Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes IV (Do not post Current Politics Here)

[King of the Uzbeks]

Despite dire predictions from some pundits Irene Jahn dragged the Antarctic Party through its Party Conference with only one major splinter party emerging. While her selection as party leader was a forgone conclusion due to her leadership of the Social Democratic Wing her deft maneuvering kept the party behind her. Her endorsement of an Ecological Bill of Rights and her crucial vote on the Transitional Council against purchasing oil tankers for the merchant marine (a reversal from previous statements) headed off a Green Party emerging. Socialists were brought to heel with a UBI plank and a promise that Jorge Thomas would be appointed Justice Delegate. These actions provoked a right wing split led by Miguel Rodriguez, a split that was strengthened when Jahn voted against allowing "Shadow Balloting" to be conducted in the Argentine Antarctic Territories.

However Rodriguez was outschemed at his own Party Conference by businessman Phil Russ, who shifted the party extremely to the right. Antarctica was to become a Tax Haven, Oil was to be drilled for and Gold mined. Phil Russ's coup killed any chance the Liberty Party had of winning, especially as the left united around Jahn. Nonetheless Russ became the Leader of the Opposition, and Jahn was faced with a balancing act yo remain in power.

 

[TheHolyInquisition]

-SNIP EXCELLENT WORK-

Now I want Green Antarctica Wikiboxes.

 

[King of the Uzbeks]

Now I want Green Antarctica Wikiboxes.

Why have a dystopia when you can have the f u t u r e

 

[BlackentheBorg]

*is LITERALLY about to make a series of Antarctic election wikiboxes*

*Antarctic election wikibox*

...good job, tho.

 

[GBehm]

Box I've been meaning to post for a while.

The United States General Election, 1800, was the first quadrennial election to the United States House of Commons, occurring in the year 1800. Former Deputy Governor General Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Party defeated the Democratic-Republicans led by Nathaniel Macon. It was nation's third ever contested election between multiple parties, following two elections to the American Colonial Legislature in 1792 and 1796, and the first election during America's status as a royal dominion. Issues included self-determination in trade with England, the status of the 1763 Proclamation Line, and the role of the newly constructed national government.

Hamilton's Anglophilic positions won the Federalists the favor of the enfranchised aristocracy and the British Prime Minister, William Pitt. In foreign policy, the federalists supported keeping trade narrowed down to the United Kingdom and its allies, which the party purported to be less taxing on the American economy due to British mercantile policies. The Democratic-Republicans felt that more self-determination would be best for the dominion, and party leader Macon promised to bring forward a treaty that would prompt Britain to lift restrictions on trade and adjust the American Prime minister's position to above that of the king in terms the ability to implement of national law. The stance held by a number of Democratic-Republicans on supporting the revolutionary forces in France led to criticism from the influential Federalist establishment, and even from within the Republican's own ranks.

The Federalists received the majority of the seats, meaning Alexander Hamilton would become Prime Minister. Macon and several other Democratic-Republicans were appointed to cabinet positions, creating an internal division that would lead to the Federalist's defeat in 1804.

(May or may not make a timeline about this.)

Edit: Those white boxes scattered around the infobox are a lot more obvious now that I’ve posted it...

 

[ThatOneGuy]

Box I've been meaning to post for a while.

The United States General Election, 1800, was the first quadrennial election to the United States House of Commons, occurring in the year 1800. Former Deputy Governor General Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Party defeated the Democratic-Republicans led by Nathaniel Macon. It was nation's third ever contested election between multiple parties, following two elections to the American Colonial Legislature in 1792 and 1796, and the first election during America's status as a royal dominion. Issues included self-determination in trade with England, the status of the 1763 Proclamation Line, and the role of the newly constructed national government.

Hamilton's Anglophilic positions won the Federalists the favor of the enfranchised aristocracy and the British Prime Minister, William Pitt. In foreign policy, the federalists supported keeping trade narrowed down to the United Kingdom and its allies, which the party purported to be less taxing on the American economy due to British mercantile policies. The Democratic-Republicans felt that more self-determination would be best for the dominion, and party leader Macon promised to bring forward a treaty that would prompt Britain to lift restrictions on trade and adjust the American Prime minister's position to above that of the king in terms the ability to implement of national law. The stance held by a number of Democratic-Republicans on supporting the revolutionary forces in France led to criticism from the influential Federalist establishment, and even from within the Republican's own ranks.

The Federalists received the majority of the seats, meaning Alexander Hamilton would become Prime Minister. Macon and several other Democratic-Republicans were appointed to cabinet positions, creating an internal division that would lead to the Federalist's defeat in 1804.

(May or may not make a timeline about this.)

A US Dominion would be interesting to say the least. Should it reach OTL America's power it could feasibly just sort of leave the Commonwealth or TTL's equivalent, if there is one, and there won't be much the British could do about it.

 

[CalBear]

"We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in California, we shall fight on the subreddits and Twitters, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the church, we shall defend our Christmas, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the Facebooks, we shall fight on the Instagrams, we shall fight in the malls and in the coffeehouses, we shall fight in the Walmarts; we shall never surrender."
-Santa Claus​

Absolutely hilarious.

Also absolutely in the wrong Forum.

 

[Excelsior]

Absolutely hilarious.

Also absolutely in the wrong Forum.

Current politics? My bad, I'll move it.

 

[Hubert Humphrey Fan 1968]

Alternate UK 1987 Infobox

 

[King of the Uzbeks]

May we Never Tame it
2064 Election

Argentina had rejected allowing its Antarctic Colonies* to join the new nation, despite the overwhelming support amongst Argentine Antarcticans, citing disputes over the border with former British Antarctica and the Falklands Islands (which had voted 89% against joining Antarctica). Antarctica claimed that it supported self determination, but its symbolic inclusion of seats in the Assembly for Argentine Antarctica revealed the Government's position. Upon independence First Delegate Jahn had arranged a demilitarization of the west coast of Argentine Antarctica in exchange for free trade in the Weddell Sea. However in mid 2065 it was revealed that Argentina had set up numerous military listening stations along the west coast. In retaliation Jahn closed off the Weddell Sea routes outside of Argentine Waters and sent the Antarctic Navy to conduct surveillance on the listening posts. President Garcia responded by threatening to close off the Drake Passage to Antarctic Shipping. The crisis settled until January of 2066 when British Intelligence reported that the Argentine Government was preparing to move regular army units and fortify the listening post situated on Alexander Island. Jahn responded by ordering Antarctican Forces for take the listening post, which they did bloodlessly without the Argentine forces realizing what was happening. Garcia was prevented from going to war by a general strike and an electoral setback for his party forcing him to return to domestic policy. He would eventually relent to Antarctic Control and begin to heavily mine the George VI sound that separated Alexander Island from Argentine Antarctica.

Though Jahn was characterized as "reckless" by the international media (Argentina's population was over 90 times that of Antarctica) Garcia's general corruption and refusal to allow self determination made Antarctica the preferred party in public opinion. Internally Jahn's approval skyrocketed to the 90% range and several Antarctic Party insiders began to seriously consider a snap election.

*:The Antarctic Peninsula more or less.

 

[Glide08]

Alternate UK 1987 Infobox

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Y No PR (Preferably Huntington-Hill by EU Parliament Constituency)?

 

[Hubert Humphrey Fan 1968]

Y No PR (Preferably Huntington-Hill by EU Parliament Constituency)?

Wut

 

[Glide08]

Wut

The Huntington-Hill system you use for congressional apportionment. You've yet to realize its true use: Highest Averages Proportional Representation.

You just divide votes by seats, exclude parties which gets less votes than the result and give one seat for parties that do, and voila! After replacing census populations with votes and states with non-excluded parties, it's exactly like US congressional apportionment.

 

[Hubert Humphrey Fan 1968]

The Huntington-Hill system you use for congressional apportionment. You've yet to realize its true use: Highest Averages Proportional Representation.

You just divide votes by seats, exclude parties which gets less votes than the result and give one seat for parties that do, and voila! After replacing census populations with votes and states with non-excluded parties, it's exactly like US congressional apportionment.

What's that got to do with anything?

 

[Utgard96]

The Huntington-Hill system you use for congressional apportionment. You've yet to realize its true use: Highest Averages Proportional Representation.

You just divide votes by seats, exclude parties which gets less votes than the result and give one seat for parties that do, and voila! After replacing census populations with votes and states with non-excluded parties, it's exactly like US congressional apportionment.

That's Hare, not Huntington-Hill.

 

[Glide08]

That's Hare, not Huntington-Hill.

Hare-Huntington-Hill. The Hare quota is only because Huntington-Hill's based on a gemoetric mean, which you can't provide with zero seats.

 

[King of the Uzbeks]

*is LITERALLY about to make a series of Antarctic election wikiboxes*

Do eet

 

[BlackentheBorg]

Do eet

Oh, sure dude.

In the meantime, here's something a bit less serious;

"[...] I don’t care if that guy gets, like, fifty BJ’s a day, straight up. If he balances that budget, and doesn’t declare wars on countries!? Shit!"
- Internet personality Arin Hanson on President Avidan's bachelor status, 2017

 

[Hubert Humphrey Fan 1968]

Alternate UK 1987 Infobox

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I've got a follow up!

 

[King of the Uzbeks]

May we Never Tame it
2064 Election
Alexander Island Crisis


Jahn would heed her party's advice and call a snap election, due for October 2067. Considering she already held a supermajority this was likely unnecessary, but it gave her a chance to further divide her opposition and maintain party unity. Inside her party there was some speculation surrounding a Socialist or Green splinter party emerging, but with Jahn's personal popularity in the stratosphere the internal opposition never emerged. No one received the requisite number of signatures to face her on the Leadership Election ballot, so no election would actually be held.

Jahn pledged a retention of her current cabinet, continued defensive measures against Argentine aggression combined with a domestic pivot. The various pre-independence colonies had had wildly different levels of social services, education and infrastructure, and Jahn made an end to these inequalities a focal point of her campaign.

Russ had spent his years in opposition calling for deregulation of extraction operations, cuts to social services and taxes, and other extremely right wing positions. This had left him out of sync with the majority of his party. But he ensured that he would remain in control by having the party committee have the leadership be selected by the Delegates in the assembly, who by and large favored Russ over his probable challenger from the center, Miguel Rodriguez. Rodriguez walked out of the party in retaliation, taking 21 delegates with him. Only 6 moderates remained in the party as the Party Caucus started to vote. 5 of those moderates immediately put an egg on Russ's face by voting for First Delegate Jahn, then walking out to join the Antarctic Party. Russ remained leader of the opposition, but he remained personally unpopular and Rodriguez's new party was very quickly eating away at his support.

Rodriguez had lost control of the Liberty Party when he had founded it, but the same would not be true of the Conservative party, where he faced no opposition to becoming party leader. The Conservative Platform also championed tax cuts, but was less concerned with the rights of corporations. In his speech accepting the leadership Rodriguez denouncec "Big Government and Big Business" and called for programs designed to create small businesses.

The three main parties were now set, and conventional wisdom held the Antarctic Party to be in the lead by a wide margin, with the conservatives and liberty fighting to be leader of the opposition. However conventional wisdom was wrong, it had underestimated how much of Russ's support in 2064 came from supporters of Rodriguez. A poll on April 1 was no joke, showing Russ holding barely above the 5% threshold, with the Conservatives holding a solid 20% margin. Jahn's dominance was unquestioned, she no longer had the 96% approval ratings she had held after the Alexander Island crisis, but she commanded a powerful lead, and possessed far more resources for the campaign then either of her opponents.