The Election Result

This post is a little late.  The wonders of modern technology proved their fragility over the weekend and as a result no staff have had access to emails or the network. My bright idea of emailing myself the details on Friday, for use on Sunday, proved to be a poor decision.

However, we do have a result from the election and these will be announced at the end of this post.

The election process ran very well and the Brodetsky pupils and LJFS students really enjoyed taking part.

Before anyone could vote our election officials had to check that the individual had registered. Not everyone had.

Our election officials were very diligent in their checks.

Once the individual's registration had been confirmed they could then make their mark...

and place their vote in the secure polling box.

Please note the unique 'seal' across the join of polling box, a little piece of Abigail's humour.

I have now made you wait long enough for the result.

A total of 141 votes were cast and the following percentage votes for each party were awarded:


The Fairness Party:            24%
The Phoenix Party:            17%
The Hope Party:                14%
The Environmental Party:  17%
The Future Party:              21%
The Insurgent Party:           7%

As with the national picture there was not an outright majority for any party but The Fairness Party did win the highest percentage and their candidate, Connor ,was elected as the LJFS MP.

The students did ask if their could also model the possible national outcome and negotiate a coalition to form a majority government.

As a consequence a coalition was formed, if a somewhat unlikely one.  the coalition was made up of The Fairness Party, The Phoenix Party and The Future Party with 62% of the vote. We are going to discuss whether this coalition would have been likely to success, knowing the respective parties behind the names we gave them.

Initially all but one party had to draw their policies from a named national party and the students had to represent the party they given, irrespective of their own views and beliefs.  The final party was independent and was able to draw`policies from any of the parties.  Do you think you can work out which parties were which?