2402 Empherias general election
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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
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
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
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 | ||
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Conservative Party | CON | Josef Martinique | 9 October 2399 | 351 / 457
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264 / 457
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Liberal Party | LIB | Gregorik Daise | 25 November 2401 | 101 / 457
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77 / 457
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Bokanist Values Party | BVP | John Maitor | TBD | 4 / 457
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16 / 600
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Traditional Ankrank Party | TAP | Peel Letterman | TBD | 1 / 457
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4 / 600
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People's Populist Party | PPP | Felix D'laminet | TBD | did not exist | 37 / 600
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People's Socialist Party | PSP | Elizabeth Rose | TBD | did not exist | 0 / 600
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Green and Durbanists | GRN | Henry Patterson | TBD | did not exist | 0 / 600
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Nationalist Party | NP | Henry Artenflower | TBD | did not exist | 0 / 600
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Centrist Initiative Party | CIP | Sandy Gust | TBD | did not exist | 0 / 600
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Independents | n / a | 0 / 457
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15 / 600
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Vacant | n / a | not applicable | 44 / 600
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Campaign and endorsements
MORE STUFF PRE-ELECTION
Results
288 | 198 | 50 | 42 | 22 |
Populists | Conservatives | Socialists | Liberals | O |
Party | Leader | Votes | Seats | Percentage | Change | ||||||
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People's Populist Party | Felix D'laminet | 17,466,862 | 47.85% | 288 | |||||||
Conservative Party | Josef Martinique | 12,023,946 | 32.94% | 198 | |||||||
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 | |||||||
Liberal Party | Gregorik Daise | 2,544,664 | 6.97% | 42 | 7.00% | 42 / 600
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Green Party | Henry Patterson | 968,107 | 2.65% | 16 | 2.67% | 16 / 600
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Nationalist Party | Henry Artenflower | 403,340 | 1.10% | 6 | 1.00% | 6 / 600
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Traditional Ankrank Party | Peel Letterman | 14,925 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 / 600
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Centrist Initiative Party | Sandy Gust | 8,150 | 0.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 / 600
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Total | 36,501,489 | 100% |
Results in depth
Post-election events
See also
References
- ↑ 44 were murdered during the revolution, and the rest either resigned or died naturally.