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Federal elections: Nationals win plurality as the coalition loses big time
Not a good night for the main parties as smaller parties gain ground
March 5640
 

 

Randworth – All polls indicated a strong lead for the National Party and a potential majority government for the Nationals in the bag, however as the counting went on during the night we saw a different story: A shift away from the main parties and a move to the minor parties, even a new liberal party entering the scene! A historic election night for sure.
 
The night began with all parties coming together with their followers, staffers and watching the election results in each constituency and each state. The Nationals were hopeful to finally beat the Reform-Labor coalition after being out of power for 16 years, especially now that Peter Dustin, the leader of the Reform-Labor coalition had stepped down as leader as was replaced by deputy leader Clara Dunfrey. This time Michael Hewson, the leader of the Nationals, really hoped to unseat the centre-left and become prime-minister.
 
The Reform-Labor campaigned on aiding the working man, giving power to the regional governments and making sure big companies paid their fair share in taxes. The Nationals campaigned on lowering taxes, balancing the budget and cutting regulations and bringing more room for foreign investments and businesses, targeting the middle-income the most with their policies. The Wildlife Party campaigned for a green new deal for Mordusia and protecting the environment and increasing the number of reservations for Dodo birds. The Wildlife Party blasted Reform-Labor for not being really on the left and focussing too little on the environment.
 
But then the hopes and dreams of National were dashed when a splinter group of Nationals and Reform party members joined into a new party: Forward Mordusia. Forward was founded as a centre to centre-right liberal party, focussing on internationalism, free markets, heavy investment in climate protections and education as well as digitalization. The party campaigned on a new hope for Mordusia and a break from traditional politics. This seemed to have caused a bigger shift to them then the pollsters had noticed.
 
As the counting ended deep in the night it became ever clear that the polls were dead wrong and that the expected National Party majority government predicted did not come to pass. With the last votes counted and the last constituencies declared the outcome was clear: Reform-Labor has lost the most amount of seats and the Nationals though wining the plurality in the election again, lost 13 seats. The big winners were the Wildlife Party, winning 20 seats, Forward Mordusia storming parliament with 17 seats and Ikpi Rights wining 8 seats. With this we have another hung parliament.
 

 
When looking at the popular vote, its clear that the Nationals lost a huge amounts of votes these elections, whilst the Reform-Labor lost out in competition seats and had its seats more effectively represent the votes they got, unlike in the last election. Despite that voters still left the party for the more liberal minded party with its centre-right leader.  
 

 
There are two options, but it seems Forward Mordusia finds itself in the Kingmaker position, they can side with the Nationals to supply their minority government or form a coalition with Wildlife and Reform-Labor to bring them to the needed majority. Talks about the next government are sure to begin soon.