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I'm assuming an early 1800s POD leading to a British Patagonia by 1895, and independence as a dominion within the Empire and later Commonwealth by 1920, and a parliamentary republic by 1970.

Patagonian National Action - A socially conservative party dominated by corporations, small businesses, the Catholic church, and large scale ranchers. Despite being moderately anti Argentinian, and pro Chiliean, and very pro-British Empire nostalgia they are actually strongly influenced by South American strongmen, and get the support of the ethnically Spanish and Italian elements in the middle and upper classes. Recently started talking about a flat tax, and very much in favour of Spanish having official status alongside English.

Labor and Farmers Party - In reality two parties, the Labor party is controlled by the National Congress of Trade Unions, and stands in urban and suburban areas, and also gets support from Anglicans and Methodists, and is socially liberal and economically leftish, and pro Argentina, while sceptical of the Commonwealth, while the Small Farmers Party (often referred to as the Small Party of Farmers, and also the Peasants Party by satirists) is socially conservative and rural and dominated by the Small Farmers Union. The two parties never stand against each other. Very pro English, and sometimes pro Welsh, against giving Spanish official status.

Liberal Party - A centrist, socially liberal party, pro business, and individual freedom, but also in favour of the nationalised rail network and public healthcare. Do well in middle class suburbs. Also get support from the spanish speaking working class and recent immigrants who feel excluded or ignored by Labor and the trade unions.

Plaid Cymric - The welsh speakers rights party, strong in the rural areas around Trelew and Porth Madryn in the east, and around 'The Baggins' the hippy town in the western lake district, where James Cameron filmed the LOTR trilogy in the nineties. Tend to do better in local elections than in the nationals.

The Greens - Pro ecology and socially moderate, popular in the lake district, and around New Switzerland, and also Valdez Peninsula, and the Glacier park.

The Southern Rights Party - Campaign for more federal investment in Cape Horn and the Islands of the South Atlantic Province, big in the Malvinas, and very pro-chilean.

Mapuche Nation - Pro indigenous rights party, want cultural independence and greater financial support for the Indigenous Territories in the west. Always support Labor led coalitions, despite normally being ignored and marginalised by them.

Posadist Socialist Revolutionary Party - Support a united socialist republic of Patagonia-Argentina and support the theories of Trotskyist thinker Juan Posadas that UFOs come from an advance communist society. Generally get less than 1% of the vote...

Other Parties - You decide, but due to the STV electoral system, they tend to get fewer than a handful of seats between them.

Notes: You can vote for more than one option, also when you post you can rank parties 1-5 from favourite to fifth favourite, its democracy Irish style.
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