politics

The British Election of 1945 is one of the most famous upsets in political history: despite Winston Churchill's popularity the Tories lost in a landslide. Was there any way the Tories could've won in 1945?

Sorry for the overly long title, I don't know how to put such a thing with less words without losing the context of the thread. Never in american history a third party won as far as I know. Some people tried to arguee once in a thread that Lincoln victory was a third party victory since it was...

The Kingdom of Liberty A History of the United States "Unlike the centuries-old absolute monarchies of Europe, which ruled for power and control, the American monarchy ruled for nearly the exact opposite: liberty and independence. Since Henry the First to George the Second, we have been dearly...

Based on stimulating conversation in other threads, I've come up with a little challenge. It's no secret that I'm fervently into alternative ideologies and political parties and I wanted to see what you all could come up with, with a little twist: rather than just create a new ideology, I think...

What if the Bolsheviks never take over Russia? Thus preventing the Soviet Union from ever existing, and more than likely preventing the spread of Communism to any other country of significance. What I'm interested in is how this specifically effects American politics. Would socialism or...

As expected, the 1992 UK election resulted in a hung parliament with Labour holding the most seats. But what if John Major had been able to pull off an upset and the Tories had won in 1992?

A beautiful flag provided to me by an internet friend many, many years ago; if you recognize the handiwork, please let me know so I can give proper credit! Hello, and welcome to my first crack at alternate history! This is an idea I've been marinating for nearly a decade by this point, and I'm...

This is a "Person who" kind of scenario, of the kind that a certain person personality is distorted to a certain point, all right? All right, well, let's start with a little history: Brazil, Ukraine, Guatemala, all had "exotic" presidents, strange people that got elected for unlikely reasons...

Okay, let's say Russia somehow stays more stable after the fall of the Soviet Union and doesn't become a dictatorship, doesn't make threatening moves on its neighbors, and eventually applies for membership of the EU and gets it. What happens next? How does this impact Russia? How does it impact...

i am new to this so here goes : if ww1 was postponed (by franz ferdinand surviving for instance) who will take control in france. is the millatary likely to take power? the socialists? bonapartists? discuss. thank you for your time.

Present day American politics is mostly dominated by a two party system with the Whig Party and the People's Party. This wasn't always the case, though. The Democratic party was a major party opposed to the Whigs, but it ultimately fell apart and was later replaced. This challenge has two parts...

Confessionnalism is, in short, the proportional distribution of political and institutional power among communities of different religions. For instance, in the 19th Century, the Ottoman Parliament did a thing of the sort with allocation of seats specifically to religious minorities present in...

With a starting time around after 1860s to the 20th century. If the South manage to get foreign backing, and won the Civil war, what political party has the chance to become dominant in USA?

I have been watching the netflix life documentary about Ted Bundy, and one thing that got my attention is that when he get the death sentence the judge comments about how a promissing young man he was, how he is someone pleasant to talk and how much potential he wasted with his crimes. This made...

Let us imagine a modern Romanía. One that has endured the ages, yet commands not the world's stage. Let us imagine the Romans as a people stretching from Azerbaijan to Serbia. Let us imagine that much of history is similar to ours; the Turks, the crusades, the rise of Europe, the Renaissance...

This idea has been done before on this site, but I wanted to resurrect it just for fun. The purpose of this thread isn't to simply make a list of Presidents. Rather your challenge, should you chose to accept it, is to explain another poster's AH list of Presidents or Prime Ministers. Then you...

Chapter I: A Midnight Call ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is my first timeline so sorry if I'm mistaken in some of this stories! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 30th September 1965, 23.45 P.M A knock is heard at...

Greetings to the comunity of alternatehistory.com !! Was wondering if you would be interested to try the political simulation game I've worked on for the past 2 years called "Laws of Civilization". Basically, the player controls a party, takes part to interviews and runs for election. Once...

*Notices Title* OwO What's this? A timeline based on the 1996 United States presidential election inspired by a post I made on the Alternate Presidents and PMs board. What happened to A Thousand Points of Light, your amazing timeline you should all totally check out *wink* *nudge*? Don't...

Chapter One: It Begins "Even now, it was never clear why Heath chose to declare a three day week. There wasn't a shortage of coal, simply a shortage of communications and unwillingness to change. It was Heath's remark about the upcoming holiday and the comparison to the dark days of the war...