2449 Empherias general election
The 2449 Empherias general election was held on 8 September 2449 to elect 600 members to the Empherias parliament. It was the first election held since it joined the High Kingdoms of Alaxia on 1 December 2448, following a referendum voting in favour in July 2448. Prime minister Lukas Knight held a snap election to re-affirm the nation's interests after the previous election in 2448 was very influenced by the pan-Alaxanism issue.
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All 600 seats to the House of Parliament 301 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 88.13% ( 4.45) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Labour party once again won a plurality, though reduced to just 187 seats, a decrease of 40 from the last election. The PSP gained 35 seats though, meaning the two combined socialist parties lost a net five seats and only swung 0.60pp to other parties. Sofia Hopkins achieving a swing to her party from Labour was a good sign as those who got their way following the result wanted to return to normality. The Liberal party increased from 147 to 155 seats, although this was still a disappointing result compared to others. The Lab–PSP government's new majority was 48, and Lukas Knight was re-elected prime minister.
The Nationalists maintained their vote share nearly exactly, which presented itself as a static opposition to HKA statehood after many other parties had accepted the democratic mandate and new status quo. However, with only 12% of the vote and 75 out of 600 seats in parliament, it'd be hard to see them as a meaningful force unless the Liberals needed to rely on them for governance. The Greens also won over a million votes again, nearly 4%, but lost 7 seats to hit 24 seats total. Alliance, the new name for the Centre party, seemingly benefitted by the name change and affiliation with the Alliance group, winning a 50% increase in their popular vote, but this only materialised into 5 new seats to hit 17 total.
Background Edit
General Election Edit
Overview Edit
Regional votes Edit
Shifts in demographics Edit
Late polling data Edit
Scandals during the campaign Edit
Results Edit
| Party | Leader | Popular vote | Pc | +/– | Seats | |||
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| Labour Party | LAB | Lukas Knight | 9,972,163 | 30.55% | –6.46 | 187 / 600
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| Liberal Party | LP | Frankie George | 8,291,256 | 25.40% | +1.49 | 155 / 600
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| People's Socialist Party | PSP | Sofia Hopkins | 7,135,613 | 21.86% | +5.86 | 133 / 600
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| Nationalist Party | NAT | William Artenflower | 4,019,255 | 12.31% | –0.36 | 75 / 600
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| Green Party | GRN | Alistair C. Jones | 1,291,665 | 3.96% | –1.10 | 24 / 600
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| Alliance Party | ALL | Willems Lockhart | 928,552 | 2.84% | +0.86 | 17 / 600
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| Conservative Party | CON | Agnes Watts | 388,195 | 1.19% | +0.18 | 7 / 600
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| Anchor Party | ANC | Gat Veleker | 109,285 | 0.33% | 0.00 | 2 / 600
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| Bokanist Values Party | BVP | — | 47,124 | 0.14% | –0.02 | 0 / 600
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| Pink Daphne Party | PDP | — | 20,128 | 0.06% | +0.06 | 0 / 600
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| Social Democratic Party | SDP | — | 16,285 | 0.05% | New | 0 / 600
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| Right Way Party | RW | — | 14,997 | 0.05% | New | 0 / 600
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| Mutaarist Party | MT | — | 14,762 | 0.05% | New | 0 / 600
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| New Centre Party | NCP | — | 11,245 | 0.03% | New | 0 / 600
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| Blank, invalid, and other parties below 10,000 | 385,122 | 1.18% | –0.99 | n/a | ||||
| Total and swing | 32,645,647 | 100% | –3.98 | — | ||||
Detailed Results Edit
Turnout Edit
| Type | Population | % |
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| Population | 45,113,934 | 100% |
| Eligible to vote | 37,041,148 | 82.11% |
| Turnout | 32,645,647 | 88.13% |