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Next Ordennyan federal election (Progressive Party and Centre Alliance)

Next Ordennyan federal election

← 2018 On or before 4 October 2023

All 650 seats in the House of Commons
326 seats needed for a majority
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Leader Clement Mercier Jean Meunier Josephine Lefevre
Party PPO FCC PSU
Alliance Alliance for Progress & Development Forward Ordennya Alliance for Progress & Development
Leader since 1 December 2016 17 December 2015 18 November 2018
Leader's seat Perdrix et Saint-Marine Richemond Senator from Osea
Running in Oured North
Last election 215 seats, 31.8% 214 seats, 31.6% 105 seats, 17%
Seats needed Increase111 Increase112 Increase221

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Leader Michel Fallow Jean Sinclair Emmanuel Martinez
Party PCO DL NPD
Alliance Forward Ordennya Union of the Democratic Centre Union of the Democratic Centre
Leader since 12 September 2015 22 June 2015 17 November 2018
Leader's seat Lyon Nord du Amstermond Ville de Novembre Nord
Last election 80 seats, 12.3% 34 seats, 4.7% 2 seats, 2.7%
Seats needed Increase246 Increase292 Increase324

Incumbent President

Michel Fallow
Conservative



The next federal election in the Federation of Ordennya is scheduled to take place on or before 4 October 2023. The latest date the election can occur is 4 October 2023, five years after the previous election, with the power to dissolve parliament and call an election on or before this date is in the hands of the President, Michel Fallow. An election can be held early if the government loses a confidence vote in the House of Commons and the Opposition cannot form a government after 14 days.

Electoral system

Ordennya uses the mixed-member proportional representation system for the House of Commons, a system of proportional representation combined with elements of first-past-the-post voting. The House of Commons has 650 members, and these seats are distributed between the 12 Ordennyan states. This system has been in place since a referendum in 1999 changed the electoral system from alternative vote to mixed-member proportional, and has been used since the 2000 election.

Each Ordennyan voter has 2 votes: a constituency vote (first vote) and a party list vote (second vote). Based solely on the first votes, 325 members are elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting. The second votes are used to produce a proportional number of seats for parties, based on state lists. List seats are allocated using the Sainte-Laguë method. If a party wins fewer constituency seats in a state than its second votes would entitle it to, it receives additional seats from the relevant state list. Parties can file lists in every single state under certain conditions – for example, a fixed number of supporting signatures. Parties can receive second votes only in those states in which they have filed a state list.

Voting eligibility

In order to vote in the federal election, one must be:

  • on the electoral register;
  • aged 16 or over on polling day;
  • an Ordennyan or Xanartopian citizen;
  • a resident at an address in the Ordennyan Federation (or an Ordennyan citizen living abroad who has been registered to vote in Ordennya in the last 15 years);
  • not legally excluded from voting (for example a convicted person detained in prison or a mental hospital, or unlawfully at large if he/she would otherwise have been detained).