December 2018 general election

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December 2018 general election

Overview
Voting	11-14 December 2018
Candidates
Secretary/ Prime Minister	New Arkados/Nottinhaps
Senators	Argentigrad, Dawtania, Grod Island, Queerterra, The Final Horseman, Tobosarsk

The December 2018 general election was the eleventh general election in The Leftist Assembly and voting was held from 11 to 14 December 2018. The General Assembly, the unicameral legislature of The Leftist Assembly, consists of the Secretary, Prime Minister and five Senators.

The nations elected to the General Assembly were New Arkados as Secretary, Nottinhaps as Prime Minister, and Argentigrad, The Final Horseman, Queerterra, Dawtania, and Grod Island as Senators.

Methodology

Voting

To be eligible to vote, a nation must be part of the World Assembly and reside in The Leftist Assembly. The voter numbers each of the candidates in order of their preference on a Google Forms document.

Counting

The election moderators were Llorens, Hecknamistan, and Morvan.

For the Secretary/Prime Minister contest, all candidates, including Seek other ticket, are compared head-to-head and the data is compiled into a table. The ticket that has the most wins is declared elected. In the unlikely event that no one ticket has the most wins, a series of tiebreakers is held to elect a winner. If there is only one ticket, they face a confidence vote instead.

For the Senators contest, all candidates, including Seek other candidate, are compared head-to-head and the data is compiled into a table. All the candidates are then ranked primarily according to most wins, however, a series of tiebreakers may be held if necessary. From this ranking, the top number of candidates equal to the number of available Senator positions is elected.

Endorsements

Only endorsements by nations who have previously served in an executive leadership position are recorded.

Secretary/Prime Minister

Ticket	Endorsements
New Arkados/Nottinhaps	Cedoria Kavagrad Llorens

Senators

Candidate	Endorsements
Argentigrad	Kavagrad Llorens
Dawtania	Llorens
Grod Island	Cedoria Kavagrad
Queerterra	Cedoria
The Final Horseman	Cedoria Kavagrad Llorens

Results

Secretary/Prime Minister

The following are the results of this contest:

New Arkados/Nottinhaps confidence vote
Yes			26
No			2

As a result, New Arkados and Nottinhaps were elected as Secretary and Prime Minister respectively.

Senators

The following are the head-to-head results compiled in a table:

	Argentigrad	Dawtania	Grod Island	Queerterra	The Final Horseman	Tobosarsk	Seek other
Argentigrad	-	17-11	22-6	19-9	17-11	22-6	24-4
Dawtania	11-17	-	17-11	13-15	10-18	20-8	24-4
Grod Island	6-22	11-17	-	10-18	7-21	19-9	24-4
Queerterra	9-19	15-13	18-10	-	12-16	20-8	25-3
The Final Horseman	11-17	18-10	21-7	16-12	-	20-8	27-1
Tobosarsk	6-22	8-20	9-19	8-20	8-20	-	18-10
Seek other	4-24	4-24	4-24	3-25	1-27	10-18	-

The following is the ranking of the candidates:

1. Argentigrad
2. The Final Horseman
3. Queerterra
4. Dawtania
5. Grod Island
6. Tobosarsk
7. Seek other candidate

As a result, Argentigrad, The Final Horseman, Queerterra, Dawtania, and Grod Island were elected as Senators.