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| | election_name = 2000 Imaguan parliamentary election | | |group = Imaguan Evadees |
| | country = Imagua and the Assimas | | |image = [[File:John_L._Estrada_with_Santa_Rosa_First_Peoples_Community_leaders.jpg|250px]] |
| | type = parliamentary
| | |caption = A gathering of native Imaguans, 2016 |
| | vote_type = Popular
| | |population = '''7,180''' |
| | ongoing = no
| | |region1 = {{flag|Imagua and the Assimas}} |
| | party_colour = yes
| | |pop1 = 6,532 |
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| | |region3 = {{flag|Rizealand}} |
| | previous_year = [[1996 Imaguan parliamentary election|1996]]
| | |pop3 = 648 |
| | election_date = {{Start date|2000|03|24}} | | |langs = {{wp|English language|Estmerish}}, {{wp|Italian language|Etrurian}}, [[Western Imaguan Creole]], and [[Eastern Imaguan Creole]], historically {{wp|Garifuna language|Imaguan}} |
| | next_year = [[2004 Imaguan parliamentary election|2004]] | | |rels = {{wp|Christianity|Sotirianism}} |
| | seats_for_election = 67 seats in the [[Chamber of Commons of Imagua and the Assimas|Chamber of Commons]] | | |related = |
| | majority_seats = 34 | |
| | turnout = 81.71% ({{increase}} 13.31{{wp|percentage point|pp}}) | |
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| | image1 = [[File:Portia_Simpson-Miller.jpg|140px]] | |
| | leader1 = [[Agnes Ingram]] | |
| | colour1 = e9a735 | |
| | party1 = [[Sotirian Labour Party (Imagua)|Sotirian Labour Party]] | |
| | leaders_seat1 = Knowleston-South
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| | last_election1 = 28, 49.07%<sup>1</sup>
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| | seats_before1 = 30
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| | seats1 = 45
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| | seat_change1 = {{increase}}15
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| | popular_vote1 = 472,295 | |
| | percentage1 = 55.90% | |
| | swing1 = {{increase}}6.83pp
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| | image2 = [[File:Hipolito_mejia_(cropped).jpg|150px]]
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| | leader2 = [[Ladislao Colacino]]
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| | colour2 = CE1127
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| | party2 = [[Democratic Labour Party (Imagua)|Democratic Labour Party]]
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| | leaders_seat2 = Knowleston-South
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| | last_election2 = 39, 40.20%
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| | seats_before2 = 35
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| | seats2 = 22 | |
| | seat_change2 = {{decrease}}13 | |
| | popular_vote2 = 272,055 | |
| | percentage2 = 32.20% | |
| | swing2 = {{decrease}}8.00pp | |
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| | title = [[Prime Minister of Imagua and the Assimas|Prime Minister]]
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| | before_election = [[Gerald Larsson]]
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| | before_party = [[Democratic Labour Party (Imagua)|Democratic Labour Party]] | |
| | posttitle = Prime Minister after election
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| | after_election = [[Agnes Ingram]]
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| | after_party = [[Sotirian Labour Party (Imagua)|Sotirian Labour Party]]
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| | The '''Evadees''' ({{wp|Italian language|Etrurian}}: ''Evade'') are descendants of [[Bahio-Imaguan people|Bahian]] slaves who freed themselves from slavery in [[Imagua]] and established themselves in the [[Central Highlands (Imagua)|Central Highlands]] of [[Imagua (island)|Imagua]] and the interiors of the smaller [[Assimas Islands]]. |
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| The '''2000 Imaguan general election''' was held on 24 March, 2000, to elect members of the [[Chamber of Commons of Imagua and the Assimas|Chamber of Commons]] to form the [[Parliament of Imagua and the Assimas|twenty-eight Parliament]] of [[Imagua and the Assimas]]. This election saw the [[Ladislao Colacino|Colacino]]-led [[Democratic Labour Party (Imagua)|Democratic Labour Party]] lose control of the Chamber of Commons to the [[Agnes Ingram|Ingram]]-led [[Sotirian Labour Party (Imagua)|Sotirian Labour Party]], marking the first time since [[Elections in Imagua and the Assimas#1956|1956]] that a party other than the Democratic Labour Party formed government.
| | ==Etymology== |
| | | The term ''evadees'' is believed to come from the {{wp|French language|Gaullican}} term ''évadé'', meaning "the escaped," which stems from the Gaullican term ''evader'', or "to escape." |
| ==Background== | |
| Despite the efforts of the [[National Labour Party (Imagua)|National Labour Party]] to form government in the [[Elections in Imagua and the Assimas#1996|1996 general elections]], and despite the combined votes of the National Labour Party and the [[Sotirian Democratic Party (Imagua)|Sotirian Democrats]] outnumbering the [[Democratic Labour Party (Imagua)|Democratic Labour Party]], the Democratic Labour Party were able to secure an eleventh consecutive majority government, having continuously formed government in every election since 1960, although [[Dale Morse]] of the National Labour Party was able to become [[President of Imagua and the Assimas]], defeating [[Isidoro Libero]].
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| In the aftermath of the 1996 general election, the Sotirian Democrats, having failed in their attempt to regain representation in the Chamber of Commons negotiated a merger with the National Labour Party to end "four decades of socialist rule." After several months of discussions, the two parties merged to create the [[Sotirian Labour Party (Imagua)|Sotirian Labour Party]] in March 1997, with the two parties officially merging the following month. This led to some small factions forming separate parties, with [[Ted Branson]] forming the [[New Labour Party (Imagua)|New Labour Party]], and [[Edwin Burke]] forming the [[Sotirian Defence Party (Imagua)|Sotirian Defence Party]], both professing to be the successors of National Labour and the Sotirian Democrats respectively.
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| From the start, the Sotirian Labour Party performed better in polls, while the Democratic Labour Party was seen by the Imaguan public as having "run out of ideas" and no longer innovative after having formed government for the past forty years. This was not helped by both the recent conviction of former [[Prime Minister of Imagua and the Assimas|Prime Minister]] [[Pietro Muro]] on corruption charges, and Baigent Powell's shady activities being revealed in 1997, leading to an investigation into its activities, and to the firm ultimately being shut down in 1999 after a trial that year was dismissed due to lack of evidence.
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| In June 1999, [[Erico D'Antonio]] was nominated to be the Sotirian Labour candidate for the Prime Ministership, but in August, following Dale Morse being diagnosed with {{wp|brain cancer}}, Morse announced that he would not run for a second term: this led to a second convention in November, which named Erico D'Antonio the presidential nominee, and [[Agnes Ingram]] as the Sotirian Labour candidate for the Prime Ministership.
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| In September 1999, Gerald Larsson was named the Democratic Labour nominee for the presidency, while [[Ladislao Colacino]] was nominated to run for the Prime Ministership on behalf of the Democratic Labour Party.
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| ==Campaign==
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| On 28 January, 2000, [[Dale Morse]] granted [[Gerald Larsson]]'s request to dissolve Parliament, starting a 56 day-long campaign. From the start, the election campaign was marked by a substantial [[Sotirian Labour Party (Imagua)|Solarian Labour]] lead, due to a strong combination of {{wp|anti-incumbency}} against the [[Democratic Labour Party (Imagua)|Democratic Labour]] government, criticism over the Democratic Labour Party's corruption, and due to the campaigning of [[Agnes Ingram]], who as the first [[Bahio-Imaguan people|Bahio-Imaguan]] woman to lead a political party, was able to dispel criticism from the Democratic Labour Party that the Sotirian Labour Party inherited the "racist tendencies of the [[Sotirian Democratic Party (Imagua)|Sotirian Democrats]]."
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| In both the {{wp|English language|Estmerish language}} and {{wp|Italian language|Etrurian}} debates on [[Imaguan Television Service|ITS]], Agnes Ingram performed well, presenting the Sotirian Labour Party's plans for government, which included attracting investment from the {{wp|information technology}} sector, relaxing immgiration requirements, increasing economic ties with the [[Arucian Cooperation Organization]] by permitting {{wp|freedom of movement}} from ACO states, and to make government services run more efficiently by promising to "cut red tape" and take "tough action on obstructionist unions."
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| Unlike Ingram, who ran a largely "positive campaign," [[Ladislao Colacino]] ran a negative campaign, with Colacino accusing the Sotirian Labour Party of "plotting take your pensions away," attacking labour rights, and to dismantle the national parks system set out by [[Gerald Larsson]] "in order to open up land for development." Colacino also promised that if elected, he would "get the job done" and build {{wp|social housing}} in [[Cuanstad]] to ease the city's looming housing shortage.
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| While most Imaguan political pundits predicted a Sotirian Labour victory from the start, with [[Ian Vilcinskas]] saying "the question isn't so much if the SLP will win, the question for them is how much ''can'' they win," some, particularly in the Democratic Labour Party were hopeful that the popularity of the [[Green Party (Imagua)|Greens]], [[New Labour Party (Imagua)|New Labour]], and the [[Sotirian Defence Party (Imagua)|Sotirian Defence Party]] would be enough for the DLP to eke out a {{wp|minority government}}.
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| ==Opinion polls==
| | It was first used to refer to escaped slaves in 1682, when Parry Lambourne, ancestor of [[Harmon Lambourne]] records in a document to an insurance broker in TBD "we sent men to the mountains to try and recover some slaves who fled our plantation, but they evaded every single attempt in recapturing: after several weeks, we have only managed to recover two children from the evadés [''sic'']." However, escapee was a far more common term than evadee until the mid-eighteenth century, when [[Gaullica]] took control of [[Imagua and the Assimas|Imagua]] from Estmere after the end of the [[Gilded Wars]]. |
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| ==Results==
| | During Gaullican rule, with the introduction of {{wp|French language|Gaullican}}, the term ''évadé'' became a common way to refer to escaped slaves who lived in the [[Central Highlands (Imagua)|Central Highlands]], with the term sticking after the end of Gaullican rule in 1771. The modern spelling would become common around 1850, with most sources arguing that this is because of its similarity to escapees, deportees, and refugees. |
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| |+ ↓
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| | style="background:#e9a735; width:67.2%; color:white;" | 45
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| | style="background:#CE1127; width:32.8%; color:white;" | 22
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| | [[Sotirian Labour Party (Imagua)|{{color|#e9a735|S}}]]
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| | [[Democratic Labour Party (Imagua)|{{color|#CE1127|D}}]]
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| |}
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| ! rowspan=2 width=16%|Party
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| ! rowspan=2|Leader
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| ! rowspan=2|Candidates
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| ! colspan=4|Seats
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| ! colspan=2 |Votes
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| ! rowspan=2|Status
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| ! width=2%|[[Elections in Imagua and the Assimas#1996|1996]]
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| ! width=2%|{{wp|Dissolution of parliament|Dissol.}}
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| ! width=2%|2000
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| ! width=3%|{{small|Change since}}<br>{{small|dissol.}}
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| ! width=3%|Popular votes
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| ! width=3%|%
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| |-
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| ! style="background:#e9a735; color:white"|
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| | '''[[Sotirian Labour Party (Imagua)|Sotirian Labour]]'''
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| | [[Agnes Ingram]]
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| | 67
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| | '''28'''<ref>Results were a combination of the [[Sotirian Democratic Party (Imagua)|Sotirian Democrats]] and the [[National Labour Party (Imagua)|National Labour]]'s results in the [[Elections in Imagua and the Assimas#1996|1996 general election]].</ref>
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| | '''30'''
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| | '''45'''
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| | {{nowrap|{{increase}} 15}}
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| | 472,295
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| | 55.90%
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| | '''Government'''
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| ! style="background:#CE1127; color:white"|
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| | {{nowrap|[[Democratic Labour Party (Imagua)|Democratic Labour]]}}
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| | [[Ladislao Colacino]]
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| | 67
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| |'''39'''
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| |'''35'''
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| |'''22'''
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| |{{decrease}} 13
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| | 272,055
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| | 32.20%
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| | {{nowrap|'''Official Opposition'''}}
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| |-
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| ! style="background:#e9a735; color:white"|
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| | [[New Labour Party (Imagua)|New Labour]]
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| | [[Ted Branson]]
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| | 32
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| | {{n/a}}
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| | '''2'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | {{decrease}} 2
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| | 41,498
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| | 4.90%
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| |rowspan=9| '''Unrepresented'''
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| |-
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| ! style="background:#0000ff; color:white"|
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| | [[Sotirian Defence Party (Imagua)|Sotirian Defence]]
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| | [[Edwin Burke]]
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| | 67
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| | {{n/a}}
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | {{nochange}}
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| | 28,206
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| | 3.34%
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| |-
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| ! style="background:#2D902D; color:white"|
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| | [[Green Party (Imagua)|Greens]]
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| | [[Summer Nicholson]]
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| | 45
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | {{nochange}}
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| | 22,897
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| | 2.71%
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| |-
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| ! style="background:#ED1C24; color:white"|
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| | {{nowrap|[[West Arucian Section of the Workers' International|West Arucian Section]]}}
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| | [[Jack Singleton]]
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| | 65
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | {{nochange}}
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| | 2,322
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| | 0.28%
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| |-
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| ! style="background:#4591CB; color:white"|
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| | [[Assiman Independence Party|Assiman Independence]]
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| | [[Battista Guglielmino]]
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| | 12
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | {{nochange}}
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| | 2,159
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| | 0.26%
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| |-
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| ! style="background:#45EB4E; color:white"|
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| | [[Farmer's Party of Imagua|Farmer's]]
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| | [[Greg Kukanauskas]]
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| | 27
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | {{nochange}}
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| | 1,974
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| | 0.26%
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| |-
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| ! style="background:#e68a38; color:white"|
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| | [[Statehood Party (Imagua)|Statehood]]
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| | [[Jason Cook]]
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| | 12
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | {{nochange}}
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| | 914
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| | 0.11%
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| |-
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| ! style="background: #DDDDDD; color:white"|
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| | {{wp|Independent politicians|Independents}}
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| | {{n/a}}
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| | 33
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | {{nochange}}
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| | 235
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| | 0.03%
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| |-
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| ! style="background:#ADD8E6; color:white"|
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| | [[Prohibition Party (Imagua)|Prohibition]]
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| | {{nowrap|[[Marianne Hjortsberg]]}}
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| | 38
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | '''0'''
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| | {{nochange}}
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| | 192
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| | 0.02%
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| !rowspan=2 colspan=2|Total votes
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| !colspan=6|Valid votes
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| |844,747
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| |99.9%
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| |-
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| !colspan=6|Rejected votes
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| |145
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| |0.01%
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| |-
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| !colspan=3|Totals
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| |'''465'''
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| |'''67'''
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| |'''67'''
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| |'''67'''
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| |'''67'''
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| |844,892
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| |100%
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| |-
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| !colspan=2|{{nowrap|Registered voters/turnout}}
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| |1,034,061
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| |81.71%
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| ==Notes== | | ==Early history== |
Rizealand