Greenlandic General Election 2018 (April 24)

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Recently, Prime Minister Kim Kielsen called for Greenland's elections to be held seven months early.

General Description of parties:
Siumut: Greenlandic independence, Social Democracy
Inuit Ataqatigiit: Left wing nationalist, Democratic Socialism, Greenlandic independence
Democrats: Danish Unionism, Conservatism, Populism, Social Liberalism
Partii Naleraq: Greenlandic Independence, Centrism, Populism
Attasut: Social Conservatism, Danish Unionism, Conservatism
Cooperation Party: Social liberalism, Economic Liberalism, Danish Unionism
Nunatta Qitornai: Rapid Greenlandic Independence

[Strudelcutie4427]

Coöperation Party

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

Shockingly, wiki has a poll for this:

Inuit Ataqatigiit 33.7% 11 seats
Siumut 32.6% 11 seats
Democrats 12.6% 4 seats
Partii Naleraq 10.6% 3 seats
Nunatta Qitornai 4.6% 1 seat
Atassut 4.1% 1 seat
Cooperation Party 1.8% 0 seats

Greenland has open list proportional representation with a 2% threshold.

It's amazing that a country with only 50-60 thousand people has such variety. It probably has to do with being a proportional system.

[Theodore]

Nunatta Qitornai is the only acceptable one

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Nunatta Qitornai is the only acceptable one

They're a literal joke party, offering Brexit style whoppers about Denmark still paying for Greenland's bills for a decade after independence. They're also Palin style "drill baby drill" acolytes, whose big plan involves the nation becoming a petrostate. Plus they're full of terrible people like crooked former Simiut leader Alequa Hammond.

[Theodore]

Nunatta Qitornai is the only acceptable one

They're a literal joke party, offering Brexit style whoppers about Denmark still paying for Greenland's bills for a decade after independence. They're also Palin style "drill baby drill" acolytes, whose big plan involves the nation becoming a petrostate. Plus they're full of terrible people like crooked former Simiut leader Alequa Hammond.

I know that's why they are the only acceptable party

[Former President tack50]

Coöperation Party

Same. Closest thing to a left wing non-secessionist party I guess

[Devout Centrist]

Nunatta Qitornai is the only acceptable one

They're a literal joke party, offering Brexit style whoppers about Denmark still paying for Greenland's bills for a decade after independence. They're also Palin style "drill baby drill" acolytes, whose big plan involves the nation becoming a petrostate. Plus they're full of terrible people like crooked former Simiut leader Alequa Hammond.

They've got myironicvote. Happy to see some real self determination, not some Western imperialist sponsored nonsense!

[Zuza]

So typical, despite all this diversity of parties, all pro-independence parties are left-wing (or, at best, centrist), and all unionist ones are right-wing or centrist.

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Obviously most people here are aware of OWW, but I'd recommend people follow the posts of notorious banned atlas user and Nordic politics expert politicus here:

https://oldwigwam.com/forums/index.php?topic=140.0

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Shockingly, wiki has a poll for this:

Inuit Ataqatigiit 33.7% 11 seats
Siumut 32.6% 11 seats
Democrats 12.6% 4 seats
Partii Naleraq 10.6% 3 seats
Nunatta Qitornai 4.6% 1 seat
Atassut 4.1% 1 seat
Cooperation Party 1.8% 0 seats

Greenland has open list proportional representation with a 2% threshold.

It's amazing that a country with only 50-60 thousand people has such variety. It probably has to do with being a proportional system.

Compared to last election:
IA: +0.5%, no seat change
S: -1.3%, no seat change
Dem.: +0.8%, No seat change
PN: -1.0%, No seat change
NQ: +4.6, +1 seat (New party)
A:-2.4%, -1 seat
CP: +1.8%, No change (New party)

However, compared to the current legislature, S is losing 2 seats, A is gaining 1 back, CP is losing their 1 seat, and the Democrats are winning back a seat.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

A new poll is out.

IA: 31.0
S: 27.4
Dem: 18.8
PN: 11.1
A: 5.2
NQ: 3.6
Cooperation: 2.9
Siumiut fell by nearly 5 here, and the Democrats have risen nearly 6.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

A new poll is out.

IA: 31.0
S: 27.4
Dem: 18.8
PN: 11.1
A: 5.2
NQ: 3.6
Cooperation: 2.9
Siumiut fell by nearly 5 here, and the Democrats have risen nearly 6.

This gives us a legislature of:
10 IA
9 S
6 Dem
3 PN
1 A
1 NQ
1 CP

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

today is election day, meaning today us on atlas have 2 races to obsess over! (Although greenland results probably won't be live but whatever)

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

turns out there are live results, although they're quite slow ofc

https://qinersineq.gl/

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

32% of the votes counted

Democrats   29.60%
Siumut   28.60%
Inuit Ataqatigiit   18.00%
Atassut   8.80%
Partii Naleraq   11.00%
Nunatta Qitornai   2.40%
Samarbejdspartiet   0.90%

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

overall a great night for the Democrats so far, while the long-ruling Siumut is facing their worst-ever election results at the moment.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

with slightly less than half of the votes counted, Siumut is leading with 28.8%, IA is second with 27.3% and the Democrats are in 3rd place with 19.7%, the other 3 parties are all uner 6% each

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

100% of votes are in, and it's bad for the left-wing separatists, although they will still likely form a government.

S 27.2 (-7.1)
IA 25.5 (-7.6)
D 19.5 (+7.7)
PN 13.4 (+1.8 )
A 5.9 (-0.6)
SA (Cooperation) 4.1 (New)
NQ 3.4 (New)

[mgop]

sad that country where pro-independence parties get 70% of vote is not independent yet

[Theodore]

sad that country where pro-independence parties get 70% of vote is not independent yet

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

sad that country where pro-independence parties get 70% of vote is not independent yet

It's because they would likely be very financially unsound, which is exactly why the pro-independence parties are gradualist.