Hi everyone. I was wondering if posting a WIP Alternate Election map here was okay, or does that go in the WIP thread?
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Alternate Electoral Maps II
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oh yeah I didn't see that with the map, seems fairly accurate for the scenario
What 1976 might have looked like if early polls showing Carter clobbering Ford had been accurate.
My first map. Credit to Chicxulub for the basemap and MoralisticCommunist for inspiration.
Before I come up with context, anyone care to guess as to what's going on?
Before I come up with context, anyone care to guess as to what's going on?
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Wow, that definitely is a nice looking election map! Though is there supposed to be a district which spans across Southern Boston to Northern Rhode Island or are the state borders in your map different from OTL?
Thanks! Means a lot from you!
The borders are indeed a bit different from OTL, specifically RI, MA, NY, CT, and Maine. I haven't decided the names of the parties, but I think the color scheme makes it at least a little revealing. Blue is your conservative, Red is your social democratic etc. - In all honesty this just started as something I felt like doing in spare time, which kind of evolved into that. I want to end up putting some story behind it like you've done with yours.
Kaine wins 59-40, with Stewart's very strong performance in Southwest Virginia keeping him below 60% despite his blowout wins in NoVA and the Virginia Beach and Richmond metro areas.
This is a very plausible map of a Kaine landslide. Ironically, I was asking about this on a thread at U.S. Election Atlas.
Kaine wins 59-40, with Stewart's very strong performance in Southwest Virginia keeping him below 60% despite his blowout wins in NoVA and the Virginia Beach and Richmond metro areas.
I really like it! But I don't think it's super clear if what you're showing up is the combined state houses or something else. Or where the states end and begin. Perhaps you should add thicker lines for the state borders.
FDR wins all 48 states, and all but 96 counties. he wins every county in 30 states and only loses a single county in a further 5 states. Amazingly, Hoover manages to clear 40% in two North Georgia counties despite getting less than 0% statewide.
The Kingdom of Fiji is, in more ways than one, the opposite to its perpetual rival, the Kingdom of Hawaii: while one is located in the far East of the Pacific Union, the other is located in its west (and therefore, while one is more American-focused, concerned about US expansionism and close to the Axis of Freedom, the other is far more Asian-focused, with Fiji traditionally being the chief source of negotiation between the Pacific Union and the Australasian nations); while one has a native monarchy that unified the islands independently, the other has a monarchy that was only propped up by the British as part of the protectorate agreement; while one is culturally the head of Polynesia, the other does the same job in Melanesia. The rivalry between Fiji and Hawaii is seen as one of the fiercest regional rivalries in the world, with one simple caveat: Hawaii has far more people, a far larger GDP, and far more influence, both culturally and politically, on the Pacific Union.
Politically, the differences have been just as stark. Hawaii is, traditionally, a swing state, but one that swings closer to the leftwing Talofa Lava and the Pacific Sector of the Workers' International than to the rightwing trifecta, while Fiji has, traditionally, been seen as the stalwart heart of Pacific conservatism. Indeed, while Fijian politics are quite idiosyncratic, this was, to a very large degree, true: not once had a Prime Minister been from the political left.
This all changed in the election of 2017, an election that continued the shockwaves that the Hawaiian election the year before and that would contribute to the narrative that dominated Oceanian political thought at the time: that a political wave, worthy of the rage of Tagaloa, was to drown the political right.
Of course, the problems of the right in Fiji started well before 2017: arguably, they started in the mid-1950s, with the creation of the modern party system. Throughout the Pacific Union, the political right fractured in two, following (as almost always) the Hawaiian example: Wanahau Parties, alliance between liberals in urban areas and farmers or fishers in smaller towns and islands, formed throughout the Federation, leaving existing parties that embodied the interests of the more powerful and traditional aristocracy, which would eventually coalesce in what is now known as the Party of Kapu. Fiji also saw this political division, with the creation of a Yavusa Party (loosely, as in a lot of parties in Wanahau, to "Party of Family"), and a Fiji National Congress, which was the closest descendant to pre-1950s Fijian conservatism: but Yavusa, unlike all the other Family Parties, joined Kapu, not Wanahau.
Why is that?
Well, the answer is surprisingly simple. Unlike in other nations of the Pacific Union, Fiji has a massive non-Pacific Islander community in the Fiji Indians: almost 40% of the population, especially in the Sugar Belt in northern Viti Levu, is of Indian descent, and culturally far closer to the Indic Federation than to any other state in the Pacific Union. The Fijian right fractured along mostly ethnic lines, with Yavusa becoming the party of ethnic Fijians, while the FNC becoming the party of ethnic Indians. Unlike the rest of the Pacific Union, where the difference between Wanahau and Kapu is mostly ideological and they are ready to negotiate and compromise, the relationship between Yavusa and Congress has always been rocky. The uneasy alliance between the two was mostly due to the fact that, throughout most of history, both parties held close to 70% of the seats between the two, and government with any other of the small, mostly disorganised leftwing parties seemed impossible. Because of this motive, all elections between 1957 and 2017 saw an uneasy coalition government between Yavusa and Congress, with little to no opposition.
Fijian Labour, historically the main opposition party, was almost exclusively represented in Suva and a few large sugarcane fields with unusually organized labor forces: this led to the creation of a Talofa Lava-aligned party in the 80s named Tokatoka, which allowed a large amount of rural Fijians (and, in mostly ethnic Fijian areas, many Indians), who didn't see themselves in the plights of labor unions and large worker forces to voice their displeasure to the eternal duopoly of Yavusa and Congress, but still were unable to topple the government. The early 90s saw the creation of two new parties, as ethnic tensions aggravated between ethnic Fijians and Indians: the radical Fijian FijiFirst, which looks for the withdrawal of Fiji from the Pacific Union and the ethnic segregation of Indians, and the integrationist Democratic Alliance, which, without seriously looking to undermine the policies of the Big Two, looked for an end to the racial divide.
With a political system now similar (at least on the surgace) to that of the rest of the Pacific Union, Fiji progressed throughout the 90s with steadily declining percentages for the Big Two and an increasingly hostile population, with ethnic strife growing and major issues (such as growing obesity making the traditional health system become greatly inadequate and an excessive dependence on sugarcane exports and tourism) being ignored by Congress and Yavusa. With the opposition coming from all sides of the spectrum, however, the stranglehold of the Big Two and the political right over Fiji was untouched, with FijiFirst fully joining Government coalition following the 1997 election, and the Democratic Alliance increasingly participating in Government after coalition agreements in 2001 and 2009.
This status quo was, of course, shattered with the events following the 2016 Hawaiian general election.
After the Ohana Party broke its 83-year coalition with the Party of Kapu to sit in the crossbench, it was clear that federal cooperation between Wanahau and Kapu was not to last, and indeed, the uneasy alliance between the two broke almost immediately in Hawaii, with the two major parties beginning to accuse each other of ethnic violence in Viti Levu. The right, however, was not concerned: sure, the alliance was over, but the two parties were still, by far, the largest parties in Congress, and it was expected for the winning party in the elections to easily govern with the help of a surely to be strengthened Democratic Alliance.
Nobody expected the corruption charges to begin raining down from Hawaii and tarnishing the reputation of the entirety of not only Kapu and Ohana, but also the Liberal Party of the Pacific, which not only suffered from the Hawaii scandals but also from its division over whether to maintain the Hawaii Republican Party as its affiliated party in the Union's biggest state or to give that position to businesswoman and minor celebrity Nani Pelekai's eDemocrats, an issue that tore the Party asunder. Suddenly, the Democratic Alliance was also very tarnished in the public eye.
The perfect storm was finally completed with the emergence of a new Party in Fijian political territory - Fiji's very own version of the Hawaiian Pirate Party, named Every Man a Ratu. The new Party, fundamentally similar to pirate politics and based on the Five Tenets agreed upon on the Honolulu Convention early in 2016, appealed greatly to young voters of all kinds - urban and rural, rich and poor, Fijian and Indian, and soon achieved great attention within both Fijian and Pacific media, with the party's leader Charles Ratu Caucaunibuca, a successful surgeon, quickly becoming Fiji's most popular politician.
By the time the writ was dropped in April of 2017, it was clear the Big Two were, for the first time in Fijian history, in danger, and, indeed, as the results slowly but surely came in, one thing was clear - for the first time in Fijian history, the majority (slimly) belonged to the leftwing bloc, with Tokatoka almost displacing Yavusa as the largest party and all parties gaining seats from the rightwing.
The result of the right being ousted in its heartland brought shockwaves to Pacific politics. Wanahau, Kapu and PNF politicians braced for the absolute worst results they seemed to be heading into, while the left was ecstatic.
Parties of Fiji
In Government
Every Man a Ratu - Pirate Party of Fiji - pirate politics, economic democracy, feminism
Founded only two years ago, and imitating the success of its sister Party in Hawaii, the Pirate Party of Fiji has managed to become both the newest and the most influential Party in the island nation, with party leader Charles Ratu Caucaunibuca becoming Fiji's first-ever leftwing Prime Minister. The Fiji Pirates have five fundamental principles - Ecologism (which ties them to most green parties worldwide), Economic Democracy (which makes them also support e-democratic initiatives of greater direct democracy, and makes them by far the most leftwing Party in Fiji), Freedom of Information (from which the original Priate name comes from), Life Is Sacred (which translates to the plight to establish universal healthcare in the island nation) and Equality (which advocates for ethnic integration between Fijians, Indians and Polynesians, as well as equality of the sexes and rights for the nation's LGBT community). The Pirate Party is chiefly popular amongst the youth of the islands, where they polled as well as 40%, and where they've attracted people from all ethnicities and social classes. The Pirates have grown an impressing rate, passing from nonexistance in the 2013 elections to becoming the second largest party in Fiji, with 18 seats in the Fiji House of Commons.
Tokatoka - ethnic Fijian interests, agrarianism, social democracy
Tokatoka has, since its creation in the 80s (it being the last major party to join Talofa Lava), the fundamental oposition to the perennial Yavusa-Congress government, becoming radically leftwing (in most aspects) to contradict the government's fundamentally rightwing ideology. For this reason, Tokatoka was generally seen as the party of sugarcane workers (instead of sugarcane owners), of inhabitants of smaller islands (which felt abandoned by the Big Two that seemed almost entirely focused on Viti Levu) and of ethnic minorities in some districts (in mostly Fijian regions where Congress did not run candidates, many Indian voters chose Tokatoka instead: the inverse happened in the two regions of Nadi and Lautoka, where Yavusa did not run any candidates). While this election Tokatoka's role has been somewhat coopted by the rise of the Pirate Party, it still achieved its best electoral result in history, with 18 out of the 86 seats of the Fiji House of Commons.
Fiji Labour Party - social democracy, labor interests
Fiji Labour was, historically, before the rise of Tokatoka, the chief opposition to the Big Two, but was, and remains, tragically limited in its scope: the party is only popular with big city workers and in a few sugar plantations where the strength of organized labor is higher than average across the island. For this reason, Labour has always been seen as the party of big syndicates, and not as truly a party of the worker - which means their support is relatively limited. Fiji Labour has managed to gain a few rural seats (notably, one each in the regions of Ladi and Colo West), and has also achieved its best electoral result in a long time, although with a far smaller amount of MPs - 8 out of the 86 in the House of Commons, making it the smallest party in Government.
The Crossbench
Democratic Alliance - ethnic neutrality, neoliberalism
The Democratic Alliance is a powerful symbol of unity in a country rife with ethnic tensions - or so they tell themselves, at least. Founded in the 1990s, through the alliance of six MPs (three from each of the Big Two) that thought ethnic representation should not matter when it comes to elections, the Democratic Alliance managed to become an important factor of Fijian politics, appealing to wide sectors of people throughout the island, especially a more transracial youth, of which many were of mixed race and many otheres had friends or family from the other ethnic group. The Democratic Alliance came to a total of 13 seats in the 2013 elections, the highest it had ever achieved, and was set to grow greatly; maybe even, according to some polls, to come in first for the first time in history.
Everything changed with the Hawaiian crisis of the Liberal Party of the Pacific. With liberalism and the LPP greatly discredited throughout the country, and with the entire government coalition in Fiji greatly discredited, the Democratic Alliance suffered its worst election defeat in history, returning to the 6 seats that they hadn't had since 1997.
The Opposition
Yavusa Party - ethnic Fijian interests, conservatism
Yavusa has historically been the party of Fiji, having always been the largest party in the House of Commons, and with all 15 previous Prime Ministers hailing from the party. With the support of all of the Big Money in Fijian politics, of large plantation owners and industrialists, Yavusa has by far the greatest amount of money out of any party. The electoral behemoth that is Yavusa is increased by its populist stances on everything - the only consistent ideology for Yavusa being the defense of ethnic Fijian interests over those of Fiji Indians.
Yavusa was crushed after the collapse of the coalition with the Fiji National Congress in 2016, increased ethnic strife, skyrocketing health costs and a desire for change in Fiji after sustained corruption scandals and has been reduced to its lowest parliamentary representation ever - 21 out of the Parliament's 86 seats, still the largest party in the country. However, for the first time in its history, it has been relegated to opposition.
Fiji National Congress - ethnic Indian interests, neoliberalism
Congress is, historically, the smaller of the Big Two of Fijian politics, and has always been playing second fiddle to Yavusa, something that they have quite resented. The collapse of the alliance between the two was mostly due to complaints by Congress politicians, which were known to argue and bicker a lot with Yavusa but for the first time withdrew parliamentary confidence.
Congress is slightly more leftwing than Yavusa, and thusly a part of the Ohana Party, but it's not like that really matters in Fijian politics - their main ideology is, exclusively, the defense of ethnic Indians in the island nation.
Congress has also been reduced to its lowest ever level of parliamentary representation, and for the first time in its history, it hasn't come in second in an election - indeed, with only 13 seats, it's come in fourth.
FijiFirst - ethnic Fijian chauvinism, nationalism, Fijian independence
Probably the Pacific of Nations and Freedom's most radical member party, bordering on Boulangisme and overt racism towards the country's Indian minority. Founded in the 1990s as ethnic tensions worsened between the two major ethnic groups, it has fortunately never been particularly popular, never having more than 7 seats in the Fijian House of Commons - and its coalition pact with Congress and Yavusa following the 2013 election decimated the party, with it suffering an absolute loss of all but 2 of its representatives. Still, FijiFirst's radical proposals always catch the attention of Fijian media, and they'll continue to be a headache for all for the next 4 years.
(a little thing I was doing to rest from the world map I've been working on. What do you guys think?)
Politically, the differences have been just as stark. Hawaii is, traditionally, a swing state, but one that swings closer to the leftwing Talofa Lava and the Pacific Sector of the Workers' International than to the rightwing trifecta, while Fiji has, traditionally, been seen as the stalwart heart of Pacific conservatism. Indeed, while Fijian politics are quite idiosyncratic, this was, to a very large degree, true: not once had a Prime Minister been from the political left.
This all changed in the election of 2017, an election that continued the shockwaves that the Hawaiian election the year before and that would contribute to the narrative that dominated Oceanian political thought at the time: that a political wave, worthy of the rage of Tagaloa, was to drown the political right.
Of course, the problems of the right in Fiji started well before 2017: arguably, they started in the mid-1950s, with the creation of the modern party system. Throughout the Pacific Union, the political right fractured in two, following (as almost always) the Hawaiian example: Wanahau Parties, alliance between liberals in urban areas and farmers or fishers in smaller towns and islands, formed throughout the Federation, leaving existing parties that embodied the interests of the more powerful and traditional aristocracy, which would eventually coalesce in what is now known as the Party of Kapu. Fiji also saw this political division, with the creation of a Yavusa Party (loosely, as in a lot of parties in Wanahau, to "Party of Family"), and a Fiji National Congress, which was the closest descendant to pre-1950s Fijian conservatism: but Yavusa, unlike all the other Family Parties, joined Kapu, not Wanahau.
Why is that?
Well, the answer is surprisingly simple. Unlike in other nations of the Pacific Union, Fiji has a massive non-Pacific Islander community in the Fiji Indians: almost 40% of the population, especially in the Sugar Belt in northern Viti Levu, is of Indian descent, and culturally far closer to the Indic Federation than to any other state in the Pacific Union. The Fijian right fractured along mostly ethnic lines, with Yavusa becoming the party of ethnic Fijians, while the FNC becoming the party of ethnic Indians. Unlike the rest of the Pacific Union, where the difference between Wanahau and Kapu is mostly ideological and they are ready to negotiate and compromise, the relationship between Yavusa and Congress has always been rocky. The uneasy alliance between the two was mostly due to the fact that, throughout most of history, both parties held close to 70% of the seats between the two, and government with any other of the small, mostly disorganised leftwing parties seemed impossible. Because of this motive, all elections between 1957 and 2017 saw an uneasy coalition government between Yavusa and Congress, with little to no opposition.
Fijian Labour, historically the main opposition party, was almost exclusively represented in Suva and a few large sugarcane fields with unusually organized labor forces: this led to the creation of a Talofa Lava-aligned party in the 80s named Tokatoka, which allowed a large amount of rural Fijians (and, in mostly ethnic Fijian areas, many Indians), who didn't see themselves in the plights of labor unions and large worker forces to voice their displeasure to the eternal duopoly of Yavusa and Congress, but still were unable to topple the government. The early 90s saw the creation of two new parties, as ethnic tensions aggravated between ethnic Fijians and Indians: the radical Fijian FijiFirst, which looks for the withdrawal of Fiji from the Pacific Union and the ethnic segregation of Indians, and the integrationist Democratic Alliance, which, without seriously looking to undermine the policies of the Big Two, looked for an end to the racial divide.
With a political system now similar (at least on the surgace) to that of the rest of the Pacific Union, Fiji progressed throughout the 90s with steadily declining percentages for the Big Two and an increasingly hostile population, with ethnic strife growing and major issues (such as growing obesity making the traditional health system become greatly inadequate and an excessive dependence on sugarcane exports and tourism) being ignored by Congress and Yavusa. With the opposition coming from all sides of the spectrum, however, the stranglehold of the Big Two and the political right over Fiji was untouched, with FijiFirst fully joining Government coalition following the 1997 election, and the Democratic Alliance increasingly participating in Government after coalition agreements in 2001 and 2009.
This status quo was, of course, shattered with the events following the 2016 Hawaiian general election.
After the Ohana Party broke its 83-year coalition with the Party of Kapu to sit in the crossbench, it was clear that federal cooperation between Wanahau and Kapu was not to last, and indeed, the uneasy alliance between the two broke almost immediately in Hawaii, with the two major parties beginning to accuse each other of ethnic violence in Viti Levu. The right, however, was not concerned: sure, the alliance was over, but the two parties were still, by far, the largest parties in Congress, and it was expected for the winning party in the elections to easily govern with the help of a surely to be strengthened Democratic Alliance.
Nobody expected the corruption charges to begin raining down from Hawaii and tarnishing the reputation of the entirety of not only Kapu and Ohana, but also the Liberal Party of the Pacific, which not only suffered from the Hawaii scandals but also from its division over whether to maintain the Hawaii Republican Party as its affiliated party in the Union's biggest state or to give that position to businesswoman and minor celebrity Nani Pelekai's eDemocrats, an issue that tore the Party asunder. Suddenly, the Democratic Alliance was also very tarnished in the public eye.
The perfect storm was finally completed with the emergence of a new Party in Fijian political territory - Fiji's very own version of the Hawaiian Pirate Party, named Every Man a Ratu. The new Party, fundamentally similar to pirate politics and based on the Five Tenets agreed upon on the Honolulu Convention early in 2016, appealed greatly to young voters of all kinds - urban and rural, rich and poor, Fijian and Indian, and soon achieved great attention within both Fijian and Pacific media, with the party's leader Charles Ratu Caucaunibuca, a successful surgeon, quickly becoming Fiji's most popular politician.
By the time the writ was dropped in April of 2017, it was clear the Big Two were, for the first time in Fijian history, in danger, and, indeed, as the results slowly but surely came in, one thing was clear - for the first time in Fijian history, the majority (slimly) belonged to the leftwing bloc, with Tokatoka almost displacing Yavusa as the largest party and all parties gaining seats from the rightwing.
The result of the right being ousted in its heartland brought shockwaves to Pacific politics. Wanahau, Kapu and PNF politicians braced for the absolute worst results they seemed to be heading into, while the left was ecstatic.
Parties of Fiji
In Government
Every Man a Ratu - Pirate Party of Fiji - pirate politics, economic democracy, feminism
Founded only two years ago, and imitating the success of its sister Party in Hawaii, the Pirate Party of Fiji has managed to become both the newest and the most influential Party in the island nation, with party leader Charles Ratu Caucaunibuca becoming Fiji's first-ever leftwing Prime Minister. The Fiji Pirates have five fundamental principles - Ecologism (which ties them to most green parties worldwide), Economic Democracy (which makes them also support e-democratic initiatives of greater direct democracy, and makes them by far the most leftwing Party in Fiji), Freedom of Information (from which the original Priate name comes from), Life Is Sacred (which translates to the plight to establish universal healthcare in the island nation) and Equality (which advocates for ethnic integration between Fijians, Indians and Polynesians, as well as equality of the sexes and rights for the nation's LGBT community). The Pirate Party is chiefly popular amongst the youth of the islands, where they polled as well as 40%, and where they've attracted people from all ethnicities and social classes. The Pirates have grown an impressing rate, passing from nonexistance in the 2013 elections to becoming the second largest party in Fiji, with 18 seats in the Fiji House of Commons.
Tokatoka - ethnic Fijian interests, agrarianism, social democracy
Tokatoka has, since its creation in the 80s (it being the last major party to join Talofa Lava), the fundamental oposition to the perennial Yavusa-Congress government, becoming radically leftwing (in most aspects) to contradict the government's fundamentally rightwing ideology. For this reason, Tokatoka was generally seen as the party of sugarcane workers (instead of sugarcane owners), of inhabitants of smaller islands (which felt abandoned by the Big Two that seemed almost entirely focused on Viti Levu) and of ethnic minorities in some districts (in mostly Fijian regions where Congress did not run candidates, many Indian voters chose Tokatoka instead: the inverse happened in the two regions of Nadi and Lautoka, where Yavusa did not run any candidates). While this election Tokatoka's role has been somewhat coopted by the rise of the Pirate Party, it still achieved its best electoral result in history, with 18 out of the 86 seats of the Fiji House of Commons.
Fiji Labour Party - social democracy, labor interests
Fiji Labour was, historically, before the rise of Tokatoka, the chief opposition to the Big Two, but was, and remains, tragically limited in its scope: the party is only popular with big city workers and in a few sugar plantations where the strength of organized labor is higher than average across the island. For this reason, Labour has always been seen as the party of big syndicates, and not as truly a party of the worker - which means their support is relatively limited. Fiji Labour has managed to gain a few rural seats (notably, one each in the regions of Ladi and Colo West), and has also achieved its best electoral result in a long time, although with a far smaller amount of MPs - 8 out of the 86 in the House of Commons, making it the smallest party in Government.
The Crossbench
Democratic Alliance - ethnic neutrality, neoliberalism
The Democratic Alliance is a powerful symbol of unity in a country rife with ethnic tensions - or so they tell themselves, at least. Founded in the 1990s, through the alliance of six MPs (three from each of the Big Two) that thought ethnic representation should not matter when it comes to elections, the Democratic Alliance managed to become an important factor of Fijian politics, appealing to wide sectors of people throughout the island, especially a more transracial youth, of which many were of mixed race and many otheres had friends or family from the other ethnic group. The Democratic Alliance came to a total of 13 seats in the 2013 elections, the highest it had ever achieved, and was set to grow greatly; maybe even, according to some polls, to come in first for the first time in history.
Everything changed with the Hawaiian crisis of the Liberal Party of the Pacific. With liberalism and the LPP greatly discredited throughout the country, and with the entire government coalition in Fiji greatly discredited, the Democratic Alliance suffered its worst election defeat in history, returning to the 6 seats that they hadn't had since 1997.
The Opposition
Yavusa Party - ethnic Fijian interests, conservatism
Yavusa has historically been the party of Fiji, having always been the largest party in the House of Commons, and with all 15 previous Prime Ministers hailing from the party. With the support of all of the Big Money in Fijian politics, of large plantation owners and industrialists, Yavusa has by far the greatest amount of money out of any party. The electoral behemoth that is Yavusa is increased by its populist stances on everything - the only consistent ideology for Yavusa being the defense of ethnic Fijian interests over those of Fiji Indians.
Yavusa was crushed after the collapse of the coalition with the Fiji National Congress in 2016, increased ethnic strife, skyrocketing health costs and a desire for change in Fiji after sustained corruption scandals and has been reduced to its lowest parliamentary representation ever - 21 out of the Parliament's 86 seats, still the largest party in the country. However, for the first time in its history, it has been relegated to opposition.
Fiji National Congress - ethnic Indian interests, neoliberalism
Congress is, historically, the smaller of the Big Two of Fijian politics, and has always been playing second fiddle to Yavusa, something that they have quite resented. The collapse of the alliance between the two was mostly due to complaints by Congress politicians, which were known to argue and bicker a lot with Yavusa but for the first time withdrew parliamentary confidence.
Congress is slightly more leftwing than Yavusa, and thusly a part of the Ohana Party, but it's not like that really matters in Fijian politics - their main ideology is, exclusively, the defense of ethnic Indians in the island nation.
Congress has also been reduced to its lowest ever level of parliamentary representation, and for the first time in its history, it hasn't come in second in an election - indeed, with only 13 seats, it's come in fourth.
FijiFirst - ethnic Fijian chauvinism, nationalism, Fijian independence
Probably the Pacific of Nations and Freedom's most radical member party, bordering on Boulangisme and overt racism towards the country's Indian minority. Founded in the 1990s as ethnic tensions worsened between the two major ethnic groups, it has fortunately never been particularly popular, never having more than 7 seats in the Fijian House of Commons - and its coalition pact with Congress and Yavusa following the 2013 election decimated the party, with it suffering an absolute loss of all but 2 of its representatives. Still, FijiFirst's radical proposals always catch the attention of Fijian media, and they'll continue to be a headache for all for the next 4 years.
(a little thing I was doing to rest from the world map I've been working on. What do you guys think?)
1996 if Bill Clinton had won all 50 states (based on a uniform swing)
President Bill Clinton (D-AR)/Vice President Al Gore (D-TN) 60.23% popular vote, 537 electoral votes
Conservative Personality Pat Buchanan (R-VA)/Congressman Rick Santorum (R-PA) 29.72% popular vote, 1 electoral vote
President Bill Clinton (D-AR)/Vice President Al Gore (D-TN) 60.23% popular vote, 537 electoral votes
Conservative Personality Pat Buchanan (R-VA)/Congressman Rick Santorum (R-PA) 29.72% popular vote, 1 electoral vote
What percentage of the vote would Hoover get here? I imagine that it would be less than 30%.
FDR wins all 48 states, and all but 96 counties. he wins every county in 30 states and only loses a single county in a further 5 states. Amazingly, Hoover manages to clear 40% in two North Georgia counties despite getting less than 0% statewide.
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