People's Socialist Party of Empherias

The People's Socialist Party of Empherias, more commonly known as the Socialist Party is a left wing political party in the Kingdom of Empherias. The party has been either the governing party or the biggest opposition since 2407 and runs exclusively in Empherias. It is a subsidiary of the political party, Red Bloq, which runs as a national party in both the High Kingdoms of Alaxia, and Grensalbourg

People's Socialist Party
Leader	Lucy King
Founder	Elizabeth Rose
Founded	March 24, 2398 (2398-03-24)
Ideology	democratic socialism
House of Parliament	296 / 600
Politics of Empherias Elections

The party was founded in 2398 as a reaction to the new populist government and the 2395 revolution. Elizabeth Rose agreed a lot with the populists but believed they should be going further into helping the poorer parts of society move away from abject poverty and lesser the burden of capitalism. They served in government under Rose, and later Alice Rettels and Edward Broedesmore from 2411 to 2412 and 2415 to 2433. Following a brief stint of Liberal rule, the Socialists once again ruled under Katelyn Roberts and Sofia Hopkins from 2441 to 2448. Upon the Empherian accession to the High Kingdoms, Hopkins predominately ruled as Socialist Prime Minister from 2453 to 2475, with Klara Willows and Vincent Burken ruling for a term each.

The People's Socialist Party currently forms the ruling party of Empherias, having won it back from the Liberals in 2487 by Alistair Walker. The current Prime Minister is Lucy King who succeeded Walker in 2488. During the last election in 2499, King received a narrow plurality in the parliament following years of large majorities.

General Elections

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Election	Leader	Votes		Seats			Position	Government
		No.	Share	No.	±	Share
1900	Template:Sortname	62,698	1.8	2 / 670	2	0.3	5th	Template:No2
1906		321,663	5.7	29 / 670	27	4.3	4th	Template:No2
January 1910	Template:Sortname	505,657	7.6	40 / 670	11	6.0	4th	Template:No2
December 1910	Template:Sortname	371,802	7.1	42 / 670	2	6.3	4th	Template:No2
1918	Template:Sortname	2,245,777	21.5	57 / 707	15	8.1	4th	Template:No2
1922	Template:Sortname	4,076,665	29.7	142 / 615	85	23.1	2nd	Template:No2
1923	Template:Sortname	4,267,831	30.7	191 / 625	49	30.1	2nd	Template:Yes2
1924		5,281,626	33.3	151 / 615	40	24.6	2nd	Template:No2
1929		8,048,968	37.1	287 / 615	136	47.0	1st	Template:Yes2
1931	Template:Sortname	6,339,306	30.8	52 / 615	235	8.5	2nd	Template:No2
1935	Template:Sortname	7,984,988	38.0	154 / 615	102	25.0	2nd	Template:No2
1945		11,967,746	47.7	393 / 640	239	61.0	1st	Template:Yes2
1950		13,266,176	46.1	315 / 625	78	50.4	1st	Template:Yes2
1951		13,948,883	48.8	295 / 625	20	47.2	2nd	Template:No2
1955		12,405,254	46.4	277 / 630	18	44.0	2nd	Template:No2
1959	Template:Sortname	12,216,172	43.8	258 / 630	19	40.1	2nd	Template:No2
1964	Template:Sortname	12,205,808	44.1	317 / 630	59	50.3	1st	Template:Yes2
1966		13,096,629	48.0	364 / 630	47	57.8	1st	Template:Yes2
1970		12,208,758	43.1	288 / 630	76	45.7	2nd	Template:No2
February 1974		11,645,616	37.2	301 / 635	13	47.4	1st	Template:Yes2
October 1974		11,457,079	39.2	319 / 635	18	50.2	1st	Template:Yes2
1979	Template:Sortname	11,532,218	36.9	269 / 635	50	42.4	2nd	Template:No2
1983	Template:Sortname	8,456,934	27.6	209 / 650	60	32.2	2nd	Template:No2
1987	Template:Sortname	10,029,807	30.8	229 / 650	20	35.2	2nd	Template:No2
1992		11,560,484	34.4	271 / 651	42	41.6	2nd	Template:No2
1997	Template:Sortname	13,518,167	43.2	419 / 659	148	63.6	1st	Template:Yes2
2001		10,724,953	40.7	413 / 659	6	62.7	1st	Template:Yes2
2005		9,562,122	35.3	356 / 646	57	55.1	1st	Template:Yes2
2010	Template:Sortname	8,601,441	29.1	258 / 650	98	40.0	2nd	Template:No2
2015	Template:Sortname	9,339,818	30.5	232 / 650	26	36.0	2nd	Template:No2
2017	Template:Sortname	12,874,985	40.0	262 / 650	30	40.3	2nd	Template:No2
2019		10,269,076	32.2	202 / 650	60	31.1	2nd	Template:No2