2449 Empherias general election
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| Turnout | 92.58% ( 7.45) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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
General Election
Overview
Regional votes
Shifts in demographics
Late polling data
Scandals during the campaign
Results
| 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
Turnout
| 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% |