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Turquoise Blue

The ATL Wikipedia's template for Canadian elections in True North. Compare to the OTL one here.

And yes, the maple leaf is a symbol of Canada ATL despite never appearing on the flag.

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Nofix

Archangel Michael said:
Nice. I don't think anyone's done one like that.
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Jinx Mike, like OH MAH GAWD!

Speaking of "unique", it always bothered me that Senators pre-17th Amendment don't have their own election boxes. So here is my proposal (in this case WJ Bryan from the Lodgeverse)

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Just a proposal. I don't think the name is quite catchy though.

1890 Lodge Bill Timeline:
1892 Presidential and Congressional elections
1894 Congress/1896 general elections
1898 Congress/1900 general election
1902 Congress/1904 general elections
*John Calhoun Bell biography
1906 Congressional elections
1908 General Elections
1910 Congress/1912 general election
1914 House elections
1916 General Elections
1918 House elections
1920 Presidential Election
1920 House and Senate elections
1922 House elections
1924 General Elections
1926 Congress/1928 General election
*Eugene Debs Biography
1932 Presidential Election
1936 Presidential Election
1940 Election (only round)
 
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Nofix

Archangel Michael said:
I don't know if I've seen actual numbers for those elections. If you could find them and then source them, bring it up with the Wikipedia overlords.
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My research tells me the Nebraska House was 100 seats before the Norris Genocide, and the total seats in the two houses was 133 (assuming you're talking about the seat numbers). I could do that, but that sounds like work and like, you know, yeah.
 
Archangel Michael

Archangel Michael

The Democrats were enjoying a rare period of success on Cornucopia due to the significant vote splitting from the right and center. Conservatives and moderates knew that something needed to change if they were ever going to repeal J.D. Oliver's liberal syndicalist agenda. The Republicans were worried about further Democratic nationalization while the Greens were worried about WPA projects in the Scarecrow Mountains. Moderate Republicans, who'd had enough of people like Evan Reich and Everret Chase, managed to rest control of the Republican Party from the moderates, seizing control of the commonwealth party and the different state parties. By summer 2142, moderate get out the vote and mobilization efforts were paying off. The economy was beginning to slow down as investments began to dry up. But polling heading into the 2143 midterms were looking poor for the Republicans, Greens and Whigs. Newly minted Republican Governor Elijah Peck of Nantucket and Green House Leader Representative Nicole Burns of Cornucopia began an inter-party dialogue.

By winter 2142, the two of them had cobbled together a memorandum of understanding. The Republicans and Greens would merge to form the Republican Green Alliance (RGA). The Republicans would add Green environmental planks to its platforms and would move to the left socially. The Republican National Committee approved the merger. The plan ran into problems with the Green National Committee, so the Cornucopia Green Party de-affiliated from the federal Green Party and merged anyway. A few dissatisfied Greens formed the Independent Green Party and joined the Green National Committee, though they would remain a small, almost ineffectual fringe. The RGA stood as a united front, and while they still failed to recapture the Legislature in the 2143 midterms (the Democratic turnout machine is hard to beat), they cut heavily into the Democratic majority.

The Whigs had completely collapsed in one themselves. Many of its voters and supporters joined the new Republican Greens, as did its prominent donors and fundraisers. Party founder Nelson Flores had retired, not only from Cornucopian politics, but from Cornucopia itself. He retired to a villa in Translunaria at Earth's L3 point, leaving the Whig Party ruderless without its leader and most prominent donor. It also began to fracture ideologically. While many of its members still believed in the ideas of non-partisan politics, electoral reform, sane governance and education reform, environmental and social policy began to tear it apart. The issue of civil nuclear devices was quite controversial within the party, as were new drug laws proposed by the Oliver administration and the use of the death penalty. With the party shut out completely in the midterms, and finally losing all legislative representation as they lost the Senators they'd won in 2137, the party was taken over by dissatisfied Republicans, lead by former (and temporary front runner for the GOP premier nomination in 2141) Representative Jessica Bourne of Roanoke.

The nomination process for all parties was straightforward and boring. The Democrats nominated by Deputy Premier Taylor Molina, who was quite popular with the union leadership, and she chose Harrison K. Ortiz--Associate Justice of the Cornucopia Supreme Court--to shore up support with social liberals and academics. Elijah Peck and Nicole Burke (now the House Minority Whip for the RGA) were chosen easily for the RGA nomination, with Peck getting the top spot and Burke named as his running mate. With the right-wing in charge of the Whig Party, Bourne was initially seen as the front runner for their nomination, but she was forced to dropout due to ethics and fundraising questions during her time in the Commonwealth House. The nomination fell to former Representative Jordan Le Fevre of Yale, who took a strong anti-crime, law and order campaign.

The campaign was mostly focused on getting the parties' bases to turn out on election day. Le Fevre had a small group of dissatisfied conservatives at his back, while Molina was able to turn out the union vote. While Peck campaigned against further WPA projects and nuclear devices, those projects had already begun and were so far along it was impossible to cancel or change them, though further usage could be restricted. Molina promised further nationalization of the telecom industry, along with harsher drug laws and continue used of the death penalty. Peck gained support for his opposition to both. Turnout was up in 2145 over previous years, and the new Republican Greens benefited greatly. With support from former Republicans, Greens and Whigs, Elijah Peck defeated Taylor Molina by less 200,000 votes. The Democrats held onto a slim majority in the House but lost the Senate. The Whigs were finished as they hardly managed better than 7% in any legislative race and their total commonwealth vote total was below 2%.

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2133 Cornucopia
2137 Cornucopia
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True Grit

True Grit

A Minor Meighen Majority
Fresh off his majority win in 2009, Andre Bachand was finally able to govern on his own, without the support of the now very weak Reform party, and set his government firmly in the centre-right. In press conferences, Bachand frequently spoke of his government focusing on the “common sense solutions,” and as a result his majority term was far less ideological than his minority term. Indeed, compared preceding Conservative Prime Ministers, Bachand was the most moderate in decades. While this made Bachand friends (the historically National Liberal-dominated civil service got along quite well with his government, and he looked set to make gains among formerly National Liberal and New Alliance voters) it also made him enemies, as the right-wing of his party began to grumble about his leadership.

While these grumblings were initially private, things went sour for Bachand in 2011, as a moderate budget from Finance minister Jim Flaherty, moderate enough to result in National Liberal leader Martha Hall Findlay admitting she agreed with most of its contents, led to public criticism from the right-wing of his caucus. A group of MPs, led by backbencher Dick Harris, publicly denounced the budget as “a liberal budget from a Conservative Prime Minister,” and used the opportunity to criticize several other of Bachand’s more centrist policies. Soon enough, these MPs (11 in total) announced that they were crossing the floor to join the Reform party, under new leader Danielle Smith, giving the party official status in the House of Commons and nearly vaulting it ahead of the NDP.

While these defections were not enough to defeat the government’s budget (and thus send Canada to the polls), they proved very damaging to Bachand. Polling after this incident showed that while the National Liberals remained stable, a large amount of support had shifted from the Conservatives to Reform, causing the Conservatives, once 2-points ahead of the National Liberals, now trailing badly.

When the polling slump continued on into Summer 2011, pressured by his caucus, cabinet, and the party executive, Bachand was forced to take drastic action, which some will later say did more long-term harm than good. In a shocking move, Bachand dismissed several of his most centrist cabinet ministers, most notably Belinda Stronach, Scott Brison, and John Herron, replacing them with more right-wing choices. While Bachand’s gambit had a minor success in terms of its goals (some of the defecting MPs rejoined the party, while Reform polling numbers slipped), by placating one wing of his party he alienated the other. The dismissed cabinet ministers were shocked, and told the media that they had no prior warning they were going to be removed from their posts, while Brison criticized Bachand for “appealing to a fringe.” By the end of the year, Brison and Stronach would end up joining the National Liberal party.

A year later though, going into the election, Bachand had reason to be optimistic. The Conservatives had remained tied with, if not narrowly in the lead of, the National Liberals for most of the year, and Bachand thought that a good campaign could lead to a second majority government. It initially looked like that would be the case, with Hall Findlay failing to provide a clear reason to not vote for the government, with Conservatives frequently airing ads using Hall Findlay’s past praise of their budget. After a couple of weeks in, though, the tide turned for the National Liberals, as the campaign decided to give a prominent focus to Stronach and Brison, despite initial fears that this would annoy the National Liberal base. Instead, the two proved to be a powerful critic of their former party, saying that “this government isn’t what it was four years ago.” The gambit began to pay off, and the National Liberals began eating into the Conservative lead.

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However, as beneficial as Stronach and Brison were to the Nat Libs, the Conservatives were still able to win another term – but only barely. Coming in just four seats and 0.2 percentage points ahead of the National Liberals, and with a stronger New Alliance and Reform party, Bachand looked set for a rocky third term.

Prime Ministers of Canada:
William Lyon Mackenzie King (Liberal) 1921-1925
Arthur Meighen (Conservative) 1925-1933
Charles Avery Dunning (Liberal) 1933-1939
James Garfield Gardiner (National Liberal) 1939-1953
Brooke Claxton (National Liberal) 1953-1957
Howard Charles Green (Conservative) 1957-1965
James Sinclair (National Liberal) 1965-1973
Alan Eagleson (Conservative) 1973-1980
Jack Horner (Conservative) 1980
Pierre Trudeau (National Liberal) 1980-1984
Jack Horner (Conservative) 1984-1986
Pierre Trudeau (National Liberal) 1986-1987
Jack Horner (Conservative) 1987-1994
Bob Kaplan (National Liberal) 1994-2001
Allan Rock (National Liberal) 2001-2006
Andre Bachand (Conservative) 2006-present
A Minor Meighen Majority
Canadian Federal Election 1925
Canadian Federal Election 1929
Canadian Federal Election 1933
Canadian Federal Election 1937
Canadian Federal Election 1940
Canadian Federal Election 1945
Canadian Federal Election 1950
Canadian Federal Election 1955
Canadian Federal Election 1957
Canadian Federal Election 1958
Canadian Federal Election 1961
Canadian Federal Election 1965
Canadian Federal Election 1967
Canadian Federal Election 1969
Canadian Federal Election 1973
Canadian Federal Election 1977
Canadian Federal Election 1980
Canadian Federal Election 1984
Canadian Federal Election 1986
Canadian Federal Election 1987
Pierre Trudeau
Canadian Federal Election 1989
Canadian Federal Election 1994
Jack Horner
Canadian Federal Election 1998
Canadian Federal Election 2002
Bob Kaplan
Canadian Federal Election 2006
Allan Rock
Canadian Federal Election 2009

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Peter Parker

Banned
There was two series I loved so much

Can someone give me the links please?

One was Nixon abolished the electoral collage, I remember Ford winning in 1976

The other was like if the US had many parties , I remember Rick Perry ran on the states right ticket in 2012
 

CoffeeDragon

Election '07

The first in a new wikibox series I'm planning.


Points of divergence: Gordon Brown avoids his poorly-received visit to Iraq, and the Conservative conference is a shambles.

"After weeks of speculation, on the 9th October 2007 Prime Minister Gordon Brown goes to Buckingham Palace and asks the Queen to call a snap election for the 1st November. She accepts and so the Election of 2007 began.

The Labour Party ran a positive campaign, trying to distance itself from the controversial Tony Blair years, and promised to introduce anti-recession measures (in the wake of the collapsing Northern Rock bank), an Inquiry into the Iraq War, the possibility of a U-turn on the defunct 10p tax band, “rebalanced” budgets based on the national interest”, and tougher immigration. Furthermore, Brown was grilled by the public’s questions in several cities. However he divided opinion when he responded by a question on immigration with “I understand immigration is a key national issue, but I think that what you said about 'immigrants flocking into Britain' is a bigoted remark.”

The Conservative Party pledged to reduce taxes, give more freedom to businesses, reduce the lower band for inheritance tax, increase spending on the NHS and schools, harsher immigration, as well as new anti-crime measures, reform local government, and new housing plans. Unlike Brown, David Cameron had a slicker and more professional image, focusing efforts in marginal seats and giving frequent interviews to the media.

The Liberal Democrats presented themselves as a progressive party. They pledged to reform the voting system, increase taxes on the rich, regulate business and partial renationalisation of public transport. They also renewed their commitment to rolling out alternative energy solutions. Leader Ming Campbell was unpopular due to his age and so he kept a low-profile throughout the campaign, with other Lib Dem frontbenchers taking his place.

Overall, Labour won a fourth election, mostly due to Brown’s honeymoon surge. Although there was a increase in the popular vote, the government's majority was reduced to 26. It was also a historic night for the Green Party, winning its first ever MP, leader Sian Berry in Hampstead & Kilburn, benefitting from the lack of a Lib Dem candidate. Three independents were elected, Richard Taylor in Wyre Forest, Dai Davies in Blaenau Gwent, and the deselected Labour candidate Bob Wareing in Liverpool West Derby.

There was a significant drop in turnout, this being attributed to the dark November nights."

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Thande

Thande

Donor
Nofix said:
Jinx Mike, like OH MAH GAWD!

Speaking of "unique", it always bothered me that Senators pre-17th Amendment don't have their own election boxes. So here is my proposal (in this case WJ Bryan from the Lodgeverse)
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I agree that does need doing - do you have a way of showing the result in the case of House voting one way, Senate the other, "Legislature Failed to Elect" and then appointed by the Governor? Because I seem to recall that happening A LOT before the 17th amendment.
 
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