I just want to congratulate Australia on winning their election. Great job!!
More similar to yours than one could possibly imagine.
- A centre-left incumbent that seemed on track to lose, as of February.
- Thanks in part to Trump, the incumbent saw huge swings towards them in the polls during the campaign.
- So much so that their conservative opposition lost his own seat.
- The unfortunate harm done to a real left-wing party as a by-product (in your case it was because of FPTP and strategic voting. In ours it seems likely to be an unintuitive byproduct of how IRV works).
- Your left-wing party lost his seat. We’re still counting but it looks very possible that detail could be replicated here.
RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Fucking love our Aussie brothers and sisters! You guys understood the assignment and you crushed it.
Next Aussie I run into over here gets drinks on me!