August 2020 General Election

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August 2020 General Election
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December 2019 General Election 15 Aug 2020 - 1 Sep 2020

All 200 seats in the Cosa
101 seats needed for a majority
Eligible voters 152
Turnout 93 - 61.1% (Increase 5.6%)
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Leader Miestrâ Schivâ Ian Plätschisch Eiric Börnatfiglheu
Party FreeDem LCC NPW
Leader since 29 Jan 2019 10 Jul 2020 15 Sep 2019
Leader's seat MC (FreeDem) Senator (MM) Senator (BE)
Last election 84 new party 15
Seats won 99 73 28
Seat change Increase 15 Increase 73 Increase 13
Popular vote 46 34 13
Percentage 49.46% 35.56% 12.62%
Swing Increase 7.69% Increase 35.56% Increase 5.03%




Outgoing Seneschal Presumptive Seneschal
Miestrâ Schivâ
FreeDems
Miestrâ Schivâ
FreeDems

The August 2020 General Election was held from August 15th to September 1st 2020/XLI. All of the Cosa was up for reelection, plus regularly scheduled Senate elections in Maritiimi-Maxhestic and Benito, and a special election in Cézembre. Six referendums on amendments to the Organic Law were also proposed.

Registered parties

Party Leader/Candidate Beliefs
  Free Democrats of Talossa (FreeDem) Miestrâ Schivâ Progressivism, liberalism, republicanism
  League of Centre Conservatives (LCC) Ian Plätschisch Pragmatism, moderate monarchism, reformism, conservatism
  New Peculiar Way (NPW) Eiric Börnatfiglheu Peculiarism, republicanism

Timeline

Results

Party Votes Share
  Free Democrats of Talossa 46 49.46%
  League of Centre Conservatives 34 35.56%
  New Peculiar Way 13 12.62%
Present/Invalid votes: 12

The Free Democrats fell precisely one seat (or two votes) short of an absolute majority. The monarchist LCC won more than 1/3 of the seats, giving it a veto over future Organic Law reform.

The ultimate outcome of the election was a coalition between the Free Democrats and the New Peculiar Way.

Senatorial races

Cézembre (special)

Cézembre Senate Special Election
Ián Tamorán 7 7
X. Pol Briga 5 6
Ián da Bitoûr (write-in) 1 -
Litz Cjantscheir (write-in) 1
FreeDem HOLD

Benito

Benito Senate Election
Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu 5
Istefan Perþonest 1
Mitchel Paul 1
Iason Taiwos 1
Erscheveþ da Schir 1
NPW GAIN from MRPT

Fiova

The incumbent is Gödafrïeu Válcadác'h, currently the third longest tenured Senator, who had served as Lord President (Mençei) of the Senate in 2018 and is well known as the long-time Royal Archivist of Talossa. He has announced his intention to run for reelection.

No challenger has declared their intention to run. The last contested election in Fiovă was in December 2013, when the NPW's Dieter Vercáriâ took on the ZRT's Miestrâ Schivâ.

Fiovă Senate Election
Gödafrïeu Válcadác'h 9
Miestrâ Schivâ (write-in) 1
Carlüs Xheraltescù (write-in) 1
Tamoran Montagnhard d'Açeradeireu (write-in) 1
FreeDem HOLD

Final results show Válcadác'h handily winning reelection with an overall majority of 75% of first preferences, a decrease of 10%.

Maricopa

The incumbent is Sir Cresti Siervicül, the lone senator to be affiliated with the RUMP. Siervicül has completed his first term in the Senate, which he joined in late 2017, initially as an appointee and then winning a special election to complete the rest of the term.

The seat is one of two expected to be competitive, should multiple candidates from different parties be on the ballot. Maricopa was the first province where IRV was applied to a Senate race.

The Free Democrats have announced that Foreign Minister Txoteu Davinescu, formerly of AMP, will contest the seat for a second time; he was the MRPT's candidate in 2017, where he received the second-most first votes (29%), but lost out in the final IRV round to Beneditsch Ardpresteir. Ardpresteir himself later announced he would run for the seat, setting up a rematch with Davinescu.

Maricopa Senate Election
Beneditsch Ardpresteir 6 7
Txoteu Davinescu 3 3
Cresti Siervicül (write-in) 1 (0)(1) 1
Munditenens Tresplet (write-in) 1 (0)(0)(0)(1) 1
Alejo Fernández (write-in) 1 (0)(0)(0)(0) -
RUMP HOLD

Final results show Ardpresteir winning at the second elimination round, with 50% of first preference votes, a 7% decrease for the RUMP from the latest contested election. FreeDem challenger Txoteu Davinescu only mustered 25% of the first preference vote, a 3% decrease compared to his previous attempt at the seat.

This was the second attempt at a Senate majority for a party that failed in Maricopa, with the FreeDems stopping short of a clean sweep of Senate races, although they will still be the lone plurality party in the Senate for the first time in their history. Additionally, depending on Ardpresteir's affiliation, this might mean that the RUMP will continue being represented in the Ziu despite not being a registered party anymore.

Referendum

The Still Into This Amendment was confirmed by a large majority of 78% to 22%, and is expected to come into effect as soon as the end of January 2020.