ᴍ:2318 Hveden Federation presidential election
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| Registered | 73.79% (210,641,031) ( 0.14pp) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 51.23% (107,911,400) ( 1.71pp) | ||||||||||||||||
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The 2318 Hveden Federation presidential election took place between 1 April 2318 to 28 June 2318 to elect the President of the Hveden Federation. The winner would enter office on 1 July 2314. 73.97% of the population were eligible to vote, and there was a recorded turnout of 51.23%. Incumbent president Alessand Braune did not seek re-election.
After significant friction with coalition partners the People Party, with them threatening to withdraw from the coalition three times over disputes, alongside a collapse in the United Party vote share in the last election, Braune stated he would not seek re-election after the 2314 election. He did toy with the idea of running after not stating so, but was quickly shot down by his advisors. A brief illness completely ruled out him from running due to the harsh campaigning nature entirely. Braune did run for the senate in Crimslette in a safe area hoping to return to the senate during the new presidency. This meant that a primary would take place once again in January 2318. There were two main contenders, both of whom had run in the 2314 primary: Karl Seiger and Klemens Freitag. Ultimately, Freitag withdrew from the contest conceding it to Karl Seiger, who had technically won the 2314 primary but dropped out. Seiger had a lot of experience, having served as Foreign Secretary for 16 years, since 2302.
Fritz Wentzel of the National Party was unanimously re-selected as the candidate after he came second in the 2314 presidential election. He had increased the vote share by fourteen points despite significant showings from similar-ideological parties and was only two percentage points behind the ultimate winner. He would viciously campaign, hoping to try and get United Party voters by appealing to more domestic left wing policies, which angered some other nationals. The People Party did again, not field a candidate, as part of the coalition.
The Separatist Bloc formed as a ticket that combined talents from the Egovian, Matkalvina, and Blaszkyan and Avstedeten national parties, hoping to be a more right wing alternative to the National party. They nominated Mersey Turpitz as their candidate. He was 67 years old, making him one of the oldest candidates ever, and this was his fourth nomination after his nominations in 2306, 2310, and 2314 for the Matkalvina Nationalist Party. The Conservative party candidate ran 38 year old William Glasz, an MP elected in 2310.
United Party candidate Karl Seiger would win the election with 48 million votes and 45.21% of the vote, the second lowest vote share ever, but up 8.7 percentage points from the previous and worst result in 2314 and simultaneously the most votes cast for a single candidate ever. It was a margin of 20.41 percentage points over second place Fritz Wentzel who received 26 million votes and 24.8% of the vote. Seiger believed this was a good result for him because he described his opponent Wentzel as 'one of the great political forces of the century'. Seiger would award Wentzel a special recognition award in 2419. The Separatists achieving 17% and over 18 million votes was described as an incredible result but a bad day for nationalism as they continued to fail to get into governance fighting over themselves.
Results[edit | edit source]
| Party | Candidate | Former occupation | Votes | % | Change | |
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| United Party | Karl Seiger | Foreign Secretary (2302–2318) | 48,786,744 | 45.21% | 8.74pp
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| National Party | Fritz Wentzel | Senate Leader of the Opposition (2304–2306) | 26,762,027 | 24.80% |  9.40pp
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| Separatist Bloc | Mersey Turpitz | Vice-President of Matkalvina (2294–2298) | 18,970,824 | 17.58% | 1.42pp
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| Conservative Party | William Glasz | MP since 2310 | 10,640,064 | 9.86% | 0.80pp
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| No party | 2,751,741 | 2.55% | 0.04pp
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| Total | 107,911,400 | — | ||||