2016 Torisakia Federal Election

2016 Torisakia Federal Election

March 3, 2016 (2016-03-03)
All 220 constituencies of Torisakia 111 votes needed to win
Turnout	55.1% 2.4pp
Nominee Doug McDowell Ramon Gosnell Henry Edny Party New Democratic Conservative Greens Home state Dorrsville Crandall-Kian Logan Presidents City Running mate Ian Klerkse Patrick Moreland Chad Sloan States carried 158 33 13 Popular vote 48,784,544 10,191,757 4,076,702 Percentage 71.8% 15% 6%   Nominee Richard Jelks Perseo Vanegas Party Liberal Gonzalez Isle National Home state Auerila Gonzalez Isle Running mate Mark Fenderson Aser Almaraz States carried 9 7 Popular vote 2,717,802 2,174,241 Percentage 4% 3.2%
Presidential election results map. Blue denotes constituencies won by Gosnell/Moreland, Red by Jelks/Fenderson, Purple by McDowell/Klerkse, Green by Edny/Sloan, and Ruddy Blue by Vanegas/Almaraz
President before election Rosalind Dupond Conservative Elected President Doug McDowell New Democratic

The 2016 Torisakia Federal Election was held on March 3, 2016. It was the 47th quadrennial presidential election and the 12th of the Democracy era. Voters elected the president and vice president directly using the first-past-the-post method. The candidate with the most votes in a constituency is declared to have 'won' that constituency and is awarded it. The first candidate to win a majority of the constituencies is elected president. This was a Snap Election called after incumbent president Rosalind Dupond was impeached by the people of Torisakia in a referendum on January 10, 2016. With the election being held in less than two months from the referendum, brief primaries and caucases were held across the country that were much shorter and hastily put together compared to a normal election year, which would have been in 2018 had the snap election not been called.

Following Dupond's impeachment conviction on November 28, 2015, an official referendum took place as to whether or not the Torisakian people wanted Dupond out of office or not, pursuant to Article II, Section 5 of the Constitution of Torisakia. The referendum was held on January 10, 2016, with the 'Yes, remove Dupond from office' side winning 97% of the vote. Along with the referendum, Torisakians were also allowed to vote on whether or not a new election should be held with fresh candidates or have Vice President Ramon Gosnell succeed into the presidency (he was already deemed the acting President, in accordance with the constitution). Torisakians also overwhelmingly voted 'Yes' to this, with 88% voting to hold another election. As such, the election date was set for first Thursday in March.

Acting president Ramon Gosnell was quickly nominated by the Conservative Party as their candidate, attempting to pick up the piece to the broken administration that was Dupond's. Liberal Party candidate Richard Jelks defeated Senator Herbert Gagne in an instant-runoff vote during the Liberal Party Primaries in late January (normally, a two-round runoff system is used during election primaries), amassing 83,548 votes. New Democratic Party candidate and former Minister of Economic Development Doug McDowell defeated Governor Joel Tuthill in an IRV handidly with a total of 106,387 votes, still riding on the early success he had during his 2008 presidential campaign. Lieutenent Governor Henry Edny won the Green Party primaries in a landslide, garnering 83% of the vote. The Gonzalez Isle Nationalist Party held a single primary in which business magnate Perseo Vanegas won nomination in what La Libertad, a far-right Gonzalez Isle news site, called "the biggest political landslide in history", although sources vary on the validaty of that statement.

Doug McDowell won in a landslide over Gosnell, Jelks, Edny, and Vanegas, winning both the majority of the constituencies and the popular vote. McDowell won 158 constituencies and 71.8% of the popular vote, while Gosnell won 33 constituencies and 15% of the popular vote, Edny with 13 consitutencies and 6% of the popular vote, Jelks with 9 constituencies and 4% of the popular vote, and Vanegas with 7 constituencies and 3.2% of the popular vote. McDowell was inaugurated three days later on March 10, 2016.