2019 Tevitheimer Grand Chancellery Election
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439 members of the Electoral Council 220 votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 141,0789,656 ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 116,732,250 (82.7%) ( 114,011,014 (80.8%) ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Map of jarldoms by first-place winner: Dark blue indicates jarldoms won by Bylund/Zhu. Red indicates jarldoms won by Torrents/Renzi. Purple indicates jarldoms won by Landser/Haraldsen. Orange indicates jarldoms won by Wang/Andersen. Brown indicates jarldoms won by Mor'Tins/Rasmussen. Light blue indicates jarldoms won in the second round by Torrents/Renzi but awarded their electoral votes to Bylund/Zhu under the Popular Vote Agreement.
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The 2019 Tevitheimer Grand Chancellery Election was the tenth sextennial grand chancellery election in Tevitheim. The election consisted of two rounds. The first, held on 6 August, saw a total of six major candidates in the first round. As no candidate garnered a majority of electoral votes required, a runoff election would be held among the top two candidates, Chief Minister of Rookeryet Daniel Bylund and Alnatingsrepresentant from Elveanna Erik Torrents, on 27 August. Bylund would beat Torrents by a slim majority of just 1.1 million votes, or 2.0 percent, in what has been called one of the largest upsets in Tevitheimer political history. Incumbent grand chancellor Aud Raimundo of the Progressive-Greens party was ineligible to run for a second term, as Tevitheimer grand chancellors are prohibited from being elected to more than a single term. Raimundo's popularity led many to believe that the Progressive-Greens, usually the smaller of the two dominant left-wing parties in Tevitheim, would eclipse the Republican Party during the 2019 campaign, and incumbent Vice Chancellor Mikkel Landser was called the "prohibitive favorite" for the grand chancellery.
In the first round, the Social Union took first place with 26.0% of the vote and 118 electoral votes, followed by Torrents with 22.5% of the vote and 97 electoral votes, Mikkel Landser of the Progressive-Greens with 20.7% and 91 electoral votes, Harald Wang of the Liberal Democrats with 16.9% and 73 electoral votes, Sivert Grimsrud of the Nationals with 6.7% and 33 electoral votes, and in last place Worker's Party candidate Hull Mor'Tins with 5.0% and 27 electoral votes. As no candidate surpassed the 220 votes required for victory, the election would be decided in a second round, held three weeks later. The top two candidates, Bylund and Torrents, advanced with all other candidates eliminated.
However, an aggressive campaign by Torrents and several campaign missteps by Landser led to Torrents edging out Landser by a margin of 1.8%, or 2.1 million votes. Despite polls for the second indicating a loss for Bylund, he would win by a slim 1.1 million vote majority against Torrents, 50.5% to Torrents' 49.5% of the vote and 243 electoral votes to Torrents' 196 votes, though 156 votes would be given to Bylund under the terms of the Popular Vote Agreement. This marked the first victory by the Social Union since 1989. The Social Union would form a minority coalition with the Liberal Democrats in the Alnating.