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This is a list of electoral systems in Esquarium.
Legislatures
For legislature system colors, see this.
Country | Body | System | Details | Seats per District | Total seats | Threshold |
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Ainin | House of Deputies | First past the post | n/a | n/a | 451 | n/a |
House of Censure | Partly election by electoral college or local legislatures and appointed by head of state | At-large districts correspond to each of the provinces. Provincial censors are nominated by the provincial legislatures and then appointed by the President of Ainin. | 10-37 | 158 | n/a | |
Aucuria | Saeimas | Party-list proportional representation | Constituency borders match provincial borders; d'Hondt method is utilized. | 16-34 | 246 | n/a |
Template:Country data Jabar | Majlis of the Jamahiriya | Mixed FPTP and PBV | 100 members are elected by party block voting in multi-member electoral districts and 55 members are elected by first-past-the-post. | 1-15 | 155 | n/a |
Katranjiev | National Assembly | Single transferable vote | Until 2017, Katranjiev used first past the post. However, since voting reform laws were passed in 2017, Katranjiev uses STV using the Hare quota. | 3 | 300 | n/a |
Lecia | Royal Chamber | Party-list proportional representation | Registered citizens over the age of 21 are eligible to vote. | 4-15 | 50 | n/a |
Luziyca | House of Representatives | First past the post | Lower chamber of Congress. The country is divided into 625 constituencies, following state boundaries and divided by population. | n/a | 625 | n/a |
Senate | First past the post | Upper chamber of Congress. Election boundaries correspond with the states, with each area divided into two constituencies, usually either proportionally (by half of the population living in one, the other in another), or into cardinal constituencies (i.e. west or east, south or north) | 2 | 86 | n/a | |
Montecara | Popular Assembly | No direct election | Every citizen of Montecara who is not a member of the Senate is a member of the Popular Assembly. | n/a | 780,000 (approx.) | n/a |
Senate | Election by legislature | New senators are appointed by law, requiring the consent of the Popular Assembly and a majority of incumbent members of the Senate. | n/a | 622 | n/a | |
Namor | Central Council | Parallel voting (party-list PR and FPTP) | 2,500 seats are elected by party-list proportional representation and the remaining 49 seats are elected by first past the post. Constituencies (legislative districts) do not match regional borders in most cases. | 50 (per legislative district) 3 (per administrative district) 2 (for Namo) 5 (overseas Namorese) |
2549 | 10% |
Template:Country data Oelia | Second Chamber | Mixed-member proportional representation | 278 members are elected via first-past-the-post system comprising of constituencies, and another 278 members are voted in a regional party list system where political parties are then proportionally allocated seats. | 1 (per constituency) 278 (regional party-list) |
556 | n/a |
First Chamber | Partly election by electoral college or local legislatures and appointed by head of state | Appointed by the Consul on advice of a college of local legislators. | 1 (per department) | 192 | n/a | |
Template:Country data Phikam | House of Commons | Party-list proportional representation | Closed list using D'Hondt method. Country is treated as a a single nationwide electoral district. | 99 | 99 | 3% |
Senate | Partly election by electoral college or local legislatures and appointed by head of state | Senators are appointed by the President of Luziyca on advice of the prime minister. | n/a | 25 | n/a | |
Template:Country data Saheil | Chamber of Deputies | First past the post | Deputies are elected by and represent municipalities and must win a plurality of votes to be elected. There are 300 municipalities for the 300 seats in the Chamber. The Parliament of Saheil has rejected constitutional amendments to the system three times in 1983, 1997, and 2009. | 1 | 300 | n/a |
Senate | No direct election | Senators are selected by the Senate itself with two-thirds majority required on the advice of the President. The first Senate was made up of Presidential appointees. | n/a | 150 | n/a | |
Senria | National Assembly | Mixed-member proportional representation | Seats are allocated by prefecture. 349 seats, divided between prefectures based on population, are filled using party-list proportional representation. Another 180 seats, divided between prefectures with each prefecture getting four seats, are awarded to the party that wins a plurality of votes in the prefecture. | 4-15 (party list proportional representation seats) 4 ([term] seats) |
529 | n/a |
Xiaodong | State Presidium | Mixed FPTP and SNTV | 115 seats are elected via first-past-the-post, and 100 seats are elected via single non-transferable vote. SNTV seats are in 20 5-member electoral districts that correspond with prefecutal borders. | 1 (FPTP seats) 5 (SNTV seats) |
215 | N/A |
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Heads of state
For heads of state system colors, see this. Only applicable if you elect your head of state.
Country | Body | System | Details |
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Ainin | President of Ainin | Election by legislature | Candidate nominated by the outgoing Speaker of the House of Deputies on the advice of the party leaders and confirmed by the incoming members of the House of Deputies and the outgoing members of the House of Censure. |
Aucuria | President of Aucuria | Two-round system | Only citizens registered as voters are eligible to vote. If there is no candidate that reaches 50% on the first round, a second round is organized, with the candidates from the first round who garnered more than 12.5% of the vote participating. |
Template:Country data Jabar | Premier of Jabar | Confirmation in referendum | A single candidate is nominated by the Majlis of the Jamahiriya every five years and subject to a referendum which asks voters to approve of the candidate. If a candidate is rejected by the electorate the Majlis of the Jamahiriya convenes and decides on a new candidate. |
Luziyca | President of Luziyca | Election by legislature | The party leader of the political party with the most seats in the House of Representatives in a general election year (either having plurality or a majority of seats) automatically becomes President of Luziyca for a term of four years. Prior to the development of a partisan system, the representatives elected a representative from amongst themselves, and while it still technically happens, they vote for their own leader. |
Namor | President-General of Namor | Two-round system | Only citizens registered as voters are eligible to vote. If there is no candidate that reaches 50.01% or more on the first round, a second round is organized, with the two best candidates from the first round. |
Template:Country data Oelia | Consul of Oelia | Two-round system | Only citizens registered as voters are eligible to vote. If there is no candidate that reaches 50% on the first round, a second round is organized, with the candidates from the first round who garnered more than 12.5% of the vote participating. |
Template:Country data Saheil | President of Saheil | Election by legislature | The President is selected by the Parliament of Saheil, usually six months after the election of the Chamber of Deputies of Saheil. Usually, the President of the Senate and the Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies will jointly nominate a candidate before the full house, who will usually be there to accept his or her nomination and deliver a short speech. Parliament is given time to debate the nomination in public. Usually, after fifteen minutes, the President of the Senate will order the doors shut and a thirty-minute voting will begin. The vote is done by secret ballot and the votes of individual members cannot be disclosed. After thirty minutes, the President of the Senate will tally up the votes and declare if the candidate has accumulated enough votes to become President. If the candidate has received enough votes, the President of the Senate orders the doors open and begins the inauguration. If the person does not have enough votes, individual members will nominate candidates. |
Senria | Prime Minister of Senria | Election by legislature | The prime minister is nominated from the membership of and voted into office by the National Assembly. |
Template:Country data Txotai | Head of State | Election by legislature | The Head of State is elected by the newly-elected Regional Assembly; the candidate with at least 44 votes wins. |
Xiaodong | Chairperson of the State Presidium of Xiaodong | Election by legislature | Candidates are nominated by a quarter of presidium delegates (54) and unless running unopposed must reach a supermajoirty of 141 votes to be elected. If no candidate reaches 141 votes in the first round, a second vote is held where the threshold is lowered to a simple majority of 108 votes. If no candidate passes that threshold, the State Presidium must be dissolved and a new election be held to break the parliamentary deadlock. |