elections

Good day. I'm going to start the Election Game, and I need help. As you probably know, early parliamentary elections were held in 1968, and presidential elections were held the following year. Does anyone know where to find electoral platforms ... or at least briefly find positions on certain...

24 March 1990 The results had begun to come in. Over the course of the night it had been clear it would be close between Bob Hawke and Andrew Peacock. Hawke had been Prime Minister since 1983, and at just over seven years in office, he was the longest serving Labor PM Australia had ever had...

We could plausibly do 1984 or 1980/1986, but 1982 adds the Mayoral race for fun and seems like a reasonable date. I'm not too worried about a specific scenario as to why it passes, but a plausible example timeline could centre on a more effective Democratic President who also gets luckier than...

The Egyptian Presidental Run-off Election was determined by razor thin margins (51-48%), with Islamist candidate Morsi prevailing over Shafik, a military general who was considered part of the old guard. What if Shafik had been able to win the nation's elections and become President?

I've become interested in problems with the U.S. Constitution. We (humanity) have now had a few centuries of experience with writing constitutions since this great experiment, and I was wondering what people think could have been done better. For instance, I think most would agree that direct...

Hi there! Maybe the other German ußers can help me here. Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the first free elections in the GDR in 1990, several new parties formed, among other the Alliance 90 (an alliance of the former opposition groups in the GDR). In the elections they received...

Green Politics have become more sucessful in recent times, just recently electing a Green as President of Austria and for a time, forming the German government. What would be required for Green Politics to become more dominant, contesting and winning elections as government leaders, or at least...

One of this forum's favourite tools, the Electoral College Calculator (found below) has quite a few possibilities for some fun and good-looking alternate history, especially if one can throw the pictures around for some fun in Paint or GIMP or similar programs. Most of these pictures appear in...