Mordusia

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Close elections keep liberals in the lead

Centre-right coalition to form

April 5688 (backdated)

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Randworth - Extremely tight elections have caused the liberal Forward Mordusia to remain closely in the lead and 'win' the elections so to say with a narrow plurality. However a surprising quick announcement was made about a coalition as the liberals will form a majority coalition government with the conservative Nationals who had a mild election victory. 

For 5 years the Forward Mordusia liberals ruled as the first non-traditional largest party in the coalition and in the parliament. They kept their coalition together through some great successes and tough challanges. Certaintly with an ever unstable world, as it often is, the voters seem to have stuck with them. However they still lost 15 seats, ending on 104 seats. It shows that some have gone back to their traditional parties. 

A shock for everyone was that the largest party status could have gone to the Reform-Labor Coalition if they still ran together. The traditional opponent of the conservative nationals are the social-democrats (Labor) and the social-liberals (Reform). The Labor Party managed to win 10 seats increasing their seat count to 64 seats with Reform growing from 40 to 46 seats. Together they would have had 110 seats and been the largest party in the parliament. However thanks to their split in 5683 they are now ranked 3rd and 4th behind Forward Mordusia (1st with 104 seats) and the Nationals (2nd with 103 seats). 

The Nationals were hoping to win these elections, they have been the leaders of the opposition and made good use of some coalition disagreements to get their way. They came very close to winning these elections, with them winning 1 seat less than Forward Mordusia. In the exitpolls they were at first tied.