1876 Lissathan presidential election

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1876 Lissathan presidential election
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← 1870 August 18, 1876 (1876-08-18) 1882 →

353 members of the Electoral College
177 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout65.1%, 16,502,640
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Nominee Ioannis Papiades Marco Russo
Party Federalist Republican-Federalist
Home state Sirenia Scapystus
Running mate Joseph Katsoros Luca Feretti
Electoral vote 189 164
States carried 11 14
Popular vote 7,860,258 7,898,307
Percentage 47.63 47.86

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President before election

Alessio Calidora
Republican-Federalist

President

Ioannis Papiades
Federalist Party

The 1876 Lissathan presidential election marked the 4th sexennial presidential election in Lissatha. It took place on August 18, 1876, with the Federalist nominee, Ioannis Papiades, competing against the Republican-Federalist candidate, Marco Russo. It was one of the closest elections in Lissathan history, as Ioannis Papiades won the electoral college while his opponent Marco Russo won the popular vote by a slim margin of just 38,000 votes.

The election was the first one to be seriously contested, as in the previous three presidential elections the Republican-Federalist nominee had essentially ran unopposed, this changed with the nomination of founding father Marco Russo. Russo was one of the four co-founders of the Republican-Federalist Party, the other three co-founders had all served as President and had privately agreed to all support the candidacy of the others when the time came. Ioannis Papiades had emerged as a leader of the conservative wing of the party and heavily contested the nomination of the progressive Russo, this came in vain as Russo was easily nominated by the party at the Republican-Federalist Convention, Papiades in response left the party and accepted the nomination of the previously miniscule Federalist Party, with much of the Republican-Federalist's conservative wing walking out as well.

The results of the election were heavily contested, especially in the state of Mozoli, where multiple calls for recounts by the Russo campaign led to Papiades' lead in the state expanding from 10,737 votes to 11,956. Russo lost the election but won the popular vote, this led to calls by some Russo supporters for the abolition of the electoral college, calls Russo was hesitant to endorse due to his major support from small states and his role in creating the electoral college during the drafting of the constitution.

Nominations

Republican-Federalist Party Nomination

1876 Republican-Federalist Party ticket
Marco Russo Luca Feretti
for President for Vice President
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Senator from Scapystus
(1874-1882)
Representative
for Mozoli's 10th district
(1869-1882)

The three other co-founders of the Republican-Federalist Party had all won the Presidency with ease in the previous three elections, with the four having made a deal on the eve of the 1858 Republican-Federalist National Convention dividing up power in the new government among themselves, with an agreement being made that all four would get to serve a term as President, and after Giorgio Antonopoulos, Nikos Martino, and Alessio Calidora all served their terms it was understood by the party establishment that Russo was to be the parties nominee in 1876. Russo was by far the most left-leaning of the four co-founders, and the idea of his presidency was concerning to many in the conservative wing of the party, de facto conservative leader Ioannes Papiades attempted to contest the nomination but when the fourth Republican-Federalist National Convention assembled in Gakretta on February 11, 1876, Russo won it easily on the first ballot, in response Papiades led the conservative faction of the party in walking out of the convention.

Federalist Party nomination

1876 Federalist Party ticket
Ioannis Papiades Joseph Katsoros
for President for Vice President
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Senator from Sirenia
(1874-1876)
Senator from Gelanoli
(1858-1876)

Two weeks after Papiades' walk out from the RF Convention the Federalist Party, who in the previous election had garnered just 2.8% of the vote and were now sensing an opportunity, scrambled to assemble their convention and award their presidential nomination to Papiades, Papiades accepted the nomination and left the Republican-Federalist Party for the Federalists, with much of the conservative wing of the party joining him.

Monarchist Party Nomination

The fourth Monarchist Party National Convention assembled at the home of Duke Emmanuel Gennaro where they unanimously nominated Maximilian Valerius for President, in the previous three elections the Monarchist Party saw declining vote shares, going from 23% in 1858, to 17% in 1864, and 10% in 1870.

General election

Results

Results by state

States/districts won by Papiades/Katsoros States/districts won by Russo/Feretti
Ioannes Papiades
Federalist
Marco Russo
Republican-Federalist
Maximilian Valerius
Monarchist
Margin State Total
State electoral
votes
# % electoral
votes
# % electoral
votes
# % electoral
votes
# % Total votes cast
Aegona 6 53,339 42.86 59,089 47.48 6 11,649 9.36 -5,750 -4.62 124,450
Altenea 7 60,971 39.82 87,032 56.84 7 5,114 3.34 -26,061 -17.82 153,117
Argenta 14 208,665 41.74 263,056 52.62 14 28,195 5.64 -54,391 -10.88 499,906
Calistria 9 159,394 54.77 9 113,965 39.16 17,665 6.07 45,429 15.61 291,025
Calydria 5 46,807 44.65 49,533 47.25 5 57,008 8.1 -2,726 -2.60 104,831
Celenza 17 951,843 56.10 17 687,838 40.54 57,008 3.36 264,005 15.56 1,696,689
Epirosa 11 176,662 41.32 213,816 50.01 11 34,918 8.67 -37,154 -8.69 427,546
Flordina 10 208,512 52.70 10 180,302 45.57 6,845 1.73 28,210 7.13 395,659
Gallaroli 7 94,798 45.55 109,512 52.62 7 3,809 1.83 -14,714 -7.07 208,118
Gelanoli 35 941,620 50.03 35 862,384 45.82 78,108 4.18 79,326 4.21 1,882,076
Guidossos 11 190,284 43.04 232,240 52.53 11 19,585 4.4 -41,956 -9.49 442,109
Ithalia 15 264,369 46.64 281,997 49.75 15 20,463 3.61 -17,628 -3.11 566,829
Ionova 8 134,651 52.41 8 118,465 46.11 3,802 1.48 16,186 6.30 256,918
Larosa 7 56,948 43.65 60,758 46.57 7 14,064 10.78 -3,810 -2.92 130,466
Lombelos 13 362,317 56.88 13 248,934 39.08 25,670 4.03 113,383 17.84 636,921
Mozoli 38 1,060,750 47.02 38 1,048,794 46.49 146,411 6.49 11,956 0.53 2,255,955
Messidora 13 238,765 48.68 13 214,437 43.73 37,276 7.59 24,328 4.96 490,478
Pomeli 10 187,731 48.14 10 180,674 46.33 21,521 5.53 7,057 1.81 389,926
Rikedo 20 474,887 45.68 547,763 52.69 20 16,945 1.63 -72,876 -7.01 1,039,595
Rokryia 8 131,401 57.06 8 87,600 38.04 9,442 4.10 43,800 19.02 230,285
Scapystus 8 100,455 32.84 180,537 59.02 8 24,900 8.14 -80,082 -26.18 305,891
Serenia 14 335,962 46.78 379,411 52.83 14 2,801 0.39 -43,449 -6.05 718,174
Sirenia 28 697,893 54.26 28 573,517 44.59 14,791 1.14 124,376 9.67 1,286,201
Tonkatus 9 149,036 44.19 173,251 51.37 14,974 4.44 -24,215 -7.18 337,261
Verdonia 31 625,548 35.61 1,002,528 57.07 31 128,588 7.32 -376,980 -21.46 1,756,664
TOTALS: 353 7,860,258 47.63 189 7,898,307 47.86 164 741,386 4.49 -38,049 -0.23 16,502,640