Paradox AAR - Saga of the Slavs

[SilverLeaf167]

That's kind of an odd election result. I would have expected the party that won the war to be able to benefit politically from doing so, though the election coming so soon after the end of the war might change that. And looking at the 1903 election, there's been very little shift in the ideological makeup of the country; it looks like people then and/or now are voting for parties that they ordinarily wouldn't support. Perhaps the surge of pacifism and war exhaustion has something to do with it?

The short of it really is that the voters are just kinda weird. Mechanically there isn't even anything to make them like a party for performing well or winning a war, for instance. They also still seem to be prioritizing individual issues over ideology, and/or switching ideology pretty willy-nilly with little regard for class or type. The explanations given for any shifts in the electorate largely come down to what I can come up with, or how distracted I get with other things happening. First-past-the-post might be kind of a mixed blessing in this regard, since on one hand it means that small shifts in voter behavior can have a huge effect, but on the other, that effect tends to be kinda random at times.

The pacifism boost might actually have caused that small uptick in Devolutionist seats, now that you mention it, since they're the only outright pacifist party on the ticket.

EDIT: I mean, looking at it again, ideologies and party vote counts have started matching each other quite well. Who adopts what ideology is still kinda weird, though.