2021 Prime Minister Elections

## Early Election

The **2021 Prime Minister Elections** were held shortly after the resignation of former Prime Minister Paul "Pope" Kennedy Francis on 23 October 2021. Shortly afterwards, Emperor Albright announced there would be elections for his replacement, saying that the *"PM election will likely be chosen from the Senate, I don't see much good in a general election"* but adding that *"We will see"*. While many wanted a general election, many others were skeptical because of the toxicity of the previous 2020 PM Elections.

   The next day, on the 24th, SillyPossibility organized the first official list of those who were running. At the time, Allegate, Breezin, Corgi, Danny, Donia, Jam Bam, Jambon, Shoob, Surge, Syntholion, Tyco, and Xbomber announced their candidacy. On the 25th, he would release "SV Political Theory Episode 3", which included the first survey.

The survey got 55 responses and the results of the survey were released on the 27th, but showed no clear frontrunner, but suggested Surge, Allegate, Tyco, Danny, Breezin, and Shoob were ahead of the other candidates. Among these, Allegate was near the top in both people who said they would support him and people who people him as their first choice, suggesting he led the race, although he was tied for both of these.

Shortly after these results were released, Emperor Albright announced an endorsement for Allegate, with the caveat that he would endorse Coca or Silly if they entered the race. His endorsement caused riots in Novastella and San Vooperisco, leading to the VSS instating a curfew and the Emperor retreating to an emergency bunker, where he did karaoke.

## Surge in Candidates

On Thursday, October 28th, Emperor Albright would announce the official rules of the election. Going back on his original idea, the Emperor announced that it would be an open election that anyone could run in and anyone could vote in. The deadline to announce candidacy would be November 1st. Following this, Etho, Falight, Mellow, Honk, Notchie, Pencifier, Tsar, and Spoopy would all announce their candidacy.

On Friday, October 29th, SillyPossibility released "SV Political Theory Episode 3", where he went over more detailed results of survey and announced his candidacy. Following this announcement, Shoob dropped out of the race and endorsed Silly. Later that night, Syntholion announced that the debate would take place on November 2nd. The next morning, on the 30th, a new PM survey would be released. Additionally, the top 6 candidates in the survey would be able to participate in the PM debate.

This survey recieved 60 votes and showed Silly as the frontrunner, with 39 people saying they would support him as PM, with the runner ups getting 20 (Allegate) and 19 (Tyco) respectively. Silly also recieved 23 first choice votes, with Donia and Allegate tying for second with 8 votes. Tyco, who had 19 people say they would support him, received 0 first choice votes. Another survey was ran by Tyco that day, but was mostly done as a tech run of Tyco's new automatic RCV calculator, and was widely disregarded due to only getting 14 responses and showing Allegate only getting 2 votes.

On October 30th, after the release of these results, Surge and Breezin both dropped out, endorsing Allegate but later retracting their endorsement and opting to stay neutral. Breezin's endorsement of Allegate caused protests and riots across San Vooperisco, being a district heavily in favor of Silly. Chief (District) Judge Pope drunkenly attempted to call an arrest on Breezin for encitment of violence, but these orders were not taken seriously and Breezin was placed under VSS protection. For unknown reasons, Coca was also placed under protection. Pope quickly retracted this order. Spoopy dropped out and later that day joined Silly in his campaign. Around this time, Tsar dropped out of the race. Donia also dropped out but was back in the race shortly after, causing some confusion.

The top 6 candidates to participate in the debates were initially Silly, Tyco, Allegate, Donia, Danny, and Surge. With Surge dropping out and Donia opting not to participate, Etho and Xbomber took their place. All 6 candidates agreed to schedule the debate for Thursday, November 4th.

On October 30th, Vooper TV was launched, a 24/7 streaming service that some candidates used to advertise their campaign.

Between October 30th and October 31st, Devin would DM every Senator asking them for permission for SillyPossibility to host a campaign even in their district, however this was a formality since it was in their legal right to do so. Two senators however, Jambon and Allegate, both candidates themselves, initially refused. This led to widespread controversy, culminating in a court ruling in favor of Silly that stated this move was a violation of freedom of assembly, speech, and movement between districts.

On November 2nd, the results of another Tyco survey revealed that the race was potentially much closer than the previous survey had shown, with the final results showing only 3 votes of difference between Allegate and Silly, although it still showed Silly in the lead. It also confirmed what many had already suspected, that this was a race predominantly between Allegate and Silly, despite there technically still being 15 candidates in the race. However, these results were somewhat questionable, given that they only had 37 responses, and over half of the candidates received no votes at all.

Despite the fact that the debate was supposed to have been on November 4th, for unclear reasons they were canceled. Notably, there was controversy due to many of the candidates, including Silly, not wanting it to be hosted in Minecraft. Additionally, shortly before the debate Ethosein said he would not be able to attend. That night, Tyco dropped out of the race and endorsed Silly, despite the fact he was already heavily involved in the campaign.

## Final Week

Following the debate being cancelled, the election entered a state of confusion, with many being unsure when or where the debate would be held, if it was to happen at all. On November 5th, Tyco announced that that would be the last opportunity for candidates to drop out before the results were final, however quickly changed this to November 10th. Nobody dropped out following this announcement, but Donia dropped out the next day, on November 6th, endorsing SillyPossibility. His dropout came as a surprise to some, given that he was the only person besides Allegate or Silly that had any real support.

On November 7th, Tyco released the by-district results of his previous survey in the form of a map. The map showed that every district had voted for Silly except New Avalon, Kogi, Queensland, New Spudland, and Lanatia, which went to Allegate. 0 votes came in from Novastella. He also released his third survey, the PM21 November Poll. That day, Mellow dropped out, saying he supported "anyone but Allegate".

When Tyco's third survey came out on November 9th, it showed Silly winning in the first round with 55% of the vote, with as high as 70% by the last round. However, this one got even less votes than previous surveys, for unknown reasons was suppressed in Lanatia, and potentially oversampled San Vooperisco, with Allegate saying "Good god that’s skewed with San Voop, they got literally all of their people that aren’t dead to vote".

November 10th, 3 days before the election, was the last day to drop out, prompting Danny to drop out and endorse Silly. No other candidates dropped out that day, leading to there being 11 candidates on the final ballot. Tyco also created a spreadsheet calculating the accumulative results of every person who had taken one of his survey, 51 people, almost as high as the largest survey which got 60 responses. It showed that Silly has received 25 votes in the first round, and Allegate received 13. By the last round, Silly had received 30 and Allegate had received 18.

On November 11th, it was officially announced by Luka that the debates would not be held, two days before the election.

From November 12th and 10 PM EST to November 13th and 4 AM EST, SillyPossibility held a "National Rally" which had over 30 people in attendance at it's peak, making it the largest campaign rally in Vooperian History. Although voters of Allegate initially tried to crash the rally, making loud noises and doing anything they could to cause a disruption, after that the rally went off without isuses.

## Election Day

The Parliamentarian's Council decided to limit the ballot to only the top 8 candidates, dropping Corgi, Falight, and Notchie from the ballot. It is unclear how these top 8 were decided. This caused Notchie in particular to claim fraud and claim that he would have won.

The ballot was officially released at 12 PM EST on November 13th, lasting until the same time the next day.

Preliminary results around 3:40 PM EST indicated Silly Possibility to be ahead in San Vooperisco and Avalon, and slightly ahead in the offworld results. Meanwhile, Allegate was ahead in Lanatia. In total, Silly had 22 votes, Allegate had 12, Jam\_Bam had 2, and Ethosein had 1. At 3:59 EST, Pug News called Avalon and San Vooperisco for Silly, and Lanatia for Allegate.

At 6:05 EST, results for Elysian Katonia, Los Vooperis, and Thesonica were released. Elysian Katonia went to Jambon, while Los Vooperis was tied between Etho and Silly with 1 vote each, and Thesonica was tied between Allegate and Silly with 1 vote each.

The preliminary results were given shortly after the election ended, showing SillyPossibility had won in a landslide

## Final Results

Turnout: 100

**Round 1**

* SillyPossibility: 60 votes
* Allegate: 22 votes
* Ethosein: 5 votes
* Jambon: 5 votes
* Honk: 4 votes
* Jam Bam: 2 votes
* Pencifier: 1 vote
* Xbomber: 1 vote

**Round 2**

* SillyPossibility: 61 votes
* Allegate: 22 votes
* Ethosein: 6 votes
* Jambon: 5 votes
* Honk: 4 votes
* Jam Bam: 2 votes

**Round 3**

* SillyPossibility: 62 votes
* Allegate: 23 votes
* Ethosein: 6 votes
* Jambon: 5 votes
* Honk: 4 votes

**Round 4**

* SillyPossibility: 62 votes
* Allegate: 23 votes
* Ethosein: 8 votes
* Jambon: 7 votes

**Round 5**

* SillyPossibility: 64 votes
* Allegate: 25 votes
* Ethosein: 11 votes

**Round 6**

* SillyPossibility: 69 votes
* Allegate: 31 votes

## Candidates

The final list of candidates were as follows:

* Allegate
* Ethosein
* Fruitcake5 (Honk)
* Jam\_Bam
* Jambon
* Pencifier
* SillyPossibility
* Xbomber

Candidates that have dropped out:

* Breezin
* Corgi
* Donia
* Falight (Best Girl)
* Hellodan (Danny)
* Mellow
* Shoob
* Surge
* Syntholion
* Tsar
* Tyco

## Survey Links

PM Survey #1

* Turnout: 55
* Administered by: Silly Possibility
* Dates Administered: October 28th-October 30th

PM Survey #2

* Turnout: 60
* Administered by: Syntholion
* Dates Administered: October 30th

PM21 October Poll

* Turnout: 14
* Administered by: Tyco
* Dates Administered: October 30th-October 31st

PM21 October Poll #2

*Per District*

* Turnout: 37
* Administered by: Tyco
* Dates Administered: October 31st-November 1st

PM21 November Poll

*Per District*

* Turnout: 36
* Administered by: Tyco
* Dates Administered: November 7th-November 9th

PM21 Congregate Polling Data

*Per District*

* Turnout: 51
* Administered by: Tyco
* Dates Administered: October 30th-November 9th