Redinean general election, 2021

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Redinean general election, 2021

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All 620 seats in the Parliament of Redinea
311 seats needed for a majority
Turnout76.4%
Party Leader % Seats ±
Labour Party Catherine West 41.2 306 +89
National Party Julianne Burke 32.7 224 +20
Liberal Party David Fisher 9.4 41 -115
Reformist Party Alexander Blake 5.8 26 +4
Unionist Party Richard Finch 5.6 23 +2
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Parliamentary composition
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Catherine West
Labour
Catherine West
Labour

The 2021 Redinean general election was held on 21 September to elect members to the Parliament of Redinea. The election was triggered following the collapse of a coalition between the Labour Party of Prime Minister Catherine West and the Liberal Party after two years in government. Labour made large gains, winning enough seats to form a minority government with West remaining as Prime Minister.

The previous election in 2019 had left Labour as the largest party for the first time, with the governing National Party losing power after eight years in government. The Liberals, who had been expected to win the most seats at the beginning of the election campaign, came in third place after losing support to the more economically interventionist Labour Party at a time of high unemployment. A post-election coalition was agreed between Labour and the Liberals and a majority government formed. The coalition collapsed in 2021 over disagreements in industrial and energy policy, culminating in the resignation of most Liberal members of the cabinet. A total of 36 Liberal MPs opposed to this decision, including Minister of Foreign Affairs Julia Campbell, defected to the Labour Party in protest with this decision. West then called an immediate general election.