Westminster

Westminster is a video game in the strategy genre developed by Orion Software, Inc. and published by Mr Chip Software originally released in 1983. It is currently playable on Commodore 64.

Westminster is a political strategy game based on a general election in British politics and the objective is for one to four players to get one party (Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat or Independent) into government. Each player starts with £8,000 and must visit as many constituencies as possible out of a total of 60 and look for votes. At the start of the game, after how many turns are to be played (1 - 120), each player starts in a random constituency and the first player is shown how many people intend to vote for each of the parties. The player then decides how much to spend on their campaign before the next player's constituency is shown.

Once all players have started a campaign, each player is shown a list of constituencies to visit and, after selecting one, the same procedure of seeing how the votes are apportioned for each party and how much to spend on each campaign is repeated. There are also updates on how the player is doing elsewhere shown by a newspaper headline. Once all the turns have been completed there is an option to extend the number of turns, but if this is not taken then the vote counting begins. The results of the General Election are shown and the winner is the player who has been given the Government role and hopefully achieved a majority.

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