Top 58 Elections that changed the Talossan political landscape.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

@Glüc da Dhi S.H. would you mind if I presented these posts as segments of a running series on Fora Talossa?

That's cool! Are you going to do a dramatic reading of each one?

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

@Glüc da Dhi S.H. would you mind if I presented these posts as segments of a running series on Fora Talossa?

That's cool! Are you going to do a dramatic reading of each one?

 ;D I am thinking about it

[Ian Plätschisch]

A lot has happened since then. Looking back this election was the calm before the storm. Bizarrely the MRPT would never participate in an election again.

I still have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I was probably the one most responsible for its breakup, which resulted in a lot of my Talossan friends at the time going into inactivity. On the other hand, I do think the MRPT was mostly out of ideas and that the manifesto was out of touch with Talossa's problems at the time. I also just really wanted to start my own party (which, looking back, didn't turn out great after two parties which both only lasted two terms).

[GV]

After 1 June 2004, the Kingdom of Talossa took the workings of its constitutional-monarchial system more seriously than it had ever done before.  This was a direct reaction to the foundation and very existence of the 2004-2012 Republic of Talossa.

You're right, Glüc.  Democratic/electoral/governance processes in 1986 were far more ad-hoc than they are now.  This is because trust between Talossans had been built on decades of in-person interactions well-outside of Talossa - a 'feature' completely missing from Talossan life (Kingdom and Republic) from August 2005 onward.

I submit this ad-hoc way of doing things was present all the way even to spring 2004. 

#57:

Elections to the 3rd Cosa - March 1986

I'm not sure if this is correct, but my interpretation of the early years of Talossan democracy is that people didn't take it as seriously as they do now. Wild ideas are floated and quickly put aside, people and parties made various major shifts seemingly without too much damage to personal relations. The more disappointing is it how boring the numbers for the March 1986 elections are in comparison. This was all preceded by Danihel Laurieir demanding that Ben become a dictator (which might have actually greatly limited his power over other Talossans) and apparently starting some kind of guerilla movement. None of that matters. His DDP got two votes before and gets two votes again electorally. Not much change either for the far-right TNP which apparently went from 3 to 2, but with reduced turnout. It is not clear if the party of the PM, Frédéric Coriü participated.* This doesn't matter as it was already only an essentially superfluous junior party in a large coalition of "centrist" parties, headed by the King's PC, which remained the largest party without gaining a majority. The first and least convincing of various Talossan liberal parties is apparently supported by the King as a sort of decoy party basically supporting the status quo. The Black Hand is part of the coalition as well. Regardless of what happens to FUN the other parties are all still the same, get roughly the same result (only TNP and PC lose some votes). According to Ár Päts the coalition even manages to continue without the Liberals but still lead by Coriü. None of the future changes in Talossa have anything to do with this election result. The PC may not be as dominant as it would become yet but Ben comfortably holds the reigns in Talossa.

Turnout: 11(db)* (-4)*

Votes / percentage:
Progressive Conservative Party (PC): 4 (-2) / 36.4%(db)* (-3.6)
Democratic Dandipractic Party (DDP): 2 / 18.2%(db)* (+4.9)
Liberal Party (PL): 2 / 18.2%(db)* (+4.9)
Talossan Nationalist Party (TNP): 2 (-1) / 18.2% (db)* (-1.8)
Black Hand Party (BH): 1 / 9.1% (db)* (+2.4)
Front Uni pour la Nation: -- (-1) / -- (db)* (-6.7)


* Ár Päts gives different percentages. For one it suggests the results lead to a PC/FUN/BH coalition getting 53.8 of seats. This could mean 13 rather than 11 voters with either BH or FUN getting two more votes than listed in the database (giving a total of 7 votes for the coalition, 7/13 = 53.8). It also mentions a percentage of only 25.1 of the votes for the PC and 14.1 for the DDP. Both those numbers are impossible for any realistic size of the electorate. My guess would be that two FUN votes (including Coriü's) somehow went missing in the database.