The 2314 Hveden Federation presidential election took place between 1 April 2314 to 28 June 2314 to elect the President of the Hveden Federation. The winner would enter office on 1 July 2314. 73.65% of the population were eligible to vote, and there was a recorded turnout of 49.52%. The first and incumbent president, Maar Skalgar, did not seek re-election.
With Skalgar not running for re-election, a party primary chose Alessand Braune as the United Party candidate in January 2314. He was disliked by some in his own party, and especially by the coalition members People Party as they had many clashes with him as Finance Secretary. The National Party chose Fritz Wentzel as their candidate, having served as a senator since 2302, briefly as Senate Leader of the Opposition from 2304 to 2306, and had experience as Home and Shadow Home Secretary in Kusfeld from 2291 to 2299. Wentzel was extremely popular in Kusfeld.
The People Party would maintain the long-serving coalition once again and would not field a candidate for the presidential election. The Conservative Party, the Matkalvina Nationals, all fielded candidates again. The Egovian Independence Party fielded a candidate for the first time too. With the Matkalvina National and Egovian Independence parties fielding candidates together, they stated that they did not think they could win an election but rather wanted to show the popular opinion for independence and their views on nationalism against the phony nationalists in the National party. The Conservative party candidate was a 66 year old local politician from Ellya, Peter Crebensz. The Matkalvina National candidate was Mersey Turpitz for the third time in a row, hoping to expand his vote share heavily (having gone from 2.4% to 8% from 2306 to 2310), while the Egovian Independence candidate was a 34 year old Kourtney Ebs–Keller who was primarily a famous activist.
United Party candidate Alessand Braune would win the election with 36.47% of the vote, the lowest vote share for a winning President ever by over 10 percentage points. It was a decrease of over 24 percentage points from their last presidential result, and a decrease of 12 million votes despite a large increase in those eligible to vote. He would the vote in a margin of 2.27pp over second place National Party's Fritz Wentzel who achieved 30 million votes and 34.2% of the vote. This margin is 38pp lower than the 40.95pp margin they achieved in the 2310 presidential election. Despite this embarrassing result, Braune did win. However, he stated that he would not seek re-election in 2318. Wentzel was very happy with the result having nearly doubled their last election win, and having a personal result more than double their parliamentary result. Wentzel concluded that deep reforms would be taken in the National party to try and get a practical result in the parliament and then the presidency.
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