Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

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The 2020 Chinese presidential election was held between 12 and 14 July 2020 to elect the President of the Republic of China, although early voting was permitted across all provinces for several weeks prior. The election was initially scheduled to be held between 13 and 15 March 2020 but the Legislative Yuan voted in favour of suspending the election for four months due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. As a result, this was the first presidential election in China not held in March since the Second World War. The election was held under the supplementary vote system, whereby the second votes of those who voted for candidates who did not reach the second round would be re-distributed to the top two candidates to determine a winner.

The election was won by Geng Shuang, the nominee for the nationalist Justice & Prosperity Party. Shuang was also the supported nominee of the 'For A Stronger China' Alliance, a collection of nationalist and right-wing parties. He defeated Liberal Democratic nominee Wu Zhenglong, the former Minister for Finance under incumbent President Wang Li. Zhenglong's campaign was backed by the centre-right National Coalition, a group of establishment and centrist political parties.
 
I'm using this familiar POD to try something a bit different and would appreciate some feedback (either replying here or simply messaging me). This is an Alt-alt-wikibox (from something not even called Wikipedia). I'm trying to create a mash-up of 1980's and current technology aesthetic using my fairly basic paint.net skills. Does this come across or does it just look like a hot-mess? Any hints/tips to help make further edits.
I like this a lot, and I think it comes across well for the most part. One suggestion I have is to take the portraits of each candidate and run them through Ribbet (I think the night vision filter would work best for what you're going for) and then use them in the wikibox. I also think Garner should probably take FDR's place, but that's up to you.
 
At least I know this isn't current politics....

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The 1932 United States presidential election was the 37th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1932. The election took place against the backdrop of the Great Depression. Incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Governor of New York and the vice presidential nominee of the 1920 presidential election. It marked the effective end of the Fourth Party System, which had been dominated by Republicans. Roosevelt was the first Democrat in 80 years to win an outright majority in the popular vote, the last one being Franklin Pierce in 1852. President-elect Roosevelt was shot by assassin Giuseppe "Joe" Zangara on February 15, 1933. Significantly wounded, Roosevelt fell into a coma and was announced as being unable to perform his role due to incapacitation. He was replaced by Vice-Presidential candidate John Nance Garner, under the 20th Amendment which had come into force less than two months earlier. Never waking from his coma, Roosevelt died on March 5, the day after inauguration (although anti-Garner theories state that he had in fact died earlier). Garner would go on to......
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I'm using this familiar POD to try something a bit different and would appreciate some feedback (either replying here or simply messaging me). This is an Alt-alt-wikibox (from something not even called Wikipedia). I'm trying to create a mash-up of 1980's and current technology aesthetic using my fairly basic paint.net skills. Does this come across or does it just look like a hot-mess? Any hints/tips to help make further edits.

Also, just out of interest, do you think this is how the "info-box" would present this election or would it be more likely that they replace Roosevelt's image with Garner and put Roosevelt into a footnote or something? I feel like the lonely [a] doesn't really cover the absolute enormity of what this situation would have been.
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I found a map of an alternate United States presidential election that inspired me to make the following infobox. I attribute the map to User:Alexandre Leclerc under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. No changes were made to the image.


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The 1948 United States presidential election was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948. Democratic Governor Strom Thurmond unseated incumbent Republican President Harold Stassen and defeated former President Henry A. Wallace, who ran under the banner of the Progressive Party.

Wallace served as president from 1937 to 1945 as a Republican, and Stassen succeeded him with his support. However, Stassen's actions as President displeased Wallace, and Wallace challenged Stassenfor the party nomination at the 1948 Republican National Convention. When Stassen and his conservative allies narrowly prevailed, Wallace rallied his progressive supporters and launched a third party bid. At the Democratic Convention, Thurmond won the presidential nomination on the 9th ballot, defeating Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley and several other candidates with the support of James F. Byrnes and other conservative Democrats.

The general election was bitterly contested by Thurmond, Wallace, and Stassen. Wallace's platform called for sought desegregation, the establishment of a national health insurance system, an expansion of the welfare system, and the nationalization of the energy industry. Wallace also called for conciliation with the Räterepublik. Thurmond's platform called for banking reform and free trade. With little chance of victory, Stassen conducted a subdued campaign based on his own platform of "progressive conservatism".

Thurmond took advantage of the Republican split, winning 29 states and a large narrow majoritu of the electoral vote with just 39.6% of the popular vote, the lowest ever support for any President. Thurmond was the first Democrat to win a presidential election since 1916. Wallace finished second with 177 electoral votes and 32.4% of the popular vote. Stassen carried 25.1% of the national vote and won 104 electoral votes.

Republican President Henry A. Wallace had declined to run for re-election in 1944 in fulfillment of a pledge to the American people not to seek a third term. Wallace had tapped Governor of Minnesota Harold Stassen to become his successor, and Stassen defeated James F. Byrnes in the 1944 general election.

During Stassen's administration, a rift developed between Wallace and Stassen, and they became the leaders of the Republican Party's two wings: progressives led by Wallace and conservatives led by Stassen. By 1946, the split within the party was deep, and Wallace and Stassen turned against one another despite their personal friendship. That summer, Wallace began a national speaking tour in which he outlined his progressive philosophy, which he introduced in a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas on August 31. In the 1910 midterm elections, the Republicans lost 38 seats in the House of Representatives as the Democrats gained a majority for the first time since 1918. These results were a large defeat for the conservative wing of the party. Nevertheless, Wallace continued to reject calls to run for president into the year 1911. However, speculation continued, further harming Wallace and Stassen's relationship. After months of continually increasing support, Wallace changed his position, proclaiming in January 1948 that if the nomination "comes to me as a genuine public movement of course I will accept." On March 28, Wallace issued an ultimatum: if Republicans did not nominate him, he would run as an independent.

Stassen had support from the bulk of the Southern Republican organizations. Delegates from the former Confederate states supported Stassen by a 5 to 1 margin. These states had voted solidly Democratic in every presidential election since 1880, and Wallace objected that they were given one-quarter of the delegates when they would contribute nothing to a Republican victory.

The Republican Convention convened in Philadelphia from June 21 to 25. In the weeks leading up to the convention, many delegates remained uncommitted to a candidate, but by the time the convention formally opened, Stassen had won the support of almost every unbound delegate. Wallace accused Stassen of stealing votes and attempted to have delegates from Arizona, California, Texas, and Washington — all states in favor of Stassen— removed from the convention, but he was unsuccessful. The delegates chose Stassen supporter Joseph Martin to serve as chairman of the convention, a move that signaled that Stassen was likely to win the nomination.

Wallace broke with tradition and attended the convention in person, where he was welcomed with great support from voters.

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Despite Wallace's presence in Philadelphia and his attempts to disqualify Stassen supporters, the incumbent ticket of Stassen and Everett Dirksen was renominated on the first ballot. After losing the vote, Wallace announced the formation of a new party dedicated "to the service of all the people." This would later come to be known as the Progressive Party. Wallace announced that his party would hold its own convention in Philadelphia and that he would accept their nomination if offered.

Progressives reconvened in Philadelphia and endorsed the formation of a national Progressive Party. At their convention from July 23-25, the new party chose Wallace as its presidential nominee and Senator Glen H. Taylor from Idaho as his vice presidential running mate. Most of progressive politicians remained in the Republican Party.


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The Democratic Convention was held in Philadelphia from July 12 to July 14. The delegates nominated Strom Thurmond, the Governor of South Carolina, as their presidential candidate and named Senate Majority Whip Scott Lucas as his running mate.


The 1912 presidential campaign was bitterly contested.

Wallace conducted a vigorous national campaign for the Progressive Party, denouncing the way the Republican nomination had been "stolen". Wallace rallied progressives with speeches denouncing the political establishment

The departure of the progressives left the conservative even more firmly in control of the Republican Party. Much of the Republican effort was designed to discredit Wallace as a dangerous radical and a Räterepublik spy, but this had little effect. Many of the nation's pro-Republican newspapers depicted Wallace as an egotist running only to spoil Stassen's chances and feed his vanity.

On November 2, Thurmond captured the presidency by carrying 287 electoral votes and 25 states.
Awesome scenario! This actually my map, an early version I wanted to test out in Wikipedia infobox! The timeline is about the Canadas winning their independence in the late 1830’s thanks to a third term Andrew Jackson.
 
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The 2017 Russian legislative election was held on the 23rd April 2017, in the centennial year of the February revolution. All 500 seats of the State Duma were up for election, with deputies elected to proportional districts of at least two members which were in most cases coterminous with Russia's federal subjects (though some sparsely-populated subjects are combined to make districts that reach the required population thresholds). The Constitutional Democratic (Cadet) government led by Boris Nemtsov was running for a third term, having controlled the government since the 2009 election.

The two main parties of the Russian political system have been fairly consistent since the 1917 election, where the democratic socialist Socialist Revolutionary Party (SR) convincingly beat the far-left Bolsheviks after the latter faction’s leader, Vladimir Lenin, was killed on his train journey to Petrograd prior to the election. Having lost their leader, the Bolsheviks started to fragment, with some figures like Leon Trotsky resisting Minister-President Kerensky’s government and being imprisoned as enemies of the state while others, like Nikolai Bukharin, took to parliamentary opposition to the SR; in their place, the SR reasserted itself as the main leftist party in Russia, while Cadet regained its former strength as the main opposition party by the 1921 election after being routed in 1917.

The SR would prove the dominant party in Russia until the early 1930s, and its grip on Russian power was finally quelled when Bukharin became Minister-President of Russia (the country’s equivalent of Prime Minister) heading a government of anti-SR parties that worked to industrialize Russia to fight the effects of the Great Depression on the country. His government proved fragmented, particularly with him battling Cadet (which had risen to become the main opposition to the SR; even though Bukharin was of course from the Bolsheviks, the two formed a government united by their opposition to the SR), but the country unified in opposition to the Nazi regime in World War II (which also briefly earned it the support of the Allied nations).

After World War II, animosity between Russia and capitalist nations like Britain and America remained, but Bukharin and his successors as leader, Nikita Khrushchev (SR) and Lev Kopelev (Cadet), mostly focused on building soft power by funding communist parties in Eastern Europe, France and Italy (where these parties managed to establish democratic communist governments numerous times). While Russia did lose its power over surrounding regions under Malva Landa (SR) and reduced its use of socialist ideas under Mikhail Gorbachev (Cadet) in the 1970s and 1980s, it retained a strong position in the international community and made itself appear more tolerant compared to the US with its sizeable economic inequality and racism problems; consequently, the question of who is ‘winning’ the so-called ‘Cold War’ between the US and its allies and Russia and its allies and former member states remains a subject of considerable debate between economists and political scholars.

The government of Boris Nemtsov had been in power for eight years, and had become increasingly unpopular with the left for its institution of unpopular austerity measures and spending cuts, but since the 2013 election had also been bleeding support to the right, with populist Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s Liberal Democratic Party (which Leader of the Opposition Alexey Gaskarov, an active anti-fascist, famously described as ‘not liberal, democratic or much of a party’). While the LDPR did successfully peel off votes from Cadet, it did not prove so effective at drawing support from moderate Cadet voters. Numerous voters who had supported Cadet’s coalition partner, Yabloko, also drifted from that party, with left-wing voters going to the SR and right-wing ones drawn to the LDPR.

Perhaps unsurprisingly given the serious divide in the right-wing vote, Nemtsov’s party suffered their worst defeat since the 1997 election, taking just 132 seats and 24.1% of the popular vote. The party won pluralities in just two okrugs (electoral districts) in Asian Russia, those assigned to Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Tuva Republic, while Yabloko dropped from the third-largest party in the Duma to the fifth. Meanwhile, the LDPR did not surge as much as expected, and only won a small plurality in the Chechnya Republic’s okrug.

By contrast, the SR far outperformed Cadet, though its own strength was somewhat sapped by strong performances by the Communists (the modern successors to the Bolsheviks, formed after WWII) under Ilya Ponomarev, which doubled their voteshare and quadrupled their seats compared to 2013, and the Women of Russia Party, led by Yekaterina Samutsevich of Pussy Riot. Regardless, it rose from only 10 seats ahead of Cadet to 81, and with the Communists and Women of Russia, could easily form a majority.

While Gaskarov was understandably jubilant on election night, the three years since the election have been turbulent to say the least for almost every party in the Constituent Assembly. The SR has had to fight with the Communists around whether to overhaul Russia’s economy to renounce free-market capitalism altogether; Women of Russia has undergone severe infighting over whether the party constitution should respect the rights of transgender women; Nemtsov’s replacement as Cadet leader, the more conservative Igor Shuvalov, has shored up the party’s support; and Zhirinovsky has been growing in popularity as an anti-establishment figure more and more, though polls are sporadic on whether the LDPR are likely to gain or lose seats in 2021. In any case, the outcome of that election looks greatly uncertain for all concerned.

(I hope this doesn't violate the 'no current politics' thing since the PoD is literally over a century earlier. If it does I'll move it or try and come up with an alternate LDPR leader to Zhirinovsky.)
 
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I found some old wikiboxes kicking around somewhere, and I figured that this was as good a place as any to put 'em. So enjoy these wikiboxes chronicling the US falling in a Roman Empire-style decline to dictatorship followed by a *minor* nuclear conflict, allowing the Roosevelt-Kennedys to consolidate complete control.

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I've been rereading some old comics. This infobox was inspired by Action Comics Annual #3. It was part of DC's 1991 crossover event: Armageddon 2001.

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This is very neat, but I have one major nitpick; the Young Justice cartoon aside, Conner has always been treated less as his kid and more as his kid brother.

Especially at this point, when they weren't biologically related.

(minor nitpick: also, I'm not sure Superboy was named Conner yet)
 
Very nice! My one nitpick is that a constituent assembly is a temporary body that drafts a constitution, rather than a permanent one as portrayed here.
Thanks! And good point, I'll have to change it in the morning. I'm not sure whether the replacement name should be the State Duma, the State Soviet or the State Assembly, though- are the former two too strictly aligned with the Tsar and the Bolsheviks respectively to be plausible for the SR to have adopted?
 
Thanks! And good point, I'll have to change it in the morning. I'm not sure whether the replacement name should be the State Duma, the State Soviet or the State Assembly, though- are the former two too strictly aligned with the Tsar and the Bolsheviks respectively to be plausible for the SR to have adopted?

Duma or Assembly makes the most sense, from what I remember.
 
This is very neat, but I have one major nitpick; the Young Justice cartoon aside, Conner has always been treated less as his kid and more as his kid brother.

Especially at this point, when they weren't biologically related.

(minor nitpick: also, I'm not sure Superboy was named Conner yet)
He wasn't. In fact, the character wouldn't exist for another two years and it would be another ten before he was given a name besides Superboy.

Initially, I gave Superman two kids, Joel and Kara (named after his children in Superman & Batman: Generations), but decided to reduce it one. I ended up choosing Conner because I like the name better than Joel.
 
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The 1972 United States presidential election was the 47th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1972. Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated Democratic nominee Edmund Muskie. Although he lost the 1968 election, Ronald Reagan was still popular enough to win a second nomination and to win the election. The Kennedy administration started off good but by the 1970's President Kennedy's popularity was starting to dwindle alongside Kennedy's physical health (Kennedy would have to start using a wheel chair by the end of the decade). Governor George Wallace campaigned during the 1972 election but on May 15, 1972 Wallace was shot and killed by Arthur Bremer while campaigning in Maryland. Wallace was campaigning for the Democratic nomination but many historians agree he would've lost it to Muskie.

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The 1976 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan defeated Democrat nominee Henry "Scoop" Jackson. During the election South Vietnam with US troops overtook North Vietnam and ended the Vietnam war (1955-1975; US entered in 1973), with the reunification of both Vietnams President Reagan was riding high into the election and would go on to win re-election.

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Following the 1972 election, JFK would still be a major figure in politics often writing pieces for different newspapers and writing books. In 1975, Kennedy would enter surgery to help with back pains and in later years be confined to a wheel chair. JFK would publish a memoir in 1978 talking about his life from his early years to his WW2 service to his presidency, the book would help regain popularity alongside his brother Robert's New York Gubernatorial election victories in 74 and in 78. Kennedy would remained married to Jacqueline Kennedy for the rest of her life, she would die on May 19th followed by Jack himself on the 25th mainly due to his Addison's disease which he hid from the public until the mid 1980's.
 
Men For Our Time, Pt. II
As the Second New Deal Coalition of labor unions, consumer advocacy groups, civil rights organization, the environmental movement, and the emerging Midwestern populist left solidifies to preserve the social accomplishments of the Trump Administration, and prevent the anti-welfare surge of the 70s and 80s from dominating presidential politics again, the professional, liberal New York Senator Harold Ickes takes up the mantle of the reinvigorated Democratic consensus.
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