1876 Lissathan presidential election

1876 Lissathan presidential election

August 18, 1876 (1876-08-18)
353 members of the Electoral College 177 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout	65.1%, 16,502,640
Nominee Ioannis Papiades Marco Russo Party Federalist Republican-Federalist Home state Sirenia Scapystus Running mate Joseph Katsoros Luca Feretti Electoral vote 189 164 States carried 11 14 Popular vote 7,860,258 7,898,307 Percentage 47.63 47.86
President before election Alessio Calidora Republican-Federalist President Ioannis Papiades Federalist Party

The 1876 Lissathan presidential election marked the 4th sexennial presidential election in Lissatha. It took place on August 18, 1876, with the Federalist nominee, Ioannis Papiades, competing against the Republican-Federalist candidate, Marco Russo. It was one of the closest elections in Lissathan history, as Ioannis Papiades won the electoral college while his opponent Marco Russo won the popular vote by a slim margin of just 38,000 votes.

The election was the first one to be seriously contested, as in the previous three presidential elections the Republican-Federalist nominee had essentially ran unopposed, this changed with the nomination of founding father Marco Russo. Russo was one of the four co-founders of the Republican-Federalist Party, the other three co-founders had all served as President and had privately agreed to all support the candidacy of the others when the time came. Ioannis Papiades had emerged as a leader of the conservative wing of the party and heavily contested the nomination of the progressive Russo, this came in vain as Russo was easily nominated by the party at the Republican-Federalist Convention, Papiades in response left the party and accepted the nomination of the previously miniscule Federalist Party, with much of the Republican-Federalist's conservative wing walking out as well.

The results of the election were heavily contested, especially in the state of Mozoli, where multiple calls for recounts by the Russo campaign led to Papiades' lead in the state expanding from 10,737 votes to 11,956. Russo lost the election but won the popular vote, this led to calls by some Russo supporters for the abolition of the electoral college, calls Russo was hesitant to endorse due to his major support from small states and his role in creating the electoral college during the drafting of the constitution.

Nominations

Republican-Federalist Party Nomination

Main article: 1876 Republican-Federalist National Convention

1876 Republican-Federalist Party ticket
Marco Russo	Luca Feretti
for President	for Vice President
Senator from Scapystus (1874-1882)	Representative for Mozoli's 10th district (1869-1882)

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  Senator Marco Russo of Scapystus

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  Senator Ioannis Papiades of Sirenia

The three other co-founders of the Republican-Federalist Party had all won the Presidency with ease in the previous three elections, with the four having made a deal on the eve of the 1858 Republican-Federalist National Convention dividing up power in the new government among themselves, with an agreement being made that all four would get to serve a term as President, and after Giorgio Antonopoulos, Nikos Martino, and Alessio Calidora all served their terms it was understood by the party establishment that Russo was to be the parties nominee in 1876. Russo was by far the most left-leaning of the four co-founders, and the idea of his presidency was concerning to many in the conservative wing of the party, de facto conservative leader Ioannes Papiades attempted to contest the nomination but when the fourth Republican-Federalist National Convention assembled in Gakretta on February 11, 1876, Russo won it easily on the first ballot, in response Papiades led the conservative faction of the party in walking out of the convention.

Federalist Party nomination

1876 Federalist Party ticket
Ioannis Papiades	Joseph Katsoros
for President	for Vice President
Senator from Sirenia (1874-1876)	Senator from Gelanoli (1858-1876)

Two weeks after Papiades' walk out from the RF Convention the Federalist Party, who in the previous election had garnered just 2.8% of the vote and were now sensing an opportunity, scrambled to assemble their convention and award their presidential nomination to Papiades, Papiades accepted the nomination and left the Republican-Federalist Party for the Federalists, with much of the conservative wing of the party joining him.

Monarchist Party Nomination

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  Maximilian Valerius from Mozoli

The fourth Monarchist Party National Convention assembled at the home of Duke Emmanuel Gennaro where they unanimously nominated Maximilian Valerius for President, in the previous three elections the Monarchist Party saw declining vote shares, going from 23% in 1858, to 17% in 1864, and 10% in 1870.

Results

Results by state

States/districts won by Papiades/Katsoros

States/districts won by Russo/Feretti

		Ioannes Papiades Federalist			Marco Russo Republican-Federalist			Maximilian Valerius Monarchist			Margin		State Total
State	electoral votes	#	%	electoral votes	#	%	electoral votes	#	%	electoral votes	#	%	Total votes cast
Aegona	6	53,339	42.86	–	59,089	47.48	6	11,649	9.36	–	-5,750	-4.62	124,450
Altenea	7	60,971	39.82	–	87,032	56.84	7	5,114	3.34	–	-26,061	-17.82	153,117
Argenta	14	208,665	41.74	–	263,056	52.62	14	28,195	5.64	–	-54,391	-10.88	499,906
Calistria	9	159,394	54.77	9	113,965	39.16	–	17,665	6.07	–	45,429	15.61	291,025
Calydria	5	46,807	44.65	–	49,533	47.25	5	57,008	8.1	–	-2,726	-2.60	104,831
Celenza	17	951,843	56.10	17	687,838	40.54	–	57,008	3.36	–	264,005	15.56	1,696,689
Epirosa	11	176,662	41.32	–	213,816	50.01	11	34,918	8.67	–	-37,154	-8.69	427,546
Flordina	10	208,512	52.70	10	180,302	45.57	–	6,845	1.73	–	28,210	7.13	395,659
Gallaroli	7	94,798	45.55	–	109,512	52.62	7	3,809	1.83	–	-14,714	-7.07	208,118
Gelanoli	35	941,620	50.03	35	862,384	45.82	–	78,108	4.18	–	79,326	4.21	1,882,076
Guidossos	11	190,284	43.04	–	232,240	52.53	11	19,585	4.4	–	-41,956	-9.49	442,109
Ithalia	15	264,369	46.64	–	281,997	49.75	15	20,463	3.61	–	-17,628	-3.11	566,829
Ionova	8	134,651	52.41	8	118,465	46.11	–	3,802	1.48	–	16,186	6.30	256,918
Larosa	7	56,948	43.65	–	60,758	46.57	7	14,064	10.78	–	-3,810	-2.92	130,466
Lombelos	13	362,317	56.88	13	248,934	39.08	–	25,670	4.03	–	113,383	17.84	636,921
Mozoli	38	1,060,750	47.02	38	1,048,794	46.49	–	146,411	6.49	–	11,956	0.53	2,255,955
Messidora	13	238,765	48.68	13	214,437	43.73	–	37,276	7.59	–	24,328	4.96	490,478
Pomeli	10	187,731	48.14	10	180,674	46.33	–	21,521	5.53	–	7,057	1.81	389,926
Rikedo	20	474,887	45.68	–	547,763	52.69	20	16,945	1.63	–	-72,876	-7.01	1,039,595
Rokryia	8	131,401	57.06	8	87,600	38.04	–	9,442	4.10	–	43,800	19.02	230,285
Scapystus	8	100,455	32.84	–	180,537	59.02	8	24,900	8.14	–	-80,082	-26.18	305,891
Serenia	14	335,962	46.78	–	379,411	52.83	14	2,801	0.39	–	-43,449	-6.05	718,174
Sirenia	28	697,893	54.26	28	573,517	44.59	–	14,791	1.14	–	124,376	9.67	1,286,201
Tonkatus	9	149,036	44.19	–	173,251	51.37	–	14,974	4.44	–	-24,215	-7.18	337,261
Verdonia	31	625,548	35.61	–	1,002,528	57.07	31	128,588	7.32	–	-376,980	-21.46	1,756,664
TOTALS:	353	7,860,258	47.63	189	7,898,307	47.86	164	741,386	4.49	–	-38,049	-0.23	16,502,640