2033 Saren general election
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All 952 seats in the House of Commons 473 seats are needed for a majority 32 (of the 62) elected seats in the Senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 93.27% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Social Democratic: 519 seats National Progressive: 422 seats National Union: 6 seats Independent: 3 seats Green: 2 seats | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2033 Saren general election was held on Saturday 8 October 2033 to elect members of the 162nd Parliament of Sarenium. The election had been called following the dissolution of the 161st Parliament as elected at the 2030 double dissolution federal election. All 972 seats in the House of Commons (lower house) and 32 of 62 seats in the Senate (upper house) were up for election.
The first-term incumbent minority Social Democratic Government, led by Prime Minister Camilla Parker, won a second three-year term by defeating the opposition National Progressive Party, led by Opposition Leader Michael T. Walker. The SDM claimed a sixty-eight seat majority with 541 seats, the NPP finished with 400, whilst the remaining seats were won by the Greens, National Unity Party and Independents.
The electoral system of Sarenium enforces compulsory voting and uses full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats for the House of Representatives and the Senate. The election was administered by the Saren Electoral Commission.
The result was considered an upset as polling had not accounted for the extent to which the SDM and NPP would increase their standing, nor had polls been able to predict the extent to which the National Unity Party would be routed.
On election night, Michael Walker conceded and stood down as Leader of the National Progressive Party.
Notable defeats included National Unity members, Deidre Schmidt in Walco and Thomas Grimes in Greenwood, both of whom were defeated with double digit swings against them. Notable entrants of Parliament included, son of Former President Alain Bronson, Jason Bronson (NPP), elected to Rochester, and niece of Christian Ross, Halima Lurtan (SDM).