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A template electoral map I've been working on and off on for a while. Based loosely on some early 20th century electoral reform proposal, the "British Runoff" is a form of instant-runoff voting using single-member constituencies in rural areas and multi-member constituencies in urban ones, a combination of

The first post-monarchy government brought it in as part of the Commonwealth Constitution Act, designed to prevent extremist parties (mainly those of the left) from winning a majority and gaining too much influence Historically the system was heavily skewed towards the dominant Unionist Party with its base in the suburbs and the countryside, since 1970 political realignments have made the system more equally weighted between the Radicals and the Unionists, with smaller parties still disadvantaged by this system.

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The 2014 British Presidential election was the thirteenth presidential election to be held in Britain. It was held on Thursday,9 October 2014.. The election was held to elect a successor to Josephine Clay, with the winner to be inaugurated as the ninth President of Britain on 30 October 2011. Two by-elections to the House of Commons and indirect elections to the House of Councillors were held the same day.

To qualify for the presidential ballot, candidates must be a British citizen, of at least 35 years of age and be nominated by at least 90 Members of the Houses of Parliament, or at least 1,000 municipal councillors or members of Home Rule administrations. The president is elected, like Westminster MPs. by a ranked-choice ballot.

The Radical Party nominated former Foreign Secretary and Mayor of Manchester Adam Carson after an internal ballot of senior party members. The independent candidacies of Sian Kettle and Aaron Scotland were nominated with the support of municipal councillors and Home Rule parliamentarians; Kettle's campaign was supported by the Irish nationalist Saor Éire, the Democratic Left alliance and several trade unions while Scotland campaign was supported by the Centre Party and the implicit support of outgoing President Clay. Former Ecumene leader Roy Gibbs was supported by his party and several independent MPs.

The previously dominant Unionist Party declined to nominate a candidate following their disastrous general election performance the previous year, with a meeting of the Unionist Parliamentary Party in June 2014 deciding against a formal campaign for financial reasons and the unlikelihood of a successful Unionist candidacy, especially with Carson emerging as the frontrunner so early on. Instead, Mantel announced that Unionist MPs, National Councillors, municipal councillors and members of Home Rule Parliaments would be free to nominate candidates of their choice. 99 Unionist MPs chose to nominate the businesswoman Rachel Sinclair, a former Unionist supporter running a self-funded independent campaign. Several other MPs chose to support the campaign of Scotland or Gibbs. Mantel's decision caused significant divisions and infighting within the Unionist Party, ultimately leading to his resignation in shortly after the presidential election.

Despite the President lacking direct powers to affect government policy, the campaign became a referendum on the Radical government's entry into the Association of European States. Carson supported Prime Minister Helen Kendrick's efforts. Ecumene candidate Roy Gibbs did as well, but argued that his election would create a mandate for Britain's role within the association, to be focused more on securing Europe's borders and security than the third world.

Sinclair and Kettle both stated their opposition to British membership while Scotland suggested that a referendum should be held on the issue. Sinclair went as far as to suggest that she might attempt to use her presidential powers to veto legislation; there was controversy among constitutional experts over her ability to do so. The prospect of a constitutional crisis was widely seen to harm the anti-Association campaign and unite supporters of Britain's membership.

Carson's decisive victory in the third round gave him the largest personal mandate of any British President up to that point. He became the first British head of state of non-European ancestry, and served until his resignation in 2017.
 
List of British Heads of Government, April 2020:


Prime Minister of Britain: Helen Kendrick (Radical)
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Chief Minister of Ireland: Lonan Corrigan (Saor Éire)
Chief Minister of Scotland: Mike Tunney (Radical)
Chief Minister of Anglia: Oliver Jordan (Unionist)
Chief Minister of Yorkshire: Jen Brison (Radical)
Chief Minister of Cheshire and Lancashire: Aidan Doyle-Thomas (Radical)
Chief Minister of Oxfordshire: Paula Cousins (Unionist)
Chief Minister of East Mercia: James Hellier (Radical)
Chief Minister of West Mercia: Hassan Syed (Unionist)
Chief Minister of Northumbria: Sam Hollingworth (Unionist)
Chief Minister of Wessex: Robbie Graham (Unionist)
Chief Minister of Wales: Isaac Jones (Radical)
Chief Minister of Sussex: James Carteret (Unionist)
Chief Minister of Malta: Roberta Micallef (National)
Mayor of London: Michaela Haddad (Radical)
 
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It struck me that if federalism/devolution/home rule all round happened at any time before the seventies, they would’ve done something akin to West Germany; relatively arbitrary borders with vaguely relevant historical names.

Seems very plausible to me.

Only thing that stands out for me is whether Oxfordshire wouldn't end up as something like South Mercia or Thamesis if it was more than just the county.
 
List of British Heads of Government, April 2020:


Prime Minister of Britain: Helen Kendrick (Radical)
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Chief Minister of Ireland: Lonan Corrigan (Saor Éire)
Chief Minister of Scotland: Mike Tunney (Radical)
Chief Minister of Anglia: Oliver Jordan (Unionist)
Chief Minister of Yorkshire: Jen Brison (Radical)
Chief Minister of Cheshire and Lancashire: Aidan Doyle-Thomas (Radical)
Chief Minister of Oxfordshire: Paula Cousins (Unionist)
Chief Minister of East Mercia: James Hellier (Radical)
Chief Minister of West Mercia: Hassan Syed (Unionist)
Chief Minister of Northumbria: Sam Hollingworth (Unionist)
Chief Minister of Wessex: Robbie Graham (Unionist)
Chief Minister of Wales: Isaac Jones (Radical)
Chief Minister of Sussex: James Carteret (Unionist)
Chief Minister of Malta: Roberta Micallef (National)
Mayor of London: Michaela Haddad (Radical)

Good to see TTL avoided the Stalinist nationalities policies of the hated Blair regime.
 
Good to see TTL avoided the Stalinist nationalities policies of the hated Blair regime.
Tony Blair but he’s an Ceausescu allegory in an independent Scotland and the state promotes a Scottish version of Dacism,
proclaiming the Picts to be the Master Race that invented and conquered everything and deserves to rule all of the known Universe.
 
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Century House is the official executive office and residence of the Prime Minister of Britain, and the de-facto headquarters of the British government.

Before 1934 the prime minister's official residence and de-facto office was Number 10 Downing Street, a townhouse 100 metres south of the present day location of Century House. It was gifted by King George II to Sir Robert Walpole in the 1700s to be used as the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury. By the early 20th century the residence was in a dilapidated state and was widely considered to be of inadequate size and scale for the growing obligations of the British government and the British empire.

In 1923 Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who considered Downing Street to be a "miserable middle-class townhouse," commissioned Aston Webb to design a governmental headquarters modelled after the German Reichskanzlei (Chancellery) in Berlin. Built to the contemporary neo-baroque style, construction was delayed by the onset of the Western War. Despite this the prime minister's office and residence moved to the partially completed Century House in 1928 after an aerial bombing raid severely damaged 10 Downing Street, which was demolished post-war to make way for the Treasury Extension.

In 1932 the near-complete Century House was the scene of Henry IX giving Royal Assent to the Commonwealth Constitution Act which abolished his position, a symbolic location that was meant to demonstrate the supremacy of civilian government. The complex was formally opened by President Leo Amery in 1935.

The top floor of Century House has several grace-and-favour apartments which are occupied by the prime minister, senior cabinet members and official government functions, while the remaining floors house the Commonwealth Secretariat which supports the prime minister and the cabinet, as well as several agencies which report directly to the prime minister such as the Office of Civil Contingencies.

Since 1935 Century House has become a symbol of the British government. Press conferences and official functions are regularly held in Century House's courtyard while the famous arch that frames the entrance from Whitehall to the courtyard became a gathering place for protesters and an obligatory stop for tourists.
 
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From The New Encyclopedia of British Politics, 10th Edition, Pub, 2015:

DOVER END - Contrary to popular belief, and many a protest, the prime minister's does not look out onto Whitehall. The prime minister's office is on the western or "Horseguard's End" of the complex, looking out onto Horseguard's Road, St. James's Park and the Presidential residence at St. James's Palace. In fact, Century House, built to Winston Churchill's great imperial ambitions, has always been too large for the prime minister's office and their staff.

This leaves the eastern end or "Dover End" of the complex (named after Dover House, the Georgian mansion demolished to make way for Century House) a strange, politically liminal space. While it is not large enough to house the operations of the larger government departments, it remains the most valuable piece of political property in Whitehall: whoever occupies the Dover End has unparalleled physical access to the prime minister with all the power that comes with that.

David Lloyd George, the first regular resident of Century House, kept the Dover End empty and used it sporadically for official government functions. This arrangement, along with the overall scale of the building, led to Lloyd George privately complaining that he felt like "a butler in the townhouse when the lord and lady have left for the summer". Towards the end of his tenure, as the Radical Coalition began to coalesce into the Radical Party we know today, the Dover End became offices for leader of the Labour Party Charles Latham and other Labour Party officials, setting the precedent for Dover House becoming the workplace of those most valued by the prime minister.

Duff Cooper gave the offices over to his Chancellor, friend and eventual successor Edward Horner, confirming the perceptions of the government as a "dual monarchy". In keeping with this thirty years later, Allan Bertram gave the space over to his wife Isabel and the variety of ministries she held in his government. During the Eastern War the Dover end housed the War Office which co-ordinated the war effort across multiple departments and was in 1987 the location of the infamous All-Saints Day Meeting where the British government agreed to support the German plan to use tactical Atomkraft weapons on front lines.

Postwar, the Dover End has been used as the office for Deputy Prime Ministers. Helen Kendrick controversially broke with that tradition. The official justification was that her deputy's new, sprawling department of Intergovernmental Affairs was far too large for the Dover End but this was widely seen as a snub; many previous Deputy PMs had kept offices in Century House while leading larger departments primarily based elsewhere in Westminster. The ever-thin-skinned Charles Beck saw this as a snub and an early sign of how much respect he truly had from the prime minister.

Equally controversial was who got the Dover End instead. While publicly insisting that Ben Griffin only got the space because it was the perfect size for the small International Co-Operation Unit tailor-made for the political veteran who had been delegated the task of carrying out most of the Kendrick Ministry's foreign policy ambitions, it was confirmation to much of Westminster that Griffin had once again returned from the political dead and had the unobstructed ear of yet another prime minister..."
 
1889-1919: Menelik II (Solomon - Gondar)†
1919-1924:
Yohannes V (Solomon - Gondar) *
1924-1938:
Yohannes VI (Solomon - Gondar) *
1938-1961:
Haile Ye’imineti (Solomon - Shewa) †
1961-1979:
Ye’ālemi Birihani (Solomon - Shewa) †
1979-2000: Makeda II (Solomon - Shewa) †
2000-2008: Menelik III (Solomon - Shewa) *
2008-: Ye'imineti Tekelakayi (Solomon - Shewa)

† Died
* Deposed
 
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Tony Blair but he’s an Ceausescu allegory in an independent Scotland and the state promotes a Scottish version of Dacism,
proclaiming the Picts to be the Master Race that invented and conquered everything and deserves to rule all of the known Universe.
Yokai Man, you just described Nicola Sturgeon!
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1889-1919: Menelik II (Solomon - Gondar)†
1919-1924:
Yohannes V (Solomon - Gondar) *
1924-1938:
Yohannes VI (Solomon - Gondar) *
1938-1961:
Haile Ye’imineti (Solomon - Shewa) †
1961-1979:
Ye’ālemi Birihani (Solomon - Shewa) †
1979-2000: Makeda II (Solomon - Shewa) †
2000-2008: Menelik III (Solomon - Shewa) *
2008-: Ye'imineti Tekelakayi (Solomon - Shewa)

† Died
* Deposed

Araya Selassie doesn't catch smallpox?
 
2010-2014: David Cameron (Conservative)
2010: Gordon Brown (Labour), Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)
2014-2016: David Miliband (Labour)
2014 (Minority): David Cameron (Conservative), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat). Alex Salmond (SNP)
2016-2019: Esther McVey (Conservative)
2016: David Miliband (Labour), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP)
2019 EU Referendum: 53% REMAIN, 47% LEAVE
2019-2023: Stephen Crabb (Conservative)
2020: Yvette Cooper (Labour), Stuart Hosie (SNP), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)
2023-2024: Donna Jones (Conservative)
2024-: David Lammy (Labour)

2024: Donna Jones (Conservative), Stuart Hosie (SNP), Majid Nawaz (Liberal Democrat)
 
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