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 Felix D'laminet Josef Martinique Elizabeth Rose Party PPP Conservatives PSP Leader since TBD TBD TBD Last election n / a 464 seats n / a Seats won 288 198 50 Seat change 288 266 50
Prime Minister before election Felix D'laminet PPP Elected Prime Minister Felix D'laminet PPP

The 2402 Empherias general election was held on Thursday 28 March 2402 to elect 600 members to the Parliament of Empherias. It was the first general election since the 2395 Revolution and subsequent appointed Populist government in 2397, and the first to use the new proportional electoral system. It resulted in the incumbent Populist party losing their artificial parliamentary majority, leaving them short 13 seats for a majority. They did not seek a formal coalition, believing that the Socialist party would support most of their acts of government, so pursued a minority government. 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

Main article: Second Montgomery-Grey administration of Empherias

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 SUMMARY OF PREVIOUS TERM

DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT AND CALLING THE ELECTION

STATE OF THE COUNTRY

OPPOSITION LEADERSHIP CONTESTS, ETC

New electoral system

Main article: Politics of Empherias

The new electoral system was built by Felix D'laminet, several populist figures, and non-partisan experts such as Norton Houghton and mathematician Talia Cecilsen. It would move from individual constituencies to proportional representation using the D'hondt method. Previously, there were 457 seats in the parliament with a majority requiring 229 seats. Now, there would be a clean 600 seats in parliament, with a majority requiring 301 seats. The Speaker of the House and deputy speakers were originally chosen out of the 457 elected MPs, meaning the working majority was lower than 229. The Speaker in the new parliament would be a non-partisan unelected member elected in an independent body made up people appointed honours known as the Rijkdottir's Council.

Only parties registered with the Electoral Commission's Register would be able to contest elections. These would be parties with a confirmed 20,000 members, or signatures 6 weeks prior to election day. Because of the high barrier to entry, the parties act more like electoral alliances. In the election, you vote for the internal faction under the party label rather than just the party. Some internal factions have even smaller factions within. Usually these internal factions allocate MPs via an internal party vote of members.

Contesting political parties and candidates

See also: List of Independent MPs in Empherias

Most candidates are representatives of a political party, which must be registered with the Electoral Commission's Register. Those who do not belong to one must use the label "Independent" or none, but occasions where an independent has won a seat in the house is extremely rare.

Party			Party leader(s)	Leader since	Previous election (2493)	Seats at dissolution (2497)	Change
	Conservative Party	CON	Josef Martinique	9 October 2399	351 / 457	264 / 457	87
	Liberal Party	LIB	Gregorik Daise	25 November 2401	101 / 457	77 / 457	24
	Bokanist Values Party	BVP	John Maitor	TBD	4 / 457	16 / 600	12
	Traditional Ankrank Party	TAP	Peel Letterman	TBD	1 / 457	4 / 600	3
	People's Populist Party	PPP	Felix D'laminet	TBD	did not exist	37 / 600	37
	People's Socialist Party	PSP	Elizabeth Rose	TBD	did not exist	0 / 600
	Green and Durbanists	GRN	Henry Patterson	TBD	did not exist	0 / 600
	Nationalist Party	NP	Henry Artenflower	TBD	did not exist	0 / 600
	Centrist Initiative Party	CIP	Sandy Gust	TBD	did not exist	0 / 600
	Independents			n / a	0 / 457	15 / 600	15
	Vacant			n / a	not applicable	44 / 600	44

Campaign and endorsements

MORE STUFF PRE-ELECTION

Results

288	198	50	42	22
Populists	Conservatives	Socialists	Liberals	O

Party				Leader	Votes			Seats	Percentage		Change
	People's Populist Party			Felix D'laminet	17,466,862	47.85%		288			288
	Conservative Party			Josef Martinique	12,023,946	32.94%		198			266
	People's Socialist Party		Socialists Association	Elizabeth Rose	2,226,591	75.24%
			Northern Liberal Socialist Association	Ara Advant	15
			Southern Liberal Socialist Association	Courtney Scarabuszij	15
			Alexandria Trade Union Caucus	James Ends	15
			The Gateshaven Union	James Alardens	15
			Workers Association	Katie Clements	15
		Total		Elizabeth Rose	3,071,495	8.41%		50			50
	Liberal Party			Gregorik Daise	2,544,664	6.97%		42	7.00%	42 / 600	94
	Green Party			Henry Patterson	968,107	2.65%		16	2.67%	16 / 600	16
	Nationalist Party			Henry Artenflower	403,340	1.10%		6	1.00%	6 / 600	6
	Traditional Ankrank Party			Peel Letterman	14,925	0.04%		0	0.00%	0 / 600
	Centrist Initiative Party			Sandy Gust	8,150	0.02%		0	0.00%	0 / 600
Total					36,501,489	100%

Results in depth

Parliamentary seats Populist   288 Conservative   198 Socialist   50 Liberal   42 Green   16 Nationalist   6