Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes II
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You could start with the first infobox thread for background stuff. There's a few story links in my sig, along with a sort of misc story thread, and from there, just sort of anything else I've posted in the Writer's Forum in the past year or so.
2011 for comparison
This is the first election after Thalcel was admitted to the Kingdom of Rosalia. It was before an independent presidential republic, but it switched to parliamentarism for its first election so to "fall in line" with all the other Rosalian states.
As you can see, there is no Convergence, SDP, Imperial Union, Republican Labour or Citizens' here. The Conservatives contended their first election here.
Their opponents are the Liberals, the pro-Rosalian unionist centrist-to-centre-left party. The Conservatives at this point was mildly regionalist, arguing that Thalcel should have more self-government than Rosalia gave it when it joined the Kingdom. The shift to a more unionist Conservative Party would happen much later.
As expected, the first election was a victory for the Liberals and for Samuel Ingham, who became the first Chancellor.
Oh and this election is FPTP. PR would come a while later.
This is the first election after Thalcel was admitted to the Kingdom of Rosalia. It was before an independent presidential republic, but it switched to parliamentarism for its first election so to "fall in line" with all the other Rosalian states.
As you can see, there is no Convergence, SDP, Imperial Union, Republican Labour or Citizens' here. The Conservatives contended their first election here.
Their opponents are the Liberals, the pro-Rosalian unionist centrist-to-centre-left party. The Conservatives at this point was mildly regionalist, arguing that Thalcel should have more self-government than Rosalia gave it when it joined the Kingdom. The shift to a more unionist Conservative Party would happen much later.
As expected, the first election was a victory for the Liberals and for Samuel Ingham, who became the first Chancellor.
Oh and this election is FPTP. PR would come a while later.
umm either 1797 or 1801 i forgot. different president. its from my TL I've been writing on an alternate US
Here's a totally original and in no way uninspired idea, Canadian Presidential election! Basically, Britain falls in 1940 to the Nazi's and Canada severs all ties to the mother country and adopts a new Constitution, with a Presidency based on their southern neighbors. Every vaguely important non-Liberal Party member (and even some Independent Liberals) band together in a "National" Party to oppose them in this election, often meaning a Presidential ticket was King once, and Manion 5 times on the ballot. Now Canada must liberate Europe with only Australia, New Zealand, and the occasional lost and/or drunken American. God save the King...
A more clean version of the electoral map
This prototype highlights just why an American Electoral College couldn't work in Canada, short of splitting some provinces up, Ontario (31.4%) and Quebec (26.4%) make up a near supermajority in the EC (57.86%). Think it's bad in America or Canada now? Imagine in New York and California had a third of the votes themselves, or if a bare plurality of votes in Ontario and Quebec means control of the Presidency for 5 years (it kind of is like that now, but you get what I mean, it'd be far worse).
So, yea, like any thoughts or suggestions or something?
A more clean version of the electoral map
This prototype highlights just why an American Electoral College couldn't work in Canada, short of splitting some provinces up, Ontario (31.4%) and Quebec (26.4%) make up a near supermajority in the EC (57.86%). Think it's bad in America or Canada now? Imagine in New York and California had a third of the votes themselves, or if a bare plurality of votes in Ontario and Quebec means control of the Presidency for 5 years (it kind of is like that now, but you get what I mean, it'd be far worse).
So, yea, like any thoughts or suggestions or something?
Basically I rolled up all the semi-important non-Liberal party in 1940's Federal election, and combined it to one oppositionist. The remaining ~6% is stuff like the Communist Prohibitionist Christianist Party.
After a long time, I decided to resume my USASB infobox series.
USASB - chapter 6
Presidents
39. 1977-1981: Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
40. 1981-1989: Margaret Thatcher (Republican)
41. 1989-1993: George HW Bush (Republican)
42. 1993-2001: Ernesto Zedillo (Democratic)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
The first term of Ernesto Zedillo was dedicated to the fight against poverty, especially in the Mexican region and the territory of the United States. In July 1993 accepted the admissions of Denmark, Finland, Austria, the Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Commonwealth Caribbean, Bahamas and New Zealand. Taipei also faced crisis with Chinese between October and December 1994 which almost brought the two nations to a diplomatic rupture the annexation of Taiwan by the United States.
The GDP grew again in 1994 and his personal approval was 55%, which led Democrats to return to have majority in the House and Senate. In 1995 the simultaneous attacks in Oklahoma City and Montreal did the president rethink their internal security policy, where they were placed more than 200 billion dollars in the area until the end of his second term.
In 1996 the Democratic Party confirmed Zedillo and Blair as the presidential ticket for re-election. But the Republican side had meetings throughout the first term of President Zedillo to review their policies and make room for new leaders. Governor Helmut Kohl (Germany) and Senator John McCain (Arizona) competed in the nomination and first win. The perception of a tough leader like Kohl and the political weakness of his running mate, Senator Kim Campbell (Columbia) were incompatible, which facilitated the departure of Republican votes for Democrats, and especially for the Reform Party. Still, Republicans won almost a third of the electorate.
But the Reform Party named Vince Cable (England) and their charismatic speeches could appeal to liberals, and his mate running Ross Perot (Texas) appealed to conservatives by making a "bipolar" candidature which was heavily criticized by the press and political analysts. His big win was in Texas, Perot’s home state.
Bloc Quebecois have already joined the Green Party in 1995 and created the Green-Regionalist Party, of great power in Quebec and Connecticut, state of Congressman Ralph Nader. They got almost 6% and were the big surprise of the 1996 election.
With the re-election, Zedillo extended negotiations with other countries, such as Greece and the future annexation of Brazil and other countries in South America.
USASB - chapter 6
Presidents
39. 1977-1981: Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
40. 1981-1989: Margaret Thatcher (Republican)
41. 1989-1993: George HW Bush (Republican)
42. 1993-2001: Ernesto Zedillo (Democratic)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
The first term of Ernesto Zedillo was dedicated to the fight against poverty, especially in the Mexican region and the territory of the United States. In July 1993 accepted the admissions of Denmark, Finland, Austria, the Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Commonwealth Caribbean, Bahamas and New Zealand. Taipei also faced crisis with Chinese between October and December 1994 which almost brought the two nations to a diplomatic rupture the annexation of Taiwan by the United States.
The GDP grew again in 1994 and his personal approval was 55%, which led Democrats to return to have majority in the House and Senate. In 1995 the simultaneous attacks in Oklahoma City and Montreal did the president rethink their internal security policy, where they were placed more than 200 billion dollars in the area until the end of his second term.
In 1996 the Democratic Party confirmed Zedillo and Blair as the presidential ticket for re-election. But the Republican side had meetings throughout the first term of President Zedillo to review their policies and make room for new leaders. Governor Helmut Kohl (Germany) and Senator John McCain (Arizona) competed in the nomination and first win. The perception of a tough leader like Kohl and the political weakness of his running mate, Senator Kim Campbell (Columbia) were incompatible, which facilitated the departure of Republican votes for Democrats, and especially for the Reform Party. Still, Republicans won almost a third of the electorate.
But the Reform Party named Vince Cable (England) and their charismatic speeches could appeal to liberals, and his mate running Ross Perot (Texas) appealed to conservatives by making a "bipolar" candidature which was heavily criticized by the press and political analysts. His big win was in Texas, Perot’s home state.
Bloc Quebecois have already joined the Green Party in 1995 and created the Green-Regionalist Party, of great power in Quebec and Connecticut, state of Congressman Ralph Nader. They got almost 6% and were the big surprise of the 1996 election.
With the re-election, Zedillo extended negotiations with other countries, such as Greece and the future annexation of Brazil and other countries in South America.
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How so? They're pretty left wing for a mainstream liberal party.
I expected leftier, what with the social democrats being a part of the Dems. But hey, Zedillo/Blair IS a winning ticket.
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In Chat I've mentioned that, if I had the power to change the US electoral system, I'd get rid of the electoral college and make it a two-tier runoff system based on the popular vote. Here's what the first round of the 2016 election would look like under my ideal system, with high turnout, weekend election dates, and multiple parties:
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