Mayor of Malton

The Mayor of Malton is a long-standing tradition in the city's proud history. Malton traditionally holds elections for Mayor every 3 years, and as the most recent before the outbreak took place in 2004, two elections have been held since the quarantine was put in to force. Below is a general description of the events of Malton's historic elections for the role of mayor of the dying city.

The 2007 Election

The first election for the position of Mayor was called in March 2007. It began with the gradual announcement of campaigns, as candidates for both the main parties, and those representing their own parties called for endorsements and released campaign posters. The primaries were held between the 5th and the 17th of April, and saw a tense race between Murray Jay Suskind and Bullgod for the Zombiecratic Party candidacy. Meanwhile, the Humanative candidacy was a straight race between Karloth Vois and Tovarisch Khrushchev, although Vois quickly dominated the race and secured the Humanative candidacy. Meanwhile, tension broke out as the Zombiecratic primary results were announced. One exit poll called Bullgod; another called Suskind. Then the results arrived. With 66 votes each, it was a deadlock. The two candidates entered the back room of the zombiecratic headquarters. Meanwhile, a flurry of suggestions and technicalities were called out on both sides. What happened next can only be described as follows:

David Starkey

When they finally emerged Murray Jay Suskind was riding on Bullgod's shoulders like Master-Blaster from Mad Max and in unison they declared themselves MURBULSKOND! No longer separate candidates, through the hap hazard use of duct tape they ran in the election as a single candidate for the Zombiecratic party.

The polls opened on 24th May 2007, and the voters who arrived were determined to select a new mayor. Shortly before the election began, the New Deal Expeditionary Force led by DT and the Living Exist With the Dead party led by Sir Fred unified in to the NDEF/LEWD Coalition. Although not a popularised party by this point, they soon picked up a following. However, the real race was between the zombiecratic and humanative parties. However, there were great doubts about the Humanative party's capacity to fight the zombiecratics, who had a turn-out of 153 in their primary, dwarfing the Humanatives' 61. In the words of one voter:

Dst3313 said:

A Zed will still win the election one way or the other, given who the humans voted for. There's no way Karloth can get enough non-zeds to vote for him to win the overall

On the morning of 1st May 2007, Dst3313 was proved wrong. Karloth, and his running mate Richard Nixon's Head had 77 votes, and Murbulskond only had 72. They entered the last day of the election 5 votes down. With an hour to midnight, they managed to bridge the gap to two votes. Once again, this was proving to be a close election, and worries about another draw or a possible coalition were rife. However, any thoughts that there wouldn't be a clear winner were in vain. As the clock ticked past midnight, the Zombiecratic party had 92 votes. Karloth Vois had only 91.

Murbulskond became the first zombie mayor of Malton, and the first since the outbreak. Many of Vois' supporters tried to find technicalities, but Vois dismissed these claims, saying:

Karloth vois said:

those votes are official and Murray won. Just shows how close it was, though!

The Zombiecratic Party had 43% of the 214 votes cast, as did the Humanative Party. In third place was the NDEF/LEWD coalition with 7% of the vote, and the DR PHIL Party finished fourth with 6% of the vote. Those who got less than 5% of the vote are not mentioned here.