Party Organization

Party organization (org) is a 0–100 score that represents how well-organized your party is in a given state. High org boosts your candidates' vote totals in generals, improves your GOTV efficiency, and signals to other parties where you are strong. Low org means your party punches below its voter base.

The Org Pool

Each state has a single 100-point organization pool. Every party's share comes out of that pool, and the leftover is the Unaffiliated share. The pool is the only ceiling — there is no per-party cap. The constraint is just:

A party can grow as large as the unclaimed pool allows. When the unaffiliated share goes to zero, Build Org returns "no headroom — try Contest instead" and parties have to chip Org off each other to gain ground.

Each party-state combination has its own org score tracked in the statePartyOrg collection.

Building Org

Organization grows through the Build Org action on the state-party page. The state chair, state vice chair, the state campaigner, the national chair, the national vice chair, or any national campaigner can click Build Org to spend Political Strength and pull Org from the state's Unaffiliated pool into your party's share.

Per-click gain scales with four factors, shown in the click projection panel:

• Headroom — the share of the state's pool not held by any party. Larger = bigger click.
• Own diminishing returns — the higher your own current Org, the smaller the next click. At Org 25 the multiplier is 0.5×; at higher org it shrinks further.
• PS leverage — your PS reserve vs the average rival PS reserve in this state. Range 0.5× to 1.5×.
• Catch-up — 1.5× when at least one rival has higher Org than you, 1.0× otherwise. Anti-snowball.

Build Org requires presence: the party must have at least one player character or elected official in this state (or be acted on by a national officer who can build org into vacant states).

Org Decay

Every turn, every party row with Org > 0 loses 0.125 Org (the ORG_DECAY_RATE constant) — about 3 points per IRL day or 6 per game-year. Players counteract decay by clicking Build Org. There is no "decay pauses while investing" gate; you always have to actively defend your Org.

Decayed Org returns implicitly to the state's Unaffiliated pool.

Contest

The Contest action does the opposite of Build Org — it chips Org off a rival party. Chipped Org is destroyed (it does not return to your party); it just shrinks the rival. Use Contest when the Unaffiliated pool is empty and you need to break a rival's lock on a state.

Why Org Matters

In general elections, party Org enters the vote-appeal formula as a normalized state-pool share:

Each party's share is a number in [0, 1] that distributes the state's vote weight proportional to where Org actually lives. A party with 60 Org in a state where the total is 100 gets a 0.6× multiplier on its weight; a party not present in the state gets 0 (no votes from that party's candidates).

Two complementary signals also enter the per-candidate weight in general elections:

• Reg resistance — own-Reg multiplies weight by 1.0× (Reg=0) up to 1.3× (Reg=100). Higher own-Reg makes a party harder to peel away through persuasion.
• Support mood — candidate-level Support shifts weight between 0.6× (Support=0) and 1.4× (Support=100), neutral 1.0× at 50. Captures short-term mood / momentum from debates, scandals, endorsements.

These three factors combine multiplicatively in the per-group weight; a strongly-organized party with high Reg and a mood-positive candidate compounds across all three. Primaries continue to use the older intra-party formula because within-party normalization cancels out (every candidate of the same party shares the same Org).

GOTV budget spending also scales with org: a more organized party gets more out of the same GOTV dollar.

Related

• Party Leadership — Who can spend PS on Build Org / Contest.
• Party Actions — GOTV and suppression spending.
• Party Ideology — How ideology interacts with voter appeal.