Elections

General Information:

Since this is a simulator of the Australia Government system, we have two houses where debates on legislation and voting on them actually take place.

There are two houses in AustraliaSim:

The House of Representatives:

- The Lower House
- Has 15 Representatives:
  - Brisbane
  - Moncrieff (Outer Brisbane)
  - Capricornia (Rest of Queensland)
  - Sydney
  - Robertson (North from Sydney)
  - Cunningham (South from Sydney)
  - Cowper (Rest of New South Wales)
  - Melbourne
  - Hotham (East of Melbourne)
  - Nicholls (Rest of Victoria)
  - Denison (Tasmania)
  - Mayo (South Australia)
  - Pearce (Western Australia)
  - Lingiari (Northern Territory)
  - Canberra
- Gets Elected Every Term
- By-Elections are run if a player is inactive or resigns.

The Senate

- The Upper House
- Has 8 Senators (One for Every State and Territory)
- Parties appoint new Senators if theirs is inactive or resigns.

There are two types of elections to get into government:

General Elections

- All House of Representative Seats are up for grabs.
- Half the Senate Seats are also up for grabs.
- They happen every 3 months.

By-Elections

- Occur when a there is a vacancy in the House of Representatives (due to resignation or inactivity)
- Happen During A Term of Parliament
- Are only for specific seat(s).

Usually candidates for either of these elections run under a party, but there are also independents in parliament as well.

The elections in this simulator are also simulated with virtual voters. These virtual voters are influenced towards or against your party by 'modifiers'. They're called this because they modify your vote to be more in your favour. More on modifiers in the Modifier Guide section of this website.

Campaigning Information

In AustraliaSim, in order to increase your chances of a getting elected, you need to campaign well. All campaigning is done on r/AusSimCampaigning during a General or a By-Election. Depending on the election, there will be a maximum amount of posts you can do during the campaign (the current max is 5). There are many different types of posts one can do to campaign:

Electoral Posts

- Used by House of Representatives candidates
- Are Campaign Posts specific to your electorate
- The higher quality of your post, the more mods you get.
- Count towards your total post count.

National Posts

- Used by House of Representative or Senate candidates.
- Boosts every single electorate by an even split.
- Count towards your total post count.

Manifesto Posts

- Used to release a party or an independent's manifesto.
- Highly recommended to release one so that the voters know what you stand for.
- Doesn't count towards your total post count.

Endorsement Posts

- Used to supply a candidate a party or an independent likes in other electorates with more modifiers.
- Is extremely useful to have and to give to allies.
- The more modifiers a party or an independent has, the more you gain.
- Doesn't count towards your total post count.

How to Vote Cards

- Used to preference allies in your electorate that are contesting.
- Influences who gets elected in an electorate by preferential voting.
- Doesn't count towards your total post count.

Party Posts

- Additional Posts that can be used by the Leader and Deputy Leader of a party.
- Can be used as a National Post or an Electorate Post
- Has a limit set by the electoral commission (currently 3)

With National and Electoral Posts, you can format them however you like, but the more effort put in, the more effective they are. Some common examples of posts include:

Speeches (type in a Reddit post, use italics for actions)
Posters (the higher quality and more edited, the better)
TV Advertisements (a lot of work, but give a lot of mods)