How would you vote in the Empire of North America election, 1825?

Which party would you vote for?


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The Radicals, as they are the only ones with a hope of making America anything like as awesome as it was OTL.
 
Will you vote for them or abstain? Are you from a constituency and allowed to vote? The Neutral Party would appreciate a more even coalition and would like us to think about where we will put all the new immigrants. If we were allowed to colonize out west and north more then we would have plenty of room.
 
As my constituency is near Maryland I don't see that as much of a problem so long as they pay and are patriotic enough. Unlike the stagnate patronizing Patrioters. As long as they are Irish Catholic and severed their belief in the Pope being God's Viceroy they are fine. Unlike the Unitarians and dastardly Dutch. *Makes checklist over biases* Hmmm, I was too forgiving of the (slur)s. *Decides to insult the Mennonites and Bretons next. I would of course like it to be clear from my calling for the executions of minorities that most Americans haven't heard of is just incharacter. Also, does anyone have a handy set of charts for the ethnic makeup of the colonies?
 
As a Quaker from just west of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, I would have only one option. I'm disappointed at the success of the Whigs, as despite having some honorable inclinations, they are committed to an actively evil institution. While I retain some sympathy for the Patriots' cause, the fact of the matter is that they seek a relationship with a country that no longer exists. Despite their distasteful alliance with the Neutrals, the Radicals are the only practical party.
 
Unfortunately, ah, things will have changed beyond recognition by then... (The next election is due for 1831, after all, which is in the middle of the Popular Wars).

I might use that idea in future though...

If you're going to do it, it's best you apply AH.com votes only as swing voters, specific province voters, or something of the sort. Otherwise you'll have rather.... innaccurate.... results.
 
I know that for French Guniea they would give a double sentence where they served there own time in prison then stay in the penal colony for the same ammount of time afterwards. Is it the same here and can any of them vote? Does anyone support annexing the Bahamas and Jamaca?
 

MrP

Banned
I love the weirdness of this poll. Thande warns people not just to vote Radical because it represents their modern views. So most people vote Radical because it represents their modern views. Thande specifically says that there's no reason to vote for the Patriots aside from tradition, because they have no policies. They get the second highest number of votes. :D

Some poking at the results might be in order to get an accurate representation of politics ITTL!
 
Election fraud? What are the property qualifications for everyone anyways? How many generations old do you need to be in the empire? My family is comfortable middle class.
 
Patriots, I guess. Radicals are a tad too radical and pro-UPSA; Neutrals are, again, too pro-UPSA and anti-Native; Trust is just one-issue and Whig, well, can't get over that pro-slavery thing.

Come to think of it, the position the Patriots are in is quite similar to that of Christian Democratic parties of continental Europe.
 
As a somewhat urban liberal Quaker descended from Catholic immigrants, opposed to slavery and supportive of universal suffrage, I really only have one choice here.
 
Extrapolating from where my parents grew up, and assuming they wouldn't make the move which caused me to be born in another place entirely (it was for reasons which wouldn't exist in the ENA), and further assuming I'd stay somewhere around the same place (otherwise, it's all up for grabs), I'd probably be in Linneway Shire of the Provence of Pennsylvania.

As I am now, I'd support Radicals in a heartbeat. Back then... The basic idea of the ENA appears to be cautious expansion of civil rights while still valuing the good parts of tradition, as opposed to the radicalism which gets you UPSA or even Revolutionary France. That might lead me to vote for the Patriots - but they really have been getting too complacent and need to redefine themselves. Living somewhere near the frontier, I might like the Neutrals, but I think I'd still want to maintain good relations with the Indians. (For one, they seem to have proved themselves civilized; for another, worse relations might lead to actual war.) I don't think I'd be myopic enough to vote for the Trust party, so it's down to Whig, Radical, or Independent. Applying a nice hefty kick to counter my modern hindsight, I vote Independent and seriously contemplate standing as an Independent candidate myself in the next election.
 
Probably better to ignore the property qualification as lots of our members are probably too young to be the householder. As for being a Jew, I don't know when they were allowed to vote in Britain in OTL, but I would guess they are by 1825 in the ENA. As for your location it would put you in Philadelphia-Provincial I believe.

1850s about, IIRC...
 

Vince

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Well since I'm Catholic I'm probably going radical. Only problem is I'm in Utica, NY which is smack in the middle of Howden territory so I'm guessing there's a bunch of ticked off Oneidas with guns telling me to get out.
 
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(Pensacola, West Florida)

Hmm...I'm not a wealthy man, so I'm sympathetic to what the Neutrals are saying, but since my Dad & family are Catholic and we (shh!) have a bit of Indian in our family tree, I suppose we'd better stick with the Whigs. There's the Radicals, sure, but I'm not going to throw my vote away. :rolleyes:
 
In 1825 I would be a Catholic Cuban of upper-class extraction, so probably the Whigs, though my family was mostly composed of professionals such as lawyers, teachers, and doctors so if there was a party that supported the Catholic Bourgeois while opposing slavery, that would DEFINITELY be my choice back then. Now, of course, I'd vote for an independent socialist(don't bitch about Marx not having written anything yet, socialists existed well before him, they just were usually republicans and not communists).
 
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