The Election

The President's seat

The Election is an important event in Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler. After vacating her seat as president, Kirari Momobami started The Election as a “winner take all struggle” and gamble with the seat as the prize.

Background

After significant disruption from Yumeko Jabami on the existing housepet system, Kirari uses the election to further upset the established order and bring new players into gamble. While some of the existing Student Council members are against the change, several such as Yumemi Yumemite and Midari Ikishima get excited at the prospect. Describing Hyakkaou Private Academy as her aquarium, Kirari notes that unless something is done about Yumeko’s actions, “the disturbance will grow until it may become too much for even us to manage”.

Also at stake with the presidency is the head of The Momobomi Clan. While she was president, Kirari successfully managed to centralize debts and loans of former and current students to amass significant influence over both the business and political establishments making the position coveted. Upon hearing about it, the adults of each branch family sent their children to attend the academy and compete.

As the Momobamis also take part in gambling, they are all skilled gamblers. They are also each very intent on banishing Kirari from the family, especially Terano Totobami, who leads the operation.

Rules

General Rules

A vote chip

The Election lasts 30 days. During that time, held gambles will not use normal money chips, but rather vote chips. Each student received one vote chip at the beginning. The only way to gain votes for yourself is by gambling. Every student is a potential candidate. Whoever has the most votes at the end of that time-span is the winner and the new president. If one hasn't got any more votes to bet, they can use serve coins. If they are lost, one of them is worth 24 hours of the betters life, during which they must obey the Council. There are even special chips, worth one million and the rest of ones life as well.

A serve chip

Election Committee

The main office of the Election Committee

The whole Election is overseen and managed by the Election Committee. Runa Yomozuki is the head is and all under her are Election Observers, where they can all be identified by an animal-hoodie and the known members are Inaho Yamato, Rumia Uru, and Kurara Kurokura. If a gamble with votes happens, an election observer must be present, otherwise it isn't valid. They are very strict about cheating and remain neutral. The Committee handles all gambles and vote distribution. Every now and then, live broadcasts are also held by the Committee to inform the students about which ten gamblers currently lead with the most votes.

Votes

This table shows, how many votes the players have gained and lost during the Election. All of them started out with one single vote.

Gambler	Votes	Games played
Yumeko Jabami	Gains two votes from Midari Ikishima and Erimi Mushibami Gains 10 votes from Miri Yobami Gains 20 votes from Kawaru Natari Wins 16 votes from Terano Totobami Gains 16 votes from unknown gambles Currently has 65 votes Loses almost all of her votes in the auction Winsover 300 more votes Gambles them away to various students Currently has 62 votes	Finger Cutting Guillotine Nim Type Zero Soixante-trois Greater Good Game Hundred Votes Auction
Ryota Suzui	Gains 10 votes from Miri Yobami Gained 2 votes from unseen gambles Currently has 13 votes Loses 10 votes in the auction Wins votes in the auction	Nim Type Zero Hundred Votes Auction
Mary Saotome	Gains 100 votes from Ririka Momobami Steps in for Yumeko Jabami and thus doesn't get any votes Doesn't gain any votes until the second broadcast and currently has 101 votes. Spends, but also wins 100 votes in the auction Wins 100 votes from the auction Currently has 124 votes	100 Votes Gamble Nim Type Zero Hundred Votes Auction
Itsuki Sumeragi	Gained 50 votes through unseen gambles Won 100 votes from Terano Totobami, but had to repay 150 votes to her immediately after Retired from the Election	Double Concentration Greater Good Game
Kirari Momobami	Won 14 votes from Horo Jomaru Gained 211 other votes from unseen gambles Gained more votes and got 255 votes Went on to gamble and currently has 578 votes	Poker
Horo Jomaru	Gained 14 votes through unseen gambles Loses them to Kirari Momobami	Poker
Midari Ikishima	Disqualified from the game due to breaking the rules Loses her vote to Yumeko Jabami Received votes from the Beautification Club Loses some in the auction	Finger Cutting Guillotine Hundred Votes Auction
Erimi Mushibami	Loses her sole vote to Yumeko Jabami	Finger Cutting Guillotine
Terano Totobami	Gained 133 votes through unseen gambles Gained 17 votes from Miroslava Honebami and gave 32 votes to Ibara Obami and Yumeko Jabami Gave 100 votes to Itsuki Sumeragi Then gained 150 votes from Itsuki Sumeragi, an Terano now has 168 votes Gambled and is now leading with 649 votes	Unknown
Ririka Momobami	Gained 99 votes through unseen gambles Loses all her 100 votes to Mary Saotome and becomes her partner in the Election Wins votes in the auction Plays against Rin Obami and wins votes Currently possesses 166 votes	100 Votes Gamble Hundred Votes Auction Gin Rummy War!
Miri Yobami	Gets 10 votes from Miyo Inbami in the first round Loses all of them and accumulates a large debt Officially out of the Election	Life or Death Nim Type Zero
Miroslava Honebami	Gains 17 votes through unseen gambles Loses all of them to Terano Totobami	Greater Good Game
Ibara Obami	Gained 10 votes through unseen gambles Wins 16 from Terano Totobami and currently possesses 26 votes Won some votes from Rin Obami and currently has about 50 votes	Greater Good Game War!
Miyo Inbami	Gained 50 votes from Yuriko Nishinotouin and other gambles Loses 30 votes to Ryota Suzui, Yumeko Jabami and Miri Yobami in the first round Hasn't gained votes until the second broadcast and only had 21 at the time Currently has 61 votes gained from the auction	Life or Death Nim Type Zero
Nozomi Komabami	Gained 15 votes through unseen gambles Sells her votes for Scumcoins	Gin Rummy
Yumemi Yumemite	Her fans willingly gave their votes to her, which where at least 100 Gained votes through unseen gambles and got to 109 votes Won 20 votes from Kawaru Natari and has 129 votes Currently has 144 votes	Active Station
Sumika Warakubami	Gained 40 votes through unseen gambles Lost all of her votes to Yumeko Jabami and Yumemi Yumemite Gathered a few votes Left the school and gave all votes to Erimi	Active Station
Rin Obami	Gained 62 votes through unseen gambles Gained another 10 votes Gained over 300 votes through selling Scumcoins Loses all his votes to Ririka Momobami, Ibara Obami, Anzu, Aruka and Midori and he is out of the Election	War!
Yuriko Nishinotouin	Lost her votes against Miri Yobami and Miyo Inbami Took at lot of votes from the Traditional Culture Club members Won 200 votes from the auction	Life or Death Hundred Votes Auction
Rei Batsubami (Animation only)	Gained at least 800 votes from the girls, who she helped and admired Rei Gained 30 votes in the first round of the auction Gained 140 votes in the second round Lost 70 votes in the third round Ended up losing all her votes	Hundred Votes Auction

There are a few special cases, not mentioned above:

• Kaede Manyuda only has one vote. During the Greater Good Game, he hasn't lost or won any.
• Yumi Totobami has one vote, but she doesn't gamble. Most likely, she gave her vote to Terano Totobami.
• Sayaka Igarashi isn't seen gambling and she has most certainly given her vote to Kirari Momobami.

Held Gambles

All known gambles, that have taken place as part of the Election.

• Finger Cutting Guillotine - played by Erimi Mushibami, Yumeko Jabami,Midari Ikishima - Overseen by Inaho Yamato
• Life or Death - played by Yuriko Nishinotouin, Miri Yobami, Miyo Inbami - Overseen by an unnamed Observer
• Nim Type Zero - played by Yumeko Jabami, Ryota Suzui, Miyo Inbami, Miri Yobami, Mary Saotome - Overseen by Runa Yomozuki
• 100 Votes Gamble - played by Ririka Momobami, Mary Saotome - Overseen by Inaho Yamato
• Double Concentration - played by Itsuki Sumeragi and two unnamed male students - Overseen by an unknown Observer
• Poker Game- played by Kirari Momobami and Horo Jomaru - Overseen by an unnamed Observer
• Active Station - played by Yumemi Yumemite, Kawaru Natari, Yumeko Jabami - Overseen by Runa Yomozuki
• Greater Good Game - played by Ibara Obami, Miroslava Honebami, Yumeko Jabami, Kaede Manyuda and Itsuki Sumeragi - Overseen by Rumia Uru
• Hundred Votes Auction - played by Yuriko Nishinotouin, Mary Saotome, Yumeko Jabami, Ririka Momobami, Midari Ikishima, Rei Batsubami, Ryota Suzui - Overseen by Inaho Yamato and Runa Yomozuki
• Gin Rummy - played by Ririka Momobami and Nozomi Komabami - Votes weren't directly involved, but rather they played with Scumcoins.
  • Scumcoins were introduced to The Election by Rin Obami to circumvent the vote exchange rules requiring a gamble and an observer in an attempt gather votes for himself.
• War! - played by Rin Obami, Ririka Momobami, Ibara Obami and Anzu, Aruka, Midori - Overseen by Kurara Kurokura (impostor), Runa Yomozuki (secretly)
• Grand Tournament - Organized by Sayaka Igarashi, Kirari Momobami (presumed)
  • Rock Paper Scissors Poker - played by Ibara Obami , Miyo Inbami , Erimi Mushibami , Yumeko Jabami , Mary Saotome , Yuriko Nishinotouin , Midari Ikishima and Yumemi Yumemite - Overseen by Kurara Kurokura
  • ??? - played by Yumeko Jabami , Miyo Inbami , Mary Saotome and Midari Ikishima - Overseen by Kurara Kurokura (presumed)
  • Fasciation Hall played by Terano Totobami ,Yumeko Jabami ,Ryota Suzui ,Yumi Totobami ,Nanami Tsubomi ,Moe Kijioka ,Mugi Sarugaya and Arata Ooinu -Overseen by Sukaru Aizawa
  • The Tower of Doors in the anime, is separate from the Election, as no votes are exchanged and it is a private Game.