Dank Party

Dank Party
Dank Party
President	Lady Peace
Deputy Leader	Commodore Sam Baker
Founded	13 June 2018
Headquarters	London
Membership (2020)	2
Ideology	Unclear
Political position	Centre-left
Colors	Amber
Ruling Council	0 / 6
Local councils	0 / 16

The Dank Party of Adammia is a minor political party in the Empire of Adammia. It was established by Lady Hermione Peace on 13 June 2018. It has described itself as an "authoritarian syndicalist liberal populist" party. Despite its non-serious nature, it has at times played a key role in Adammic politics.

History

Lady Hermione Peace was appointed Duchess of Greater Tytannia in June 2018 in order to give her a seat on the Ruling Council. She subsequently founded the Dank Party as a non-serious party influenced by Internet memes. Despite originally intending to contest the 2018 election, she ultimately withdrew and endorsed Juliano Saunders of the Storm Party. She did however stand in the local elections a week prior, being returned unopposed as Councilor for Dank-upon-Bourn. The Dank Party joined a coalition government with the victorious Storm Party as well as Labour, with Peace becoming Minister of National Development as well as the first Minister of Memes.

By the 2019 general election, Peace had withdrawn her support for Storm due to its increasingly exteme nature under Lady Worthington. She contested the election as the sole Dank candidate and won a seat; Dank were seen as relatively friendly by the Liberal-Moderates and received many second preferences from them, so much so that Dank would have won a second seat if they have an extra candidate. With the Liberal-Moderates one seat short of a majority, Peace became a kingmaker and agreed to form a coalition with the Liberal-Moderates which saw her become Deputy Prime Minister and retain the Ministry of Memes, which the Lib-Mods had previously pledged to abolish. She also demanded that the House of Citizens be given the opportunity to scrutinise the Emperor for his role in the Adammic data privacy scandal, and that there be an independent review of Adammia's foreign relations following criticism of Austenasia's marriage policy, but neither of these would ever be realised as Peace gradually became less involved in Adammic politics. Commodore Sam Baker became the Dank Party's second member and deputy leader in early 2020, but quickly lost interest in Adammia.

Peace retained her seat in the 2020 election, but Dank did not become part of Lord Saunders' "botanical coalition", being demoted to opposition. Peace was again re-elected after the 2021 election went uncontested due to a lack of candidates, and in Lord Green's subsequent national unity government she returned as Minister of Social Engagement and Joy (formerly the Minister of Memes). She did not contest the 2022 election. At the 2024 election she was persuaded by the Emperor to stand as a nominal opposition to the otherwise unopposed Liberal-Moderates, but finished last and did not win a seat.

Policy

Policies in its 2018 manifesto included a trip to Thorpe Park, changing the national anthem to either 'Sandroll' by Darude Astley or 'Dankrica', changing the title of 'Prime Minister' to 'Dank Minister', having a national screm day, making it compulsory to have seen all 4 Shrek films to become a citizen of Adammia, and building a High Speed Railway line to Your Mum in Wazakhstan. It retained some of these policies in 2019, but included some more serious policies such as a review of relations with "regressive" micronations and reducing the use of single-use plastics.

The Dank Party has not published a manifesto since 2019, but in an interview in 2024 Peace called for more in-person gatherings and for government money to be spent on drinks at such gatherings.

Electoral results

National

General elections to the House (2019-21)

Election year	First preferences	Total score	Score percentage	Seats
Election year	First preferences	Total score	Score percentage	Count	Of total
2019	2	7.75	17.1%	1 / 13	7.7%
2020	2	7.78	15.0% ▼	1 / 13	7.7%
2021	-	-	-	1 / 13	7.7%

General elections to the Council (2022-present)

Election year	First preferences	Percentage	Seats
Election year	First preferences	Percentage	Count	Of total
2022	Did not contest		0 / 6	0.0% ▼
2024	2	10.% ▲	0 / 6	0.0%

Local

Election year	Popular vote	Vote percentage	Seats
Election year	Popular vote	Vote percentage	Count	Of total
2018	0	0.0%	1 / 10	10.0%
2019	-	-	1 / 9	11.1% ▲
2020	Did not contest		0 / 11	0.0% ▼
2021	Did not contest		0 / 11	0.0%