Incorporated some optimizations I found during my full tutorial run slightly improving my former WR.
Former description: What a frustrating speedrun. You have to blast through the menus to get to the Election Speech as fast as possible only to wait 2-3 minutes for the run to finish. :D I tried to glitch the game in order to get the elections done earlier but nothing worked. The Early Elections edict can be researched and put into place but the 12 month countdown does not start (=remains at 12 months forever).
This is still not super-optimized and could be pushed under 3:30 with some changes and better execution but I'm happy to leave this one behind for now. Might get back to looking for glitches at some point in the future.
You can actually see my brain turn off after trying to work at hyperspeed for the first minute when I type 'This is run dedicated to' instead of 'This run is dedicated to'. :D