NPC Elections - Rules and Results Thread

[Lumine]

Finally graded the whole thing, results are coming late into the night.

So I’ve noticed this question hasn’t really been answered afaik, but what happens if someone changes registration to a new state in obvious anticipation for that state’s NPC elections? (Like say, if I changed to Alabama right now) is the home state bonus removed, or halved, or what is the plan?

I remove the bonus so people can't game the system, mostly for fairness. Hence why it is ideal for people to let me know - privately - when it happens in case I didn't notice.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

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

[S019]

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

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

[Lumine]

With polls closed across nine states - and one city -, election officials report unusually high turnout, particularly in light of the proximity of Christmas to polling day. However, anecdotal evidence is inconclusive, ranging from the suggestion of very high turnout across the board to an unusual turnout in certain states balanced out by low participation in others.

[Continential]

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

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

It is from https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=279249.msg5954976#msg5954976

[Lumine]

December - Results (Fremont)

Minnesota State Election:

Standard Fremont System

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)		Seats (Senate / HoC)
Labor Party/SF/B&B		43%		85 MP's / 33 Senators
Democratic Alliance		21%		28 MP's / 17 Senators
Liberal Party		18%		26 MP's / 15 Senators
Federalist Party		12%		16 MP's / 9 Senators
Peace Party		5%		3 MP's / 4 Senators
Green Party		1%		No seats
Total				160 MP's / 80 Senators

Incoming Governor:
Labor Party, defeats DA 56-44 on final round

Incoming Legislature:
Labor Senate Minority / Labor HoC Majority

Oregon State Election:

Standard Fremont System

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)		Seats (Senate / HoC)
Labor Party/SF/B&B		51%		58 MP's / 21 Senators
Liberal Party		25%		14 MP's / 10 Senators
Democratic Alliance		13%		6 MP / 6 Senators
Federalist Party		8%		3 MP's / 2 Senators
Peace Party		3%		No seats
Green Party		0%		No seats
Total				80 MP's / 40 Senators

Incoming Governor:
Labor Party, victory on first round

Incoming Legislature:
Labor Senate Majority / Labor HoC Majority

Nevada State Election:

Standard Fremont System

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)		Seats (Senate / HoC)
Labor Party/SF/B&B		50%		56 MP's / 20 Senators
Democratic Alliance		17%		10 MP's / 7 Senators
Liberal Party		16%		10 MP's / 6 Senators
Federalist Party		9%		2 MP/ 4 Senators
Peace Party		8%		2 MP/ 3 Senators
Green Party		2%		No seats
Total				80 MP's / 40 Senators

Incoming Governor:
Labor Party, victory on first round

Incoming Legislature:
Labor Senate Majority / Labor HoC Majority

Atlasian Samoa Election:

Standard Fremont System

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)		Seats (Senate / HoC)
Labor Party/SF/B&B		40%		4 MP's / 1 Senators
Democratic Alliance		18%		1 MP / 1 Senator
Liberal Party		16%		1 MP / 1 Senator
Peace Party		14%		No seats
Federalist Party		12%		No seats
Green Party		0%		No seats
Total				6 MP's / 3 Senators

Incoming Governor:
Labor Party, defeats DA 55-45 on final round

Incoming Legislature:
Labor Senate Minority / Labor HoC Majority

December 2020 - Results (South)

Arkansas State Election:

Standard South System

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)		Seats (Senate / House)
Peace Party		38%		42 Rep / 15 Senators
Federalist Party		30%		33 Rep / 12 Senators
Democratic Alliance/AFP		12%		9 Rep / 3 Senators
Labor Party		11%		9 Rep / 3 Senators
Liberal Party		9%		7 Rep / 2 Senators
Green Party		0%		No seats
Total				100 Representatives / 35 Senators

Incoming Governor:
Peace Party, defeats Federalist 50-49 on final round

Incoming Legislature:
Peace Senate Minority / Peace House Minority

Tennessee State Election:

Standard South System

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)		Seats (Senate / House)
Federalist Party		49%		51 Rep / 17 Senators
Labor Party		19%		21 Rep / 7 Senators
Democratic Alliance/AFP		18%		20 Rep / 7 Senators
Liberal Party		8%		4 Rep / 1 Senator
Peace Party		7%		3 Rep / 1 Senator
Green Party		0%		No seats
Genealogy Party		0%		No seats
Total				99 Representatives / 33 Senators

Incoming Governor:
Federalist Party, defeats Labor 66-34 on final round

Incoming Legislature:
Federalist Senate Majority / Federalist House Majority

Georgia State Election:

Standard South System

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)		Seats (Senate / House)
Federalist Party		42%		77 Rep / 24 Senators
Democratic Alliance/AFP		21%		38 Rep / 13 Senators
Labor Party		17%		31 Rep / 13 Senators
Peace Party		13%		25 Rep / 6 Senators
Liberal Party		7%		9 Rep / 6 Senators
Green Party		0%		No seats
Total				180 Representatives / 56 Senators

Incoming Governor:
Democratic Alliance, defeats Federalist 51-49 on final round

Incoming Legislature:
Federalist Senate Minority / Federalist House Minority

December 2020 - Results (Lincoln)

Ohio State Election:

House of Representatives elected via STV

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)		Seats (Senate / House)
Labor Party/Tricolor Party		45%		39 Rep / 16 Senators
Democratic Alliance/CPL		23%		18 Rep / 7 Senators
Liberal Party		18%		14 Rep / 7 Senators
Federalist Party		13%		9 Rep / 4 Senators
Peace Party		1%		No seats
Green Party		0%		No seats
Total				99 Representatives / 33 Senators

Incoming Governor:
Labor Party, defeats DA 52-48 on final round

Incoming Legislature:
Labor Senate Minority / Labor House Minority

Connecticut State Election:

House of Representatives elected via STV

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)		Seats (Senate / House)
Democratic Alliance/CPL		37%		61 Rep / 26 Senators
Labor Party/Tricolor Party		24%		35 Rep / 18 Senators
Liberal Party		21%		31 Rep / 11 Senators
Federalist Party		14%		21 Rep / 6 Senators
Peace Party		4%		No seats
Green Party		0%		No seats
Total				151 Representatives / 63 Senators

Incoming Governor:
Democratic Alliance, defeats Labor 63-37 on final round

Incoming Legislature:
DA Senate Minority / DA House Minority

Houston Mayoral Election:

RCV System

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)
Labor Party		44%
Federalist Party		30%
Democratic Alliance		19%
Liberal Party		4%
Peace Party		3%
Green Party		0%

Incoming Mayor:
Federalist Party, defeats Labor 50-49 on final round

December 2020 - National Results

Executives:

Party		Governors
Labor Party		28 (+5)
Federalist Party		13 (+1)
Democratic Alliance		10 (+2)
Peace Party		3 (+1)
Liberal Party		2 (=)

Party		Mayors
Federalist Party		3 (+1)
Labor Party		2 (=)
Democratic Alliance		1 (=)

State Legislators:

Party/Alliance		Seats
Labor Party/Allies		3442 (+440)
Federalist Party		2134 (+289)
Democratic Alliance/Allies		1571 (+277)
Liberal Party		786 (+165)
Peace Party		241 (+103)
Dixieland Patriots Party		22 (=)
Green Party		20 (=)
Law and Justice Party		1 (=)

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

[Lumine]

Embarrasing to state this, but someone - many thanks! - noticed something odd in the Minnesota results and I realized I made a beyond silly mistake on the Excel and doubled the Peace share of the vote to the detriment of - mostly - Lib and DA. It's been corrected alongside legislative numbers, nudging the final round to 56-44 instead of 58-42.

[OBD]

Little late but I think you halved the Nevada MPs.

[Lumine]

Little late but I think you halved the Nevada MPs.

Indeed! Will correct that soon.

Friendly reminder that campaigning does not start tomorrow, I still want to continue the feedback process for a couple of days and make a few announcements.

[OBD]

As Sinn Fremont has now ceased to exist, I request that it be removed from NPC election consideration.

Also, the Worker's Advancement Party (Beauty and Bread Chapter) will now stand in alliance with the Labor Party in future Fremont NPC elections.

[Lumine]

FEBRUARY 2021

CAMPAIGN PERIOD

Friday February 12th - Saturday February 27th

UP FOR GRABS

Colorado
Washington
Arizona
Virginia
Maryland
Alabama
Rhode Island
Illinois
New Hampshire
New York City (Mayoral)

BALLOT ACCESS

NATIONAL PARTIES

1. Labor Party

Beauty and Bread (Fremont)
Tricolor Party of Lincoln (Lincoln)

2. Federalist Party

3. Democratic Alliance

Atlasian Future Party (South)

4. Peace Party

5. Liberal Party

6. Green Party

7. YT Coalition

REGIONAL PARTIES (Unaffiliated)
None.

CAMPAIGNING OPEN ACROSS THE BOARD

RULES CHANGE FOR FEBRUARY

Brief Summary

A.- CAPS: We will experiment with the first attempt at party and personal caps to see its effects on the arms race, the system will be subject to changes depending on how well it works (or not). Current February caps are setat 80 events per party in total, and a personal limit of 5 per day.

B.- MOMENTUM DECAY: Campaigning during the first week (until next Friday) will have an added value.

C.- GRADING: Regional/state campaigning will recieve higher grades than national campaigning.

D.- INDEPENDENTS: Independent citizens can run their own NPC candidates for Mayor/Governor.

E.- INCUMBENCY: Each incumbent government will be subject to a popularity dice roll, with subsequent effects. Players will be informed in the first batch of polling whether the state government is popular or not.

F.- SPLINTER PARTIES: Following reasonable concerns expressed by some, new parties created for the elections will require GM approval to stand, and will be followed carefully to prevent abuse of the system.

[Lumine]

February campaign is open, will last for two weeks (Saturday included). Polling comes tonight - it's almost done, but I have to factor in the latest census update and the registration surge -, the updated rules are what was promised before, plus a measure to prevent splinter parties to abuse the rules, and slightly higher caps as this month's experiment.

I do apologize for the reduced campaign period, but due to personal issues it was either this or another month with a pause. I fully expect March to have the usual and longer period, and for us to be back on schedule.

[Lumine]

Polling

Polls are not meant to be fully accurate

Popularity levels will only be factored on the final result

Colorado:

Standard Fremont System

Incumbent: Labor (Gov. Hingle McCringleberry)

Popularity: Low

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)
Labor Party/B&B		42%
Federalist Party		27%
Liberal Party		14%
Democratic Alliance		12%
Peace Party		4%
Green Party		1%
YT Coalition		0%

Washington:

Standard Fremont System

Incumbent: Labor (Gov. Cameron Whitfield)

Popularity: Moderate

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)
Labor Party/B&B		45%
Liberal Party		15%
Federalist Party		15%
Democratic Alliance		14%
Peace Party		9%
Green Party		2%
YT Coalition		0%

Arizona:

Standard Fremont System

Incumbent: Labor (Gov. Emilio Rafael)

Popularity: Moderate

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)
Labor Party/B&B		42%
Federalist Party		17%
Democratic Alliance		17%
Peace Party		12%
Liberal Party		11%
Green Party		1%
YT Coalition		0%

Alabama:

Standard South System

Incumbent: Federalist

Popularity: Low

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)
Federalist Party		46%
Democratic Alliance/AFP		23%
Labor Party		17%
Peace Party		7%
Liberal Party		5%
Green Party		1%
YT Coalition		1%

Virginia:

Standard South System

Incumbent: Federalist

Popularity: High

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)
Labor Party		34%
Federalist Party		32%
Democratic Alliance/AFP		19%
Peace Party		7%
Liberal Party		7%
Green Party		1%
YT Coalition		0%

Maryland:

Standard South System

Incumbent: Labor (Gov. Sylvia-Louise McBongos)

Popularity: Low

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)
Labor Party		45%
Federalist Party		22%
Democratic Alliance/AFP		17%
Peace Party		9%
Liberal Party		6%
Green Party		1%
YT Coalition		0%

Illinois:

House of Representatives elected via PR

Incumbent: Labor (Gov. Antonio Gaviotti)

Popularity: High

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)
Labor Party/Tricolor		45%
Federalist Party		25%
Democratic Alliance		14%
Liberal Party		10%
Peace Party		5%
Green Party		1%
YT Coalition		0%

Rhode Island:

House of Representatives elected via STV

Incumbent: Democratic Alliance (Gov. Gwen Harper)

Popularity: High

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)
Democratic Alliance		43%
Labor Party/Tricolor		29%
Federalist Party		13%
Liberal Party		11%
Peace Party		3%
Green Party		1%
YT Coalition		0%

New Hampshire:

House of Representatives elected via STV

Incumbent: Labor (Gov. Mary Kelly)

Popularity: Low

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)
Labor Party/Tricolor		43%
Democratic Alliance		19%
Liberal Party		17%
Federalist Party		14%
Peace Party		6%
Green Party		1%
YT Coalition		0%

New York City Mayoral:

RCV System

Incumbent: Federalist (Mayor Lewis Silver)

Popularity: Moderate

Party/Alliance		Votes (%)
Labor Party/Tricolor		29%
Federalist Party		27%
Liberal Party		26%
Democratic Alliance		15%
Peace Party		2%
Green Party		1%
YT Coalition		0%

[Joseph Cao]

The Mayor's name is Lewis Silver.

[Lumine]

The Mayor's name is Lewis Silver.

Corrected.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

The Mayor's name is Lewis Silver.

I would make fun of you for this but the Colorado governor is Hingle McCringleberry.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Not sure if it matters on your end, Lumine, but Governor McCringleberry will retire at the end of his term; State Senator Henrique Teller is the Labor gubernatorial candidate in Colorado.

[Lumine]

Not sure if it matters on your end, Lumine, but Governor McCringleberry will retire at the end of his term; State Senator Henrique Teller is the Labor gubernatorial candidate in Colorado.

Duly noted, will be taken into account.

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

labor-pax agreement

1. The Labor Party and Peace Parties will enter into an electoral coalition ticket, with all legislative and gubernatorial nominees standing under the Labor-Peace ticket

2. The Peace Party shall be entitled select 20% of the legislative candidates on the Labor-Peace slate, and shall have a significant voice in selecting the gubernatorial candidates in addition to retaining the independent ability to select nominees in states with current Peace governors

3. This agreement shall be renewed every 3 months

x Koopa D. Quick

[OBD]

labor-pax agreement

1. The Labor Party and Peace Parties will enter into an electoral coalition ticket, with all legislative and gubernatorial nominees standing under the Labor-Peace ticket

2. The Peace Party shall be entitled select 20% of the legislative candidates on the Labor-Peace slate, and shall have a significant voice in selecting the gubernatorial candidates in addition to retaining the independent ability to select nominees in states with current Peace governors

3. This agreement shall be renewed every 3 months

x Koopa D. Quick

x Oregon Blue Dog, General Secretary of the Labor Party

[Sirius_]

Can the Game Moderator confirm that Nick Saban, coach of the University of Alabama football team, does in fact support Labor?

[Sirius_]

I don't personally think that allowing celebrity endorsements is a good idea, since either a. you would have to state the leanings of every celebrity or b. anyone can claim their support and then we have potential conflicting stories and/or celebrity arms races. Not my decision but that's my 2 cents.

[Mike Thick]

I think celebrities is something that could be a fun rhetorical flourish for the players as long as it doesn’t actually affect the results.

[Left Wing]

DeadPrez campaigned with Edward Snowden and Glen Greenwald a few months ago so there is some precedent for it. I don't know if it really matters that much.