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This article will give a summary of the Congress election, which ended this morning with the results being finalized in the afternoon.

As I have covered in my previous summaries, eSweden have had a rough few months where we've lost several congress seats due to the conflicts in Scandinavia. Like always, this had a huge effect in the outcome of this election, with many candidates (including myself) getting booted due to regions being swapped around during the 23rd - 26th. Hopefully we may stabilize our region supply the upcoming month and once again experience a "full" and fair congress result in January.

Last month I decided not to do this monthly summary, as I stepped down as Speaker of The Congress and felt that my successor should have the honor of summarizing the election. Unfortunately, I don't think that many share my desire to list numbers and comparsions, so here I am once again with my report. However, due to the missing figures from last month, there won't be quite as many comparsions with the previous results.



I can't help but feel every citizen in eSweden lost something today. Our congress has been diminished to a measely 15 seats, but I guess we should be thankful that we have a congress at all. At one point things looked very grim and had it not been for the community who stood up and defended our core regions in Svealand and Gotaland, I wouldn't have any election to write about.

Due to the rules of the game our congress now consists of 15 seats out of which one third got elected through Wildcards. Some parties seem to have been better prepared for this situation than others, but it's understandable that many had their focus elsewhere on Christmas Day and with many important battles raging in our core regions.

This election also saw a new party entering the scene: Nationalgardet (NG). The party was founded 22/12 and as I write these lines, half a week later, they've got 40% of the seats which of course makes them the biggest party in the January congress. Preparing with many candidates in several different regions clearly payed off in the end. The fusion of three previous top 5 parties also meant that there's one party less than usual in the summary.

Flashback Sweden (FBS) came in second with four seats (26.6😵, placing themselves one seat ahead of Folkhemsdemokraterna (FHD) who came in third. The two remaining seats went to Militantsocialistiska Arbetarpartiet (MSAP), who made a comeback this month, partially due to Partiet moving all of their members to Nationalgardet prior to the election.



The following statistics are compared to the previous election in September.

Total number of votes in the election: 422 (-104)
Total presence of the voting population: 21.1% (-10😵
Total number of candidates running: 29 (-3😎
Percentage of running candidates electe😛 51.7% (-16.4😵
Number of new candidates from last month: 8 = 53.3% (-15.42😵
Number of "first time" candidates electe😛 3 = 20% (-5.0😵

Keep in mind that many candidates and votes did not count in this election due to eSweden losing regions!




The Wildcards (5)

With only half the amount of Wildcards from last month, there's still an interesting note to be made in this section. In my summary of the november election, I mentioned that MP got many of their members through Wildcards and they seem to hold true to their tradition in their new party (NG) as well. Four(!) out of five Wildcards went to NG. They also had the next candidate in line for a seat, Jeppe83. But to reach the only Wildcard they missed prooved to be too difficult, as St.Rikardsburg from FBS managed to get an impressive support with 16 votes in total.

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Nationalgardet got 6 seats / 40%

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Alatom, Gorzem von Relington, supersarah (W), WeirdPsycho (W), Gustavo Llosson (W) and Wolf Heinrich von Helldorf (W).

The previous parties Nybörjardemokraterna, Marknadspartiet and Partiet are no more. Through a fusion they've decided to join forces under the name Nationalgardet.

NG entered the political arena in a very complicated time. Our country was besieged by joint forces from all of Scandinavia, with the help of Russia, Romania and TEDEN. They also played a big part in the impeachment of Jim Parsons, who lost his throne to the runner-up Raticon after a very close vote in the congress.

At the time of writing, NG have gained 218 members in 4 days, which can be compared with the 255 name strong member base of the political "mammoth party", FBS. Their success in this election, as well as their steadily increasing amount of members, is a direct result of MP, NVG and P combining their forces under the same banner.

Having lost many of their front figures in the regions of Jamtland Harjedalen and Norrland and Sameland, they still managed to secure 40% of the seats due to having a large number of candidates in many different regions. This also shows in the statistics, as 5 out of 6 congressmen from NG did not hold seats last month and one third of them have never been to congress before.


Statistics for Nationalgardet:

Result based on last month's election: +6 (N/A)
Total number of votes on NG candidates: 93 (N/A)
Percentage of total amount of votes: 22% (N/A)
Total number of NG candidates: 6 = 40% (N/A)
Percentage of NG candidates electe😛 6/11 = 45.5% (N/A)
Number of new NG candidates from last month: 5 = 83.3% (N/A)
Number of "first time" NG candidates electe😛 2 = 33.3% (N/A)
Number of re-elected NG candidates: 1/6 = 16.67% (N/A)

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Flashback Sweden got 4 seats / 26.7%

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Baptisten, Dalze, Toothpaste and St.Rikardsburg (W).

Accusations flew wide and sharp against FBS prior to the election, in a way that I haven't witnessed since the old FRONT vs FBS feud two years ago. And even though they've lost their high-ground in the congress, I actually don't think that the media and IRC frenzy affected the outcome of their election.

FBS may have lost seats, but they still had the most votes and their top candidates were still "over voted" per usual standard. Considering that the total amount of seats went down from 40 to 15, many of the stats listed below make sense. This also shows that FBS' result was more a consequence of other parties getting a better, rather than FBS themselves having a bad run. For example, the total number of running FBS candidates show a proportional decrease with the percentage of elected candidates.

There are many more views to take on these results, given the very special circumstances for this particular election. But to say that FBS had a bad result is an overstatement. From my point of view, they performed well above my own expectations and in comparsion with previous months.


Statistics for FBS:

Result based on last month's election: -10 (-1.67😵
Total number of votes on FBS candidates: 160 (-8😎
Percentage of total amount of votes: 37.9% (-9.25😵
Total number of FBS candidates: 8 = 27.6% (-8.3😵
Percentage of FBS candidates electe😛 4/8 = 50% (-8.3😵
Number of new FBS candidates from last month: 2 = 50% (N/A)
Number of "first time" FBS candidates electe😛 1 = 25% (+15.9😵
Number of re-elected FBS candidates: 2/4 = 50% (N/A)

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Folkhemsdemokraterna got 3 seats / 20%

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Johannes Svaerd, Volcker and Konkelbaer.

Folkhemsdemokraterna have been hallmarked as one of the most vote-efficient parties in the past year or so of Swedish congress elections. But how did they fare this time?

They maintained the exact same quota of votes, slightly more than one fifth of the total amount, but still lost 10 of their 13 seats. However, this sounds worse than it actually is since the congress lost 62.5% of its previous size. What strikes me as more peculiar is the very low number of running candidates. With only four names running, it was never any doubt that FHD would lose a lot of ground. This is most certainly a consequence of the loss of regions prior to the closing hour of the election.

My own analyze is that FHD - like FBS - performed roughly according to estimations. In recent elections they've signed in fewer candidates than their main competitors, while making sure that a higher percentage of those would stand a better chance of landing a seat. This month is no exception. With no more than four votable candidates, they still managed to secure three seats, and only came two votes short of securing the fourth one as well.

But in the end, it all boils down to power balance and that's where FHD lost ground. Their previous 11 seats gave them 27.5% of the congress votes, while they're now down to 20%. And should any of their candidates miss out on a vote, they'll lose one third of their power. Even though this holds true to all the other parties as well, I brought it up here because it underlines the difference that FHD has to coupe with albeit having made a good effort in the election.


Statistics for FH😨

Result based on last month's election: -10 (-1.67😵
Total number of votes on FHD candidates: 86 (-8😎
Percentage of total amount of votes: 20.38% (+0.04😵
Total number of FHD candidates: 4 = 13.8% (-8.6)
Percentage of FHD candidates electe😛 3/4 = 75% (+1.7😵
Number of new FHD candidates from last month: 1 = 33.3% (N/A)
Number of "first time" FHD candidates electe😛 0 (-1)
Number of re-elected FHD candidates: 2/3 = 66.7% (N/A)

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MSAP got 2 seats / 13.3%

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Radsoc and Bjork Igdunbjorg (W).

Many of us wondered when MSAP would replace Partiet in the congress elections, based on the diminishing member base P suffered from ever since the beginning of last summer. Well, it would seem that it happened a bit sooner than most expected. Due to the fusion of three Top 5 parties, MSAP is now back in the ball room of eSwedish politics again.

Speaking of making it back to congress: MSAP's top candidate, Radsoc, just secured his 28th congress medal by making it through this month's trials. Yep, that's right; he's been elected more than two full IRL years. When it comes to being a congress medalist, Radsoc is to politicians what Bumbe is to two-click workers. That's certainly something for all of you young politicians to live up to in the future!

What's more surprising to see is that Bjork Igdunbjorg, previously a well-known member and former Party leader from FHD, has joined ranks with MSAP and started out well, by securing their second and last seat, which will be her fifth mandate in total.

There's one recurring weakness for MSAP in every election they participate in, and that is the tendency from members to focus way too much energy on voting for Radsoc. Even though he's a vocal player and one of their prominent voices within the political arena, it's still a problem that he gained 18 votes more than he needed. Meanwhile, the three MSAP candidates who missed out on congress got 17 votes in total. With a better voting spread, those votes could have turned into two more seats, which would've tied MSAP with FBS for second place in the totals.

Even though this problem exist in most parties - and especially in FBS - I personally think that MSAP suffers the most from it. They play a tough game with little to no compromise, and because of that they will not get many votes for free. Every vote counts and the more seats, the better. Even if it means that Radsoc will have to suffice with a Wildcard instead of direct qualification.


Statistics for MSAP:

Result based on last month's election: +2 (N/A)
Total number of votes on MSAP candidates: 62 (N/A)
Percentage of total amount of votes: 14.7% (N/A)
Total number of MSAP candidates: 5 = 17.2% (N/A)
Percentage of MSAP candidates electe😛 2/5 = 40% (N/A)
Number of new MSAP candidates from last month: 2 (N/A)
Number of "first time" MSAP candidates electe😛 0 (N/A)
Number of re-elected MSAP candidates: 0 (N/A)

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Signed,

Valnad,
Vice President under Raticon
Keeper of The Cake