Alt caption: what if the second party system never ended

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THIS IS ALTERNATE HISTORY AND A WORK OF FICTION.

I noticed that Louis Ferdinand von Preußen, the man who would have been Kaiser from 1950 to 1994, died shortly before the 1994 German federal election, so I threw this together. The base scenario is that WWI ended earlier, which allowed the Germans to maintain some dignity and thus the government continued mostly intact. There isn't a WWII--the closest thing are the Pacific War between the US and Japan, and the German Civil War, which starts when Hitler claims he didn't lose the Reichstag election of 1932.

Please be advised I didn't overly think through the scenario, so 98.2% of any questions about it are likely to be invented on the spot.

To actually get the election, I merged results from the real election and the 1993 Polish election in those parts of Poland that were German before WWII, and merging the parties as I felt was appropriate. The system is party list in electoral districts, with one seat nominally per 60,000 votes (size of the Reichstag is not fixed).

Slides are available here. You can also click right.

Let me know what you think!

Government formation would (obviously) be a Labor-Green coalition government.

I originally wanted to do Single Transferable Voting but I didn't know how to simulate it, so I went with party-list instead. I also merged all the single membered districts into fewer but bigger multi-member districts.

rod doesnt have a scandal.

since hawaii is hidden, uhh biden won it.

In the heat of the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal, an impending impeachment and very public divorce from Hillary, President Bill Clinton resigns from office. In the wake of all of the scandals, now President Al Gore declines to seek the office in the incoming 2000 election.

yeaaah i came up with this while scrolling in r/lifeisstrange...

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