Election Results: 45th Cosa

IT WAS A HOTLY CONTESTED SENATE RACE!

I also want to take a moment and applaud Talossa on a relatively calm election. While we had 'moments,' the mudslinging and name calling was really kept to a minimum.

As Hooligan has stated elsewhere, this election marks a statistical point in which the 'devastation' of 2003-2005 has been fully reversed in the seven provinces around at that time. This also marks the first election in the post-reunision era past the 'afterglow' of the Return.

Not since the last Progressive Conservative majority victory in 2002 has there been an election held in a time in which things were truly 'normal': a united and single Talossan people going about their daily business. Do remember from 2005-2011, the Republic was still a going concern along with all that entailed.

RUMP majority victory or not, Talossa has come full-circle. We have *all* come full-circle in what must be a quiet watershed marker-day in Talossan political history: the full-flowering of the Post-Ben political landscape in a Talossan united once more...and this time in a real representative-democratic government in which we have had a long string of truly-transparent and well-run elections (not that the previous ones weren't well-run) free of the spectre of pocket votes that may or may not have been real to begin with.

In the wake of the E. B. Sockpuppet scandal, the ZRT mustered a very-impressive showing, garnering for the second time the role of the leading party of the Opposition, a true alternative to the dominating RUMP. Along with the ZRT, the NPW, MRP, and the PP/CSPP have firmly established themselves as bona-fide political destinations.

The big electoral winner, though, was the Independent party, whose formation has been validated as a master-stroke that was most-likely the single-largest factor in the demise of the long streak of RUMP majorities this time 'round.

But the biggest winner - nay, the biggest winnerS - are the Talossan people. We, the People, are in possession of the most-vibrant political landscape Talossan has seen since the mid-to-late 1980s as well as more than enough trustworthy civil-service members to keep the whole thing going. There is also for the first time perhaps in all Talossan history a real sense of genuine calm without the undercurrent of pent-up resentment Ben Madison so-easily fostered.

The Kingdom of Talossa is better-off than it has been in a long, long time.

I will sleep well.

from one seat to eleven, not that bad, NPW. i would like to thank all party members to spell properly the party name in ballots and also to thank to those party non-members (or non-party members, dear noah chomsky?) who accidentally misspelled other's party name and voted for NPW.

I have a question. Why did the CSPP get the 200th seat, even though without rounding they would have gotten 20,97 seats, against 6,45 for the LPR. 6.45 seems a lot closer to 7 than 20.97 to 22.

Actually, the first divided seat should have gone to the RUMP, as (in the words of Art VIII Sec 2) "the party with the highest number of total votes will be used." I think Art VIII Sec 2 should be amended, but that's what it says.

I think, if necessary, that all parties have standing to challenge any decision on this in court.

CSPP, MRPT and IND also dont have the full 21st/13th seat. They only get it because of rounding. Wouldnt this mean the actual result would be RUMP 102 ZRT 29 MRPT 20 CSPP 20 NPW 11 IND 12 LPR 6? After all rounding down would mean 4 seats are being divided, and they would all go to the largest party wouldnt they?