Get to know a Zwangzugian representative

[Zwangzug]

(OOC: Zwangzug's Members of Parliament are elected on a staggered basis, with a different district going to the polls every three or so. So in lieu of some big general elections thread, we have this, which will hopefully have the results of the elections in "real time." Who knows, maybe in June 2015 I'll be here to give you the results of a reelection bid! )

Today's election: Beldere

Incumbent: Alexander McCarthy, Progressive Traditionalist Party (has served two previous terms to date).

All elections are contested under an instant-runoff basis. The last five candidates standing were:

McCarthy, 34.2%
Orlando Naggi (National Socialist Grammarian Writers' Party), 28.5%
Barbara Everest (Capitalism Now Party), 15.3%
Virgil Giunta (Liberal Conservative Party), 11.1%
Therese Box (Birthday Party), 10.9%, eliminated

Bringing things to:

McCarthy 41.5%
Naggi 29.9%
Everest 16.9%
Giunta 11.7%, eliminated

Making it:

McCarthy 42.0%
Naggi 38.6%
Everest 19.4%, eliminated

So it came down to two...
McCarthy 52.7%
Naggi 47.3%

Plurality worked out to be enough this time, as Alexander McCarthy was elected to his third term.

Before he was a representative, he was: a law clerk.

Bills authored: most important one was perhaps a "Consistent Sentencing" policy that effectively eliminated plea bargaining. Some tinkering to drug laws.

Most likely to become "Minister" of (note: members of the Cabinet are referred to as Secretaries. If someone calls themselves a Minister, which many Parliamentarians eventually do, they're making it up): Shockingly, despite being in Parliament for two full terms already, McCarthy never once volunteered to be minister of anything.

Personal life: Husband of Susanna Heumarkt, father of Scott and Jasmine. Baptist Christian. Ethnically Bigtopian (ancestors lived in Zwangzug longer than usual, given that, in the sizable city of Great Bear Depot, Dauclem). Hobbies include sailing, although in Beldere and Anaro this is not exactly easy.

Snippet from acceptance speech: "I'm honored by my constituents' continuing support. I'm glad to be heading back to Zwischen, especially now that it's June and Beldere's going to start getting uncomfortably hot again."

Next election: Ildynia
Incumbent: Carla Dyer (NSGWP)

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Okay, still some tinkering to do for next time around. Until then, the Ildynia results.

Myrell Eden-Berry (Digital Party), 20.0%
Carla Dyer (National Socialist Grammarian Writers' Party), 18.2%
Rob Stobara (Mental Asylum Party), 16.1%
Louis Deshnosto (Progressive Traditionalist Party), 15.0%
Mario Getti (Liberal Conservative Party), 10.4%
Liss Danza (Pragmatic Radical Party), 7.2%
Henry Milronsky (Isolationist Party), 6.8%
Theo Cobara (Libertarian Party), 2.1%
Ed Laum (Future Now! Party), 2.1%
Aloysius Faugh (Vanguard Party), 2.0%, eliminated

Eden-Berry 20.2%
Dyer 18.3%
Stobara 16.3%
Deshnosto 15.4%
Getti 10.4%
Danza 7.5%
Milronsky 6.9%
Cobara 2.8%
Laum 2.1%, eliminated

Eden-Berry 21.9%
Dyer 18.3%
Stobara 16.5%
Deshnosto 15.4%
Getti 10.4%
Danza 7.5%
Milronsky 7.0%
Cobara 2.9%, eliminated

Eden-Berry 23.5%
Dyer 18.3%
Stobara 16.5%
Deshnosto 15.4%
Getti 10.4%
Danza 8.4%
Milronsky 7.4%, eliminated

Eden-Berry 24.0%
Dyer 18.3%
Stobara 16.5%
Deshnosto 17.4%
Danza 13.3%
Getti 10.4%, eliminated

Eden-Berry 24.1%
Dyer 23.9%
Stobara 21.2%
Deshnosto 17.4%
Danza 13.3%, eliminated

Eden-Berry 27.7%
Deshnosto 26.8%
Dyer 24.2%
Stobara 21.2%, eliminated

Dyer 40.7%
Eden-Berry 32.4%
Deshnosto 26.8%, eliminated

Dyer 58.2%
Eden-Berry 41.7%

Carla Dyer is reelected.

Before she was a representative, she was: a middle school administrator.

Bills authored: lots of stuff about funding education, unsurprisingly--works a lot on wider budget issues.

Most likely to become "Minister" of: again a letdown. A couple of Progressive Traditionalists call themselves Ministers for Education, but Dyer is mostly content to let her partymate Adam Bartel actually run the department of education like he's supposed to.

Personal life: Owns an increasing number of cats, who were by and large displeased about the move to Anaro. Now looking into investing in an aquarium. If she's as cautions with this financial decision as she is as a legislator this could be a long, awkward time in coming.

Snippet from acceptance speech: "The people of Ildynia have spoken, they have spoken out for governance. Now my real work continues." [a none-too-subtle jab at the Digital Party, who are apparently against governance. It's a little more complicated than that.]

Next election: Stoal
Incumbent: Lucas Harworth (Liberal Conservative Party)

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"Today's" election (maybe they needed a recount or something): Stoal

Isaac Salmier (Libertarian Party), 29.7%
Lucas Harworth (Liberal Conservative Party), 25.4%
Brenda McKeiss (Digital Party), 20.9%
Joe Sterin (Isolationist Party), 11.0%
Rivqa Adamonosburs (Mental Asylum Party), 7.2%
Alexander Beeder (Infinite Power Party), 3.7%
Philip Grecara, National Socialist Grammarian Writers' Party), 2.1%, eliminated

Salmier 29.7%
Harworth 26.0%
McKeiss 21.2%
Sterin 11.0%
Adamonosburs 8.4%
Beeder 3.7%, eliminated

Salmier 32.3%
Harworth 26.0%
McKeiss 21.4%
Sterin 11.9%
Adamonosburs 8.4%, eliminated

Salmier 32.3%
Harworth 32.0%
McKeiss 21.5%
Sterin 14.2%, eliminated

Salmier 41.6%
Harworth 32.5%
McKeiss 25.9%, eliminated

Salmier 54.8%
Harworth 45.2%

Isaac Salmier wins election.

Before he was a representative, he was: one of the minority leaders in the Stoal Senate.

Big issue: encouraging small business. Manages to be pro-economy yet cool to big business after the RFID affair.

Most likely to become "Minister" of: Finance...or...something? Why do we even keep this category around?

Personal life: Big into artsy-craftsy...whatever the catchall phrase for "making things out of cloth"sy is. Onetime boyfriend of Renee Parsons, from that one foreign reality TV show that one year, you know, um...well, I don't, actually. But the relationship didn't work out.

Snippet from acceptance speech: "Took you long enough."

Next election: Hoo boy. Ilinge.
Incumbent: Ronald Harrens (Capitalism Now Party)

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As I test out yet another way to run the runoffs, and still fall desperately behind, let's skip the campaigning. I'm sure it was exciting but whatever. This is a big one...actually they all count the same. And it's about the tiniest district. But you know what I mean. Ilinge!

Siri Prasert (independent), 17.5%
Marc Lentren (Mental Asylum Party), 15.0%
Moses Karrumpp (Pragmatic Radical Party), 14.6%
Chan Yen (Liberal Conservative Party), 14.4%
Bhumi Vejjajiva (Progressive Traditionalist Party), 12.6%
Barbara Rott (Capitalism Now Party), 11.2%
Ben Vosky (National Socialist Grammarian Writers' Party), 8.3%
Rufus Tianthan (Infinite Power Party), 6.5%, eliminated

Prasert 19.1%
Karrumpp 16.1%
Lentren 15.6%
Yen 15.0%
Vejjajiva 13.4%
Rott 12.0%
Vosky 9.0%, eliminated

Prasert 20.8%
Lentren 18.3%
Yen 17.2%
Karrumpp 16.7%
Vejjajiva 14.6%
Rott 12.7%, eliminated

Prasert 25.4%
Karrumpp 20.3%
Lentren 19.9%
Yen 18.6%
Vejjajiva 16.0%, eliminated

Prasert 31.5%
Lentren 23.2%
Yen 23.0%
Karrumpp 22.5%, eliminated

Prasert 45.5%
Lentren 27.6%
Yen 27.2%, eliminated

Prasert 55.9%
Lentren 44.4%

With the incumbent retiring Siri Prasert is elected. Oh dear. Also, 4.4% of Ilinge voters switch their allegiance from the PTs directly to the LCs?! I'd kind of like to meet them. But maybe that's Ilinge for you. If not it's definitely this system for you.

Before she was a representative, she was: On the City Council. East side. They don't really do political parties on the urban level.

Big issue: education, kind of. Specifically, vouchers and supporting extracurriculars to make sure children get "more than book learning." I'm a little scared.

Most likely to become "Minister" of: Education. Not the Secretary of Education. We already have one of those. She'll just declare herself the Minister.

Personal life: Martial artist. Owns several turquoise belts--I don't think they signify anything, she just likes the color. Theravada Buddhist. Several tabloid stories involve her with several (former) fellows on the City Council, but nothing of substance.

Snippet from acceptance speech: She doesn't talk slow enough for slowpokes like me to transcribe.

Next election: Erone.
Incumbent: Jerome Navins (Liberal Conservative Party)

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Okay, one where you don't have to worry about the Progressive Traditionalists switching their votes because they're such a useless minority in Erone.

Lien Yosliss (Liberal Conservative Party), 24.2%
Brenda Hugher (Libertarian Party), 21.1%
Antony Muland (Mental Asylum Party), 20.8%
Todd Lough (Capitalism Now Party), 12.7%
Martha Tider (National Socialist Grammarian Writers' Party), 10.6%
Emma Neen-Bara (Birthday Party), 6.2%
Charlie Camik (Pragmatic Radical Party), 4.5%, eliminated

Yosliss 24.7%
Hugher 22.0%
Muland 21.3%
Lough 14.0%
Tider 11.2%
Neen-Bara 6.9%, eliminated

Yosliss 26.5%
Muland 22.7%
Hugher 22.7%
Lough 14.8%
Tider 13.3%, eliminated

Yosliss 31.1%
Muland 28.5%
Hugher 24.2%
Lough 16.3%, eliminated

Hugher 35.5%
Yosliss 33.5%
Muland 31.2%, eliminated

Yosliss 59.1%
Hugher 41.3%, eliminated

Lien Yosliss is elected. Note Muland and Hugher bumping around, with Hugher taking a lead too late to help but falling behind Muland early on on an insignicant digit!

Before he was a representative, he was: Speaker for the Erone House. Let me tell you, he lived up to his name.

Big issue: "affordable" housing. Affordable for citizens individually, probably requiring spectacular expense forget that, just plain spectacle at the governmental level.

Most likely to become "Minister" of: Miscellaneous Amenities, where by Miscellaneous is meant, like, double-digit stories. Preferably triple.

Personal life: member of a linguistic minority too small to really care about, practitioner of an obscure religion that involves hanging lots of occult symbols in his windows. Husband of Rayna Sania, father of Spee and Amanda. One suspects some compromise was involved in their relationship.

Snippet from acceptance speech: Again, it's going faster than high-speed rail. Probably should think about altering the format before the next election, in...

Entique
Incumbent: Bert Infamy (Progressive Traditionalist Party)

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When we said we wanted to get up to date, we weren't kidding. Bienvenue or whatever to Entique!

Bert Infamy (Progressive Traditionalist Party), 23.7%
Jade Foss (Socialist Alternatifs), 16.2%
Margo Mesling (Birthday Party), 15.6%
Katie Marchand-Rose (Mental Asylum Party) , 15.5%
Brett Maushikard (Isolationist Party), 13.4%
Denis Favreau (Liberal Conservative Party), 9.9%
Odette Proulx (d'Avant-garde des Parties), 5.7%, eliminated

Infamy 23.9%
Maushikard 17.7%
Foss 16.4%
Mesling 15.9%
Marchand-Rose 15.9%
Favreau 10.2%, eliminated

Infamy 25.0%
Foss 20.7%
Maushikard 18.9%
Marchand-Rose 18.3%
Mesling 17.1%, eliminated

Infamy 34.0%
Foss 23.3%
Maushikard 21.8%
Marchand-Rose 20.8%, eliminated

Infamy 37.9%
Foss 32.5%
Mesling 29.5%

Infamy 51.7%
Foss 47.9%, eliminated

Bert Infamy is reelected.

Highlights of the election: Brett Maushikard did better than expected, largely by picking up the d'Avant-garde des Parties vote. Outsiders were surprised and figure they just all listed the Isolationist Party first on their secret "how-to-vote" placards; critics say both parties are just united by their lack of platforms.

Before Infamy was a representative, he was: a public attorney. PTs like the bench, I guess.

Bills authored: "Public safety" things nominally, mostly drug law. Also into the bureaucratics of devolution (i.e. giving districts the power to fund, like, the police because the statewide government isn't getting around to it).

Most likely to become "Minister" of: Transportation. They argue against alcohol and whatever.

Personal life: Self-identifies as an agnostic after a few too many pointed criticisms (and bad puns) about being a lapsed Catholic. Really stupid last name, as I hadn't gathered when writing about him the first time. Rather enormous fellow.

Next election, possibly maybe back on schedule: Chroxx
Incumbent: Lola Chisca (Mental Asylum Party)

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Well, kind of. Chroxx!

Lola Chisca (Mental Asylum Party), 27.5%
Anisha Rittney (Birthday Party), 27.4%
Bethany Remme-Peer (Liberal Conservative Party), 14.5%
Alonso Treden (Progressive Tradtionalist Party), 12.5%
Padma Desaner (Capitalism Now Party), 11.4%
Melanie Rushon (Libertarian Party), 4.6%
Jair Scira (National Socialist Grammarian Writers' Party), 1.4%
Rosalie Kott-Jurkman (Equality Movement), 0.5%, eliminated

Chisca 27.6%
Rittney 27.5%
Remme-Peer 14.6%
Treden 12.6%
Desaner 11.4%
Rushon 4.6%
Scira 1.5%, eliminated

Chisca 28.1%
Rittney 27.8%
Remme-Peer 15.0%
Treden 12.8%
Desaner 11.5%
Rushon 4.7%, eliminated

Chisca 28.7%
Rittney 28.4%
Remme-Peer 15.5%
Desaner 14.0%
Treden 13.3%, eliminated

Rittner 36.3%
Chisca 30.6%
Remme-Peer 18.0%
Desaner 15.1%, eliminated

Rittner 41.5%
Chisca 35.8%
Remme-Peer 22.6%, eliminated

Chisca 50.9%
Rittner 49.1%, eliminated

Lola Chisca is reelected in the closest race yet.

Highlights of the election: I mean, it was the closest race yet! Chroxx is an area where women have always been movers and shakers, so no surprise to see three at the top. (That's a male Padma actually, the gender gap is strong for the big two but they don't hold that much sway in Chroxx proper. Then again, it ain't like there's much of a solid right wing here or anywhere nearby, so...yeah.)

Before Chisca was a representative, she was: a community organizer, gag me, for expansive enough definitions of community.

Bills authored: none, she votes against most things. To the extent that the party has a libertarian wing, she's it. Got behind a failed movement to legalize prostitution, actually.

Most likely to become "Minister" of: Social Welfare. And, honestly, advocate throwing money at problems rather than taking any tooth...ful? actions because that would be overstepping governmental boundaries. Bit of an idiosyncratic libertarianism, this.

Personal life: Interns report she's very unpleasant to work for due to constant habit of singing under her breath and complete tone deafness. Office (mostly the top of the computer) is covered with pellet-stuffed stuffed animals.

Next election: Cipid
Incumbent: Ron Meseno (Mental Asylum Party, again!)

(Edit: If you want to party on, you can learn a bitmore about the minor parties' political views over thisaway.)

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It's a crazy race in Cipid!

Ron Meseno (Mental Asylum Party) 27.6%
Thomas Brighton (Isolationist Party) 20.3%
Megan Tivisula (Digital Party) 17.9%
Johann Rustmay (Liberal Conservative Party) 15.2%
Sophie Centon (Progressive Traditionalist Party) 11.6%
Pacia Skric-Spass (National Socialist Grammarian Writers' Party) 3.7%
Myron Slozos (Libertarian Party) 3.2%
Jacques Ming (Infinite Power Party) 0.6%, eliminated

Meseno 27.7%
Brighton 20.4%
Tivisula 18.0%
Rustmay 15.3%
Centon 11.7%
Skric-Spass 3.8%
Slozos 3.3%, eliminated

Meseno 28.2%
Brighton 21.1%
Tivisula 18.8%
Rustmay 15.7%
Centon 12.1%
Skric-Spass 4.3%, eliminated

Meseno 29.2%
Brighton 22.3%
Tivisula 19.6%
Rustmay 16.5%
Centon 12.5%, eliminated

Meseno 32.1%
Brighton 25.4%
Tivisula 22.3%
Rustmay 20.3%, eliminated

Meseno 42.7%
Brighton 30.6%
Tivisula 26.7%, eliminated

Brighton 52.7%
Meseno 47.3%

Thomas Brighton is elected.

Highlights of the election: Wow. Everyone always said that the IP and the DP were similar because neither one of them actually has a platform, but no one really knew how staggering that swing would be. Then again, neither member of the party had ever won a Parliamentary election before.

Before Brighton was a representative, he was: doing computer stuff, some kind of like accessabilities or user interface whatever.

Big issue: preserving "diversity," which in context probably has to do with not letting foreign culture dictate our choices or whatever?

Most likely to become "Minister" of: Culture, although he will freely confess to not being an expert on most people's. But that's cool! You know. They should be able to do their own thing and stuff!

Personal life: married to Bryony Cassiel, adoptive father of Benjamin and Amita. LCAS (Lutheran). Kind of obsessed with trains.

Next election: Naspe
Incumbent: Rory Paving (Liberal Conservative Party)

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OOC: Hmm, perhaps my rounding error is a bit more substantial than planned...

Down below the wire: Naspe race "out of control"

Electoral officials in Naspe admitted that their Parliamentary race had grown "out of control" after the polls closed with inconclusive results. Frantic election judges are now tracking down paper printout trails and revisiting electronic records to make sure ties were broken correctly.

It appears as if the instant runoff procedure worked correctly up until there were four candidates remaining; incumbent Rory Paving (LCP), Wanda Uentoly (PTP), Timon Atweira (LP), and Brandon Stein (NSGWP). The first difficulty seems to have been which of the latter two should have been eliminated. Early projections indicated that Atweira was out, but that then put Stein in a lead and dropped Paving and Uentoly into another statistical tie. An electronic display indicated that all three of those candidates had recorded more than a third of the vote; Uentoly was justly outraged when she was eventually declared eliminated, and a nervous Paving tried to keep his cool when it came in that he had lost in the final balloting despite recording 50.4% of the vote (Stein had somehow garnered 50.5%).

Secretary of District Ruby Ortlovis confirmed that "the final results will not be available for at least a day." Stein, who was nearly eliminated to begin with, is not declaring victory. "Obviously our voters have made their, er, opinions known," he said in a short press conference, "we need to wait and let the officials do their job."

Others are less composed. "This is a very disappointing reflection on the electoral process," Atweira noted. "I'm all for taking one's time, but at the least the bureaucrats need to stop misleading us until they have the final results."

"This needs to be resolved quickly," Paving declared. "The Parliament remains in session, and the citizens of Naspe deserve representation around the calendar."

"Whatever happens tomorrow, or in the next week or whatever, we can't let this conversation stop here," said Uentoly. "If it happened here, it can happen again elsewhere; we need to make sure our systems, computerized and political, are up to the challenge."

The irony of it all is that Paving's seat was never considered incredibly safe--yet who could stand against him? With the lack of a strong rightist candidate, relatively well-run campaigns such as Uentoly's and Atweira's were on their own decent but not overwhelming challengers for the incumbent. And despite both of their criticisms of his term, their supporters would probably prefer more of him--or even Stein--to each other.

"We've gotta rethink this thing," declared Davi Chan, the Pragmatic Radical Party candidate, who was eliminated with 2.1% of the vote. "Gotta give people a chance for their votes to be heard. C'mon."

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Paving reconfirmed after recount

Naspe's Secretary of District, Ruby Ortlovis, officially announced that Rory Paving had somehow retained his seat after a recount. Brandon Stein, prematurely declared the victor, evidently "should" have been eliminated in fourth place, giving Paving a larger lead in the two remaining rounds.

"There's no substitute for quality," said Paving, who had just this week been complaining about how long the process took, "I'm certainly glad the judges were able to revisit the ballots and get this process settled."

"This has obviously been exhausting," Stein noted, "and I can only thank all my supporters who have helped us through this campaign, and beyond. Now it's time to let the business of democracy continue."

The first runoff in years (and who really expected anything more from that regrettable Vordex episode, anyway?) has stirred some level of reformist mumblings in editorial sections and online. Some are quick to point the finger of blame at the Precalculus Party, who helped establish the current instant-runoff system. One Blatter account wrote "2% of the representatives are elected by 2% of the voters. At a time. Um, I mean, the districts suck, and not just because we're stuck with " before hitting the character limit. Other voices are seriously advocating some form of proportional representation system that would reduce or eliminate the role of individual districts in the Parliamentary electoral process.

People will perhaps be able to express their frustrations with the Liberal Conservatives at the next election, in Milase, although since the incumbent is Secretary of Transportation Louis Dermott this may prove somewhat difficult.

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Trying to incorporate the None of the Above option in Milase...let's see how this goes.

Louis Dermott (Liberal Conservative Party) 25.2%
Andros Gett (Pragmatic Radical Party) 20.8%
Robin Lieslier (Digital Party) 19.5%
Armando Chreder (National Socialist Grammarian Writers Party) 12.9%
Josephine McElhan (Progressive Traditionalist Party) 12.2%
Sheila Mauvern (independent) 5.8%
Micha Arzart (Infinite Power Party) 2.0%, eliminated
None of the Above 1.6%

Dermott 25.4%
Gett 21.2%
Lieslier 19.7%
Chreder 13.1%
McElhan 12.4%
Mauvern 6.0%, eliminated
NOTA 2.1%

Dermott 25.8%
Lieslier 23.1%
Gett 21.6%
Chreder 13.9%
McElhan 12.8%, eliminated
NOTA 2.7%

Dermott 28.9%
Lieslier 25.3%
Gett 23.1%
Chreder 16.9%, eliminated
NOTA 5.6%

Dermott 34.7%
Lieslier 31.5%
Gett 24.8%, eliminated
NOTA 8.8%

Dermott 39.8%
Lieslier 39.3%, eliminated
NOTA 20.8%

Dermott 58.0%
NOTA 41.7%

Louis Dermott is reelected as the Cabinet avoids shakeup. Probably makes sense considering how long they're supposed to stay in office. Or are those the district-level "senates"? Argh.

Highlights of the election: Well, the members of non-LCP parties mobilizing the none of the above option after the Naspe debacle, obviously. That said, they would probably have priorities even among the parties on the otherside of the ideosquare, so perhaps we shall scrap this option for the time being.

Before Dermott was a representative, he was: in...the...Milase Senate. For, um, quite a while.

Bills authored: Believe it or not, it's tradition for Secretaries not to do so much of the bill-writing regarding stuff in their department, at least publicly. Behind the scenes he's almost certainly hammered out the gory details for some of the train funding stuff (he is known to keep one of the smallest staffs, so it's not like he's making the interns do it either).

Most likely to become "Minister" of: Well, n/a, obviously, he already has legit power.

Personal life: Methodist Christian. Kind of a glutton and one of the more recognizable figures in political cartoons, most of which end with a joke about how he should be riding his bike more.

Next election: Cugio
Incumbent: Natalia Meshowicz (Progressive Traditionalist Party)

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With thanks to our foreign correspondents, the Cugio results!

Virginia Tosla (Mental Asylum Party) 21.1%
Natalia Meshowicz (Progressive Traditionalist Party) 18.5%
Ebert Nein-Quangton (Capitalism Now Party) 16.9%
Spencer Ruggiero (Infinite Power Party) 16.4%
Mara Muland (Liberal Conservative Party) 16.1%
Nerio Sheslie (Vanguard Party) 6.5%
Naldo Fava (Pragmatic Radical Party) 3.2%
Justin Nacar (National Socialist Grammarian Writers Party) 1.4%, eliminated

Tosla 21.5%
Meshowicz 18.7%
Nein-Quangton 17.0%
Ruggiero 16.5%
Muland 16.4%
Sheslie 6.6%
Fava 3.3%, eliminated

Tosla 21.8%
Meshowicz 19.0%
Nein-Quangton 17.7%
Ruggiero 17.3%
Muland 16.7%
Sheslie 7.5%, eliminated

Tosla 22.8%
Nein-Quangton 20.9%
Meshowicz 19.9%
Ruggiero 18.7%
Muland 17.6%, eliminated

Tosla 32.4%
Meshowicz 24.1%
Nein-Quangton 22.7%
Ruggiero 20.8%, eliminated

Tosla 37.8%
Meshowicz 32.1%
Nein-Quanton 30.0%, eliminated

Tosla 53.7%
Meshowicz 46.0%

Virginia Tosla is elected.

Highlights of the election: perhaps due to the LibCons not being much of a presence here, there was not much of a NOTA hubbub. Much appreciated.

Before she was a representative, she was: a whistleblower in the Cugio Parliament. There are three types of people in the Cugio Parliament; the whistle-blowers, the ones who are just whistling to themselves, and the ones who...I'm not even gonna go there.

Big issue: Well, she made some slippery-slope arguments about abortion, which was probably nice. No one seems to remember whether this is a departure from the usual MAP platform (to be fair, Coco doesn't have much of one). One wonders the point, however, seeing as how this is Cugio and most of them are moral conservatives anyway.

Most likely to become "Minister" of: Let's go with safety.

Personal life: Married to Rakesh Joshi. Micromanager of her campaigns, to the mild delight (and/or disturbance) of her interns who wind up not having that much to do.

Next election: Egalia
Incumbent: Kim Flow-Cart (Liberal Conservative Party)

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Oookay. Again with a bit of influence from abroad, Egalia.

Michelle Schbery (Capitalism Now Party) 15.5%
Karp Paxtoly (National Socialist Grammarian Writers Party) 15.2%
Sammy Liesano (Birthday Party) 14.6%
Sean Jagin-Nein (Mental Asylum Party) 13.4%
Kim Flow-Cart (Liberal Conservative Party) 13.1%
Carlota Fitterin (Progressive Traditionalist Party) 10.5%
Rupert Sulabaum (Infinite Power Party) 9.4%
Chloe Kleplow (Digital Party) 8.3%, eliminated

Paxtoly 17.4%
Schbery 16.4%
Liesano 15.7%
Jagin-Nein 14.9%
Flow-Cart 14.2%
Fitterin 11.3%
Sulabaum 10.1%, eliminated

Schbery 18.2%
Paxtoly 19.0%
Liesano 17.8%
Jagin-Nein 16.2%
Flow-Cart 15.5%
Fitterin 13.2%, eliminated

Liesano 24.5%
Paxtoly 21.0%
Schbery 19.1%
Jagin-Nein 17.8%
Flow-Cart 17.6%, eliminated

Liesano 28.1%
Paxtoly 26.7%
Jagin-Nein 24.9%
Schbery 20.5%, eliminated

Liesano 34.5%
Paxtoly 34.2%
Jagin-Nein 31.4%, eliminated

Paxtoly 57.0%
Jagin-Nein 43.2%

Karp Paxtoly wins election.

Highlights of the election: Three different leaders in the first four rounds, none of whom were the incumbent? I think that says it all about Egalia Zwangzug's politics right now. Ain't no runoff like an instant runoff cause an instant runoff don't stop and pick up again later on. Actually that should have involved something about political parties, but you get the idea.

Before Paxtoly was a representative, he was: a Department of Citizens' Affairs bureaucrat who decided that he could do a better job than the people in charge.

Big issue: "Meaningful work," which presumably means no welfare cheats or anything. And the unemployment rate in general, obviously.

Most amusingly likely career path, from here: Being recruited by the NSGWP party bosses to run for Composite Minister. He doesn't have the calm Wainwright face but he could be the next big thing.

Personal life: LCAS. Apparently the "social media candidate," although this mostly consisted of his self-deprecating campaign ads going viral on Blatter.

[Zwangzug]

Uh...okay. So this election was in...yes. It was in...um. Parmel!

Harold Mish (Progressive Traditionalist Party, incumbent), 21.5%
Lily Sine (Birthday Party), 17.9%
Gina Rubois (Liberal Conservative Party), 17.1%
Maxwell Wingh (Infinite Power Party), 16.2%
Dan Sumann (National Socialist Grammarian Writers' Party), 11.9%
Anderson Guters (Capitalism Now Party), 10.9%
Jeremy Kingfele (Pragmatic Radical Party), 3.8%
Bertie Chicorit (Digital Party), 0.8%, eliminated

Mish 21.6%
Sine 18.0%
Rubois 17.2%
Wingh 16.3%
Sumann 12.1%
Guters 11.0%
Kingfele 3.9%, eliminated

Mish 22.0%
Sine 18.5%
Rubois 17.6%
Wingh 17.4%
Sumann 12.6%
Guters 12.0%, eliminated

Mish 24.0%
Sine 20.8%
Wingh 20.4%
Rubois 19.6%
Sumann 15.2%, eliminated

Mish 27.2%
Rubois 25.4%
Sine 25.1%
Wingh 22.4%, eliminated

Mish 35.2%
Sine 34.0%
Rubois 30.9%, eliminated

Sine 50.4%
Mish 49.6%, eliminated

Lily Sine is elected.

Highlights of the election: A centrist draws enough support from what exists of Parmel's left to topple the Progressive Traditionalist incumbent! This is the southeast, that is genuine news.

Before Sine was a representative, she was: a Bassabook city councilmember.

Big issue: Coalition building or something about allowing churches and religious groups to partake in the life of the community alongside the government or whatever, I fell asleep during the part about community.

Most amusingly likely career path: Singing lullabies to her fellow parliamentarians when debates get out of hand.

Personal life: Married to Albert Attan, mother of four. Member of some weird non-denominational church thing. Claims to have sworn off knitting but can be seen compulsively tapping her needles against the podium "just to kill time before a stump speech."

Next election: Passnet
Incumbent: Miranda Hensen (Liberal Conservative Party)

[Zwangzug]

Yes, yes it's late. Shush.

Miranda Hensen (Liberal Conservative Party, incumbent), 24.9%
Jordan Lover (Progressive Traditionalist Party), 16.0%
Aaron Seaberg (Digital Party), 15.6%
Eleazar Tolbert (National Socialist Grammarian Writers Party), 14.6%
Jenna Sington-Sparry (Capitalism Now Party), 13.3%
Martin Belrose (Equality Movement), 6.2%
Siofra Herbert (Mental Asylum Party), 5.7%
Karl Velp (Isolationist Party), 3.8%, eliminated

Hensen 25.2%
Seaberg 17.2%
Lover 16.2%
Tolbert 15.3%
Sington-Sparry 13.5%
Belrose 6.6%
Herbert 6.1%, eliminated

Hensen 26.8%
Seaberg 18.1%
Tolbert 16.9%
Lover 16.7%
Sington-Sparry 13.8%
Belrose 7.8%, eliminated

Hensen 29.7%
Tolbert 19.2%
Seaberg 19.1%
Lover 17.9%
Sington-Sparry 14.2%, eliminated

Hensen 32.4%
Seaberg 24.1%
Tolbert 22.8%
Lover 20.6%, eliminated

Hensen 40.1%
Tolbert 30.3%
Seaberg 29.6%, eliminated

Tolbert 50.1%
Hensen 49.9%, eliminated

Eleazar Tolbert is elected.

Highlights of the election: it was very close and yet things added up to 100% at the end? Yes. Aaron Seaberg organizes his fans to eventually swing it, perhaps this'll be all we hear from him for the next four years. Who can say?

Before Tolbert was a representative, he was: in the Passnet Senate, trying to stay awake during debates.

Big issue: Transparency in government or something?

Most amusingly likely career path: Leaning on his cane and going on about how awesome our country and how we should defend the Zebra Isles or something with a completely straight face while the rest of the Parliament tries not to giggle.

Personal life: Widower of Eunice Tolbert. Reform Jewish. Cutthroat board game player, especially the one where you're making the train lines or something.

Next election: Vetlass
Incumbent: Rahm Chandrasekhar (Liberal Conservative Party)

[Zwangzug]

And over to Vetlass we go!

Rahm Chandrasekhar (Liberal Conservative Party), 25.45%
Grace Treber-Monza (independent), 23.64%
Patya Pasternak (Equality Movement), 18.05%
Sean McElabaum (Capitalism Now Party), 13.88%
Faina Gancells (Гармония Альянс), 9.23%
Nellie Jakowicz (Infinite Power Party), 5.50%
Miro Nabavis-Rosky (Birthday Party), 2.22%
Amir Koslov-Desai (Vanguard Party), 2.05%, eliminated

Chandrasekhar 25.63%
Treber-Monza 23.87%
Pasternak 18.25%
McElabaum 14.53%
Gancells 9.51%
Jakowicz 5.79%
Nabavis-Rosky 2.44%, eliminated

Chandrasekhar 26.05%
Treber-Monza 24.19%
Pasternak 18.88%
McElabaum 14.71%
Gancells 10.10%
Jakowicz 6.08%, eliminated

Chandrasekhar 26.84%
Treber-Monza 24.99%
Pasternak 19.81%
McElabaum 15.77%
Gancells 12.63%, eliminated

Chandrasekhar 29.95%
Treber-Monza 27.93%
Pasternak 23.75%
McElabaum 18.39%, eliminated

Chandrasekhar 35.41%
Treber-Monza 34.73%
Pasternak 29.73%, eliminated

Chandrasekhar 55.81%
Treber-Monza 44.01%, eliminated

Rahm Chandrasekhar is reelected.

Highlights of the election: Well, we switched to two significant digits by popular demand (when that's the most pressing concern commerceheights has about your elections, it's probably a good sign). Also, last time around they had residency concerns or something to argue about, but this reelection is probably the clinching blow that moves Vetlass from the west edge of the south into the southwest (since the Rackham Range runs through it, that's not going to make a difference).

If that last sentence made no sense, you're probably not from around here and you should just move along.

Oh, and also there were Cyrillic letters.

Before Chandrasekhar was a representative, he was: a radio personality, actually.

Big issue: Conserving things (shocker), mostly natural resources but also something about sustainable budgets and all that.

Most amusingly likely career path: Blowing that idea and financing a space telescope, for some reason.

Personal life: Well, we got to listen to a bunch of his older quotes from the radio years over and over during the campaign. Most-quoted was some variant of the common "Well, uh, if we think about what they're saying, you know, we can--we can adapt that logic! We can turn it back on 'em!" (Here they are usually the identity politicians or some similar.)

Next election: Slogda (hold onto your Cyrillic characters)
Incumbent: Melor Chand (Capitalism Now Party)

[Zwangzug]

Yer. Time dilation. It...happens in politics, too.

Probably.

I think.

Melor Chand (Capitalism Now Party), 22.31%
Vanessa Hamonoly (Birthday Party), 21.64%
Terrence Yarri-Greld (Libertarian Party), 14.32%
Pavol Maly (Progressive Traditionalist Party), 13.99%
Zora Schovajsa (Infinite Power Party), 11.17%
Dave Consman-Strnad (Liberal Conservative Party), 7.52%
Denis Holub (Гармония Альянс), 7.26%
Martin Nome (Digital Party), 1.86%, eliminated

Chand 22.57%
Hamonoly 21.94%
Yarri-Greld 14.59%
Maly 14.22%
Schovajsa 11.38%
Consman-Strnad 7.83%
Holub 7.54%, eliminated

Hamonoly 23.87%
Chand 23.28%
Maly 15.75%
Yarri-Greld 15.20%
Schovajsa 13.26%
Consman-Strnad 8.67%, eliminated

Hamonoly 26.69%
Chand 24.35%
Maly 18.22%
Yarri-Greld 16.29%
Schovajsa 14.47%, eliminated

Hamonoly 30.95%
Chand 27.88%
Maly 22.05%
Yarri-Greld 19.09%, eliminated

Chand 41.34%
Hamonoly 33.93%
Maly 24.66%, eliminated

Hamonoly 55.64%
Chand 44.23%, eliminated

Vanessa Hamonoly is elected.

Highlights of the election: Well, we got to pay attention to Slogda for, like, three weeks, which was nice; it reminded us all that, in fact, joke's on us, they're a nice close-knit district but not that keen on Cyrillic really. Oops. Makes you wonder how Holub survived the first round but whatever.

Also, apparently the Birthday Party is somehow building even more coalitions? What is this?

Before Hamonoly was a representative, she was: a Craton city-councilmember. Craton is a pretty laid-back place so it's not clear what she actually did, though.

Big issue: Well, it appears to be some pork-barrel kind of thing, making sure the big shots up in Zwischen represent Craton and all. Again, to be fair, when the rest of the country thinks you write in Cyrillic they might need a little shot in the arm.

Most amusingly likely career path: Somehow strong-arming the big shots up in Zwischen to use statewide money to build a better train line from Hapra to Craton, then totally joyriding it the first day rather than debate any more politics.

Personal life: Ketrian. Claims to be tone-deaf, as revealed in an unusually stirring debate among candidates for the aforementioned city council.

Next election: coming right up, hopefully...

[Zwangzug]

So, who's the next great leader from Thertria?

Well, Toussaint Bonner, obviously. But other than that...

Melissa Dubois (Liberal Conservative Party, incumbent) 19.15%
Theirn Brindebs (Libertarian Party), 17.81%
Marcel Unton-Sula (d'Avant-garde des Parties) 15.62%
Marie Salvage (Socialist Alternatifs), 14.88%
Bradley Quanium (National Socialist Grammarian Writers Party),13.82%
Chloe Deslin (Birthday Party), 8.14%
Lloyd Dell (Progressive Traditionalist Party), 7.10%
Alicia Spashew (Digital Party), 3.50%, eliminated

Dubois 19.42%
Brindebs 18.05%
Unton-Sula 17.23%
Salvage 15.11%
Quanium 14.37%
Deslin 8.40%
Dell 7.31%, eliminated

Dubois 20.43%
Brindebs 18.45%
Unton-Sula 18.02%
Salvage 15.97%
Quanium 15.36%
Deslin 11.64%, eliminated

Dubois 23.15%
Unton-Sula 20.46%
Brindebs 19.54%
Quanium 18.53%
Salvage 18.17%

Dubois 34.47%
Unton-Sula 23.02%
Quanium 22.10%
Brindebs 20.68%, eliminated

Dubois 39.68%
Unton-Sula 31.45%
Quanium 28.87%, eliminated

Dubois 50.79%
Unton-Sula 49.16%, eliminated

Melissa Dubois is reelected.

Highlights of the race: the debates, by which is meant trying to see whether Unton-Sula will make any sense at all. His interpreter picked up several thousand write-in votes.

Before Arzagin was a representative, she was: a worker for Spiream, in charge of environmental compliance. You'd think she'd get sick of LibCon bureaucrats, but hey, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Big issue: Cultivating foreign affairs, mostly through like obscure environmental and workers' protection standards or whatever, but also through conferences and embassies.

Most amusingly likely career path: Courageously taking the Flying Pig herself to search out ambassadors lost to the mists of CTEdom.

Personal life: Catholic. Married to Isaiah Maum, mother of three. Not very popular among her own staff due to sort of micromanaging office affairs, like having to order the same food every day because it's cheaper in bulk.

Next election: Coming soon? Maybe?

[Zwangzug]

Oookay. Insanity in Trevij, and this time we really aren't kidding about the Cyrillic characters.

Faina Matveev (Libertarian Party, incumbent) 14.22%
Jordan Harrubing (Progressive Traditionalist Party), 13.15%
Desya Utkin (Infinite Power Party), 13.02%
Sylvia Longquist-Heglepps (Birthday Party), 12.25%
Roger Bourn (Capitalism Now Party), 12.25%
Spiridon Kaminski (Isolationist Party), 12.07%
Brandon Sitteidoy (Digital Party), 11.99%
Kuzma Lagounov (Гармония Альянс), 11.09%, eliminated

Utkin 15.40%
Harrubing 15.09%
Matveev 14.99%
Longquist-Heglepps 14.69%
Kaminski 13.45%
Sitteidoy 13.28%
Bourn 13.15%, eliminated

Matveev 20.29%
Utkin 17.08%
Harrubing 16.19%
Longquist-Heglepps 15.95%
Sitteidoy 15.31%
Kaminski 15.28%, eliminated

Sitteidoy 25.32%
Matveev 21.47%
Utkin 18.15%
Longquist-Heglepps 17.65%
Harrubing 17.48%, eliminated

Longquist-Heglepps 28.85%
Sitteidoy 27.81%
Matveev 22.86%
Utkin 20.62%, eliminated

Longquist-Heglepps 37.20%
Sitteidoy 34.70%
Matveev 28.35%, eliminated

Sitteidoy 53.02%
Longquist-Heglepps 47.41%, eliminated

Brandon Sitteidoy is elected.

Highlights of the race: if you need me to spell them out, you're probably in the wrong thread. Everyone polling in double-digits to start? Having a winner rise from seventh place? The first election of a Digital Party member to Parliament? Some say this is a sign of Zwangzug's future, with lots of fractured dissatisfaction with the leftist system and the only winner someone who thinks most of politics could just as well be accomplished by people sitting behind computers, clicking buttons. Others say any district whose largest city is Kerlagrad is not going to produce anything too serious.

Before Sitteidoy was a representative, he was: a physics teacher.

Big issue: downsizing government. He's a Digital Party member!

Most amusingly likely career path: just sitting in his office and trying to vote by e-mail. Oh, wait, that's already more or less what he's planning on doing.

Personal life: Owns one of Kerlagrad's largest collections of slinkies, and enjoys testing them all from his twenty-ninth-floor apartment. His neighbors are less enamoured and privately hopeful that he does move to Zwischen.

Next election: Mondly
Incumbent: Scotty Marinhan (Progressive Traditionalist Party)

(Okay, somehow we've actually gotten ahead of schedule, so no idea when the next election will be. Oh well!)

[Zwangzug]

And we return with the Mondly election!

Scotty Marinhan (Progressive Traditionalist Party), 23.10%
Jordan Grotto (Liberal Conservative Party) 17.44%
Grigor Slovis (Pragmatic Radical Party) 17.25%
Melanie Foser-Peroy (Isolationist Party) 14.76%
Dougal Krecque (Infinite Power Party) 13.40%
Kumar Flogle (Mental Asylum Party) 7.97%
Mo Wiegler (Birthday Party) 4.98%
Elspeth Orter-Beerip (Libertarian Party) 1.11%, eliminated

Marinhan 23.22%
Grotto 17.57%
Slovis 17.46%
Foser-Peroy 14.97%
Krecque 13.55%
Flogle 8.12%
Wiegler 5.11%, eliminated

Marinhan 25.37%
Grotto 18.33%
Slovis 17.83%
Foser-Peroy 15.67%
Krecque 14.08%
Flogle 8.72%, eliminated

Marinhan 26.58%
Grotto 21.96%
Slovis 18.53%
Foser-Peroy 18.06%
Krecque 14.85%

Marinhan 29.90%
Slovis 24.42%
Grotto 24.25%
Foser-Peroy 21.13%, eliminated

Marinhan 36.54%
Grotto 33.50%
Slovis 29.55%, eliminated

Marinhan 52.23%
Grotto 46.83%, eliminated

Scotty Marinhan is reelected.

Highlights of the race: The rest of the country's hand-wringing about the threat of the far-right, then quickly exhaling and going back to their business.

Before Marinhan was a representative, he was: a newspaper editor.

Big issue: "stewardship of the Earth," so basically the PTs' green wing. Something about foreign aid too. Too much of a moral conservative to join an actual leftist party, though.

Most amusingly likely career path: banning airplanes because they pollute, then patrolling the skies in a plane--just to catch any evildoers in the act, you understand. Vigilance.

Personal life: Married to Alanna Marinhan, father of three. Protestant of some form, probably linked to the Concerned Citizens? Owns a pair of enormous dogs that look somewhat more ferocious than the representative himself.

Next election: Oh, dear. We swear we did not plan this, but Dauclem.
Incumbent: Janice McFly (Progressive Traditionalist Party).

[Zwangzug]

The districts of Zwangzug: now with more cartography!

Our focus returns to Dauclem.

Horace Spack (Libertarian Party) 27.88%
Janice McFly (Progressive Traditionalist Party) 19.42%
Joseph Hoell (independent) 15.18%
Dane Grovis-Kang (Pragmatic Radical Party)12.12%
Susan Kinsky (Capitalism Now Party) 10.95%
Grover Hoops (Liberal Conservative Party) 10.76%
Andy Newington (Birthday Party) 3.11%
Charles Schwarzmann (Vanguard Party) 0.76%, eliminated

Spack 28.02%
McFly 19.48%
Hoell 15.25%
Grovis-Kang 12.26%
Kinsky 11.16%
Hoops 10.82%
Newington 3.18%, eliminated

Spack 28.21%
McFly 20.83%
Hoell 15.98%
Grovis-Kang 12.49%
Kinsky 11.36%
Hoops 11.30%, eliminated

Spack 29.89%
McFly 24.63%
Hoell 18.62%
Grovis-Kang 14.08%
Kinsky 13.01%, eliminated

Spack 36.44%
McFly 26.24%
Hoell 22.12%
Grovis-Kang 15.44%, eliminated

Spack 42.33%
McFly 30.23%
Hoell 27.46%, eliminated

McFly 51.74%
Spack 48.32%, eliminated

Janice McFly is reelected.

Highlights of the race: Divided right wing is divided. The biggest surprise is that Hoell, one of the few leading independent candidates, had so strong a hold over his voters and sent so many of them to the incumbent. Maybe he's just pleased at the job she's done even if the other representatives up in Zwischen seem more of the faceless-drone mold...

Before McFly was a representative, she was: judging whether or not things are too advertisy.

Big issue: making sure no one secedes on her watch Originally vouchers and similar ambitious ideas for health care.

Most amusingly likely career path: making a public display of divorce proceedings to point out what an abhorrence the process is, then outlawing it.

Personal life: Like McCarthy, a Bigtopian from Great Bear Depot. Similar religious leanings as well, hers might be a bit more conservative and preventing her from a divorce from Kevin Ihejirika. Fairly competitive road cyclist when she has time for it.

Next election: Jeatt
Incumbent: Anthony Chadwick, Progressive Traditionalist Party (Secretary of Foreign Affairs)

[Zwangzug]

Okay, the cartography thing has stalled. Maybe we'll get back to that. Maybe not. In any event, time for the Jeatt election!

Anthony Chadwick (Progressive Traditionalist Party), 23.13%
Gull Lykke-Treinte (Digital Party), 22.11%
Yngve Sitert (Isolationist Party), 19.79%
Austin Sierpinski (Pragmatic Radical Party), 12.39%
Mogens Neen-Hall (National Socialist Grammarian Writers' Party), 9.34%
Courtney Zelantel (Liberal Conservative Party), 8.98%
Trevor Gronock (Infinite Power Party), 3.91%
Eilert Skovgaard (Capitalism Now Party), 0.37%, eliminated

Chadwick 23.16%
Lykke-Treinte 22.17%
Sitert 19.85%
Sierpinski 12.48%
Neen-Hall 9.39%
Zelantel 9.01%
Gronock 3.96%, eliminated

Chadwick 23.80%
Lykke-Treinte 22.76%
Sitert 20.44%
Sierpinski 13.62%
Neen-Hall 9.94%
Zelantel 9.45%, eliminated

Chadwick 25.58%
Lykke-Treinte 24.45%
Sitert 22.41%
Sierpinski 14.36%
Neen-Hall 13.18%

Chadwick 27.67%
Lykke-Treinte 28.55%
Sitert 28.32%
Sierpinski 15.49%, eliminated

Lykke-Treinte 34.23%
Sitert 33.76%
Chadwick 32.01%, eliminated

Sitert 50.64%
Lykke-Treinte 49.38%, eliminated

Yngve Sitert is elected.

Highlights of the race: First ever cabinet shakeup! Technically, it's really not Chadwick's fault that a meteorite fell on the capital, but citizens were hungry for change--this election got a lot of statewide attention and campaign efforts. Possibly because it was delayed, again.

Before Sitert was a representative, he was: a consultant for some businessy things? That seems implausible. Probably advising the book publishers.

Big issue: withdrawing from the worldwide scene, obviously, although this has less to do with diplomacy and stuff and more of some kind of attempt to stop legislating, like, anything, to avoid catastrophes? Except it's not a libertarian thing? Unclear.

Most amusingly likely career path: accidentally dissolving the country.

Personal life: Married to Ryan Randrup. Yeah, they're gay, what's it to you? Very clumsy and keeps getting in bike accidents; the move to Zwischen and an entirely new set of roads to relearn is not expected to help matters.

Next election: Phinein
Incumbent: Marjorie Strin (Liberal Conservative Party)
But first, we pick a new Secretary of Foreign Affairs! Find all the action here in the newswires.

[Zwangzug]

Totally on time for a change, Phinein!

Marjorie Strin (Liberal Conservative Party) 19.27%
Ferdinand Rodduck (Pragmatic Radical Party) 16.60%
Mohammed Pender (Birthday Party) 16.05%
Jennifer McRoy (Progressive Traditionalist Party) 13.71%
C.P. Dupashon-Uyemer (independent) 12.70%
Grant Worias (Capitalism Now Party)10.34%
Stephanie Letigues (Isolationist Party) 7.79%
Bart Frebs (d'Avant-garde des Parties) 3.60%, eliminated

Strin 19.45%
Rodduck 16.70%
Pender 16.21%
McRoy 13.84%
Dupashon-Uyemer 12.81%
Letigues 10.60%
Worias 10.45%, eliminated

Strin 20.74%
Rodduck 19.98%
Pender 17.67%
McRoy 15.11%
Dupashon-Uyemer 13.84%
Letigues 12.72%, eliminated

Strin 24.07%
Rodduck 21.83%
Pender 20.81%
McRoy 17.50%
Dupashon-Uyemer 15.86%, eliminated

Strin 31.07%
Pender 24.43%
Rodduck 23.28%
McRoy 21.26%, eliminated

Pender 38.90%
Strin 35.56%
Rodduck 25.49%, eliminated

Pender 53.36%
Strin 46.48%

Mohammed Pender is elected.

Highlights of the race: There was a recount at one point due to clerical errors. It turned out the electoral judges couldn't believe we had a Pragmatic Radical in the top three, but come on, when you border Quewi and also appear to be stuck between the largest and smallest districts, anything is possible. Also, the Birthday Party are getting sort of legitimate, aren't they? They could use more of a platform. Remember, they're more socially liberal than not (which confused even me; this contrasts them with the Progressive Traditionalists, who they're mostly seen as a kinder, gentler version of). And economically, they're farther left than the Mental Asylum Party and the grammarians. So maybe just some more leftists who realized they were on the wrong side of the culture war. Sounds legit.

Also, the MAP and NSGWP candidates have really sucked these last few races. That'd do it, too.

Before Pender was a representative, he was: a restaurant inspector, then on the Marsey City Council.

Big issue: health care, specifically better public health to keep bureaucracy and costs low. This includes supporting local farmers (which, um, exist? This was not clear) and something about healthy school lunches. On the one hand he's anti-bureaucracy, on the other hand, he polled poorly among fourteen-year-olds.

Most amusingly likely career path: subsidizing tap dance lessons to keep people fit and having to resign over the wasted money (Zwangzugian political in-joke. You all should move along.)

Personal life: Sufi Muslim. Husband of Sadia Pender, father of Hossein, Ahmed, and Munira. Aides report his biggest hobby is building domino sculptures, although he is too superstitious to play dominoes very often on the fear he'll use up all his luck before the election. That's out of the way, though, so no excuse now.

Next up: Eenshir
Incumbent: Samuel Zeltz (Liberal Conservative Party)

[Zwangzug]

Keeping pace in Eenshir.

Samuel Zeltz (Liberal Conservative Party) 20.37%
David Hamier (Pragmatic Radical Party) 20.06%
Huseyn Fossmer (Progressive Traditionalist Party) 14.57%
Kathryn Browicz-Glaisyer (National Socialist Grammarian Writers Party) 11.47%
Melina Palleman (Mental Asylum Party) 11.44%
Camille McRovis-Plourde (Digital Party) 9.85%
Thei Mynatt (d'Avant-garde des Parties) 8.71%
Hans Lebregger (Infinite Power Party) 3.46%, eliminated

Zeltz 20.72%
Hamier 20.96%
Fossmer 15.08%
Browicz-Glaisyer 11.91%
Palleman 11.78%
McRovis-Plourde 10.32%
Mynatt 9.16%, eliminated

Zeltz 21.55%
Hamier 21.39%
Fossmer 15.65%
McRovis-Plourde 14.39%
Browicz-Glaisyer 14.01%
Palleman 12.95%, eliminated

Zeltz 25.75%
Hamier 22.20%
Browicz-Glaisyer 18.20%
Fossmer 17.05%
McRovis-Plourde 16.75%, eliminated

Zeltz 29.50%
Browicz-Glaisyer 25.80%
Hamier 24.74%
Fossmer 19.87%, eliminated

Zeltz 37.49%
Browicz-Glaisyer 33.65%
Hamier 28.67%, eliminated

Zeltz 50.09%
Browicz-Glaisyer 49.68%, eliminated

Samuel Zeltz is reelected.

Highlights of the race: The normal center-lefty-parties have got their act back together. We also needed to rejig our significant figures because both candidates were finishing with more than fifty percent of the vote at the end. That sucks.

Before Zeltz was a representative, he was: district governor, and a pretty autocratic one too. Before that, annoying district senate leader--one suspects his fellow Eenshir LibCons heartily supported his governor run to get him out of the collective senatorial face.

Big issue: Increasing the international profile, exporting green tech or just some mad sciency thing, organizing conferences on environmental stuff...where was this guy when we needed a new Secretary of Foreign Affairs? Good grief.

Most amusingly likely career path: becoming an autocratic Composite Minister and extolling the virtues of the "double Z." Good grief.

Personal life: Fan of the Worms. Okay, sure, everyone has their baseball team, but give him some credit, that's not easy to do from Eenshir. Has been denied control of his "official" social media accounts after one too many uses of "the wrong in-jokes," in the words of his campaign staff.

Next up: Another biggish one, Anaro itself takes to the polls!
Incumbent: Matthew Coan (Progressive Traditionalist Party)

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Capital gains in Anaro!

Pip Lauser (independent) 18.92%
Matthew Coan (Progressive Traditionalist Party, incumbent) 17.81%
Jamil Brinia (Liberal Conservative Party) 15.82%
Lyubov Camp-Newsky (National Socialist Grammarian Writers' Party) 15.74%
Connor Moonds-Sparkle (Libertarian Party) 14.13%
Muahdnait McEland (Mental Asylum Party) 9.21%
Edmund Sato (Digital Party) 4.37%
Jaidev Alemay (Pragmatic Radical Party) 4.00%, eliminated

Lauser 19.80%
Coan 18.28%
Camp-Newsky 16.25%
Brinia 16.22%
Moonds-Sparkle 14.83%
McEland 9.63%
Sato 4.99%, eliminated

Lauser 20.78%
Coan 18.78%
Camp-Newsky 17.61%
Brinia 16.89%
Moonds-Sparkle 15.41%
McEland 10.53%, eliminated

Lauser 22.03%
Camp-Newsky 21.22%
Brinia 20.50%
Coan 19.99%
Moonds-Sparkle 16.24%, eliminated

Lauser 27.21%
Camp-Newsky 25.67%
Brinia 23.92%
Coan 23.09%, eliminated

Lauser 34.67%
Camp-Newsky 33.42%
Brinia 31.81%, eliminated

Camp-Newsky 54.21%
Lauser 44.08%

Lyubov Camp-Newsky is elected.

Highlights of the race: Pip Lauser ran a good campaign, for an independent (centrist, just barely on the lefty side of things) whose brand of capitalism seems to involve "trying to prevent the capital and its vicinity from being struck by meteorites." Good luck with that. But no, the northeast is turning blue, and after great internal discord, the NSGWP decided that the apostrophe is necessary and dissenters have been purged.

Before Camp-Newsky was a representative, she was: a Department of Transportation high-up.

Big issue: Transportation (shocker), although most of her proposed improvements seem that they'd provide more theoretical efficiency than practical gains. Possibly at the cost of lots of delays. Oh well.

Most amusingly likely career path: Effectively falling in the party line by giving big grants to universities to make studies and models about hypothetical train lines.

Personal life: Orthodox Christian. Married to Diana Braga. Extremely polyglot. Gained public notoriety for writing a bunch of editorials in the Zwischen New Courier, not incredibly news-related, but then, no news can be good news in Zwischen.

Next: Langport
Incumbent: Katarina Geiss (Liberal Conservative Party)