2402 Empherias general election

Empherias General Election of 2402

March 28, 2402 (2402-03-28)
All 600 seats to the House of Parliament 301 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	62.8%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Lucy King William Turner Pippin Pierre Party PSP Liberals Nationalists Leader since 9 July 2488 3 Nov 2494 25 Feb 2497 Last election 298 seats 212 seats 73 seats Seats won 296 264 25 Seat change 2 52 48 Popular vote 9,235,778 8,274,925 781,459   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader James Armisen Bleaker Oskar Nikolei Georgia White Party Conservatives DECP GESLP / Greens Leader since 1 Mar 2492 19 Sep 2486 20 Jun 2498 Last election 8 seats 2 seats 4 seats Seats won 6 4 2 Seat change 2 2 2 Popular vote 188,246 123,954 63,176
Prime Minister before election Lucy King PSP Elected Prime Minister Lucy King PSP

The 2402 Empherias general election was held on 28 March 2402, to elect 600 members to the Empherian House of Parliament. It was the first general election since the 2395 Revolution and subsequent appointed Populist government in 2397. It resulted in the incumbent Populist party losing their parliamentary majority, short 13 seats for a majority, although they did not seek a formal coalition - believing that the Socialist party would support most of their acts of government. Regardless, the Prime Minister Felix D'laminet was re-elected for a second term.

This election in particular sees the first election for many political parties running for office. No royalist parties ran, the first time this had ever occurred in Empheri electoral history, although they weren't banned from doing so. The two major political parties from before the revolution, the Liberal Party, and the Conservative Party, both ran under reformed policies and governments after their ideologies had shifted from the revolution. No party was in favour of returning to a pre-revolution situation. New parties included the left-wing parties of the incumbent People's Populist Party (dubbed PPP), and the People's Socialist Party (dubbed PSP), which split the left wing vote. The Green party, originally named not for it's later environmental views, ran for the first time and was considered a more radical alternative to the Socialists. The final new major party was the Nationalist party which advocated for more militarism and national pride.

The results were a plurality victory of the Populists winning 288 seats. Second place Conservatives, led by Josef Martinique, received 198 seats; followed by the Socialists, led by Elizabeth Rose, receiving 50 seats; the Liberals, led by Gregorik Daise, receiving 42 seats; the Green party, led by Henry Patterson, receiving 16 seats; and the Nationalists, led by Henry Artenflower, receiving just 6 seats. This makes this one of two modern elections where all parties receiving more than 5 seats, the other being the 2468 election. Other parties, such as the Traditional Ankrank Party, Centrist Initiative Party, and the Bokanist Values Party, ran but did not receive any seats or significant votes.

There were no resignations from any party leaders following the election as it mainly established the foundations and many did not know what were good and bad election victories yet. This election saw the highest turnout for the country in history comparatively to population, not eligible to vote, but this would later be broken.

Background

Triggered by the Prime Minister, followed by a 6 week campaign window, to be held on 28 March 2402. It was to take place five years after the previous election, but instead it took place five years after the appointment of the Populist government in 2397.

General Election

Overview

Regional votes

Shifts in demographics

Late polling data

Scandals during the campaign

Results

288	198	50	42	22
Populists	Conservatives	Socialists	Liberals	O

File:Empherias Parliament 2402.svgFile:Empherias pc Parliament 2402.svg

Party			Leader	Previous (2393)			Now (2402)			Change
				Seats	Pc%		Seats	Pc%
	People's Populist Party	PPP	Felix D'laminet	n / a			288	48.00%	288 / 600	288
	Conservative Party	CON	Josef Martinique	464	77.33%	464 / 600	198	33.00%	198 / 600	266
	People's Socialist Party	PSP	Elizabeth Rose	n / a			50	8.33%	50 / 600	50
	Liberal Party	LIB	Gregorik Daise	136	22.67%	136 / 600	42	7.00%	42 / 600	42
	Green Party	GRN	Henry Patterson	n / a			16	2.67%	16 / 600	16
	Nationalist Party	NP	Henry Artenflower				6	1.00%	6 / 600	6
	Traditional Ankrank Party	TAP	Peel Letterman				0	0.00%	0 / 600
	Centrist Initiative Party	CIP	Sandy Gust				0	0.00%	0 / 600
	Bokanist Values Party	BVP	John Maitor				0	0.00%	0 / 600

Analysis

Indepth changes to the result

Sideways parliament bar chart

Parliament chart (flourish)

bicumeral chart

Indepth result table

MPs who lost their set, MPs who gained their sets

Changes to government