1911 Inglaterran Election

1911 Inglaterran Election

28 May 1911
All 350 seats in the General Assembly 175 seats needed for a majority
Registered	29,320,221 (7.4 pp)
Turnout	20,230,953 (69.4%) ( 1.9 pp)
First party Second party   Candidate Max van Raydel Karl Blivin Party Confederalist Social Republican Leader since 1904 1904 Leader's seat Orcakust Påskebyen Seats before 183 163 Seats won 42 39 Seats after 225 124 Popular vote 12,361,112 6,838,062 Percentage 61.1% 33.8% Swing 9.18% 13.73%
Chancellor before election Max van Raydel Confederalist Elected Chancellor Max van Raydel Confederalist

The 1911 Inglaterran Election was held on Sunday, 28 May 1911. It was the second 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 a landslide victory for Max van Raydel of the ruling Confederal Party over Social Republican Karl Blivin by 5.5 million votes, over 27.3% of votes cast. As a result, the Confederal party took 225 seats, an increase of 42 seats. The Social Republicans and one indepedent took 125

Four future chancellors entered politics with this election, Leon Bitte, Micael Bydén, Erik van Vries, and, most infamously, a young Social Republican named Karl Hoeven.

Background

The various Inglaterran provinces had been unified previously, under the Dominion of Inglaterra. Independence was declared in June of 1899, with Joeri Wasindone becoming the first chancellor of a provisional council of representatives from each province. Despite Wasindone's personal popularity, his age, he was 76 years old on election day, led Wasindone to announce his retirement in 1904 and not run in the new elections, leading to a campaign and race to become the leader of the Confederal Party. Max van Raydel, the former governor of Orkakust, became the leader of the Confederal Party in a party conference held in December of 1904.

The Social Republican Party was primarily an alliance made up of left wing politicians in opposition to Van Raydel's conservatism and former pro-Niagaran delegates in opposition to Wasindone and the Confederal Party itself. Karl Blivin, a professor of political philosophy at the University of Rästvall, had favored compromise with Greater Niagara but eventually supported independence but was also a left wing philosopher, allowing him to appeal to both factions of the Social Republicans. He was elected, unopposed, in February of 1905 as the leader of the Social Republicans.

Main issues of the election were a sluggish economy, gutted by a loss of trade with Niagara and Alanna, territorial disputes with Niagara and its colonies in the Antarctic region, government reforms, and a buildup in the Inglaterran Navy to compensate for the loss of imperial protections.