Holiday 33

Election Day

1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday of November

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When it falls

1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday of November — dispatched as HOLIDAY_KIND_ELECTION_DAY.

Worked dates:

Year Date
2026 November 3
2030 November 5
2050 November 8

What it shows on the island

From holidays.yml:

Ballot box with checked ballot.

Sprite

Dimensions: 32 × 32 pixels. Anchored at island position (404, 284).

Added by this port via the holiday expansion. existing_sprite: null. The visual is a 32x32 transparent emblem authored by an AI sub-agent in the shared 16-color CLUT defined in scripts/holidays_art_lib.py. It overlays the island corner during the holiday’s window rather than reskinning the scene.

Palette

 #A82A3A,  #E0E0E0,  #2A3A6A

Three-color hint from holidays.yml. This is a guide for the codegen step and the emblem authoring pass; the actual emblem samples from the shared 16-color CLUT, and the original Sierra sprites use the original game palette directly.

Algorithm

Dispatched as HOLIDAY_KIND_ELECTION_DAY: 1st Monday of November via holidayNthWeekdayOfMonth, then add 1. See Date-algorithm core.

Emblem

This holiday has an emblem on the shared sheet at cell 29, pixel offset (160, 96). View the packed sheet on GitHub: docs/ps1/holidays-emblems/holiday-emblems-sheet.png. Full index: Emblem gallery.

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