Ed Davey - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

During a 2024 election, this party leader launched his manifesto at an amusement park and was interviewed on a spinning teacup ride. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this party leader whose campaign stunts included using a waterslide and bungee jumping. Those stunts may have helped this leader’s party win 72 seats in July, the best result for a third party in his country since 1923.

ANSWER: Ed Davey [or Sir Edward Jonathan Davey]

[10m] Ed Davey is currently the leader of this political party and contributed to the Orange Book, an essay collection that also featured a chapter from this party’s earlier leader Nick Clegg.

ANSWER: Liberal Democrats UK [or Lib Dems]

[10e] The Lib Dems’ 72 seats still were dwarfed by the majority won by this British Labour leader, who became Prime Minister after the election despite his party only winning a third of the popular vote.

ANSWER: Keir Starmer

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	83%	67%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	83%	83%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	9	18.89	89%	67%	33%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


UNC B	Liberty C	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
George Washington B	Haverford A	10	10	10	30
UCSD	Claremont B	0	0	0	0
UC Berkeley B	UCLA	0	10	10	20
Florida A	Florida B	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Carnegie Mellon B	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Case Western A	0	0	10	10
Michigan D	Michigan State	0	10	10	20
South Carolina	Liberty A	0	10	10	20
William & Mary	UNC C	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	UNC D	0	10	10	20
Virginia A	Duke	0	10	10	20
Liberty B	Wake Forest	0	0	0	0
Chicago C	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
Chicago D	WashU A	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	WashU B	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	Indiana A	10	10	10	30
Missouri	Missoui S&T	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Minnesota B	0	10	10	20
Brown A	BU	0	0	0	0
MIT A	Brandeis A	0	0	10	10
Brandeis B	UMass Boston	0	0	10	10
UBC	Alberta	0	0	10	10
UW A	UW B	10	10	10	30
ASU	Texas A	0	10	10	20
TAMU	Texas B	10	10	10	30
Bruin A	Vanderbilt A	0	0	0	0
Vassar A	John Jay College	10	10	10	30
Yale A	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
Rutgers A	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Haverford B	0	10	0	10
Columbia C	Penn A	0	10	10	20
Penn B	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
Binghamton A	ESF A	0	0	10	10
Cornell D	Cornell C	0	10	10	20
RIT A	RIT B	0	0	10	10
Claremont A	UC Berkeley A	0	0	0	0
UCF B	Valencia A	0	0	10	10
UCF C	Florida State A	0	0	0	0
Kenyon	Carnegie Mellon A	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A	Case Western B	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Wisconsin A	Winona State	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Wisconsin B	10	10	10	30
Tufts A	Dartmouth A	10	10	10	30
Harvard A	Harvard B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	10	30
Alabama A	Tennessee A	0	0	10	10