Parliament of Recommendations

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

October 2019 Trumanic general election
All 157 seats in the House of Commons. 78 seats needed for a majority.

65   Democratic
31   Independent
25   Others
14   Republican
09   Green
08   Socialist
03   Non-inscrit
02   Libertarian
01   Constitution

The Democrats form a minority government, with enough support from Independents and the minor leftist parties to command a majority on key votes. With fewer than a tenth of the total seats in the chamber, the Republicans form the largely-irrelevant official opposition.

(Counting individual recommendations since October 1.)

[America Needs R'hllor]

I did the first 20 pages of my current posts (yes, I was bored). I classified the recommends into several categories- Democrats, Republicans, left-leaning Indies, right-leaning Indies, left-leaning Others, right-leaning Others, Libertarians, Constitution, Santander (fake Democrat!) and the many fake Republicans we have. I considered no-avatar people Indies and classified them as such, and I did one exception where I moved

Some fun facts:
I have 0 recommends from Constitution avatars. This is truly like an F rating from the NRA! Great honour!
Pretty much the only Libertarian who recommended my posts was dead0man. The only other was Libertpaulian, I believe.
In the right-leaning Indies front, the majority of rocommends from beautiful Goldwater.
I have more than twice more recommends from fake Republicans than real Republicans. However, jbd made a sizeable chunk of these and he only recently switched to blue avatar.
The huge majority of my Republican recommends were from Sunrise and DavidB. Look at my Jews over here!
There's a mole in the Socialist Party.

Here we have the result:

Democratic Party- 284 Seats (37.1%)
Corporate Buddhist People's League- 109 Seats (14.2%)
Broad Front- 90 Seats (11.8%)
İyi Republican Party- 88 Seats (11.5%)
Forward!- 43 Seats (5.6%)
Marxist-Maoist Workers' Party- 42 Seats (5.5%)
Republican Party- 40 Seats (5.2%)
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen- 36 Seats (4.7%)
Sprouts Farmer-Labour Party- 22 Seats (2.9%)
Libertarian Neoconservative Party- 6 Seats (0.8%)
Antifa Fascist Party- 5 Seats (0.7%)
Constitution Party- 0 Seats (0.0%)
Overall: 765
Majority: 383

Party lists:

Democratic Party
Leader: Westroopnerd (D-MD)
Major figures: Cold War Liberal (D-MD), Progressive Pessimist (D-NJ), ON Progressive (D-ON), 20RP12 (D-PA), Fubart Solman (D-PE), KaiserDave (D-NY)
Official Ideology: Progressivism (majority), Centrism (minority), Social Liberalism, Modern Liberalism, Big Tent

Republican Party
Leader: DavidB. (R-NE)
Major figures: SunriseAroundTheWorld (R-MA), Lechasseur (R-FR), Chairman Sanchez (R-FL)
Official Ideology: Zionism, Neoconservativism (majority), Paleoconservativism (minority), Social Conservativism

Corporate Buddhist People's League
Leader: Scutosaurus (CB-GA)
Major figures: Skunk (CB-MN), HCP (CB-TX), MB (CB-OR), Sestak (CB-IL), Xeuma (CB-OH), Parochial Boy (CB-CH), CrabCake (CB-UK)
Official Ideology: Anti-Populism (majority), Populism (minority), Corporate Buddhism, Hanabusaïanism, Abercrombieanism, Social Liberalism

Broad Front
Leader: Аverroës (BF-VT)
Major figures: Beet (BF-TX), Landslide Lyndon (BF-TX), Sjoyce (BF-IL), Jacobin American (BF-MO), Walmart_shopper (BF-IL),
Official Ideology: Left-wing Populism, Progressivism, Socialism (minority)

İyi Republican Party
Leader: Heatcharger (IR-VA)
Major figures: Kongress (IR-KS), Jdb (IR-DC), Lief (IR-NY), IceSpear (IR-KY)
Official Ideology: Anti-populism, Social Liberalism, Progressivism, Neoliberalism

Forward!
Leader: Goldwater (F-CA)
Major figures: Thunder98 (F-CA)
Official Ideology: Liberalism, Social Liberalism, Fiscal Conservativism, Centrism

Marxist Workers' Party
Leader: Anomalocaris (MW-ES)
Major figures: Nathan (MW-MA), Kalwejt (MW-PL), Pyro (MW-NY), Technocracy Tim (MW-WV), Devout Centrist (MW-AZ)
Official Ideology: Marxism-Leninism, Socialism, Social Liberalism, Maoism (minority)

Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
Leader: YE (G-NV)
Major figures: Razze (G-FL), Morgieb (G-AU), Lourdes (G-NJ)
Official Ideology: Environmentalism, Social Liberalism, Progressivism, Surgism

Sprouts Farmer-Labour Party
Leader: Sprouts Farmers Market (SFL-PA)
Major figures: None
Official Ideology: Populism, Anti-populism, Capitalism, Communism, Social Conservativism, Social Liberalism

Libertarian Neoconservative Party
Leader: Dead0man (L-NE)
Major figures: Libertpaulian (L-IN)
Official Ideology: Fiscal Libertarianism, Social Liberalism, Neoconservativism

Antifa Fascist Party
Leader: Santander (AF-KY)
Major figures: None
Official Ideology: Antifa, Social Conservativism, Atlas Institutionalism

Now, the triumphant Westroopnerd Democrats are looking for coalition partners! With the Corporate Buddhists, Greens, Good Republicans and Broad Front in the mix, what should happen now?

[they don't love you like i love you]

5 pages gives me a 69 member Parliament. I took some liberty with posters who aren't using avatars that accurately reflect the politics for gimmicks and aesthetic reasons.
Democratic - 35/50.72%
Republican - 9/13.04%
Socialist - 8/11.59%
Independent - 7/10.1%
Other - 6/8.7%
Libertarian - 3/4.35%
Green - 1/1.5%

[Dr. MB]

(last 20 pages)

Democrat + Socialist or Dem + Ind Left is enough on its own.

[Skunk]

Since I am an incredibly popular albeit lazy poster, I only did the first two pages which still left me with 103 unique posters. Party leaders and "major figures" have been determined by how many times a user recommended a post of mine.

Democratic- 43 (41.7%)
Socialist- 19 (18.4%)
Liberty Union- 12 (11.7%)
Republican- 8 (7.8%)
La Follette Republicans- 5 (4.9%)
En Marche!- 5 (4.9%)
Green- 5 (4.9%)
независимая шутка- 3 (2.9%)
Libertarian- 2 (1.9%)
Smilo- 1 (1%)

Party descriptions:

Democratic Party
Leader: ON Progressive (D-ON)
Major figures: Parrotguy (D-IL), Storr (D-NC), TrendsareReal (D-TX), Xing (D-WA), 20RP12 (D-PA), Crumpets (D-DC), Tartarus Sauce (D-IA), DINGO Joe (D-LA), Ishan (D-PA), Santander (D-KY)
Ideology: Modern liberalism, Social liberalism, Progressivism (faction), Centrism (faction), Santanderism (faction)

Socialist Party
Leader: Lourdes (S-NJ)
Major figures: BP1202 (S-MI), Technocracy Timmy (S-WV), Leinad (S-GA), peenie_weenie (S-CO), Politician (S-MA), tack50 (S-ES)
Ideology: Democratic socialism, Maroonism (faction)

Liberty Union
Leader: Scott (LU-VA)
Major figures: Hammy (LU-VA), Cashew (LU-CA), WB (LU-SC), DTC (LU-GA), Landslide Lyndon (LU-GR)
Ideology: Progressivism, Democratic socialism (faction), Radical centrism (faction)

Republican Party
Leader:Thunder98 (R-CA)
Major figures: MT Treasurer (R-MT), Dr. RI (R-CA)
Ideology: Conservatism, Social conservatism, Fascism (faction)

La Follette Republican Party
Leader:IceSpear (LFR-PA)
Major figures: kongress (LFR-NE), jdb (LFR-DC), Badger (LFR-OH), heatcharger (LFR-VA)
Ideology: Social liberalism, Neoliberalism

En Marche!
Leader: ltomlinson31 (EM-ON)
Major figures: Xeuma (EM-OH), scutosaurus (EM-GA), kyc0705 (EM-NJ), parochial_boy (EM-CH)
Ideology: Corporate Buddhism, Neoliberalism

Green Party
Leader: morgieb (G-AU)
Major figures: Gallatine (G-UK), Estrella (G-NZ), Lord Halifax (G-AK), Razze (G-FL)
Ideology: Environmentalism, Eco-socialism

независимая шутка
Leader: Horus (нш-GA)
Major figures: LouisvilleThunder (нш-KY), fluffypanther19 (нш-PA)
Ideology: #Populism, Conservatism (faction)

Libertarian Party
Leader: Lfromnj (L-NJ)
Major figures: dead0man (L-NE)
Ideology: American libertarianism, Classical liberalism

Smilo
Leader: Smilo (SM-PA)
Ideology: None

In a stunning turn of events, the Socialists did not join with the Democrats for the majority due to Maroonist (a powerful faction within the Socialist party) opposition. Instead, the Democrats have formed a slim majority (51.5%) coalition government with En Marche! and the La Follette Republicans.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Last five pages (man, I put out a lot of low-impact crap)... The methodology is very straightforward; I did not correct people's (often obviously very wrong) avatars, so this count has some odd anomalies (including at least two left-of-center Republicans aside from RINO Tom).

Democrats (22) - 27.50%
Republicans (20) - 25.00%
Socialists (11) - 13.75%
Other (10) - 12.50%
Independents (10) - 12.50%
Constitution (2) - 2.50%
Greens (2) - 2.50%
Nothing (1) - 1.25%

Most active members:
smil (O-PA) - 9
Goldwater (I-CA) - 8
Green Line (D-IL) - 8
RINO Tom (R-IL) - 8
Santander (D-KY) - 7
LDS (D-CA) - 6
shua (O-VA) - 6
ChairmanSanchez (R-FL) - 5
Dr. realisticidealist (R-CA) - 5
TJ in Oregon (O-OR) - 5

Given the breakdown, politics will likely be very coalition-based. If we assume that party leadership is determined by number of posts, then I imagine a chamber run by a GrosKom of Green Line's Democrats, RINO Tom's Republicans, smilo's Others, and Goldwater's Independents would get along famously. Nathan's Socialists would be the largest third party outside of the coalition.

[morgankingsley]

I am not counting

[politicallefty]

I went a few pages in, not sure where I stopped, but:

165 seat Parliament
Democratic 100 - 61%
Republican 26 - 16%
Socialist 12 - 7%
Green 10 - 6%
Independent 6 - 4%
Libertarian 4 - 2%
Other 4 - 2%
None 3 - 2%

Democratic Majority
Republican Official Opposition

[Green Line]

Finally got around to doing this.  I went back to the start of Oct.

D: 57 seats - 42%
R: 24 seats - 18%
O: 21 seats - 16%
I: 20 seats - 15%
S: 6 seats - 4%
L: 5 seats - 4%

G: 2 seats - 1%

D-S-G gets you to 47%.  There are maybe a coupe left leaning independents that could be peeled off to get to 50%, but most were right-leaning.

R-O-I-L gets you to 53%, but thats also built on the back of a couple RINOs.

Probably a minority D government led by some moderate Democrat like Illinwek would be the way to go.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

2020 Trumanic general election
All 151 seats in the House of Commons. 76 seats needed for a majority.

59   Democratic
33   Independent
23   Socialist
18   Republican
08   Other
05   Non-inscrit
04   Green
01   Libertarian


The Democrats form a minority government with Socialist support. (I was bored.)

[BP🌹]

I went back 100 posts. I had at least one recommendation from 59 users (sad, I know). Percentages are rounded.

Democratic: 21 (35.6%)
Republican: 7 (11.9%)
Secular: 16 (27.1%)
Green: 2 (3.4%)
Libertarian: 1 (1.7%)
Other: 3 (5.1%)
Independent: 9 (15.2%)

It would probably be a Democratic government with Socialist confidence-and-supply, but I'd prefer a Socialist-Green-Other-Independent coalition of chaos.

My token right-wingers are ChairmanSanchez and John Dule.

I'm probably high on a lot of people's lists because I dish them out rather liberally.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Democrat – 21
Republican – 9
Independent – 8
Socialist – 7
Green – 3
Other – 2
Libertarian – 1

Probably a Dem-Soc coalition. Not sure who, exactly, becomes Prime Minister of Peebs--all the Democrats only rec'd once a pop, as far as I noticed.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Going back 100 posts, I basically did what Skunk did.  Independents were shuffled around as well as the RINOs.

2020 Scottany general election
All 122 seats in the House of Commons. 62 seats needed for a majority.

Democrat- 62 (50.81%)
Socialist- 24 (19.67%)
Atlasian Independent- 12 (9.83%)
Republican- 9 (7.37%)
Green- 5 (4.09%)
Liberal Democrat- 4 (3.27%)
Christian Democrat- 3 (2.45%)
Libertarian- 2 (1.63%)
Secular- 1 (.81%)

Party descriptions:

Democratic Party
Leader: Thegreatwar18 (D-WA)
Major figures: here2view (D-MA), kongress (D-NE), TrendsareUsuallyReal (D-TX), ON Progressive (D-ON), King TChenka (D-ON), X (D-OH), KoopaDaQuick (D-IA)
Ideology: Modern liberalism, Social liberalism, Progressivism (faction), Santanderism (faction)

Socialist Party
Leader: BP1202 (S-MI)
Major figures: Alfred F. Jones (S-DC), Nathan (S-MA), Antonio V (S-CA), Roblox (S-FL), Arturo Belano (S-NE)
Ideology: Democratic socialism, Christian socialism (faction)

Atlasian Independent Party
Leader: Аverroës (AI-VT)
Major figures: Horus (AI-GA), (CT) (TheFreeNorth) (AI-CT), Thumb21 (AI-GB)
Ideology: Big tent

Green Party
Leader: Lourdes (G-NJ)
Major figures: morgieb (G-AU), diptheriadan (G-TN), Gracile (G-IL), Gallatine (G-GB)
Ideology: Environmentalism, Eco-socialism

Republican Party
Leader: Chairman Sanchez (R-FL)
Major figures: Louisville Thunder (R-KY), Grassr00ts (R-IL), Dr. RI (R-CA), Fuzzy Bear (R-FL), Penn_Quaker_Girl (R-TX)
Ideology: Conservatism, Social conservatism, Paleoconservatism (faction), Rockefeller Republicanism (faction), Nationalism (faction)

Christian Democrats
Leader: shua (CD-VA)
Major figures: Sprouts Farmers Market ✘ (CD-PA), Cath (CD-IL)
Ideology: Conservatism, Christian democracy, Social conservatism

Liberal Democrats
Leader: Blairite (LD-CA)
Major figures: scutosaurus (LD-GA), heatcharger (LD-VA), President Johnson (LD-DE)
Ideology: Liberalism, Centrism, Corporate Buddhism (faction)

Libertarian Party
Leader: John Dule (L-CA)
Major figures: lfromnj (L-NJ)
Ideology: American libertarianism, Classical liberalism, Non-interventionism

Secular Party
Leader: olawakandi (S-CA)
Major figures:
Ideology: Secularism

[Former President tack50]

Seems like my posts have not been recommended  much lately

Anyways, going back 100 posts (4 pages) I get this parliament (20 seats, 11 for a majority)

Democratic: 10
Republican: 3
Green: 2
Independent: 2
Socialist: 2
Libertarian: 1

Anyways, with Democrats at half the chamber, they probably form some sort of minority government propped up by the greens or the socialists

[KaiserDave]

How does one obtain this data?

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

How does one obtain this data?

Go through your old posts and tally it up manually.

[Illiniwek]

Looked at my last 100 recommendations, and I received 58 unique recommendations therein.

Democratic: 34 unique / 62 total
Republican: 4 unique / 9 total
Socialist: 5 unique / 9 total
Green: 1 unique / 1 total
Libertarian: 2 unique / 2 total
Other: 5 unique / 8 total
Independent: 6 unique / 8 total

Solid Democratic Majority.

RINO Tom liked a bunch of my University of Illinois-related posts, so that helped my blue numbers.

[BP🌹]

No one who has posted so far has a higher proportion of maroon avatars than me.

[Boobs]

2020 HCPistan General Election

Social Democrats - 38.64%, 257 seats
The Left - 13.31%, 89 seats
Independent Democratic Alliance - 10.39%, 69 seats
Greens - 7.79%, 52 seats
The New Right - 6.82%, 45 seats
Liberals - 5.84%, 39 seats
Labour Party - 3.90%, 26 seats
Democratic Centre - 3.25%, 22 seat
New Democratic Party - 2.92%, 19 seats
Independents For Change - 2.27%, 15 seats
Feminist Initiative - 2.27%, 15 seats
Christian Democrats - 1.62%, 11 seats
Libertarian Party - 0.65%, 4 seats
White Citizens Council - 0.32%, 2 seats
Speaker, 1 seat

In one of the worst performances for the ruling party, the Social Democrats, led by Parrotguy, still received far and away the largest number of seats, although 76 short of a majority. While pundits expected the Prime Minister to be returned with a coalition government, what happened next shocked the country; a rainbow coalition to oust the Social Democrats after nine decades of constant rule.

Leader of the mainline socialist party, the Left, MB, cobbled together the IDA, composed of mostly centrist independents, the Greens led by Razze, the Liberals (ironic Republicans) led by Kongress, the Labour Party (left-wing orange avatars) led by Sestak, the Democratic Centre (corporate Buddhist Bennetites) led by scuto, the New Democratic Party (troll left wing orange avatars) led jointly by ltom and Technocracy Timmy, the Independents for Change (left wing independents) led by Scott, and the Feminist Initiative led by Skunk. This bizarre coalition of chaos had 346 seats, 13 more than necessary.

The crossbench was composed of the New Right (unironic Republicans) led by Sanchez, the Christian Democrats (right-leaning orange avatars) led by Cath, the Libertarians of lfromnj, and the White Citizens Council (unironic fascists) led by gr assroots.

MB was inaugurated as the first non-Social Democrat Prime Minister since 1927.

Parrotguy resigned from his position as Leader of the Social Democrats. His official statement was: "Horrible. Just horrible."

[Senator Incitatus]

The Emperor's Advisory Council of State (using only my last 100 posts):

18 Socialist (7.59%)
3 Green (1.27%)
57 Democrats [many Santander] (24.05%)
36 Independent (15.19%)
3 Blank (1.27%)
13 Libertarian (5.49%)
42 Other [of a decidedly right-wing tilt] (17.72%)
50 Republican (21.10%)
15 Conservative (6.33%)

I think this could be enough to form a manageable centre-right majority. In any case, the executive is sovereign and can dispose of members he does not tolerate.

[America Needs R'hllor]

Broad Front
Leader: Аverroës (BF-VT)
Major figures: Beet (BF-TX), Landslide Lyndon (BF-TX), Sjoyce (BF-IL), Jacobin American (BF-MO), Walmart_shopper (BF-IL),
Official Ideology: Left-wing Populism, Progressivism, Socialism (minority)

This sounds less like a political grouping and more like list of characters trapped together in some kind of slasher film scenario.

Lmao I just saw this again after it was bumped. I'd like to see this party trying to function

[Donerail]

Broad Front
Leader: Аverroës (BF-VT)
Major figures: Beet (BF-TX), Landslide Lyndon (BF-TX), Sjoyce (BF-IL), Jacobin American (BF-MO), Walmart_shopper (BF-IL),
Official Ideology: Left-wing Populism, Progressivism, Socialism (minority)

This sounds less like a political grouping and more like list of characters trapped together in some kind of slasher film scenario.

Lmao I just saw this again after it was bumped. I'd like to see this party trying to function

I think we'd have a good time!

[Donerail]

120-member legislature:

Democratic Party: 49 seats, 41% (chair: PR)
Socialist Party: 19 seats, 16% (chair: DC)
Republican Party: 14 seats, 12% (chair: Sanchez)
Green Party: 5 seats, 4% (chair: gracile)
Constitution Party: 4 seats, 3% (chair: TJ)
Libertarian Party: 2 seats, 2% (chair: Dule)
Other parties: 13 seats, 11% (notables: Smilo, Cath, Ses)
Independents: 14 seats, 12% (notables: Averroes, Scott, HCP)

I’d imagine that the Democrats are a natural party of government, occupying a political space similar to the Canadian Liberals. For that reason, despite the left nominally holding 61% of seats, I’d imagine the Socialist Party wouldn’t pass up the chance to take on the role of the official opposition. Most likely outcome here is a Democratic-led minority government that relies on a coalition of independents and minor parties to pass its agenda, though I wouldn’t rule out a D-R grand coalition.

Only notable change from weighting is an increase in independents and a decline in Democrats, which only introduces more coalition chaos into an already unstable party system. One of the independents is elected speaker. Also, brtd is the prime minister.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Doing a bicameral parliament, Chamber of Deputies counting each individual recommendation and Senate counting each unique poster. By happenstance, if I go 100 posts back the Chamber is exactly twice the size of the Senate, like in Italy.

Chamber of Deputies: 146 seats

Democratic Party: 49
Socialist Party: 25
People's Democratic Party (right-leaning orange avatars plus Smilo and TimTurner): 14
Republican Party: 13
Farmer-Labor Party (left-leaning orange avatars): 7
Libertarian Party: 5
Green Party: 1
Constitution Party: 1

Independent Left: 26
Independent Right: 2

Non-Inscrits: 3

Senate: 73 seats

Democratic Party: 30
Republican Party: 10
Socialist Party: 9
People's Democratic Party: 5
Farmer-Labor Party: 4
Libertarian Party: 2
Green Party: 1
Constitution Party: 1

Independent Left: 8
Independent Right: 2

Non-Inscrits: 1

My guess is that there are serious apportionment issues in the Senate that favor Republican constituencies (just like in the good old US of A!). The Democrats are probably a tepidly center-left "natural party of government" like in Donerail's post. A straightforward coalition with the Socialist Party yields narrow majorities in both houses but the Democrats might prefer to form a minority government instead, given that the somewhat-more-moderate Farmer-Labor Party and the high concentration of left-leaning independents in both houses mean they should be able to pass most center-left priorities easily without needing Socialist support. The People's Democratic Party, a Christian democratic outfit but one with at least a few prominent lawmakers of other religions, is probably in a semi-permanent center-right coalition with the Republicans.

Parrotguy, Antonio, and Cath are in a three-way tie for most recommendations given, so Parrotguy is PM, Antonio is Speaker, and Cath is Leader of the Opposition.

The nominal "left over right" topline in each house is 111/35 in the Chamber and 53/20 in the Senate if we count the Democrats as "left", but if they're understood as an opportunistic centrist party at heart then it becomes a somewhat more (normal, sane) 62/49/35 and 23/30/20.

[Former President tack50]

Going back to 100 posts and counting each individual recommendation. Changes since I last did this marked as well:

Tack's Congress of Deputies: 30 seats (+10); 16 seats for a majority

Democratic: 12 (+2)
Independent: 5 (+3)
Republican: 4 (+1)
Libertarian: 3 (+2)
Other: 2 (+2)
No avatar: 2 (+2)
Green: 2 (-)
Socialist: 0 (-2)

Because of the large parliament expansion all parties go up or stay the same. Except for the Socialists which I suppose that fall below the threshold and get 0 recommendations. However the Independents are the ones that benefit the most as well as the Democrats. Other and No Avatar parties make it back into Congress.

A Democrat+Green coalition is 1 seat short of a majority.

Given that in Talk Elections land the Democrats are essencially a dominant party, this does not lead to a Democratic led coalition, but rather still leads to a rainbow coalition: Independent+Republican+Libertarian+Other+No Avatar; holding a very narrow 1 seat majority and leading to the first change in government in Tack50's history.

Tack50-land history:
October 2019-February 2020: Democrat-Green-Socialist coalition
February 2020-May 2020: Democrat quasi-majority government
May 2020-present: Independent-Republican-Libertarian-Other-No Avatar coalition

Edit: For historical continuitiy decided to fall back to 100 posts