Review of Congress Elections - IFP Perspective

Day 1,662, 13:41 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Death and Taxes


Greetings. I've meant to do this for ages but owing to a dead hard drive haven't been able to do anything meaningful bar clicking on a touch phone. The purpose of this article is to review the congress election with a very jaundiced eye, that being because I am representing my party, the IFP.

As you may recall, in the last election we still had Dublin and Louth, and in addition we also had a Danish region owing to our extremely short campaign in Scandinavia.

This resulted in an unheard of number of congressmen elected, 44 to be precise. The first interesting statistic is that every candidate had a greater than 50% chance of being elected. This is unlikely ever to happen again.

The chances of being elected however, depended entirely on which party you ran under. As only the top 5 parties can nominate candidates, we do get a certain amount of freeloaders who join the top 5 so they can have a nomination. This skews the figures somewhat. Nevertheless, the figures speak for themselves.

If you were a candidate of the IIP you had a 10% chance of being elected, in the ISP it was 27%, for the ILP 58%, then to the IPP at 63% until we get to the IFP with 67%.

Turnouts were critical in getting candidates elected with the ILP and the IPP getting a large turnout from their members, and the ISP nearly extracting the maximum. The IIP had a complete collapse in party support and that contrasts with the IFP who were able to draw on support from outside their party base.

One thing you don't see in these figures is the freeloaders we had in the last election. Although we had 12 candidates, we only ran 8 official ones. No votes from the IFP went to the other candidates. When you take this into account, freeloaders (who I have no issue with) had a 50% chance of being elected, whereas our genuine ones have an adjusted success rate of 75%!

Next month we will only have 5 regions and thus 40 candidates, 5 of which will be wildcards. If you are an aspiring player who wants to maximise their chance of getting elected, then you should join the IFP now. Those joining at a later date will not be considered party members and will not benefit from our vote management strategy.

The IFP is the third biggest party in congress, we have a diverse group of individuals who freely debate and disagree with each other, but we all are working together to make congress and thus our democracy, work.

Thanks for reading....