2448 Empherias general election

2448 Empherias general election

May 26, 2448 (2448-05-26)
All 600 seats to the House of Parliament 301 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	92.58% ( 7.45)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Lukas Knight Frankie George Sofia Hopkins Party Labour Liberals PSP Leader since 20 January 2448 25 May 2446 21 December 2447 Last election n/a 214 seats 307 Seats won 227 147 98 Seat change New 67 209 Popular vote 12,225,722, 37.01% 7,896,711, 23.91% 5,284,973, 16.00% Swing New 11.43 34.58
Prime Minister before election Sofia Hopkins People's Socialist Party of Empherias Elected Prime Minister Lukas Knight Labour Party of Empherias

The 2448 Empherias general election was held on 26 May 2448 to elect 600 members to the Empherias parliament. It centred around the issue of pan-Alaxanism and increased calls to join the High Kingdoms of Alaxia. This was the left general election Empherias held as an independent country.

Sofia Hopkins, who took over as prime minister from Katelyn Roberts, assured her party in January 2448 that no unification would be considered after years of rising pan-Alaxanism sentiment. This prompted Lukas Knight to make a famous speech and would trigger 30 PSP MPs to form their own spin off party known as the Alaxian Socialist Party (ASP), although it was known primarily as the Labour party. The following month, 77 more MPs defected to Labour, to hold a bloc of 105 seats. Knight and several other prominent politicians began their campaigning for a referendum on joining the High Kingdoms of Alaxia.

To prevent the left-wing from losing a vote of no confidence potentially being tabled by the Liberal party, Hopkins agreed to enter into coalition with Labour under the understanding an early election would be called in 2448 with both parties running. An electoral pact stated that whichever of the two socialist parties received a higher vote share, they would lead the coalition and become prime minister, and their position on the referendum would go forward.

The results saw the incumbent People's Socialist Party come third, reduced from a majority in the previous election to fewer than 100 seats, a decrease of 209. The Labour party gained 227 seats to become the largest party. Combined they held 325 seats total, a left-wing majority of 48.

The opposition Liberal party bled votes to the Nationalist party, which campaigned against integration to the HKA. The Liberals lost 67 seats to hit 147 seats, still coming second, but suffering their worst defeat since 2423 prior to it becoming a major party again. The Nationalists won 77 seats, an increase of 53 seats, with over 4 million votes. It was their best result in history, and it came fourth overall. The Green party also received over one million votes, but only gained six seats.

In the aftermath of the election, Lukas Knight became prime minister as the leader of the largest socialist party in the coalition He would hold a referendum on HKA statehood in July 2448.

General Election

Results

Party			Leader	Popular vote	Pc	+/–	Seats
	Labour Party	LAB	Lukas Knight	12,225,722	37.01%	+37.01	227 / 600	227
	Liberal Party	LP	Frankie George	7,896,711	23.91%	–11.43	147 / 600	67
	People's Socialist Party	PSP	Sofia Hopkins	5,284,973	16.00%	–34.58	98 / 600	209
	Nationalist Party	NAT	Luka Beckers	4,183,972	12.67%	+8.66	77 / 600	53
	Green Party	GRN	Eleanor Vilis	1,671,185	5.06%	+0.88	31 / 600	6
	Centre Party	CE	Willems Lockhart	655,112	1.98%	–0.99	12 / 600	6
	Conservative Party	CON	Edward Sava	333,892	1.01%	–0.33	6 / 600	2
	Traditional Ankrank Party	TA	Francis Letterman	110,269	0.33%	–0.10	2 / 600
	Bokanist Values Party	BVP	Peter Watkinson	51,296	0.16%	–0.04	0 / 600	1
	Pink Daphne Party	PDP	Emilena Tupel	Didn't run				1
Blank, invalid, and other parties				618,295	2.17%	+1.42	n/a
Total and swing				33,031,427	100%	+24.22	—

Detailed Results

Vote share Labour   12,225,722 Liberal   7,896,711 PSP   5,284,973 Nationalist   4,183,972 Green   1,671,185 Centre   655,112 Conservative   333,892

Seat count Labour   277 Liberal   147 PSP   98 Nationalist   77 Green   31 Centre   12 Conservative   6

Turnout

Type	Population	%
Population	43,549,229	100%
Eligible to vote	35,678,080	81.93%
Turnout	33,031,427	92.58%