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"Dark Horse" Brookman crashes both Hall and Galloway's expectations in Erneshire - Galloway faces humiliating loss in home ground.
May 5635



Fort William - After the primaries in both Northriding and Shipleyriding, the three last contenders to the Labour leadership that are, Olivia Hall, James Galloway and Dennis Brookman fought a month-long bitter campaign in the last Grand Duchy to organise its primaries, the Grand Duchy of Erneshire. The second most-populated region in Luthori with 502 delegates up for grab, the region is highly important for any delegates to secure a victory in the convention. Erneshire is also an highly symbolic Grand Duchy, it's the home province of Mr. Galloway, former Minister-President of the Grand Duchy, so a victory for either Mrs. Hall or Mr. Brookman would score an important victory before the national convention in Fort William.

Knowing the status of his home province, Mr. Galloway organised a high-intensity campaign in hopes of securing a key victory in Erneshire, which, if decisive enough, could put him ahead of Mrs. Hall for the rest of the leadership campaign. Both candidates opposed to Mr. Galloway's campaign, Mr. Brookman and Mrs. Hall also organised a high-intensity campaign in the Grand Duchy, in hopes of secuing enough delegates before the National Convention. The Luthorian Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) announced, in collaboration with New Luthori Broadcasting (NLB), the organisation of a debate between the three candidates to the leadership of the National Labour Party.

The debate was moderate by LBC journalist Kelly Matthews and NLB journalist Taylor Maxwell, during which the three candidates spoke their programs for Luthori if they are elected as party leader and Prime Minister, Mr. Galloway stated that "...the Empire needs a compassionate government at its helm to fix the issue related to poverty, inequality and the environment..", the former Minister-President chose to campaign as a populist left candidate, as he stated during his candidacy announcement, it was to draw a "different" path from the centrist to left agenda as proned by the Prime Minister during her first term, Mr. Galloway criticised Mrs. Hall as being a "LINO" a "Labour in name-only", the Prime Minister dismissed his critics as being "unnecessary" and criticised her opponent for his lack of etiquette, saying that: "Mr. Galloway, if that's how you're behaving in the debate, I would how you would fare in the Chamber", Mrs. Hall stated that the priority would to enact "emergency" defence funding increase to face off against the "Kundrati menace", something that was highly controversial among the panel.

While the Prime Minister and her main challenger fought off during this debate, Mr. Brookman, the eventual winner came out relatively untouched. Something that was revealed to have played in his favour when the votes have been counted in the aftermath of the caucus of Erneshire, after the counting was done, it was projected that Mr. Brookman had secured 41.3 % of the vote in Erneshire, winning 207 delegates out of 502, Prime Minister Hall came second with 36,5 % of the vote, securing 184 delegates, finally, in a humiliating loss for him in home ground, Mr. Galloway won only 22.5 % of the vote, winning only 111 delegates. In the aftermath of this caucus, here are the current delegates counts for each candidates before the vote of both Mrs. Simpson and Mr. Hopes' delegations.

• Hall - 878 delegates (184 from Erneshire, 29 from recall election [Macaw], 131 from Shipleyriding, 172 from Middenriding, 246 from Orange and 116 from Northriding) +221 delegate lead
  
• Calloway - 657 delegates (111 from Erneshire, 10 from recall election [Macaw], 148 from Shipleyriding, 147 from Middenriding, 104 from Orange and 137 from Northriding)
  
• Brookman - 521 delegates (204 from Erneshire, 9 from recall election [Macaw], 47 from Shipleyriding, 75 from Middenriding, 148 from Orange and 35 from Northriding)
  
• 330 "Free Delegates", formerly supporting either Hopes or Simpson (123 from Simpson and 207 from Hopes)
  

Then the recall for the rest of the so-called "Free Delegation" was held, where both delegations that were in favour of Mr. Hopes or Mrs. Simpson would get to choose, democratically, their preferred candidate for the Office of National Labour leader. At 8 PM (Alchester Time), the results were as follows: Mr. Galloway had received the support of 154 delegates, Mrs. Hall of 140 delegates and finally, Mr. Brookman had received the support of merely 36 delegates.

As such, we are confident enough to project that Mrs. Hall would secure a plurality of all 2,434 delegates, winning 1,018 delegates out of the 2,386 available, her direct opponent to the party leadership, Mr. Galloway secured for his part, 811 delegates out of 2,386 delegates available, and finally, Mr. Brookman secured 557 delegates. It is likely from now on, that the Prime Minister will be re-elected as Labour leader in the next national conference, except if a great twist comes to jeopardise the Prime Minister's position. The final results here.

1. Hall - 1,018 delegates (184 from Erneshire, 169 from recall election [Macaw, Hopes and Simpson], 131 from Shipleyriding, 172 from Middenriding, 246 from Orange and 116 from Northriding) +207 delegates win - plurality. (Likely to be re-elected)
   
2. Calloway - 811 delegates (111 from Erneshire, 154 from recall election [Macaw, Hopes and Simpson], 148 from Shipleyriding, 147 from Middenriding, 104 from Orange and 137 from Northriding)
   
3. Brookman - 557 delegates  (204 from Erneshire, 45 from recall election [Macaw, Hopes and Simpson], 47 from Shipleyriding, 75 from Middenriding, 148 from Orange and 35 from Northriding)