Well done LuPoN, Elections may not be so bad for you now as trade still counts so if you have high traffic (looks like you do) and you have the main trading station (hopefully you do) then other commanders trading will boost you in an election (and in general)
We have been on both ends with this, with it working for us and against us when we move into a new system.
The more stations you take over the stronger is this effect, to the point where we have not had to do anything in our home system for a whole year, but it took us 6 months to topple a same government faction in a high tech/high traffic system.
Hope that helps.
Thanks a lot Marcus, it does indeed help!
One thing though: we have different government types, so I believe that Elections are out of the question and we should go through Civil Wars. Am I correct?
Still, my deepest thanks for the wonderful support