2022 Alslandic legislative election

Next Alslandic legislative election

On or before 5 September 2022
All 201 seats in the Folkssenaat 101 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Current seats LD Eltsje Nicolai 29 CI Ermnbryht Vrihte 21 FH Ottila Möller 17 SDS Ạlfgar Þraller 16 USD Sören Dittrich 15 SDD Sappe Van Der Lei 15 SFP Griġm Vaġner 11 OP Elsert Wassenaar 11 G-AK Sjearp Groeneveld 10 HSU Hilda Schaaf 10 PFD Petra Glasser 10 AP-LL Jabik Nieuwenhuis 9 PO Alof Oosterbaan 5 KRP Ahto Malk 4 ASAY Braalt Holtrop 3
Incumbent Premier Ottila Möller Progressive Holsteen

Legislative elections are scheduled to be held in the United Provinces of Alsland by 5 September 2022. All 201 members of the Folkssenaat will be up for election.

Background

The 2018 Alslandic legislative election was held after a 4-year coalition government led by Liveable Delland and involving Civic Initiative, Progressive Holsteen, the Social Democrats of Swerdia, the Party for Freedom and Democracy, Green - Alternative Choice and the Countryside and Agrarian Party. The coalition had lost it's majority prior to the election when the Countryside and Agrarian Party left the coalition over a proposed climate change bill. Following the election, despite the coalition coming close to winning a majority in the Folkssenaat but remained just shy of the 101 required seats to form a majority government.

After Civic Initiative threatened to leave coalition negotiations Premier Liekele Ykema resigned and was succeeded by the moderate Hepke Veltman. The Veltman cabinet was sworn in 6 months after the election when the Kirenian People's Party agreed to support the government. Hepke Veltman resigned in 2020 after being elected as President of Alsland. He was succeeded by Ottila Möller of Progressive Holsteen. The coalition gained additional seats in 2021 when the eco-conservative Community 2000 party merged with the Green Party.

Electoral system

The distribution of seats between each constituency

All 201 Senators are members of 18 constituencies which represent each Province of Alsland. Senators are elected using the Party-list proportional representation, using the Boeri method. The 2022 election will be the first federal election to allow for the possibility of overhang seats following an electoral reform law passed in 2019.

Contesting parties

Major parties

The following are Political parties with over 10 seats in the Folkssenaat or is represented in the Euclean Parliament.

Liekele Ykema was Premier between 2011 until his resignation after the 2018 election

Hepke Veltman was Premier between 2018 until his election as President in 2020

Ottila Möller has been Premier since 2020

Liveable Delland (LD; Leefber Dellân) is the largest party in the Alslandic Folkssenaat with 29 out of 201 available seats and has been in government since 2011. The party is active only within the Dellish Community. It was the senior coalition partner in the First Ykema Cabinet from 2011 until 2014, the Second Ykema Cabinet from 2014 until 2018 and the Veltman Cabinet from 2018 to 2020. The party's leader is Eltsje Nicolai who is the Secretary of Defence in the Möller Cabinet.

Civic Initiative (CI; TBD) is the second largest party in the Folkssenaat with 21 seats. It has been a member of successive coalitions since 2008. The party is active within the Swathish Community. The party's current leader is Ermnbryht Vrihte who was Premier between 2008 and 2011. The party's refusal to start coalition negotiations with Liekele Ykema triggered his resignation as Premier following the 2018 election, the party eventually agreed to enter a successive coalition led by Liveable Delland after several months of negotiations.

Progressive Holsteen (FH; Fortschrittlich Holsteen) is the third largest party in the Folkssenaat with 17 seats. The party is active only within the Holsaten Community. Formerly the Social Democrats of Holsteen the party had been a junior member of the government since 2008. It's current leader is Ottila Möller who was Secretary of Finance between 2014 and 2020 when she became Premier upon the resignation of Hepke Veltman.

The Social Democrats of Swerdia (SDS; Sȯcydėmscrats ạf Swerdia) is the fourth largest party in the Folkssenaat with 16 seats. The party is active only within the Swathish Community. The party historically was a major opponent of Civic Initiative. It agreed to enter a coalition with the party after the 2014 elections. The party's current leader is Ạlfgar Þraller who is a critic of the current coalition and has suggested that a new government should be elected after the 2022 election. The party considered trying to form a coalition of FH, itself, the SDD and other miscellaneous left wing political parties and Sotirian Democratic parties.

The Union of Sotirians and Democrats (USD, Union der Sotirianer und Demokraten) is the joint-largest opposition party in the Folkssenaat and fifth largest party overall with 15 seats. The party is active only within the Holsaten Community. The party was in a coalition with Liveable Delland from 2011 and 2014 when it witnessed it's worst ever election result and only won 5 seats. It recovered in 2018 but was still confined to opposition. The party's leader since 2013 has been Sören Dittrich who has moved the party towards centrism and away from it's Catholic roots.

The Social Democrats of Delland (SDD, Sosjaaldemokraten fan Dellân) is the joint-largest opposition party in the Folkssenaat and joint-fifth largest party overall with 15 seats. The party is active only within the Dellish Community. The party was last in government between 2008 and 2011 but refused to join a coalition led by Liveable Delland. It was the primary opposition party between 2011 and 2018 but lost seats in the 2018 election. The party is led by actor Sappe Van Der Lei who appeared in the television series Defektor as a socialist politician.

The Sotirian People's Party (SFP, Sotiġstish Folcspartẹ) is the joint-sixth largest party in the Folkssenaat with 11 seats. The party is active only within the Swathish Community. The party was last in government between 2008 and 2014 but did not renew it's coalition with Liveable Delland after other Sotirian political parties were not invited to negotiations. The party dropped this position following the 2018 election but was not invited to coalition negotiations. It is currently led by Griġm Vaġner who was Secretary of Social Affairs between 2008 and 2014.

The Orange Party (OP, Oranjepartij) is the joint-sixth largest party in the Folkssenaat with 11 seats. The party is active across Alsland and is the largest Federal political party. Until 2014 it and all other right-wing populist political parties were subject to a cordon sanitaire by the other political parties but this position was dropped for the Orange Party after it liberalised and disavowed it's radical wing. The party has never been in government on the Federal level. It is led by Elsert Wassenaar who is the first openly gay leader of a major political party in Alsland.

Green - Alternative Choice (G-AK, Grien - Alternatyf kar) is the joint-seventh largest party in the Folkssenaat with 10 seats. The party is active across Alsland. The party has been a member of the government since 2014. It is led by Sjearp Groeneveld who came within 10,000 votes of becoming the first Green President of Alsland in 2020. It has seen a surge in support since the 2019 Euclean Parliament election.

The Party for Freedom and Democracy (PFD, Partei für Freiheit und Demokratie) is the joint-seventh largest party in the Folkssenaat with 10 seats. The party is active in the Holsaten Community. It has been a member of the governing coalition since 2011. The party's leader is Petra Glasser who succeeded Ottila Möller as Secretary of Finance in 2020. Glassler has continued the PFD's policy of Radical Centrism and threatened to leave the coalition in 2020 if a Liveable Delland candidate was selected to be Premier following Hepke Veltman's resignation.

The Humanist Sotirian Union (HSU, Humanistyske SotiryskeUnie) is the joint-seventh largest party in the Folkssenaat with 10 seats. The party is active in the Dellish Community. It was formed in 2015 as a merger between the Amendist New Sotirian People's Party and the Catholic Centrist Humanist Alliance. It is co-led by Hilda Schaaf from the Amendist wing and Suwert Jorritsma of the Catholic wing. Schaaf is the Party's candidate for Premier.

The Workers Party - Left List (AP - LL, Arbeiderspartij - Linkse List) is the eighth largest party in the Folkssenaat with 10 seats. The party is active across Alsland. It is a merger between the Workers Party and the Left List party which was formalised in 2010. It led a government in Alsland between 2004 and 2008 alongside other left-wing political parties. The party is led by Jabik Nieuwenhuis who was Premier between 2004 and 2008. Recently the party has began a shift towards adopting Social Democracy as it's core ideology to form a unified party of the left.

Team Oosterbaan (PO, Ploech Oosterbaan) is the ninth largest party in the Folkssenaat with 5 seats. The party is active across Alsland. It was founded in 2019 before the 2019 Euclean parliament election by defectors from the Orange Party, it won 2 seats in the subsequent election. It is primarily comprised of the extreme wings of the Orange Party and members of the Orange Party's former Youth Wing. It is led by Alof Oosterbaan who was the party's leading candidate for the Euclean election, Oosterbaan has declared his intention to become Premier after the election if his party wins the most seats.

Opinion polls

Main article: Opinion polling for the 2022 Alslandic legislative election