S-MA)

Shrine of Gaia Alliance (14/173):
pikachu 2 (O-NYC)
RejectedOne123 2 (null)
Cassandra 1 (S-NC)
AFE 4 (S-BY) -->
NOVA Green 2 (S-OR)
discovolante 2 (S-BE/MD)
Lord Halifax 1 (G-AK)

Keep Syfenq Splendid (4/173):
Sprouts 1 (O-PHI)
The Pieman 2 (I-AU) -->
Grumps 1 (null)

[West_Midlander]

The House of Commons & Senate of Midland
24/46 seats for a House majority; 13/24 seats for a Senate majority
Republican: H 14 (-30) / S 6 (-4) in the Senate
House Leader: Cao
Senate Leader: PQG
Midland Left Coalition: H 11 (+8) / S 6 (+4)
House Leader: ZMUN M441
Senate Leader: Goldwater
Populist-Conservative Front: H 10 (—) / S 3 (—)
House Leader: Christian Man
Senate Leader: shua
Socialist: H 3 (—) / S 2 (—)
House Leader: AFE
Senate Leader: T'Chenka
Conservative Party of Midland: H 1 (-4) / S 1 (—)
House Leader: Mr. R
Senate Leader: None
Green Party of Midland: H 1 (—) / S 1 (—)
House Leader: None official (Lourdes, in practice)
Senate Leader: None official
The Libertarians: H 1 (—) / S 1 (—)
House Leader: citizenZ
Senate Leader: None
Independents/Other*: H 5 (-3) / S 4 (+1)

*Independents/Other Party members: theflyingmongoose, rosin, Horus, Muaddib

Party caucusing I/O members excluded from the totals above (and added to party totals)

Additional Party Information

The Republicans: Former PM Cao returned to lead the party. Other party members include courts, Cody, and heatcharger, the party's whip in the House.

Midland Left Coalition: The Good Government Party became a new home of the left under the name the Midland Left Coalition. Party members include PinkPanther, WB, Goldwater, TimTurner, Ishan, and ZMUN M441, the party's leader.

The Election:
PM GregTheGreat retired marking the end of an era and the declining Democratic Party dissolved. Voter turnout declined from the last election and Midland seemed on track to suffer its lowest voter turnout election in the country's history, however, that did not happen.

Christian Man's party initially led in early returns but the left and the Republican Party outperformed the polls, securing the two top results in the race for the House. Cao returned to the Prime Minister's Residence as Christian Man became deputy prime minister again, signing a coalition deal between the Republicans and his party.

Politicos believe the coalition, while narrow, with just 24 seats, to be able to stand until the next election. In the Senate, Republican Senator PQG was easily elected to serve as Senate Majority Leader with cross party support since neither the left nor right had enough votes to choose a candidate for the position alone as the Senate is divided 12-12 ideologically.

This is PM Cao's third term as PM after 46 years out of the position (in timeline). Assuming he became Prime Minister in his 30s, he would be at least 84 now.

[West_Midlander]

The House of Commons & Senate of Midland
43/85 seats for a House majority; 24/46 seats for a Senate majority
Populist Front: H 18 (+8) / S 6 (+3)
House Leader: Christian Man
Senate Leader: Spark
The Democrats: H 17 (+17) / S 13 (+13) in the Senate
House Leader: Alex
Senate Leader: darklordoftech
Conservative Party of Midland: H 16 (+15) / S 3 (+2)
House Leader: Mr. R
Senate Leader: Muaddib
Midland Left Coalition: H 9 (-1) / S 7 (+1)
House Leader: ZMUN M441
Senate Leader: MormDem
Republican: H 8 (-6) / S 5 (-1) in the Senate
House Leader: Cody
Senate Leader: GregTheGreat
Socialist: H 5 (+2) / S 2 (—)
House Leader: omegascarlet
Senate Leader: AFE
Green Party of Midland: H 2 (+1) / S 2 (+1)
House Leader: Lourdes
Senate Leader: ReallySuper
Independents/Other*: H 10 (+5) / S 8 (+4)

*Independents/Other Party members: Abdullah, Horus, Laki (controls a caucus of 3), Hammy, jfern, Averroës Nix, SawxDem, DaleCooper

Additional Party Information

The Republicans: Longtime party backbencher Cody led the party into the election. Former PM GregTheGreat attempted a political comeback but withdrew from the leadership contest at the party convention, agreeing to serve as the party's Senate Leader. Other party congresspeople include heatcharger, Roll Roons, and greenchili02.

Midland Left Coalition: ZMUN M441 led the Midland Left Coalition into the elections again.

Other MLC party members include WB, TimTurner, Scott, Goldwater, and the party's Senate Leader MormDem.

Populist Front: At the party convention, Christian Man won renomination as party leader with the support of 56% of party delegates. At Christian Man's urging, the party dropped the "Conservative" from their name solidifying their shift to the center. That motion had the support of 61% of party delegates but platform concessions to the party's conservative wing had to be secured to keep those individuals from bolting the party.

Longtime Independent and party newcomer, Spark, is the party's Senate leader. Thunder98, LT, Sprouts, and SN are among the party's other members.

The Democrats: The Democrats saw a meteoric rise from the ashes becoming the second-largest party in Midland overnight. Alex, the only Democratic PM in Midland's history, re-entered politics to lead the party. Darklordoftech became the party's Senate leader. Other party members include NYE, jeb_arlo, Liam, khuzifenq, Interlocutor, unempprof, Progressive Pessimist, Badger, NYDem, and Blue3.

Conservative Party of Midland: Mr. R's Conservatives saw huge gains in this election. Other party members include Muaddib and DTC.

The Election:
Old Man Cao, as he was called, retired from government. Cao's son, Cao Jr., expressed interest in running for his father's old seat in a future election.

The Republican Party surprisingly imploded as many party members refused to stand for reelection, retiring instead. In other parties, however, and in the revived Democratic Party, surprisingly, there was a lot of new blood in Midland politics.

The once dominant Republican Party fell to fifth party status and the MLC fell in support and was badly outperformed by the Democrats. Notably, the PF's shift-to-the-center strategy worked for them despite media predictions that it would not, or that the party's right-wing would bolt. Mr. R's Conservatives rose back to prominence which almost no one expected. In what was forecast as a David-and-Goliath rise from no representation in the last election to the Prime Minister's residence for the Democrats, that party fell short placing second in what was essentially a three-way race.

Alex would not once again be the next Prime Minister of Midland.

This election, in fact, marked the first time that the PCF, now PF, won the most seats in a Midland election. Christian Man came back from his falling short three cycles ago and emerged as the leader of the country's first-place party. His victory, however, was not absolute. Christian Man became Prime Minister but he had to form a tenuous, and extremely narrow, 43-seat government (i.e., with a 1-seat majority) with the Conservatives and the MLC.

The Senate Majority Leader vote was very hard fought. That contest turned into a race of people instead of parties and Senator Spark fell short. The MLC and the country's left-wing fell into the arms of the Democrats making darklordoftech the country's next Senate Majority Leader, ushering in a period of divided government and badly hampering Christian Man's political agenda. Relations were stressed between the new government and its minor coalition partner, the MLC, as a result. However, Christian Man was forced to cooperate with that party and to grant large concessions to avoid a vote of no confidence and a highly possible Democratic government that could result should the MLC shift toward that party in the lower chamber of government. Only time would tell if the Prime Minister would bite the bullet of a snap election.