Colonial/Native Voting Problem - The Problem is it's HAPPENING

[Setsuna]

All right, I finally looked through my population numbers and their ideology. The overwhelming majority of my Dutch population is Liberal. Aside from two small states, their voting block is clearly the liberal party.

So why is it the Conservatives win every election in a landslide?

I've examined other factors that could cause these people to vote for other things - uh uh. Nope. These POPs are very conscious are are GOING to vote for their favorite party, the Liberals. There's only one answer:

The Natives are voting. :wacko:

I was under the understanding that colonies and natives simply did not get to vote, and that only POPs in your states could vote. But the 99.9%-100% Conservative natives of Malaysia in the state of Sumatra (Not an actual state) must be swinging the vote in favor of the Conservatives. Not coincidently, they are 2/3's of the total population, and the conservatives win with a slightly larger margin than this. There's no way that they aren't voting.

So, the question is, are they supposed to be able to vote, and if not, will this be fixed in a later version?

In the meanwhile, is there any way to change the Sumatrans voting habits? It's like they don't even acknowledge the existence of the other parties.

 

[unmerged(27503)]

Hmm, one last thing. I noticed in the Bug forum that someone mentioned how the Netherlands have Sumatra and other colonies set as cores. That wouldn't be the cause of the problem, would it?

Although, from what other people are saying with regards to conquering native populations, it sounds like that's not the problem.

They are voting. Release Java as a sattelite and see the difference in the gallup poll, especially in the current version of VIP. I don't think it is a national province issue, I edited the save game and removed all non dutch provinces as nationals and there was no change.

 

[Setsuna]

All right then, it's irrefutable.

 

[unmerged(760)]

from my observations i can tell that colonies indeed do vote. i cant remember getting election events for colonies though, so its inconsistent IMHO. historicly seen, were there any nations that allowed their colonies to vote?

 

[Setsuna]

So, is this being looked into, or..?

 

[Sam Gamgee]

historicly seen, were there any nations that allowed their colonies to vote?

No, with one exception: The French in Algeria, although they absorbed Algeria and turned it into a regular department (in game terms, turned the colony into a state) and only allowed Europeans to vote, in order to protect the rule of the French minority.