2019 Ordennyan federal election

2019 Ordennyan federal election

20 June 2019
All 651 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 326 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Clas Markuson Valdemar Söderberg Michel Fallow Party GP KKF KPO Alliance Alliance for Progress People's Alliance People's Alliance Leader since 20 May 2019 17 December 2015 12 September 2015 Leader's seat Perdrix Richmond (defeated) Västdal (List) Malmo Last election 215 seats, 31.8% 214 seats, 31.6% 80 seats, 12.3% Seats won 247 189 91 Seat change 32 25 11 Popular vote 8,860,343 6,794,017 3,219,135 Percentage 37.2% 28.5% 13.5% Swing 5.4% 3.1% 1.5%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Josephine Petersson Jean Sinclair Emmanuel Martinez Party FSP DL NDP Alliance Alliance for Progress Union of the Democratic Centre Union of the Democratic Centre Leader since 20 May 2019 22 June 2015 17 November 2018 Leader's seat Waltham Neuistria (List) November City North Last election 105 seats, 17% 34 seats, 4.7% 2 seats, 2.7% Seats won 87 33 4 Seat change 18 1 2 Popular vote 3,190,655 1,100,131 681,048 Percentage 13.4% 4.6% 2.9% Swing 3.6% 0.1% 0.7%
President before election Michel Fallow Conservative Elected President TBD

The 2019 Ordennyan federal election took place on 20 June 2019. The election was called by President Michel Fallow, after a bill on holding a referendum on membership of the Euclean Community was voted down by the Chamber of Deputies, despite the four largest parties all committing to a referendum in the 2018 snap election.

Background

The 2018 federal election, called after the government lost a vote of no confidence, resulted in the Green Party becoming the largest party in Parliament, with the Conservative Capitalist Front taking second, beating the Conservatives into fourth place, to become the main centre-right force in Ordennyan politics. Despite winning more votes between them, however, the Green Party and United Socialist Party did not have enough seats to form a government, allowing a centre-right government to be formed by the Conservative Capitalist Front, the Conservative Party, and the Liberal Democrats, with the former joining the Conservative-Lib Dem alliance, Forward Ordennya. Conservative leader Michel Fallow took office as President, with KKF leader Valdemar Söderberg as Vice President and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

In the aftermath of the 2019 Euclean parliament elections, in which the KKF and KPO enjoyed a boost in support, the coalition government introduced legislation on an in/out referendum on Ordennya's membership of the Euclean Community. The Liberal Democrats, a pro-Euclean party, subsequently resigned from the government and moved to the crossbench to vote against the legislation. The legislation was voted down by 350 votes to 290 votes, a majority of 60, on May 23rd 2019. The following morning, President Fallow announced the calling of a snap federal election.

Campaign

At the beginning of the week after the election was called, the Liberal Democrats and the New Democratic Party announced the formation of a centre alliance heading into the election, to bolster their performance, called the Union of the Democratic Centre (UDC). The Green Party and United Socialist Party announced the renewal of their coalition, albeit with a shortened name as the Alliance for Progress, and the Conservative Capitalist Front and the Conservative Party formed a new bloc in the absence of the Lib Dems, called the People's Alliance.

Electoral system

Ordennya uses the mixed-member proportional representation system for the House of Commons, a system of proportional representation combined with elements of first-past-the-post voting. The House of Commons has 650 members, and these seats are distributed between the 12 Ordennyan states. This system has been in place since a referendum in 1999 changed the electoral system from alternative vote to mixed-member proportional, and has been used since the 2000 election.

Each Ordennyan voter has 2 votes: a constituency vote (first vote) and a party list vote (second vote). Based solely on the first votes, 325 members are elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. The second votes are used to produce a proportional number of seats for parties, based on state lists. List seats are allocated using the Sainte-Laguë method. If a party wins fewer constituency seats in a state than its second votes would entitle it to, it receives additional seats from the relevant state list. Parties can file lists in every single state under certain conditions – for example, a fixed number of supporting signatures. Parties can receive second votes only in those states in which they have filed a state list.

Voting eligibility

In order to vote in the federal election, one must be:

• on the electoral register;
• aged 16 or over on polling day;
• an Ordennyan or Xanartopian citizen;
• a resident at an address in the Ordennyan Federation (or an Ordennyan citizen living abroad who has been registered to vote in Ordennya in the last 15 years);
• not legally excluded from voting (for example a convicted person detained in prison or a mental hospital, or unlawfully at large if he/she would otherwise have been detained).