Does anyone know how representatives are determined during elections? The answer is not as simple as a 100% correlation with the population opinion, and this discrepancy is even worse from government to government (escpecially Federation). Explain how I had a system with population leaning 35% Industrialism, 30% Pacifism, 20% Militaristic, 10% Scientific getting 2 out of 4 Scientific representatives?

Stop spamming it all over the place, this won't help your question answered.

It depends on how representatives are distributed. Democracy and Republic have number of representatives tied to population count on System. Federation have fixed number of representatives (1 + (System Level) x 3, so 4/7/10/13). You can read how representatives determine their political affinity here:

MonAmiral wrote:

Here's how the elections and votes on systems work:

Each system first computes how many votes (aka representatives) it will have: most of the time, it's equal to the number of population.

Then, for each vote, it will randomly pick a politics to vote for, based on the support of the politics.

If there are several votes to cast at once, the ones that aren't randomly selected become slightly more likely to be selected next, so that there are more chances of getting a balanced system.

As there are less representatives to affect election results, Federation is easier to manipulate its political affinity, and swings from preelection polls are larger.

Wow, this is completely crucial information! I can't believe it was so hard to find! I searched the net for a day, and this is the first thread I see this information mentioned. No wiki, and none of the other 50+ threads I've read have mentioned this either. BIG THANKS!

I've updated the Endless Space 2 Wiki page concerning the Election. Time to clarify this question once and for all:

Election Wiki