Mayor Election

SPOILERS!!!This article may contain story-related spoilers.Read at your own risk.

## Mayor Election

### Requires

Bought everything from the Raccoon Shop, discovered Fashion Duck, and completed previous Storyline chapters

### Location

Town Hall (voting), Sasquatch House (campaign HQ)

### Rewards

Mayor Outfit, Town customization, Right-size Camper Disguise

The **Mayor Election** happens during the Storyline chapter 4. Sasquatch competes against Pemberton Jr to replace the current Mayor.

## Beginning

A multitude of animals assemble in the Ranger Station to watch news on Television. Pemberton Jr is interviewed by the News Anchor, and announces his Mayor election campaign. His campaign points are:

1. Solve the Vitamin C crisis by forcing the federal government to give access to the strategic national stockpile of oranges.
2. Introduce negative 10% tax rate (so the Town returns 1 coin from every 10 coins spent).
3. Build the luxury condominiums which Mr Pemberton was trying to build since the first chapter, and run a raffle for them among those who vote for him.
4. Release Mr Pemberton who was “framed” by one of the company executives (actually Sasquatch in disguise).

The animals decide to help Sasquatch win the election instead. To start the campaign, visit the Construction Duck and build the Election Headquarters for 100 lumber and 5000 coins. This building is not customizable. Before you can build the headquarters, you need to buy everything in the Raccoon Shop, and visit it the next day or later so the Raccoon introduces the Fashion Duck.

## Tasks

Go to the headquarters, and talk to the Raccoon and all four Election Ducks. There are four tasks, you can do them in any order or concurrently. See tips below for a suggested order.

### Handshakes

Visit areas populated by humans like Town, Campground, etc. Some humans walking around will have a yellow exclamation mark above their heads. Talk to them and shake their hands. You need to shake it vigorously; if the handshake is too weak, they say they’ll vote for Pemberton.

You need to do 30 successful handshakes in total, but you can continue shaking hands until the end of the election campaign.

### Signs

Collect signs from the table, and install them on empty signposts (marked by a white exclamation mark) around the map. You need to install 15 signs in total, but you can carry only 5 simultaneously, so return to the headquarters for more. The Sign Duck can share a hint of an area with an empty signpost.

The 15 signs are in these 13 locations (2 locations contain 2 signposts next to each other).

Intersection, northern crossroadsRace Track entrance area, along the entrance road (2 signs)Race Track, on the track itself, inside the southwestern turnRanger Station, along the road to the Intersection near the “Campground” signGolf Course entrance area, along the entrance roadSki Mountain lower level, along the entrance roadDirt Racetrack, at the parkingStrip Mall, along the road (2 signs)Town, near Stop and SnackTown, near the road to the PortMarina, along the roadIsland, near the FerryIsland, along the road west of Taco Truck
#### Tips

You can use the pictures to finish this one out quickly or do them along with friendship task (as suggested by general tips section below).

### Friendship

You need to befriend 6 voters. The Friendship Duck compiled the Friends Book to help you with this task.

### Billboards

Rent two Billboards (by calling `555-2450` and `555-2451` on a Telephone or a Cellular Phone) and put the Election Headquarters number (`555-8683`) on them. Any additional text like "Vote for Sasquatch" doesn't affect anything.

Each billboard costs 500 coins initially, then 25 coins per day. The coins must be in your Bank account.

You can keep advertising your businesses like Spaghetti Hotline and Island Campground if you put numbers in both top and bottom lines.

#### Trivia

If you call your headquarters’ number (`555-8683`), the Election Duck says: “Vote for <Sasquatch's name>! … or else!”

## Tips

A suggested task prioritization order and rationale:

1. Friendship task is the hardest. Making 6 friends will take you all over the map, so it's good to get this going first.
2. Handshakes and signs are easier. While traveling around making friends, you will naturally find most empty signposts, and humans to shake hands with.
3. Billboard rental may be done last. Their rent costs 25 coins per day, so if you don't already rent billboards for Spaghetti Hotline or Island Campground, you can save some money by waiting until the other electioneering tasks are complete.

## Voting

After you finished all tasks, talk to Raccoon to proceed to voting. Regardless how you vote yourself, you win by one vote. You can even vote for both candidates or for none: that will trigger some special dialogue from the Electoral Officer, but doesn’t change the result. You return home for a victory party. See Storyline article for what happens next.

## Trivia

* When first released in the Mayor Update (version 1.9), you had to make 8 friends to win. In version 1.9.3, that was decreased to 6.