2435 Empherias general election

Empherias General Election of 2435

September 18, 2435 (2435-09-18)
All 600 seats to the House of Parliament 301 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	59.5%
First party Second party   Leader Skylar Lawrence Edward Broedesmore Party Liberals PSP Leader since 1 September 2430 1 November 2433 Last election 188 seats 342 seats Seats won 304 232 Seat change 116 110 Popular vote 13,396,125, 50.54% 10,230,156, 38.59%
Prime Minister before election Edward Broedesmore PSP Elected Prime Minister Skylar Lawrence Liberals

The 2435 Empherias general election was held on 18 September 2435 to elect 600 members to the Empherias House of Parliament. It resulted in the opposition Liberal party winning a parliamentary majority of 8 seats. It was the seventh consecutive majority government elected and the first Liberal government since Wigfred Marksdottir left office in 2388 forty-seven years ago. It defeated the incumbent Socialist party who had been in office for twenty years, and the incumbent Edward Broedesmore had been in post for two years. Skylar Lawrence was elected as Prime Minister for her first term.

Turnout was 88.2% and the Liberals won 13.4 million votes to the Socialist's 10.2 million votes. All other parties won less than 1 million votes. Some political analysists insist that the defeat of Broedesmore prevented the Socialist party from trying older or male candidates for future elections. The next male to lead the Socialist party that was elected by the wider party would be Alistair Walker in 2486.

Background

Alice Rettels resigned in 2433. The 2433 Socialist leadership election saw Edward Broedesmore elected as Leader of the Socialists to be the Prime Minister amid increasing confidence in the Socialists that they could win any election.

General Election

Results

304	232	64
Liberals	Socialists	O

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Party			Leader	Popular vote	Pc%	Seats	Pc%		Change
	Liberal Party	LIB	Skylar Lawrence	13,396,125	50.54%	304	50.67%	304 / 600	116
	People's Socialist Party	PSP	Edward Broedesmore	10,230,156	38.59%	232	38.67%	232 / 600	110
	Nationalist Party	NP	Luka Beckers	937,185	3.54%	21	3.50%	21 / 600	1
	Centre Party	C	Louis Jenkins	708,185	2.67%	16	2.67%	16 / 600	1
	Conservative Party	CON	Elise Marie	404,189	1.52%	9	1.50%	9 / 600	9
	Green Party	GRN	Geike Miller	308,125	1.16%	7	1.17%	7 / 600	3
	Traditional Ankrank Party	TAP	Francis Letterman	290,627	1.10%	6	1.00%	6 / 600	2
	Pink Daphne Party	PDP	Emilena Tupel	144,980	0.55%	3	0.50%	3 / 600	1
	Bokanist Values Party	BVP	Peter Watkinson	88,351	0.33%	2	0.33%	2 / 600	1
Blank, invalid, and other parties				164,371	0.62%	n/a
Total				26,672,294	100%	600	100%	600	—

Turnout

Type	Population	%
Population	37,225,874	100%
Eligible to vote	30,243,268	81.24%
Turnout	26,672,294	88.19%