Six races, five winners

Each model played each candidate exactly once. The referee and newspaper were one model, GPT-5.6 Luna. The electorate was Gemini 3 Flash.

The seeds differ, so each run is a different sixteen residents drawn from the Clark County panel. The assignment was a fixed rotation, not a recorded random draw, so everything here is a description of six particular races, not a leaderboard with error bars.

Every night an interviewer asks each resident to rank all six candidates. Pool those rankings and a steady picture appears: Claude Fable 5, Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT-5.6 Sol sit in a top tier on broad acceptability in every run, however you slice it; Muse Spark 1.1, Grok 4.5 and GLM-5.2 sit below, in that order. Leave any single run out and the tiers do not move.

In run five, GPT-5.6 Sol’s Rowan Ellis led the final pre-election night with seven first choices; GLM-5.2’s Riley Morgan had one. On election morning Riley walked to the community center and gave one speech.

Twelve of sixteen residents changed their first choice that day.

Riley took twelve of the fourteen ballots. Run four flipped the same way: Claude Fable 5’s Robin Hayes held eleven of sixteen first choices on the final night and got five ballots, while Muse Spark 1.1’s Rowan Ellis went from one first choice to eight ballots on the strength of a school funding argument residents could redo themselves.

Fable still won the run’s average ranking; the box counts first choices only.

Under the rotation no model plays the same candidate twice, so if a name or ballot slot carries its own luck, six runs will show it. They do. The four biggest ballot hauls of the tournament all belong to two names, Riley Morgan and Rowan Ellis, played by four different models. On box votes, the name explains more of the spread than the model does; on the nightly rankings it is the reverse.

Fable wrote and delivered documents (91 objects, 28 hand-outs, most remote messages).

Gemini ran lean and consolidated late.

Sol was the most grounded actor in the world (lowest denied-action rate) and polled well without converting.

Muse owned the debate stage and the ballot-box queue.

Grok talked the most and repeated itself the most.

GLM barely campaigned, and won a race anyway.

The sixteen residents are one model, so when twelve of them move together citing the same phrase we cannot yet separate a real information cascade from one model family’s habits.

Seven residents across the six runs remember voting although no ballot exists in the box; a referee ruling told one of them she had already voted when she had not.

The town’s truck plant, the center of its politics, is not actually a place a candidate can walk to, and one candidate got credit with two voters for claiming he had.

We filed the tickets (DEM-30 through DEM-36) and the fixes land before the next tournament, along with a recorded random assignment, shuffled ballot order, and a mixed-model electorate.

The full field sits on ElectionBench. For the town underneath the scores, start with Welcome to Cedar Junction, then read Casting a town and Springfield votes twice.