r/imaginaryelections

In a historic turn of events, Sushma Swaraj's BJP had secured the most number of seats in 2014 elections, with Swaraj becoming the 2nd female prime minister of India. Lal Krishna Advani will serve his last term in the Parliament of India. Arun Jaitley and Narendra Modi - two of the other popular leaders of the BJP - will be given cabinet positions in the Swaraj Cabinet.

Rahul Gandhi has steped aside as the Leader of Opposition, with ex-Union Minister Malikarjun Kharge becoming the LoP.

You all mock him, jeer, smear, you aren't ready....

(Part two to 'How the West Was Swung' Coming Soon).

The 2025 election, held using single transferable vote, saw the re-election of Labor Prime Minister Jim Chalmers, who held together his tenuous 77-seat centre-left coalition consisting of the Federal Labor and Integrity caucuses, Green Left, Animal Justice, and the Moderates. Both Pauline Hanson and Angus Taylor failed to unite the fractured right behind them, much less the swing votes of the centre, while the Socialists and Western Alliance refused to nominate a candidate.

Most parties are based on their IRL counterparts, with a few notable changes:

• WA Labor separated from the federal party to appeal to a significantly more parochial electorate than OTL, with the separatist Western Alliance (unsubtly based on the Bloc Quebecois) also strong in the state
• Green Left are more left-populist and less environmentalist than the OTL Greens.
• The Moderates and Alternative are based on the OTL teal independents and Turnbull Liberals
• The Conservatives represent the growing populist tendency in the OTL Liberals, while the ITL Liberals are mostly restricted to the traditional conservatives.

Caucuses are parliamentary groups designed to make procedure simpler - member parties usually cooperate loosely but mostly act and vote independently.

Riding changes from OTL

After the capture of Zara, the Fourth Crusade held an instant-runoff vote on its next target. Egypt had been the expedition’s original objective, fewer crusaders than expected had assembled at Venice, causing a debt crisis that led to the attack on Zara. As distrust of the current leadership grew, a Byzantine prince’s offer of money, troops, and church union made Constantinople a tempting alternative. Although Egypt led until the final round, some Jerusalemite and Syrian voters ranked it last in protest, allowing Constantinople to win through unexpected vote transfers.

Has anyone else ever thought of this