2021 Vinalian General election

2021 Vinalian General election

12 August 2021
All 185 seats in the House of the People (93 needed for majority). All 39 seats in the Senate of the Union (20 needed for majority).
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First party Second party Third party   Leader Omelyan Pavlov Rayisa Bohdanivna Stepan Martynyuk Party Unionist Party Workers Party of Vinalia Conservative Party Alliance Grand Union Coalition Grand Union Coalition Grand Union Coalition Leader since 20 June 2019 19 December 2020 28 January 2017 Leader's seat Chyhyryn (Senate) Orlavo 1st District (House) Velkarichka 2nd District (House) Last election 14 Senate, 69 House 10 Senate, 37 House 8 Senate, 28 House Seats won 0 Senate, 0 House 0 Senate, 0 House   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Trokhym Radkohn Hryhorij Bujicnovik Yana Perepelytsya Party Freedom Party Nationalist Party Green Party Leader since 20 August 2019 30 January 2019 17 November 2006 Leader's seat Kisharsk (Senate) South Bin 1st House District (House) Zamara 5th District (House) Last election 5 Senate, 25 House 1 Senate, 11 House 1 Senate, 8 House Seats won 0 Senate, 0 House 0 Senate, 0 House 0 Senate, 0 House
Minister-President before election Omelyan Pavlov Unionist Elected Minister-President TBD

The 2021 Vinalian General election is to be held on Sunday, 12 August 2019, to elect the 16th Vinalian Parliament of the United Republic of Vinalia. All 183 seats in the House of the People are up for election, as well as the 39 seats in the Senate of the Union. The election was called, after the Parliament was dissolved by President Ersnt Rupold, on June 12th 2021, as per law which mandates parliamentary elections 2 years after the previous parliamentary election, which had been carried out the 12th of August 2019.

Pavlov is competing to be reelected for his second term as head of the Unionist Party, the major party in the ruling coalition, the Grand Union Coalition which has seen increased tensions and volatility between its two other members in the past few months, the Workers Party and the Conservative Party. The Workers Party the second largest party in Parliament has been hit by stagnant results in local elections and an ever dissastifaction with the Conservative party, which has under Stepan Martynyuk moved further to the right. The Conservative Party has seen great success in local elections and with wavering support for the Nationalist and Freedom parties, the Conservative party is set to make gains against those two parties.

Electoral process

Voters elect using the closed list Proportional representation method, each province/federal district is slotted at the minimum one seat, with seats being added in relation to the province/district with the smallest population (currently the province of Juyu Ruwach South with 134,600 people). The largest province by population and seats is that of Zamara with 43 seats followed by Vevetsia with 35 seats. For a party to seat a member in that province/district they must gain a necessary % of votes with parties in Juyu Ruwach South only requiring 51% of the vote to win a seat, while in Chervona for every 2.33% of the vote won a candidate is seated. Elections are held every two years, with seats being assigned every 10 years following a census (the Federal district of Vinalinsk had a census performed in 2017, adding three more seats into the district.)

Elections for the Senate are similar to House elections with the exception that all provinces/districts elect 3 members regardless of population, a 33% of the vote is required for a party to sit a member, although this is hard to achieve. As with the house, the party with the largest % of the vote gets seated, if the vote is split and the threshold can not be reached.

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Parties

Name				Ideology	Leader	2019 result
						Votes	House of the People	Senate of the Union
	UP		Unionist Party Юніоністична партія Yunionistychna partiya	Vinalian Unionism Social liberalism Economic liberalism Center-Right	Omelyan Pavlov	10.85%	69 / 185	14 / 39
	WP		Workers Party Робоча партія Robocha partiya	Vinalian Unionism Democratic Socialism Left-wing populism Progressivism Left	Rayisa Bohdanivna	10.85%	37 / 185	10 / 39
	CP		Conservative Party Консервативна партія Konservatyvna partiya	Vinalian Unionism Episemialist democracy National conservatism Economic liberalism Right	Stepan Martynyuk	10.85%	28 / 185	8 / 39
	FP		Freedom Party Партія свободи Partiya svobody	Social Conservatism Economic liberalism Anti-Immigrant Populism wikipedia:Anti-establishment Right	Trokhym Radkohn	10.85%	25 / 185	5 / 39
	NP		Nationalist Party Націоналістична партія Natsionalistychna partiya	Anti-Vinalian unification Marolevic nationalism Social Conservatism Nationalism Right-wing populism Right	Hryhorij Bujicnovik	10.85%	11 / 185	1 / 39
	GP		Green Party Партія зелених Partiya zelenykh	Green Politics Eco-socialism Left	Yana Perepelytsya	10.85%	8 / 185	1 / 39
	VSWI		Vinalian Section of the Workers International Вініаліанська секція Міжнародного трудящого Vinialiansʹka sektsiya Mizhnarodnoho trudyashchoho	Council socialism Workers International Left	Olha Havrylenko	10.85%	5 / 185	0 / 39
			Independents Hезалежні Nezalezhni	Independents		2%	2 / 185	0 / 39
	IPV		Indigenous Party of Vinalia Корінна партія Віналії Korinna partiya Vinaliyi	Vinalian Unionism Green Politics Indigenous interests Celebration of Vinakian culture Left	Nelya Kianto	0%	0 / 185	0 / 39
	IPV		Socialist Alternative for Vinalia Соціалістична альтернатива Віналії Sotsialistychna alʹternatyva Vinaliya	Market socialism Chistovodian Model Left	Alina Rybak	0%	0 / 185	0 / 39

Campaign

Legal Campaigning begun on the 12th of June 2021, when Parliament was dissolved by the president. Although legally parties and candidates cant enter into Television advertisement agreements before the dissolvement of parliament, numerous hold pre arranged deals, which are officially signed on the morning of the 13th, and enter into force the day after. Newspapers can print advertisements on the 12th with the intention of distribution the morning after.