2022 Caldish general election
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A general election will be held in Caldia on 12 June 2022 to elect all 399 members of the Tionól. The elected members will then elect the Taoiseach of Caldia.
Elections in Caldia are part of a five-year cycle. The 2022 election will be held on 12 June regardless of a snap election.
Background
The 2019 general election saw the Social Democratic Party win a majority of seats and form their first government in almost 200 years. The PSD won 218 seats with 48.8% of the vote. Stiofán Mac Suibhne became the taoiseach and has held the post since. The office opposition, led by Pádraig Mac Piarais of the Liberty Party, won 89 seats. Other opposition parties included the National Party, the Centre Party, the Labour Party (now Democratic Left), the Greens, Caldish Democrats, the Pensioners' Party, and Homeland. Two Independents were also elected.
The government passed the Instrument for Governance Act of 2021, reforming the constitution. The Comhthionól Náisiúnta effectively became the unicameral Tionól starting on 12 May 2021.
Electoral system
Of the 399 members of the Tionól, 200 are elected in multi-member constituencies and 199 are selected based on a party's vote share. The presiding officer is automatically re-elected if standing again, but the incumbent had retired meaning all 399 seats were contested.
Members are elected using mixed-member proportional representation. Caldia has 52 multi-member constituencies. Each consistency consists of three to five members. Members are selected using a version of single-transferable vote known as the Ní Dochartaigh method. Under this process, voters rank candidates by first and second preference. Unlike other methods of single transferable vote, they can only rank candidates in this order and cannot transfer their vote to more than one additional candidate.
The remaining members are allocated to parties who rank their candidates on an open list in which voters can rank candidates on their own. Voters can either support a party's top candidate or give their vote to another candidate on the list. This could allow a candidate to move up the list. For this to occur, a candidate must receive more than 25% of the total number of votes cast for the party. This allows for parties to retain significant control over candidates elected on the open list.
For a new party to become eligible, it has to register the support of 25,000 registered voters with the Caldish Electoral Board before 12 June 2021. For a new party to enter the Tionól it had to receive more than 2.5% of the national vote share win a seat in a multi-member constituency. Independents only require the support of 10,000 registered voters, making ballot access easier.
Participating parties
| Party | Leader | Last election | |||
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| PSD | Social Democratic Party | Stiofán Mac Suibhne | 48.8 | 218 seats | |
| S | Liberty Party | Pádraig Mac Piarais | 18.4 | 89 seats | |
| PN | National Party | Liam Ó Cuillinn | 13.6 | 57 seats | |
| PM | Centre Party | Lachlann Mac an Fhleisteir | 4 | 12 seats | |
| DC | Democratic Left | Seán Ó Caoláin | 3.1 | 8 seats | |
| G | The Greens | Colm Ó Corráin Ciara Nic Innes |
3 | 6 seats | |
| D | Caldish Democrats | Muirís Ó Branagáin | 2.5 | 5 seats | |
| PP | Pensioners | Ellie Níc Raghnaill | 1.2 | 1 seat | |
| M/TD | Homeland | Einion ap Calder | .2 | 1 seat | |
| N | Independents | Individual candidates | 1.3 | 2 seats | |