Redinean general election, 2021
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All 620 seats in the Parliament of Redinea 311 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 76.4% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 representatives opposed to this decision, including Minister of Foreign Affairs Julia Campbell, defected to the Labour Party in protest. West then called an immediate general election.
Labour won 306 seats, their highest number in history and just five short of a parliamentary majority. The party benefited from a collapse in support for the Liberal Party, which won just 41 representatives; this was the worst result for the Liberals since 1874. The National Party made small gains, winning 224 seats, while the Reformist and Unionist parties won 26 and 23 seats respectively.
The result entrenched the realignment of Redinean politics in 2019, with Labour cementing its status as the main party of the political left. Labour successfully coalesced its 2019 vote with disaffected Liberal voters, aided by the defections of left-leaning Liberal MPs, and formed its first single-party government. This allowed West to press ahead with industrial and energy reforms previously blocked by the Liberals. The leaders of the National and Liberal parties, Alistair Baldwin and David Fisher, both resigned in the weeks following the election. The Nationals elected former Minister of Justice Ruth Baker as their new leader, whilst former Minister of Energy Edward Keegan became Liberal leader.