2021 Haltorian Presidential Election
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597 members of the Electoral College 299 votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 221,483,716 (  3.6pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 168,970,653 (76.3%) ( 0.0pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2021 Haltorian Presidential Election was the TBDth quintennial presidential election in Haltoria. The election consisted of 2 rounds. The first, held on TBD, saw a total of 5 major candidates recieve electoral votes. As no candidate recieved a majority of the electoral votes, a runoff election was held between the two candidates, Senator from Rondane William Fraiser and Governor of Sørheim TBD.
Senator Fraiser won by a margin of 51 electoral votes and took 50.1% of the popular vote, a narrow margin of only 410,000 votes.
Electoral System
Under Title II. Section VI. of the Commonweatlth of Haltorian Constitution, the President and Vice President are elected to a five-year term in an indirect election. Voters vote for slates of electors, who then cast their votes for the President and Vice President. Electors are distruted based on a state's delegation to the federal Parliament. As of 2021, the smallest state was Andeborg, which recieved 5 electors from their state delegation. States and territories are also allocated votes based on the Chamber of Representatives' seats distributed by the national popular vote in legislative elections, with a requirement to distribute them equally amongst the states. As there are 150 Chamber seats allocated by the national popular vote at the time of the last Apportionment Act, in practice this meant that each state recieved an additional four electors, and the territories were distributed the remaining fourteen based on population.
If no candidate recieves an absolute majority of the electoral votes in the first round, a second round his held two weeks later between the two candidates who recieved the most votes. According to the Constitution, the first round must be held on the second Tuesday of November in the capital, and the votes must be counted by the Vice President (actin in his role as President of the Senate) no more than forty-eight hours after the Electors have cast their votes. If a second round is necessary, it must be held exactly twenty-one days after the electoral votes have been counted. The winner of the election then takes office on the 1st of January, giving them just under a month for the President-Elect to prepare to assume office.
In both rounds, electoral votes are distributed by winner-take-all per state to the candidate who wins a plurality of the popular vote. Due to the nature of Haltorian politics, this means that a candidate could win the election outright in the first round, whilst losing the popular vote by a considerable margin.
Results
First Round
| Candidate for President | Party | Home State | Popular Vote | Electoral Vote | Vice President | |||
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| Count | Percentage | Candidate for President | ||||||
| Home State | Electoral Vote | |||||||
| Daniel Presscot | National Liberal | TBD | 68,520,060 | 39.76 | 204 | Olaf Meifrend | Akershavn | 204 |
| William Frasier | United Haltoria | Rondane | 50,253,325 | 29.16 | 292 | Peter Kolstad | Telemark | 292 |
| TBD | Social Union (Haltoria) | TBD | 28,605,166 | 16.60 | 81 | TBD | TBD | 81 |
| TBD | Democratic Socialist | TBD | 9,090,403 | 7.78% | 11 | TBD | TBD | 11 |
| TBD | National Union (Haltoria) | TBD | 13,415,167 | 7.78% | 9 | TBD | TBD | 9 |
| All Other Candidates | 1,655,901 | 1.42% | 0 | All Other Candidates | 0 | |||
| Discarded Votes | 834,246 | |||||||
| Total | 172,334,146 | 100% | 597 | Total | 597 | |||
| Required for Victory | 299 | Required for Victory | 229 | |||||