RESULTS THREAD
Final Seat Totals & Headline ResultMEAD | 23 |
MACHO | 17 |
Total Government | 40 |
WTA | 21 |
Green Arda | 13 |
SSS | 4 |
Total Opposition | 38 |
MEAD and MACHO have agreed to form a coalition government, holding 40 seats to the opposition's combined 38.
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How It UnfoldedThe election results started well for the WTA, quickly not only capturing all three seats in Pelargir with an astonishing 90% of the vote, but notching up unexpected wins in Evendim and Erebor, areas where MACHO had been expected to challenge more strongly. Early press releases suggested a majority could be in the offing, and hammering victories in Dol Amroth, where their leader Imrahil was returned with a resounding majority, and Ithilien seemed to bear this out. A trickle of results from further out regions had started to come in telling a different story, however; the Dunlendings, the Cardolanians, and the people of Arthedain found that MEAD's message resonated strongly and rejected the White Tree. MEAD's leader, Alatar, was comfortably elected in Dorwinion, where a small buzz was going around the campaign headquarters at the unexpected wins in Eriador. MACHO had a slow start, and the Greens narrowly avoided an embarrassing scalp as Faramir, just about buoyed up by his personal popularity, narrowly won the third and final seat in Ithilien.
A strong result for deputy leader Angbor of Lamedon in the Vales kept the WTA's hopes up, but as things dragged on it became increasingly clear that a majority was unlikely - and the lack of suitable coalition partners for them was a worry. They still, however, retained the hope of forcing an unstable opposition coalition of all three or even four parties. The failure of Rohan, a divided battleground region, to vote strongly for the WTA largely sealed their fate (and was another narrowly dodged embarrassment for the Greens, Eowyn recieving the bare minimum of support needed to win the third seat). Fornost and Erebor appeared increasingly isolated bastions outside their monolithic dominance of Gondor.
Midway through the results, the SSS made their only breakthroughs, winning Nurnen, drawing with the Greens in the Upper Anduin and returning Shagrat to parliament. Pallando was returned comfortably in Umbar; the peripheries of Middle-Earth were largely breaking for MEAD, though the WTA was still the largest party and won West Gondor comfortably. The Greens finally got results to cheer about, too, with Mirkwood and Emnet providing their two clear first-place wins of the night and providing them with two seats apiece.
It was at this stage, with parliament hanging in the balance, that a long hiatus ended up happening in wrangles over results and ballots. When the disputes were eventually resolved after several months of sending messengers across the continent, the WTA stood with a narrow lead. Their results flatlined as the final, mostly Rhovanian, constituencies finally counted their ballots, however. MEAD remained competitive in Eriador, gaining a huge and unexpected victory in Luin & Lindon which put them ahead of WTA as the largest party. Their strength in the southern peripheries continued, too, with a solid win in Harad, and they beat MACHO's leader, Elladan, into second place in his home constituency of Rhudaur & Eregion. MACHO finally made its breakthroughs in Rhovanion, however, and outright wins in Central Rhovanion, The Riverlands and The Iron Hills (where Elrohir, their deputy leader, received an unexpectedly positive response from the Dwarf populace) rapidly doubled their seat total. The WTA won Minas Tirith, finally cementing their hold on Gondor as a region, but without largest party status their hopes of pushing their way into a government finally faded.
The Shire, the final seat, split fairly evenly between Green Arda and MACHO, voting rather differently to the MEAD/MACHO and MEAD/WTA fights in the rest of Eriador. The extra seat for MACHO, however, meant that, narrowly, a two-party coalition was possible, between MEAD and MACHO. The "quad" of Alatar, Elrohir, Pallando and Elladan soon met for a conference in Rivendell, and Middle-Earth's first governing coalition was born...
Basics of the Coalition Agreement:
- Small border & trade guard force to be formed, with safeguards prohibiting deployment in areas without the consent of local government
- Most policing to be under local authority control
- Taxation to mainly be administered locally with authorities being given some powers to vary their taxation rates & methods within certain bounds
- Federal wealth taxes redistributing funds to poorer areas that need them most, especially via directly funding education & infrastructure projects
- Strongly funded education system, administered locally to be flexible and sensitive to local needs but with federally set minimum standards
- Federal rules banning any sales taxes on small business
- All state surveillance to be strictly outlawed, to protect citizens from government over-reach
- Sentient Beings Rights' Bill to give full legal protections to all citizens in the areas of gender identity, species, sexuality, race, and disability.
- Free votes on legalising euthanasia and abortion to be held
Full ResultsNotes on interpretation:- The left-hand box is seat totals, with green indicating first seat, orange second and red third in any given constituency
- The right-hand box is raw votes. The ten votes have at times had "boosts" for campaigning added to them. Red is a 3 vote boost indicating a party leader, Orange a two vote boost for a deputy leader, and Blue a targeted seat.
- The votes were then converted to percentages and gone through using the D'Hondt formula. In the event of ties for a particular seat, the seat went to whichever party was most disadvantaged between their vote and seat share (hence the presence of the "disad" row at the bottom of the seat count).
MapsOverall winners in each constituency: