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National Council announces Electoral System for June elections

Nikutabi - March 5623 (backdated) - With just three months until the first General Election since Tropica’s federal government reformed and the introduction of the new constitution will be voted on, the National Council has announced that the FPTP-Supplementary system will be the voting system that the election will be conducted under, defeating the Region-based Parallel Voting system 20-15 in a vote of all 35 regional leaders present. 

The system, which has been modified slightly from its original form, will feature 400 MNAs elected from two tiers. The 250 constituency MNAs elected by First Past the Post, and 150 ‘Supplementary’ MNAs elected by an additional member system utilising the wasted votes for that party in the FPTP constituencies. This is a change from the 300:100 split suggested in the initial proposal. The 250 constituencies have been distributed between the 35 regions based on population, with the largest regions receiving 20 to 26 constituencies, and the smallest just getting 1 or 2. Nationally, an average of 117,865 electors will be in one electorate. 

Which candidates will fill the supplementary seats received by a party will be decided by first ranking all losing constituency candidates in that party by margin from the victor, and then ranking an ‘emergency list’ after them in case a party wins more top-ups than constituencies they lost in. 

Also today, the Tropican Electoral Commission confirmed that 10 parties will be registered to contest the election. The favourites are the Tropican Labour Party (unrelated to the former party of the same name) and the Conservative Party of Tropica, which are expected to fill the positions of the major centre-left and centre-right parties. The other parties contesting are the Green Party, the centrist Democrats, the hard-right Tropican National Party (also unrelated to the former party of the same name), parties representing Mātou, Teoan, Kanakan and Raktavan issues, as well as the far-right Democratic Alliance. Polling conducted before the confirmation of the parties registered suggests that Labour would poll 35%, the Conservatives 33%, Green 7%, Democrats 5%, TNP 4%, and Pati Mātou 4%, with the remaining parties all under 4%. 

With the campaign due to kick off within weeks, these parties will conduct leadership elections to decide their leaders and Prime Ministerial candidates.