2020 Central Shaneville presidential election

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2020 Central Shanevlle presidential Election
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242 seats in the Central Shaneville Parliament (CSP)
122 seats needed for a majority
Turnout85% (3,025,683 total voters)
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader John Poseidon Shane Wray Michael Noth
Party Liberal Democrats Commonwealth People's Party Central Shaneville National-Labor Coalition
Leader since February 2018 January 2020 September 2016
Leader's seat Lincoln Island Shaneville City Ajaccio
Last election 159 (38.4%) 81 (35.9%) 2 (24.1%)
Seats before 159 81 2
Seats won 49 98 95
Seat change -110 +17 +93
FPTP vote 989,494 1,097,694 920,870
Percentage 32.70% 36.3% 30.4%
Swing - - -

President of Central Shaneville before election

Chase Owens (2016-2018)
John Poseidon (from 2018)
Liberal Democrats

President of Central Shaneville (until re-election)

John Poseidon
Liberal Democrats

The 2020 Central Shaneville presidential election was held on Friday 13 November 2020.

The election ended in a hung parliament situation meaning John Poseidon kept his position as President until the re-election (which was decided by Parliament after the official election ended without a majority) in terms of the official election it was won by the Commonwealth Party, in their second ever election as an official party, and its candidate Shane Wray who (if a majority had been found) would've been the youngest Central Shaneville President ever at just 20 years old.

Election

Voter eligibility

To be able to vote in Central Shaneville elections:

  • Voter must be 18 years old by election day
  • a Central Shaneville citizen

Timetable

1 October Candidate Campaigns start
6 November Media Week - Candidates appear on TV to take questions/debate
9 November Central Shaneville broadcasts election coverage live for the first time
13 November Election Night

Background

In January 2018, due to health problems, President Chase Owens stepped down and was replaced with John Poseidon who was criticized for his way of handling the country, Poseidon was described as "all over the place" by the public and parliament alike but he soon found his stride and was a president that loved the people however as COVID-19 hit Shanevillean shores he struggled to stay on top of it resorting to calming people down with daily updates during news broadcasts.

With the election on the horizon though Poseidon made it clear that he wanted a chance to run for a first proper term so announced he would run for President this year instead of handing over the reigns of the Liberal Democrats to someone else he would be running against the new Commonwealth party (in its 2nd ever election) and a National and Labor party coalition following both their losses at the 2016 election with Owens' opponent Michael Noth returning as the Coalitions candidate, the Commonwealth opted for Shane Wray who had little experience in politics but wanted to show the world that young people can do it and with the Commonwealth being a "party for the young people" they announced it was time for change in the country.

Debates

This year there was only 2 debates instead of 3 - both were held at the Central Shaneville Parliament and took place during Media Week, the second debate featured (for the first time ever) people from around the NationStates world were allowed to ask the candidates questions.

According to the media of Central Shaneville, John Poseidon won both debates with Shane Wray also impressing.

2020 Central Shaneville presidential debates
Date Organisers Venue     P  Present    S  Surrogate    NI  Non-invitee   A  Absent invitee 
Liberal Democrats Commonwealth National-Labor Coaltion
2 November CS News Central Shaneville Parliament - Shaneville City P
Poseidon
P
Wray
P
Noth
6 November CS News Central Shaneville Parliament - Shaneville City P
Poseidon
P
Wray
P
Noth

Exit Poll

The polls were closed from 6pm-8pm in the 29 districts of Central Shaneville, a result was called in at 2am the following morning with no majority being reached, the final results looked like this:


Parties Seats
Commonwealth People's Party 98
Central Shaneville National-Labor Coalition 95
Liberal Democrats 49
NO MAJORITY REACHED, HUNG PARLIAMENT

Results

After all 29 districts had been declared, the results were:

Party Leader MLs Votes
Of total Of total
Commonwealth Shane Wray 98 40.5%
98 / 242
xxx 36.3%
36.3%
CSNL Michael Noth 95 39.2%
95 / 242
xxx 30.4
30.4%
Liberal Democrats John Poseidon 49 20.2%
49 / 242
xxx 32.7
32.7%


Voting summary

Popular vote
Commonwealth
36.3%
Liberal Democrats
32.7%
National-Labor
30.4%
Composition of seats
Commonwealth
40.49%
National-Labor
39.25%
Liberal Democrats
20.24%

Aftermath

The day after the election at around 10am the Central Shaneville parliament finally came to a decision and that was to have a re-election between the 3 candidates in December and whilst the election was big for the Commonwealth party who technically won it they were upset by what had happened and aimed for an even better campaign in December which will be a week long to see if the parties can gain more support.