2023 Saren general election
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All 761 seats in the House of Commons 381 seats are needed for a majority 125 (of the 250) elected seats in the Senate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2023 Saren general election was held on November 25, 2023. The snap election was called after the Tael Government lost a self-called Motion of No Confidence on September 6, 2023. With both the Government and the Opposition failing to then produce a constructive vote of confidence, Tael advised the President to call a snap election on November 25, 2023.
This came after the Tael Government lost it's functional majority across July and August of 2023 after the defection of multiple Labor backbenchers to the crossbench.
The dominant issues of the election surrounded trust, integrity and stability in government, climate change and pathways of addressing it, and to a lesser extent housing, inflation and cost of living.
The Tael Government was re-elected in an upset having been expected to lose when the election was initially called.
Background
At the 2020 Saren general election, Toriyar Tael of the Labour Party was elected as Prime Minister after his party secured an absolute majority in the Saren House of Commons with 389 seats, an 8 seat majority.
Notes
- ↑ The NLP Party lost the Divisions of Molonglo (AB), Arbeia (IB) and Varicha (FR) at by-elections to the Greens, UCP and an Independent respectively, sixteen MPs resigned from the NLP caucus and sat on the crossbench in protest of the Tael Government, precipitating the snap election. At this election, the NLP was returned in all fourteen of sixteen electorates with rebellious MPs, and recovered the seat of Varicha earlier lost at by-election. There was one net gain at the election total from other seats changing hands
- ↑ The UCP gained the Division of Arbeia in June 2023 at a by-election.