{RSU} Congress Results - May 2016

Day 3,110, 01:55 • Published in Australia Thailand • by Revolutionary Socialist Union

Greetings eAustralia,

The voting is now finished for the next terms congress seats and the final count has begun. So the RSU has decided to take a look at the voting and try to analyse it, like we did with the Party President Elections.

As with the Party President election, this article will be updated after the vote count is finalised.


Congress voting: May 2016


While the final voting tally is yet to be completed, with the early information at hand, we can begin to look at some of figures linked with the current eAustralian Congress Elections.

First of all, looking at the total "Active Citizens" in eAustralia and the relationship to the voter turn out. eAustralia has a current population of 411 active citizens. However it is worth noting, that this number is the one eRep comes up with, it might be based on any form of activity every month or every day.



From that number, we can see that only 18% of our active population took part in the voting process.



Looking at the those total votes of 75 and comparing it to party memberships, we can see some surprising figures:



We can see that with a total party membership of 113 citizens, the voter turn out works out to be no more then 66% (The actual percentage of party members voting could be lower, due to any of the 298 non party members voting). All in all, this goes with the normal low voter turn out eAustralia has suffered time and time again.


Early Party Results



While final vote counting is still taking place, we can look at these early results and see how the trends are with political parties being voted in to represent the citizens of eAustralia.

As we can see from the above image, the KHMC took in the largest volume of votes, which is something to be expected, due to they are currently the largest political party in eAustralia. This trend continued with all the top 5 parties.

Early polling data used, vote count still on going.


As we can see from above, all of the top 5 political parties had a majority of voters turn out. While some still languish around the 60% mark (most likely linked to their higher membership numbers), others showed a strong turn out, with one party managing to draw a non-political vote or a vote from another party. However these figures might change, once the headless chickens have finished counting the votes.

All in all, it is too early to see the seat allocation (the author can not remember the amount of regions belonging to eAustralia on the cut off date of 23rd @ 02.00), but we should still be looking at all congress candidates obtaining seats in the upcoming congress.

Above chart is based on the premise all congress candidates get seats


As you can see from the above chart (based on early reports, but will be updated once final figures are posted), no one party is in complete control of congress. This will work out beneficial to all of eAustralia, in ensuring that all law proposal's can be debated with the best interests of the country at heart, rather then being forced through. However it does open up the possibility for a coming together of some parties to form a coalition like we see in RL, which could alter the political dynamic that is eAustralia as we know it.


Whats next?

After the final numbers are tallied, I will update this article to include the full and final vote count, seat allocation and percentages that will go with it. I will also look back on the previous terms Congress elections, so we can start seeing if trends are being shown or not.



So stay tuned for an updated article due out later today.

And as per normal, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask them.

Rusty D
Loyal eAustralian,
Party President of the RSU.

Archived articles: (please be aware any archived article listed maybe out of date and do not show the current attitude/standing of the party, but will be listed as a testament to the history of the party)

RSU Party Outline: Can be found here
Other RSU articles: Can be found here