Vyvlander general election, 2009

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Vyvlander general election, 2009
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All 580 seats in the Parliament of Vyvland
Turnout16,096,202 (77.2%)
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Vren Dens Kurt Blymont Minke Selengborg
Party Liberal Party (Vyvland) Conservative Party (Vyvland) Socialist Party (Vyvland)
Leader's seat Nencia Wik (province) Olsence-Syf
Last election 107 seats 129 seats 188 seats
Seats won 187 123 107
Seat change Increase 70 Decrease 6 Decrease 81
Popular vote 5,005,919 3,428,491 2,881,220
Percentage 31.1% 21.3% 17.9%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
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Leader Willem Winkelman Denis Eeris Muryks Elseng
Party National Party (Vyvland) Capitalist Party (Vyvland) Greens (Vyvland)
Leader's seat Wouterwerk-Laargen Lysedal-Hoppedal Kafren-Grunir (province)
Last election 61 seats 17 seats 20 seats
Seats won 52 30 25
Seat change Decrease 9 Increase 13 Increase 5
Popular vote 1,480,851 981,868 756,521
Percentage 9.2% 6.1% 4.7%

Prime Minister before election

Minke Selengborg
Socialist Party (Vyvland)

Prime Minister after election

Vren Dens
Liberal Party (Vyvland)

The Vyvlander general election was the tenth in Vyvland since reunification, and was held on the 28th October of that year. It elected all of the 568 voting seats in the Vyvlander Parliament in addition to 6 other seats. The election caused the voting out of the incumbent Socialist-Green-Communist coalition led by Minke Selengborg and the formation of a Liberal-Socialist-Green coalition headed by Vren Dens.

The largest gainers by number of seats were the Liberals, who gained 55, mostly at the expense of the Socialists, who lost 72 after a turbulent term in a broad coalition. The Capitalists gained thirteen more than their 2005 result of 17, thus increasing their vote share over 5% for the first time. The Conservatives remained essentially stable, while the Vyvlander Front lost all their four seats in Parliament after their leader, Anton Eskmanteloim, was charged with racially-motivated assault eleven days before the election, thus losing him his seat.

The 2009 general election was the first after the controversial 2007 Parliament redistricting, which reduced the number of seats in the house by 12 and removed the previous system whereby smaller provinces received a marginally greater number of seats in proportion to their population.