1935 Inglaterran Election

1935 Inglaterran Election

26 May 1935
All 350 seats in the General Assembly 175 seats needed for a majority
Registered	69,420,257 (4.6 pp)
Turnout	58,521,277 (84.3%) (8.8 pp)
First party Second party   Candidate Adolphus Hiet Karl Hoeven Party National Coalition for Unity Communist Leader since 1935 1923 Leader's seat Fort Anders Orcakust Seats before 270 80 Seats won 182 168 Popular vote 30,314,022 27,973,170 Percentage 51.8% 47.8% Swing 25.9% 25.1%
Chancellor before election Gustaf Anders Social Republican Elected Chancellor Adolphus Hiet National Coalition for Unity

The 1935 Inglaterran Election was held on Sunday, 26 May 1935. It was the seventh election since Inglaterra's independence in 1899. All 350 seats in the Inglaterran General Assembly were up for election in a proportional election with a minimum threshold of 5% to enter the Assembly.

The election saw all major parties seek a grand coalition in opposition to the Communists and their leader, Karl Hoeven. All major parties would declare a cordon sanitaire against the Communist Party. While not all members complied, a vast majority did. This result in a closely contested election decided narrowly in favor of the Coalition, which won 51.8% of the vote and a thin 8 seat majority.

This would be the final free and fair election in Inglaterra for nearly 50 years, as on 19 June Karl Hoeven would march on Aachtigen and execute senior leadership of the Hiet Cabinet and seize control. It would not be until the 1984 election that Inglaterra would host free and fair democratic elections.

Background

The Great Business Collapse began at the end of 1928 and by May of 1929 had destroyed the economy, which was previously growing under Erik van Vries. This collapse led to the unemployment rate spiking to nearly 35% by election day, with millions out of work or jobless across the country. This led to a surge in extremist parties, such as the Communist Party, which quadrupled in size from 1926 to 1929 and doubled from 1929 to 1935.

Faced with a mass exodus of voters, several unpopular Social Republican chancellors, and a surging opposition, the Social Republicans united with the Confederalists into a single coalition and invited every other party represented in the Assembly to join as well. While this tactic was successful for a short time, the Coalition won the 1935 election, it would end in violence when Karl Hoeven assembled a small paramilitary force and seized control of Aachtigen.