Decisions 2017 |
In New Zealand, Labour's Jacinda Ardern will become the next Prime Minister of New Zealand after NZ First's Winston Peters' kingmaker announcement, ending nearly a decade of National Party rule.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl...d=11933639
In the only two gubernatorial elections of 2017, the Democrats have won both New Jersey and Virginia, making it a gubernatorial net gain of one.
This is the first anti-Trump electoral wave and possibly not the last.
In an upset victory, Democrat Doug Jones has defeated Republican Roy Moore in the US Senate special election in Alabama, reducing the Republican lead in the Senate to 51–49.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/12/politics/a...index.html
The Alabama result actually surprised me, I just assumed that the electing the P**sy Grabber meant one of that country's main parties had deceided that transactional power trumps moral representation... really surprised, and a little bit of faith in humanity restored.
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One vote has turned the two-thirds majority that the Republican Party had in the Virginia House of Delegates into a 50–50 split.
Seidel, David; Noe-Payne, Mallory (19 December 2017). "A Single Vote Has Flipped Control Of Virginia's House Of Delegates". NPR. Retrieved 19 December 2017. |
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