2495 Empherias general election

The 2495 Empherias general election was held on 29 September 2495, to elect 600 members to the Parliament of Empherias. It resulted in the incumbent People's Socialist Party losing over one hundred seats and receiving a plurality of the seats, short 10 for a majority. The Liberal party returned to opposition as the second largest party with 207 seats, up from 36 seats at the last election. This was the second consecutive election victory by Prime Minister Lucy King, and third consecutive victory for the Socialists.

2495 Empherias general election

September 29, 2495 (2495-09-29)
All 600 seats to the Parliament of Empherias 301 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	80.28% (48,744,598) (0.06pp)
Turnout	90.58% (44,152,857) (2.06pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Lucy King William Turner Pippin Pierre Party PSP Liberals Nationalists Leader since 9 July 2488 3 November 2494 25 February 2497 Last election 291 seats, 48.5% 207 seats, 34.5% 68 seats, 11.3% Seats won 296, 49.3% 254, 42.3% 25, 4.2% Seat change 5, 0.8% 47, 7.8% 43, 7.1% Popular vote 21,732,024 18,648,426 1,835,475 Percentage TBD TBD TBD Swing TBD pp TBD pp TBD pp
File:2495 empherias election map.png
Prime Minister before election Lucy King (King III) PSP Elected Prime Minister Lucy King (King IV) PSP

Polling

Dates conducted	Pollster	Sample size	PSP	LIB	NAT	CON	ALL	GRN	ANK	BVP	Others	Lead
2 September 2499	2499 Empherias general election	–	49.3%	42.3%	4.2%	1.0%	1.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	n/a	7.0%
14 June 2496	RegPoll	620	48%	30%	6%	1%	7%	8%	0%	0%		18%
31 May 2496	RegPoll	615	50%	27%	7%	1%	6%	8%	1%	0%		23%
17 May 2496	RegPoll	612	48%	28%	8%	1%	7%	7%	1%	0%		20%
3 May 2496	RegPoll	621	50%	27%	7%	1%	6%	8%	1%	0%		23%
19 April 2496	RegPoll	629	49%	28%	8%	0%	6%	8%	1%	0%		21%
5 April 2496	RegPoll	631	52%	25%	6%	0%	4%	12%	1%	0%		27%
22 March 2496	RegPoll	605	54%	21%	8%	1%	3%	13%	0%	0%		33%
8 March 2496	RegPoll	619	51%	27%	7%	1%	3%	11%	0%	0%		24%
23 February 2496	RegPoll	618	50%	28%	6%	2%	4%	10%	0%	0%		22%
9 February 2496	RegPoll	620	48%	30%	8%	1%	3%	10%	0%	0%		18%
26 January 2496	RegPoll	613	53%	29%	8%	1%	3%	6%	0%	0%		24%
12 January 2496	RegPoll	605	54%	28%	8%	1%	4%	5%	0%	0%		26%
29 December 2495	RegPoll	606	51%	31%	9%	2%	3%	4%	0%	0%		20%
15 December 2495	RegPoll	621	53%	30%	9%	2%	2%	4%	0%	0%		23%
1 December 2495	RegPoll	625	49%	34%	10%	1%	2%	4%	0%	0%		15%
17 November 2495	RegPoll	622	50%	33%	10%	1%	2%	4%	0%	0%		17%
3 November 2495	RegPoll	610	51%	32%	11%	1%	1%	4%	0%	0%		19%
20 October 2495	RegPoll	613	50%	34%	11%	1%	1%	3%	0%	0%		16%
6 October 2495	RegPoll	609	49%	35%	11%	1%	2%	2%	0%	0%		14%
29 September 2495	2495 Empherias general election	–	48.6%	34.5%	11.3%	1.3%	2.0%	1.8%	0.3%	0.2%	n/a	14.1%

Results

296	264	25	15
Socialists	Liberals	Nationalists	O

Party			Leader	Seats	change	MP %s	Pop vote		change
	Red Bloq	PSP	Lucy King	291 (48.5%)	126 (21.0pp)	291 / 600	21,382,196	48.43%	7,963,023	20.98pp
	Liberal Party	LIB	William Turner	207 (34.5%)	171 (28.5pp)	207 / 600	15,206,181	34.44%	12,677,060	28.46pp
	Nationalist Party	NP	Kristopher Simons	68 (11.33%)	19 (14.5pp)	68 / 600	5,000,195	11.32%	1,110,101	3.13pp
	Alliance Party	ALL	Oskar Nikolei	12 (2.00%)	17 (2.83pp)	12 / 600	865,122	1.96%	1,117,073	2.73pp
	Green and Durbanists	GRN	Georgia White	11 (1.83%)	5 (0.83pp)	11 / 600	538,912	1.22%	156,317	0.32pp
	Conservative Party	CON	James Armisen Bleaker	8 (1.33%)	10 (1.67pp)	8 / 600	785,285	1.78%	400,481	1.02pp
	Anchor Party	ANK	David Myres	2 (0.33%)	4 (0.33pp)	2 / 600	99,285	0.22%	160,827	0.40pp
	Bokanist Values Party	BVP	Harris Bennett	1 (0.17%)	2 (0.33pp)	1 / 600	66,295	0.15%	101,889	0.25pp
	Pink Daphnes	PDP	Ella Owen	0 (0.00%)			19,964	0.05%	41	0.00pp
	Independents (non-party)			0 (0.00%)			49,127	0.11%	16,467	0.03pp
Blank and invalid votes							140,295	0.32%	121,661	0.30pp
Total				600 seats			44,152,857	90.58%	1,874,748	2.06pp
Registered voters							48,744,598	80.28%	983,516	0.06pp

Analysis

Indepth changes to the result

Sideways parliament bar chart

Parliament chart (flourish)

bicumeral chart

Indepth result table

MPs who lost their set, MPs who gained their sets

Changes to government