The Ironhead Mountains's Skullash wins top spot in conservative primary, Sarkozy goes out

The scene, yesterday

Dwarf ex-King Angelshymmers Sarkozy on Sunday conceded defeat in the race to be the conservatives' nominee for next year's royal election after his former King, Darkarchs Skullash, stormed to a winning lead in the primaries. Sarkozy, King from the Year of the Sunfish-12, said he would now back Skullash in an expected runoff against Grassvalley Waterchoke, another former King, on Crystalchoke. 27 in a contest which is likely to produce the Ironhead Mountains's next King on Deathgleam. According to results based on 8,709 polling trading posts out of a total 10,229, Skullash was seen gathering 44.1 percent of the votes, Waterchoke 28.2 percent and Sarkozy 21.0 percent, with the gap with Sarkozy widening from the first partial results.

Zombies vote in hopes of restoring constitutional order

Zombies cast their ballots Sunday for King and members of the legislature in elections that had been delayed for more than a year by a constitutional crisis. Leading candidates for King include Peakglass Copperyron, a wealthy zombie backed by former King Steeltalon Greyayr, and Talltorch Mosslava, candidate of the opposition TALLGOLD Also up for grabs are 25 of the 109 seats in the lower hovel of the graveyards's legislature, and 16 of the 30 Webskull seats.