1989 Tevitheimer Grand Chancellery Election

1989 Tevitheimer Grand Chancellery Election

6 February 1989
340 members of the Electoral Council 171 votes needed to win
Registered	103,976,083 (XXpp)
Turnout	76,171,660 (73.3%) (XXpp)
Nominee James Clinton Jakob Eraldsen Party Social Union Republican Electoral vote 310 30 Popular vote 44,522,667 30,581,020 Percentage 58.45% 40.15% Jarldom Gulkystheim New Hammerfest Vice Chancellor Jonas Støre Olaf Hrvada Carried 14 2
Map of jarldoms by first-place winner: Dark blue indicates jarldoms won by Clinton/Støre. Red indicates jarldoms won by Eraldsen/Hrvada.
Grand Chancellor before election Wade Mannerheim Social Union Elected Grand Chancellor James Clinton Social Union

The 1989 Tevitheimer grand chancellery election was the fifth sextennial grand chancellery election in Tevitheim and the first since 1977, as the 1983 election was cancelled due to martial law throughout most of Tevitheim due to the Third Great War. Social Union nominee and former commanding general James Clinton and his running mate, Councilor to the Jarl of New Tremblant Jonas Støre won a landslide victory against Republican nominees of Councilor to the Assembly of New Hammerfest, Jakob Eraldsen and his running mate, president of the Industrial Union of Tevitheim, Olaf Hrvada of Nellsheim.

Eraldsen emerged victorious on the third ballot at the Republican convention, defeating Olaf Hrvada, the president of the Industrial Union, the largest union in Tevitheim. Hrvada would become Eraldsen's running mate for the general election. Clinton, a general during the Third Great War, was hailed as a war hero and wildly popular, especially among men under the age of 40 (the primary demographic of those who served under Clinton during the war). Despite a challenge from the conservative Eldegard Alnatingsrepresentant Robert Tonal, Clinton was nominated by a wide majority of the Social Union convention. Due to concerns about Clinton's age (he turned 69 three weeks before election day), he selected the relatively youthful 48 year-old Jonas Støre as his running mate.

Clinton touted his connections to popular incumbent Grand Chancellor Wade Mannerheim, his role as the head of the Reconstruction Authority, a military joint command responsible for rebuilding the wartorn northern regions of Tevitheim, and his retaining of his enormous popularity from the war. At 69, Clinton was the oldest person to ever be elected as grand chancellor, while Eraldsen, who was slightly older than Clinton at 70 years and 121 days on election day, was the oldest person ever nominated by a major party for grand chancellor, a record which still stands. The Clinton campaign produced effective television advertising and was able to neutralize concerns about Clinton's age due to Eraldsen's similarily advanced age. Eraldsen criticized the possibility of the Social Union being power since 1977 and called the party's grip on power "a one party state".

Clinton won the election in a landslide victory, carrying 310 electoral votes, 14 jarldoms, and 58.5% of the popular vote. Eraldsen won 30 electoral votes: 25 from his home jarldom of New Hammerfest, which he won by less than 151,000 votes of 4.8 million cast, and 5 from Elveanna, which is historically one of the most consistently Republican jarldoms in Tevitheim. This was the largest share of the electoral college since Jens Vealund won 100% of all votes when he ran unopposed in 1959. This election also represents the largest share of the popular vote in any two-way election in Tevitheimer history. Clinton became the first English! speaker to be elected as grand chancellor, and his victory represents the most recent election in which a grand chancellor's successor was a member of the same political party and the last victory for the Social Union until 2019.

Results

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Candidate for Grand Chancellor	Party	Home Jarldom	Popular Vote		Electoral Vote	Vice Chancellor
			Count	Percentage		Candidate for Vice Chancellor
							Home Jarldom	Electoral Vote
James Clinton	Social Union	Gulkystheim	44,522,667	58.45%	310	Jonas Støre	New Tremblant	310
Jakob Eraldsen	Republican	New Hammerfest	30,581,020	49.15%	30	Vulkan Mortison	Nellsheim	30
All Other Candidates			624,782	0.82%	0	All Other Candidates		0
Discarded Votes			443,191	0.58%
Total			76,171,660	100%	340	Total		340
Required for Victory					171	Required for Victory		171

Popular Vote Clinton   58.45% Eraldsen   40.15% Others   0.82%

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