BUG - Election Causes Illegitimate Government and Doesn't Change Head of State

[kgkong]

I missed my chance for the screenshot on this but there's definitely a bug here somewhere. What kind of effect it actually has, I'm not quite sure.

Had an election where the Social Democratic Party got 67.2% of votes, and 32.7% votes to the Liberal Party. Screenshot shows how many actual votes they got. But the weird thing was how the Patriot Party (not listed in this screenshot but listed in the pop up notification) had 0 actual votes but got 102% of the total votes.

So now my government is illegitimate. Patriot Party is STILL holding the head of state and party in power. Now, if this wasn't a bug, Patriot Party should not be the head of state, it should be either a member from the Rural or Trades that should have the head of state (as they're the Social Democratic Party that had clearly won the election).

Republic government, universal suffrage voting FYI.

Anyone else experience this?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2899987892&fileuploadsuccess=1

Running patch 1.1.1

[Prown]

I'm not sure if this a bug or not, but For me, it seems the government never "Reforms" after an election. So you have to add the "winning" party into the government yourself.

Of course sometimes they hate you so they won't move cause they are angry, so you essentially end up with an illegitimate government and it causes chaos for which you can't solve because the game decided to create it, and then refuse to let you change it.

[Kimlin]

Originally posted by Prown:

I'm not sure if this a bug or not, but For me, it seems the government never "Reforms" after an election. So you have to add the "winning" party into the government yourself.

Of course sometimes they hate you so they won't move cause they are angry, so you essentially end up with an illegitimate government and it causes chaos for which you can't solve because the game decided to create it, and then refuse to let you change it.

Not a bug. You do have to reform the government yourself after every election. That’s why it is a free reform.

[LaFrozenRabbit]

Well problem I have is that election winner can't make legitimate government. Their party, even though election winner gets like 15 legitimacy and loser gets 67. Soo... I don't know why my Africans would bother to vote :D

*Should I be worried when party gets 100% of the votes... almost 6 million votes from population of 3.5 million. Is this party exploiting feature or a bug? lol.

[WeißerWolf]

I have the same problem right now and would be happy, if someone finds a solution.

I am playing Morocco, it is still a sultanate but with general vote. Almost all interest groups decided to rally under the umbrella of the "radical party", harvesting about 70% of the vote. Only opposition are the relgious leaders and the landowners. Yet, my government is "illegitimate", due to "ideological difference". I cant get anything done, which is frustrating.

I figue that the reason for this is the ideological difference between the government and the head of state (in my the Sultan). That would mean that I should have abolished the Monarchy, before getting an all too progressive government.

Makes sense, but what are you supposed to do, once you are in such a stalemate? Hope for a revolution? In my case also tricky, because I have very strong institutions. Could mean I have to wait until the Sultan dies.

All of this is not totally unrealistic and could be imagined in real life. But some form for the player to intervene should be there. Any advice is welcome.

[kgkong]

Originally posted by WeißerWolf:

I have the same problem right now and would be happy, if someone finds a solution.

I am playing Morocco, it is still a sultanate but with general vote. Almost all interest groups decided to rally under the umbrella of the "radical party", harvesting about 70% of the vote. Only opposition are the relgious leaders and the landowners. Yet, my government is "illegitimate", due to "ideological difference". I cant get anything done, which is frustrating.

I figue that the reason for this is the ideological difference between the government and the head of state (in my the Sultan). That would mean that I should have abolished the Monarchy, before getting an all too progressive government.

Makes sense, but what are you supposed to do, once you are in such a stalemate? Hope for a revolution? In my case also tricky, because I have very strong institutions. Could mean I have to wait until the Sultan dies.

All of this is not totally unrealistic and could be imagined in real life. But some form for the player to intervene should be there. Any advice is welcome.

When parties can form, and IGs get disenfranchised, they will join coalition parties such as you described, resulting in ideological cohesion issues.
Research additional social technology so that you can have more types of parties form, and begin to improve the SoL and social conditions for the various IGs that are making up your radical party.

Sometimes you might have to eat the penalty for the government going this way until you can get more research and have the radical party itself dissolve or change it's involved IG members.

[WeißerWolf]

Thanks, will try!