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| majority_seats    = 175  
| majority_seats    = 175  
| registered = 62,175,894 <br>({{increase}}102.8% pp)  
| registered = 62,175,894 <br>({{increase}}102.8% pp)  
| turnout            = 22,196,320 (78.2%)<br>({{increase}} 5.8 pp)
| turnout            = 48,621,549 (78.2%)<br>({{increase}} 5.8 pp)
| election_date      = 27 May 1911
| election_date      = 27 May 1923
| map_image=  
| map_image=  


<!-- UDN -->
| image1        = [[File:David Lloyd George.jpg|160x160px]]
| image1        = [[File:Bainbridge Colby, bw photo portrait, 1920 (3x4a).jpg|160x160px]]
| candidate1        = [[Jens Larsson]]
| candidate1        = [[Leon Bitte]]
| party1       = [[Social Republican Party (Inglaterra)|Social Republican]]
| party1         = [[Confederal Party (Inglaterra)|Confederalist]]
| leaders_seat1     = [[Påskebyen]]
| leaders_seat1     = [[Aachtigen]]
| color1        = FFA500
| color1        = 5fd35f
| popular_vote1    = '''20,055,888'''
| popular_vote1    = '''7,502,365'''
| percentage1      = '''43.1%'''
| percentage1      = '''33.8%'''
| swing1            = {{increase}}10.4%
| swing1            = {{decrease}}27.3%
| leader_since1    = 1921
| leader_since1    = 1917
| last_election1    =  
| last_election1    =  
| seats_before1    = 225
| seats_before1    = 115
| seats1            = '''118'''
| seats_needed1    =
| seats1            = '''152'''


<!-- NPR -->
| image2        = [[File:Bainbridge Colby, bw photo portrait, 1920 (3x4a).jpg|160x160px]]
| image2        = [[File:Franklin Knight Lane.png|160x160px]]
| candidate2        = [[Leon Bitte]]
| candidate2        = [[Gustaf Folke]]
| party2         = [[Confederal Party (Inglaterra)|Confederalist]]
| party2       = [[Social Republican Party (Inglaterra)|Social Republican]]
| leaders_seat2     = [[Aachtigen]]
| leaders_seat2     = [[Fort Anders]]
| color2        = 5fd35f
| color2        = FFA500
| popular_vote2    = 14,635,086
| popular_vote2    = 7,258,197
| percentage2      = 30.1%
| percentage2      = 32.7%
| swing2            = {{decrease}}2.7%
| swing2            = {{decrease}}1.1%
| leader_since2    = 1917
| leader_since2    = 1904
| last_election2    =  
| last_election2    =  
| seats_before2    = 163
| seats_before2    = 118
| seats_needed2    = 13
| seats2            = 106
| seats2            = 115


| image3        = [[File:Karl Hoeven Young.jpg|160x160px]]
| image3        = [[File:Allan Louis Benson (1871–1940) circa 1915 (cropped).jpg|160x160px]]
| candidate3        = [[Karl Hoeven]]
| candidate3        = [[Rovelter Hoffsetston]]
| party3        = [[People's Militarist Party (Inglaterra)|People's Party]]
| party3        = [[Free Democratic Party of Inglaterra|Free Democratic]]
| leaders_seat3    = [[Orcakust]]
| leaders_seat3    = [[Harkzel]]
| color3        = 8B0000
| color3        = 00AEF3
| popular_vote3    = 3,440,430
| popular_vote3    = 3,262,859
| percentage3      = 15.5%
| percentage3      = 11.2%
| swing3           =  
| swing3           = {{decrease}}3.5%
| leader_since3    = 1917
| leader_since3    = 1917
| last_election3    =  
| last_election3    =  
| seats_before3    = ''None''
| seats_before3    = 51
| seats_needed3    =
| seats3 = 39
| seats3           = 54


| image4        = [[File:Allan Louis Benson (1871–1940) circa 1915 (cropped).jpg|160x160px]]
| image4        = [[File:Bonde, Carl i VJ 1942 bw.jpg|160x160px]]
| candidate4        = [[Rovelter Hoffsetston]]
| candidate4        = [[Hindrik Blomquist]]
| party4        = [[Free Democratic Party of Inglaterra|Free Democratic]]
| party4        = [[Reform Movement of Inglaterra|Reformist]]
| leaders_seat4    = [[Harkzel]]
| leaders_seat4    = [[Noardstêd]]
| color4        = 00AEF3
| color4        = FFFF00
| popular_vote4    = 3,262,859
| popular_vote4    = 3,452,130
| percentage4      = 14.7%
| percentage4      = 7.1%
| swing4            =  
| swing4            = {{increase}}3.9%
| leader_since4    = 1917
| leader_since4    = 1917
| last_election4    =  
| last_election4    =  
| seats_before4    = ''None''
| seats_before4    = 10
| seats_needed4    =  
| seats_needed4    =  
| seats4 = 51
| seats4 = 25


| image5        = [[File:Bonde, Carl i VJ 1942 bw.jpg|160x160px]]
| image5        = [[File:Karl Hoeven Young.jpg|160x160px]]
| candidate5        = [[Hindrik Blomquist]]
| candidate5        = [[Karl Hoeven]]
| party5        = [[Reform Movement of Inglaterra|Reformist]]
| party5        = [[Communist Party Inglaterra|Communist]]
| leaders_seat5    = [[Noardstêd]]
| leaders_seat5    = [[Orcakust]]
| color5        = FFFF00
| color5        = A60027
| popular_vote5    = 710,381
| popular_vote5    = 2,576,942
| percentage5      = 3.2%
| percentage5      = 5.3%
| swing5           =  
| swing5           =  
| leader_since5    = 1917
| leader_since5    = 1923
| last_election5    =  
| last_election5    =  
| seats_before5    = ''None''
| seats_before5    = ''None''
| seats_needed5    =  
| seats_needed5    =  
| seats5 = 10
| seats5           = 19




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<!-- Result -->
<!-- Result -->
| title          = [[Chancellor of Inglaterra|Chancellor]]
| title          = [[Chancellor of Inglaterra|Chancellor]]
| before_election = [[Max van Raydel]]
| before_election = [[Leon Bitte]]
| before_party    = [[Confederal Party (Inglaterra)|Confederalist]]
| before_party    = [[Confederal Party (Inglaterra)|Confederalist]]
| after_election  = [[Leon Bitte]]
| after_election  = [[Jens Larsson]]
| after_party    = [[Confederal Party (Inglaterra)|Confederalist]]
| after_party    = [[Social Republican Party (Inglaterra)|Social Republican]]
}}
}}


The '''1917 Inglaterran Election''' was held on Sunday, 27 May 1917. It was the third election since Inglaterra's independence in 1899. All 350 seats in the Inglaterran [[General Assembly (First Inglaterran Confederacy)|General Assembly]] were up for election in a proportional election with a minimum threshold of 5% to enter the Assembly.
The '''1923 Inglaterran Election''' was held on Sunday, 27 May 1923. It was the fourth election since Inglaterra's independence in 1899. All 350 seats in the Inglaterran [[General Assembly (First Inglaterran Confederacy)|General Assembly]] were up for election in a proportional election with a minimum threshold of 5% to enter the Assembly.


The election saw a third consecutive government for the ruling [[Confederal Party (Inglaterra)|Confederal Party]], led by [[Leon Bitte]] after the retirement of [[Max van Raydel]], in a coalition with the [[People's Militarist Party (Inglaterra)|People's Party]], led by [[Karl Hoeven]]. The opposition was made up by the [[Social Republican Party (Inglaterra)|Social Republicans]], led by [[Gustaf Folke]], and the [[Free Democratic Party of Inglaterra|Free Democrats]], led by [[Rovelter Hoffsetston]]. The Confederal and People's Party combined for 10,765,224 votes and 172 seats, and made a confidence and supply deal with [[Hindrik Blomquist]] and his [[Reform Movement of Inglaterra|Reform Movement]] to form a coalition government.
The election saw the [[Confederal Party (Inglaterra)|Confederalist]] hegemony, ruling as either the major partner of a coalition or as the sole governing party since 1899, end. The [[Social Republican Party (Inglaterra)|Social Republican Party]], led by [[Jens Larsson]] took the most seats and formed a coalition with the [[Free Democratic Party of Inglaterra|Free Democratic Party]], which had moved considerably leftward since 1917, led by [[Rovelter Hoffsetston]]. The official opposition was primarily made up of the rudderless [[Confederal Party (Inglaterra)|Confederalist Party]] and right-wing [[Reform Movement of Inglaterra|Reform Movement]], which had moved towards the right.


Future chancellors [[Gustaf Anders]], [[Joannes Vinge]], [[Mattias Bäckström]], and the infamous [[Arjen Vanhelst]] would enter politics during this election.
This was the first election in which women were allowed to vote, and so the number of registered voters and votes cast almost doubled for the 1923 election. Many women defected to the Social Republicans, helping contribute to its victory.
 
Future chancellors [[Adolphus Hiet]] entered politics in this election, winning as a member of the Confederalist Party.


=Background=
=Background=
With incumbent chancellor, Max van Raydel, unable to run for reelection, leadership of the Confederalist Party fell to Leon Bitte in 1916. Bitte's nomination was controversial, other candidates, such as former [[Inglaterran Minister of Foreign Affairs|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] Rovelter Hoffsetston, attempted to gain the leadership position for themselves. By the time of the party convention, the Confederalists had split into two factions, called the [[Hoffsetstists]] and the [[Bittemen]]. The Hoffsetstists tended to be more conservative Inglaterran-speakers from the east, despite Hoffsetston being a Frigan-speaker, while the more moderate Bittemen came from the Frigan speaking west. The dispute between the two factions lasted until Van Raydel publicly endorsed Bitte, saying that it was important for the party to keep the same message in a time of war.
With the loss of a signfigant portion of supporters to the Reform Movement and Free Democrats, an unpopular leader in [[Leon Bitte]], and increasingly aristocratic tendencies, the Confederalist Party was effectively left rudderless and drifting. A record 19 different candidates had tried to become leader of the party in its 1923 convention. While Bitte was reelected as leader, it was generally known that he would be a sacrificial lamb.
 
The Social Republicans, sensing opportunity, strove to find a new leader after the resignation of [[Gustaf Folke]] in 1921. The Social Republicans settled on [[Jens Larsson]], who despite having opposed independence in 1899, had become a staunch civil advocate and a respected elder statesman. In addition, his admission of error in not supporting independence was well received and many felt that he was truly contrite. Larsson was nominated on the fourth ballot in the 1921 convention of the Social Republican Party.


The Social Republicans, with the deposing of Karl Blivin, had found themselves lost in the wilderness without a sure leader. To appease an increasingly divided party, Karl Blivin was replaced by Gustaf Folke, a relatively unknown but able administrator who had served as governor of Fort Anders. However, Folke's lack of support for the war had become controversial. More radical left-wing factions, called Populists, were led by a legislator named Karl Hoeven, who favored the war as a liberation war for the "oppressed proletariat" of Alaoyi and against the imperial powers of Alanna and Greater Niagara.
Other parties kept their leaders, intending to see how they fared in an election outside of the context of war. Of note, the former [[People's Party of Inglaterra|People's Party]], led by future dictator [[Karl Hoeven]], was dissolved and became the [[Communist Party of Inglaterra|Communist Party]]. Despite taking about half of the vote as the People's Party did in [[1917 Inglaterran Election|1917]], Hoeven's development of a fully communist party laid the groundwork for the rise of the communists during the 1920s and 30s.


The major issue dominating the campaign was the [[First Great War]], which had raged for almost three years by election day. Despite initial success, the war had bogged down into grinding trench warfare. This led to major splits in Inglaterran public opinion, with one contemporary writer writing that for every Social Republican vote Bitte gained for support of the war at least one Confederalist would vote for Folke in opposition to the war. In April, both the Hoffsetstists and Populists would defect from their respective parties. Both the Social Republicans and Confederalists would lose about a third of their support to these upstart factions, which would side with the other major party.
The main issues dominating the election were economic ones, relating to the poverty, recession, and hyperinflation after the end of the [[First Great War]]. Historians now point to this economic situation as being a prime cause of the rise of Hoeven.
=Parties Contesting=
=Parties Contesting=
=Voting and Enrollment=
=Voting and Enrollment=
=Results=
=Results=

Revision as of 06:22, 7 March 2023

1923 Inglaterran Election
First Confederacy of Inglaterra.png
← 1917 27 May 1923 1926 →

All 350 seats in the General Assembly
175 seats needed for a majority
Registered62,175,894
(Increase102.8% pp)
Turnout48,621,549 (78.2%)
(Increase 5.8 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
  David Lloyd George.jpg Bainbridge Colby, bw photo portrait, 1920 (3x4a).jpg Allan Louis Benson (1871–1940) circa 1915 (cropped).jpg
Candidate Jens Larsson Leon Bitte Rovelter Hoffsetston
Party Social Republican Confederalist Free Democratic
Leader since 1921 1917 1917
Leader's seat Påskebyen Aachtigen Harkzel
Seats before 115 118 51
Seats won 152 106 39
Popular vote 20,055,888 14,635,086 3,262,859
Percentage 43.1% 30.1% 11.2%
Swing Increase10.4% Decrease2.7% Decrease3.5%

  Fourth party Fifth party
  Bonde, Carl i VJ 1942 bw.jpg Karl Hoeven Young.jpg
Candidate Hindrik Blomquist Karl Hoeven
Party Reformist Communist
Leader since 1917 1923
Leader's seat Noardstêd Orcakust
Seats before 10 None
Seats won 25 19
Popular vote 3,452,130 2,576,942
Percentage 7.1% 5.3%
Swing Increase3.9%

Chancellor before election

Leon Bitte
Confederalist

Elected Chancellor

Jens Larsson
Social Republican

The 1923 Inglaterran Election was held on Sunday, 27 May 1923. It was the fourth 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 the Confederalist hegemony, ruling as either the major partner of a coalition or as the sole governing party since 1899, end. The Social Republican Party, led by Jens Larsson took the most seats and formed a coalition with the Free Democratic Party, which had moved considerably leftward since 1917, led by Rovelter Hoffsetston. The official opposition was primarily made up of the rudderless Confederalist Party and right-wing Reform Movement, which had moved towards the right.

This was the first election in which women were allowed to vote, and so the number of registered voters and votes cast almost doubled for the 1923 election. Many women defected to the Social Republicans, helping contribute to its victory.

Future chancellors Adolphus Hiet entered politics in this election, winning as a member of the Confederalist Party.

Background

With the loss of a signfigant portion of supporters to the Reform Movement and Free Democrats, an unpopular leader in Leon Bitte, and increasingly aristocratic tendencies, the Confederalist Party was effectively left rudderless and drifting. A record 19 different candidates had tried to become leader of the party in its 1923 convention. While Bitte was reelected as leader, it was generally known that he would be a sacrificial lamb.

The Social Republicans, sensing opportunity, strove to find a new leader after the resignation of Gustaf Folke in 1921. The Social Republicans settled on Jens Larsson, who despite having opposed independence in 1899, had become a staunch civil advocate and a respected elder statesman. In addition, his admission of error in not supporting independence was well received and many felt that he was truly contrite. Larsson was nominated on the fourth ballot in the 1921 convention of the Social Republican Party.

Other parties kept their leaders, intending to see how they fared in an election outside of the context of war. Of note, the former People's Party, led by future dictator Karl Hoeven, was dissolved and became the Communist Party. Despite taking about half of the vote as the People's Party did in 1917, Hoeven's development of a fully communist party laid the groundwork for the rise of the communists during the 1920s and 30s.

The main issues dominating the election were economic ones, relating to the poverty, recession, and hyperinflation after the end of the First Great War. Historians now point to this economic situation as being a prime cause of the rise of Hoeven.

Parties Contesting

Voting and Enrollment

Results