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Election Results: National Party win plurality, Reform-Labour minority government formed
March 5635

 

 
Randworth - Despite not clinching an outright majority in Parliament, the National Party has decisively won the battle for public support — capturing nearly half of the vote across Mordusia. With a swing of nearly 8 points! Meanwhile, the Reform-Labour coalition clings to power by seat count alone, having lost ground in both vote share and regional strongholds.
 
The elections were hot headed and wildly contested. What was clear was that the National Party regained much of their lost electorate after decades of Reform-Labour coalition rule. Mainly the economy, despite its recovery of the economic slump, the growth remained a bit weak and the increased taxes due to spending hikes on the middle class and higher incomes seemed to put a drastic shift towards the Nationals, that coupled with new environmental regulations which hit businesses really hard put the Reform Party in a bind. The regulations were mostly pushed by the Labour Party and the Wildlife Party who the Coalition relied on for a strong majority.
 
However the Reform-Labour Coalition were not out of the race yet. The race turned into a rally around the flag, which saw many other parties losing votes to the two main parties. This caused an uptick for the Coalition who campaigned with the slogan ‘’Keep Mordusia on the right track!’’. Whilst the National Party campaigned with the slogan ‘’Be sensible, vote National!’’. When the polls opened the winner wasn’t clear to see and every pollster said something different.
 
Then came the result, a cheer for the Nationals followed by a deep bitterness for them as they managed to win the plurality of the vote with over 49% of the popular vote against the 39,57% of the Coalition. However they only managed to gain 174 votes, 2 short a majority. Whilst the Coalition lost a lot of seats they still managed to hold unto 170 seats in the Parliament. It was clear from the campaign that the Wildlife Party would not help the Nationals, who campaigned against their beloved environmental policies, to a majority and as such formed a deal with the Coalition, keeping the Dustin ministry in power.
 
The National Party chairman called it a ‘’tragedy of our electoral system, a spit in the face of the people and losers being kept in power held hostage by tree huggers’’. The leader of the National Party, Michael Hewson, however didn’t want to go that far, saying that ‘’this is our democratic system and we didn’t manage to form a majority. But we are so thankful for all those Kiwi’s brave Kangaroo boys out there voting for us. We’re going to deliver strong opposition and holding this weak coalition government to account whilst making us ready to take over as soon as possible for a recovery of Mordusia under sensible national governance.’’.
 
Prime-minister Peter Dustin announced the formation of his fourth ministry after visiting the Governor-General to gain the mandate from His Majesty the King to form a government in His name.