Senate Election - Furniture Edition.

Day 3,021, 00:28 • Published in Australia Cuba • by Dread Pirate Hobbits


For those penchant for psephology, here's my take on the senate election.

Voter turnout was great, up to 84 votes, or 19% of the population.

I believe the one disqualified candidate/voter resulted in a lost quota for eAustralia as a whole due to the peculiar electoral system. Giving us 39 potential seats rather than 40. We filled 35.

Here's the tables for this month and last month pushed together:



The RSU gained 2 quotas, and the APP gained 1, but they lacked the candidates to convert them to extra seats.

The ADP gained one seat, taking it to 9.

The ARP held steady at 18 votes after its gain last month. But due to the extra overall votes, they fell just short of a quota and lost their 9th seat.

The biggest story is obviously the Knighthawks dropping from first to last place, losing 2 seats (but 4 possible quotas). I believe this was a simple matter of member participation, as I'll go into after the break.



Party Breakdown Table - Not a literal one like when Tony got upset after the tables were turned on him. But rather in a statistical sense.

Candidates and active voters as a percentage of each party's membership:

ADP: 31 members,10 candidates(32😵, 20 votes(65😵
APP: 21 members, 6 candidates(29😵, 18 votes(86😵
ARP: 19 members, 9 candidates(47😵, 18 votes(95😵
RSU: 18 members, 6 candidates(33😵, 16 votes(89😵
KMC: 21 members, 6 candidates(29😵, 12 votes(57😵

The ARP had the greatest percentage of candidates, almost half of their registered members, and the greatest voter turnout, with only 1 member missing the ballot.

The KMC fared worst on both counts, with just under 1/3 nominating (equal with APP) and just over 1/2 voting.



Of course new members rolling into parties does play into the result. Some horse trading that went on in the last term:

ADP:
-Two imported MEKkers, A. Yupanqui from eArgentina and Thedillpickl from the eUSA. The poKEMon takeover continues.
-Soldie would have been the youngest Senator at just a week old of they weren't disqualified by the electoral commission.

APP:
-Stojke89, a one time eKiwi.
-Sweet Cersei, who is a long time listener, but first time caller.

RSU:
-Caesar II returned to the RSU after making an unsuccessful bid for an ADP seat last term.
-Rusty D and Kattrrina returned from their short trip to eIran.
-Kattrina left for eIran an APP member, and came back RSU. What happens in Tehran stays in Tehran.
-T.A.X.S.I.R.A fully stopped in from eCanada.
-Southern Crux returned to the Southern Hemisphere.



And lastly, condolences to Cody Caine of the ARP and Kangaroo69 of the ADP who lost their seats. As they're respectively commander and secondary commander of the ADF, they will still be busy serving eAustralia, and as serial politicos I'm sure they will be back to serve another term of hard laboriousness.