Describe the preceding election with as much detail as you can

[Vermin Supreme]

The Reform party got more votes then the Progressive Conservatives which suddenly collapsed in the 1993-2003 time span. The Liberals took over most of the Parliament and were the leading party right afterwards.


2002 French elections

[Oakvale]

Stereotypical left-wing disorganisation led to a horrible scenario where Chirac faced off against LePen. Since Chirac was, if nothing else, preferable to an out-and-out fascist, he won in a landslide.

Out of curiosity, Irish general election, 2011.

[Free Palestine]

Just a shot in the dark here, but didn't some center-right coalition take over?

North Korean parliamentary election, 2009

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

An in-depth commentary by Kalwejt:

Lulz.


Hm... now do French presidential election, 1848

[Yelnoc]

The Communist Party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea retained control.

Egyptian Elections, 2011

[Antonio the Sixth]

As usual with revolutions : an enlightened minority fights and dies to give everybody the right to vote, and then crazy obscurantist hatemongers win elections. Morality : the retarded human scum known as "the people" doesn't deserve fighting for it.

1945 UK Parliamentary elections

[Insula Dei]

Clemens Attlee's Labour won in an upset on a campaign promise of 'winning the peace'. Resulted in the establishment of the British Welfare State. Parliament had been in session for the better part of a decade when it was dissolved. Churchill was a poor campaigner.

RE: Egypt: rather the vast majority of Egyptians turned out to prefer voting for a moderate party that had established itself as a credible opposition force over the past decades over voting for the more disorganised and disconnected small liberal parties, who had no real history or presence on the ground.

anyway: Netherlands 2010

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Gert Wilders did pretty well.


2010 PA Senate race.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Pat Toomey edged out Joe Sestak in a race between two candidates that would normally never get an endorsement from me. I ended up endorsing Toomey, though.

2002 Senate Election in Minnesota.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Paul Wellstone, a strong progressive running ahead of challenger Norm Coleman, was killed in a plane crash near Duluth. In his place, the Democrats recruited former Vice President Walter Mondale, but he lost due to GOP smear tactics about a supposedly rabidly partisan funeral (heavily exaggerated). A tragic case of the strength of the media propaganda arm of the right.

Democratic presidential primaries, 1980

[Antonio the Sixth]

Ronald Reagan, who almost beat a sitting president 4 years before, was the frontrunner throughout the race. George H. W. Bush, the "moderate" candidate, upset him in Iowa, but other than that he cruised through the primaries, came out to beat President Carter and cause all the evil we know.

2006 Italian parliamentary elections

[Hash]

Berlusconi was woefully unpopular in 2005 and 2004, but roared back to a virtual tie against a left, nutty commies included, which for the first time in a long time was fully united (L'Unione) and led by Romano Prodi. The left ended up winning, but lacking a senatorial majority, which would destroy its government by 2007; but the overall victory was really, really narrow for a national election in a major country. Also, Clemente Mastella is a dipsh**t who should be shot.

Basque elections 2009

[Phony Moderate]

The Basque Nationalist Party won the most seats.

2010 U.S. Senate Election in Alaska

[Free Palestine]

Tea Partier won the GOP nomination.  The incumbent Moderate Hero Republican said "oh no you don't nagger" and ran on a write-in campaign, which was amazingly successful.

2011 Tunisian election.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Ennahda, the islamist party, won around 40% of seats, outpacing all the progressive movements that had originated the revolution (namely liberal-democratic parties like PDP, PDM and CPR). There was also Aridha Chaabia, a ridiculous populist outfit founded by a TV magnate who had backed the Ben Ali, which did surprisingly well.

Fortunately, Ennahda isn't as horrible as their Egyptian counterpart (and didn't have the absolute majority), so they entered in coalition with CPR and Ettakatol, so, for now, democracy is safe. Hard to say how it will evolve in the long term, but one can be reasonably optimistic.


2008 Minnesota Senate election

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Basically a very good riddance to a bad political rubbish and a sore loser, who kept trolling for months.

French presidential election, 1974.