Leagioan 2020 Elections (EU Councilor & National Congress)
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The First Three Provinces Are In with An Electoral Tie So Far
Not long past 12am, the first three provinces within the Commonwealth released their results to the public. The Territories of Vernach, Sule, and Fiowa have announced how many Electoral Votes that each candidate gets. In Fiowa, Plessis managed to beat Lahaye by getting 3 more votes than her by getting 8 of its 13 electoral votes. However, that victory was short-lived as Lahaye managed to catch by leading in both Sule and Vernach. In Sule, a territory that has one of the smallest numbers of registered voters, Lahaye gote one more electoral vote than the incumbent EU Councillor. This area is one that is considered by many Leagioan politicians as Progressive territory. Meanwhile, in Vernach, Lahaye beat Plessis thereby getting 8 of its 14 electoral votes. In the popular vote of that province, she had a 17 point lead against Plessis.
However, there seems to be a level of uncertain that must definitely be rising inside of both candidates because as of this moment, both candidates are currently in a tie with each having 21 Electoral Votes. Even though, Marie Lahaye has a 40,000 vote lead in the popular vote against Plessis. However, these numbers will without any doubt change as the night progresses because there will be a candidate that will get 177 of the 353 electoral votes and it is possible that will be seen when big population states submit their votes in this race. Right now, some of the states and territories still have the polling booths open with the remaining people in line waiting to vote. By Leagioan Law, as long as you are in line at the booth then you will have your chance to submit your vote. Some other provinces are just at this point counting the mail-in ballots at this point and will soon submit their votes to the Popular Electoral College as well.
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Muale and Niose Have Submitted Their Votes
Just four minutes ago, the state of Muale, a province that was granted statehood by the National Congress about a month, has become the first state in this election to submit their votes to this race. In addition, the territory of Niose has submitted its votes. In Muale, the incumbent Councilor Plessis has dominated in gaining its Electoral votes. He beat Lahaye in the popular vote by double digits, where he gains a healthy lead of 13 of its 22 electoral votes. You can literally his lead thereby seeing the number of counties that the Councilor had a majority in against Lahaye. In Niose, the Incumbent has somewhat a similar lead there that he has in Muale with a 17 point lead there. Francis Plessis gets 9 of Niose's 15 Electoral Votes, while Lahaye get 6.
As one can see here at this moment, in this election, Francis Plessis has a lead against Marie Lahaye. Plessis is at 43 Electoral Votes, while Lahaye has 36. Although, the popular vote in this election is more close with Councillor Plessis having only a one and thirty-five hundred thousand lead against Lahaye which makes a 7 point lead. But what matters in this race is that the candidate wins the needed simple majority of 177 electoral votes and no third candidates can get them. the reason is that in this round, only the top two candidates in the race back in July gets electoral votes.
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Here Comes More Being Submitted To This Race
Just a few minutes ago, the territories of Loors and Karptniz have submitted their votes to this race for EU Councillor. The race in Karptniz is a tie in terms of the Electoral Vote as it seems that the two candidates both get 6 of the 12 electoral votes that the province has. Meanwhile, inside the developing territory of Loors, Francis Plessis gets another lead against Marie Lahaye as the incumbent EU Councillor get 9 of the 15 Electoral Votes to his name. From the looks of this race so far, Lahaye is having problems just even trying to catch up to Francis Plessis as there are times where her chance to catch up is meet with a tie in Electoral votes.
Right now, it seems that Francis Plessis as mentioned earlier is in the lead with the Electoral College. The incumbent EU Councillor for Leagio has 58 Electoral Votes to his name while Marie Lahaye has only 49 electoral votes to her own. In addition, while looking at the popular vote, Francis Plessis is still having that popular vote gain with a lead of two hundred thousand votes or an almost 9 point lead against the Progressive Candidate.
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More States Submit More Votes
The states of Jullien, Gopen, and Condris have just submitted their votes, which has suddenly norrawed the election to where the two candidates have a tie in the Electoral College. Jullien showed to be a state that felt that Lahaye should get most of theirn electoral votes as she gets 16 of its 25 votes. In Gopen, the home state of Senator Kerstin (who is running for Primer Commissioner for the European Union), Marie gets 14 of its 25 electoral votes, while Francis Plessis gets only 11. Then there is Condris, what was formerly known a Tullion before the ratification of the Commonwealth's new constitution about a few months ago, the two candidates are somewhat close but Francis Plessis gets 15 of its 29 electoral vote but Lahaye is only one vote behind in that state with 14.
This race is now starting to get a little tense as both Marie Lahaye of the Progressive Alliance and Francis Plessis of the Civil Populists have 93 electoral votes. In this race, we have so far a tie happening a second time but it will change for sure as more provinces submit their votes. Lahaye lead will definitely change as she only has in the popular vote a 20,000 vote lead. A lead that will either go up, down, or switch towards Francis Plessis.
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What Is Going On?
Now, the State of Diamond Heart (The Debatedly Most Conservative State in the Commonwealth) and the Territory of Wilson (which was established after Muale was granted statehood but had to lose its northern counties at the time) submitted their votes for this race. Diamond Heart has seem to face another tie issue with the two candidates with its electoral votes as both candidates get 17 of its 34 electoral votes; even though, Lahaye has a lead by 2 points in the popular vote in the conservative state but its not enough to get an extra point in an electoral lead there. Meanwhile, Wilson becomes the last territory needing to submit a vote as it gives Francis Plessis a huge lead in the electoral divide as he gets 10 of its 14 electoral votes.
In total, this race is starting to become more sweaty for the candidates because the issues is not a tie in total electoral vote because it is a more bigger issues than that for candidate that has that. Because Francis Plessis is winning with 120 Electoral Votes over Lahaye's 114, but Lahaye is winning in the popular vote with a 200,000 vote lead that is becoming a rare occasion to happen in races like this. However, in this race, the numbers that count is the electoral count, a winning candidate must have a simple majority in the electoral college with the magic number being 177 votes. If Francis Plessis wants to have a strong mandate in his re-election than he needs to win in both the electoral college and the popular vote.
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Francis Wins Re-Election
Just now the states of Huttson, Tullion, and Arlick released their votes with Francis Plessis have a hold against Lahaye. In Huttson, Plessis gained traction by getting 26 of 44 electoral votes, while Lahaye got 18. In the State of Tullion, Plessis got 23 of it 37 electoral votes while Lahaye got only 14 as she was hit hard in the popular vote within the state. In Arlick, the Incumbent Councillor got 20 of its 38 electoral while his challenger got only 18 just like Huttson.
When combing these electoral votes and the ones that were accidentally missing as the vote were being announced on the board, it can be announced that Francis Plessis won re-election by attaining the necessary electoral votes need to remain as EU Councillor for LEagio up until next September unless he decides to run for re-election again. In this race that occur, Francis Plessis got at the end about 189 electoral votes while Marie Lahaye just 13 votes short had 164 electoral votes. In the popular vote, Francis had done well after the initial scare with a lead of over 400,000 votes on his tally. Tomorrow, Francis Plessis will be giving a speech accepting the results of the election and on September 4th, he will reaffirm his oath of office as the EU Councilor for Leagio.
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States and Territories Announce How Their Seats in the House of Councilors will be elected.
After the number seats of the House of Councilors within the National Congress was changed from 285 to 525, all the states and territories within the Commonwealth announced weeks later, or today, on how their seats will be elected (including the new Territory of Freedonia under the Governorship of Kelly Idiotus). Many of the states and territories have divided their seats in the House of Councilors through two different categories as specified by the Constitution. The first category that each province dive their seats in is the Constituency Seat where candidates are elected through the First Past The Post method and then the second method is through Proportional Representation through the Modified Saint Legu method.
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Political Alliances and Party Platform's Released
Many of the political alliances and political parties in the coming National Congress election have all released the platforms that would implement if their candidates are elected into both houses of the National Congress. The three new political alliances include the following:
The Republicans (lead by the Conservative Reform Party)
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Deregulate gas and oil industries
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Give states and territories within the Commonwealth the ability to declare EU Council Legislation to be null and void
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Increase Military Spending
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Implement a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution
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Institute a huge tax cut for the populace of the Commonwealth
Revolutionary Front (Lead by the Socialist Union party)
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Institute Free 2-year college education
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Eliminate the Popular Electoral College
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Implement stronger protections for workers
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Nationalize the Leagioan Diamond Industry
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Oppose Nuclear Energy
Free Liberalists (Lead by the Civil Populist Party)
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Maintain stronger and friendlier relations with the European Union
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Institute policies that will end racism within the Commonwealth
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Increase Spending on the development of Clean Energy
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Cut taxes on the lower ten percent of the country
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Legalize majaruna
Although, the alliances have been drawing support for their platforms, there are two political parties that are not part of the alliances that are working to gain support:
The Progressive Alliance Party (led by Party Chairman Ran Mouri-Kudo)
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Institue stronger political reform in the Commonwealth that includes representation of both the House and Senate
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Implement fair and balanced campaign finance laws
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Pass Strong Anti-trust legislation within the Commonwealth
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Maintain the future integrity of the Territories of the Commonwealth
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Invest not in only cleaner energy but also in agriculture
The Leagioan United Together Front (led by Party Chairman Micheal Skeletor)
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Huge miltiary funding for the defense of the Commonwealth
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Repeal Wathletcare
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End immigration into the Commonwealth
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Remove the East Haanean Refugee's in the Territory of Freedonia
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Representation for Leagioans Abroad
A reminder to the many Leagioans that are living countries throughout the EU and other places, there are seats that will represent you within both Houses of the National Congress. Please be sure to vote by December 20th in order to have your vote couted. The link to vote is right below this message:
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Decision 2020: National Congress
Good morning everyone, today is a big day for the Commonwealth of Leagio. In fact, the past few weeks have been big as the nation was holding its first legislative election after it joined the European Union earlier this year. Many changes have come upon the Commonwealth, including a lot of big moments that have been occurring under the watch of the current administration. Ever since it joined the European Union, the Commonwealth has seen the rise of violence and fear throughout the entire region which ranges from the Eastern Haane Civil War to the Capsian Sea Crisis as the Leagioan Press began to call it. Many polls have been showing for the past few months that the Progressive Allaince Party has a strong chance in being the winner of the election for both houses of the National Congress. However, we will see on whether or not that is true as the results come in. About a few minutes ago, the last of the polls for the National Congress election ended in all of the states and territories within the Commonwealth. Before we start talking about the current results, we must remind the readers on how the elections for both houses of the Nationa Congress work.
First, the House of Councilors, the lower house, of the National Congress is elected through parallel voting of first-past-the-post and proportional representation through the Saint Legue method without a percentage threshold. Each state and Territory of the Commonwealth is issued a number of seats of representation in the House that is proprotional to their population. The highest representation is in Huttson, which right now has 66 seats of representation in the House, and the lowest is Elsweyr with its 9 seats. All states and territories are required by the new 2020 Constitution of Leagio to divide their seats in the House for the two methods, where 40% of their seats are used for the first-past-the-post seats and the rest is used for the proprotional representation method called List Seats. The method of proprotional representation is applied within the state level, a vote for a list seat is used only in the seats for the voted state or territory. However, in order to be voted in for a list seat all political parties are required to register candidates for those seats. Each state and territory has different deadlines for those registration to run for those seats, where most parties have indeed registered for them. The only ones where there is some inconsistency is in the Common Nationalists, Christian Democratic-Republicans, and the Eastern Leagio Party. However, some have stated various reasons as to why. Like the Eastern Leagio Party that only runs for the Eastern Territoires or states that were territories in the east. There are 525 permant seats for the House, but through a recently passed amendment there are abraod seats that add an additional 16 seats for Leagioans that live outside of the Commonwealth. We will talk more about those seats when they come. In this election night, there are a total of 541 seats that the parties are competing for in this nation. These seats are up for election every two years. In order to have a majority a party needs to get no less than 271 seats of the 541 seats up for grabs.
Now, the Senate, the upper house of the National Congress, in terms of representation and how it is elected is different. The Senate under the previous Constitution was always completely elected every two years like the House, but under this Constitution that has change. A Senator is elected every four years but half of those Senators are up for election every two years. In the Senate for thise Constitution, there are two classes. The first class will be re-elected in 2024 and the second class will serve a special two-year term where they will be re-elected in 2022. The Senate will be elected through a Mulitple-Non Transferable Vote in each state and territory. A state gets 6 senators and a Territory gets 4 senators, while the abroad sector gets 4 but they are elected every two years. For this election, there are a total of 100 Senate seats up for election. When 2022 comes that number will be 50 exactly. In order for a party to have a majority in the Senate they need to get exactly no less than 51 seats or 50 in the case of the Civil Populist Party where the Governor-General has the power to break ties.
When results for the election is coming through, the parties will be labeled as the following:
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SUP (Socialist Union Party)
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GP (Green Party)
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ELP (Eastern Leagio Party)
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SDP (Social Democrat Party)
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LPD (Leagioan Pact of Democracy)
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PAP (Progressive Alliance Party)
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CCP (Civil Populist Party)
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CN (Common Nationalists)
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CRP (Conservative Reformist Party)
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CDR (Christian Democratic-Republicans)
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LUTF (Leagio United Together Front)
Some of these parties have made legislative alliances and when the final results have been made then they will be shown.
Lastly, in this election, many political parties are holding their primary elections for their candidates that will run for the execution positions of President and Governor-General. The methods on the people vote their preferred candidates for a party varies but we will see who will being run for the 2021 Executive Elections that will be held in next March.
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After many long hours, the results for the first-past-the-post or constituency seats has been made with all the states and territories releasing the winners. There are 210 constituency seats for the National Congress in this session and so far it looks like the Progressive Alliance Party has a good head start with most of the seats.
Here is the current make-up of the House of Councilors right now, pleas be aware that there is still 315 seats left for grabs for all the political parties:
SUP - 15
GP - 7
ELP - 6
CPP - 36
SDP - 36
LDP - 5
PAP - 79
CDR - 4
CN - 7
CRP - 29
LUTF - 6In the next few hours, the results for the list seats will be released and in those results will also show the results for the elections for the Senate seats as well as the provincial legislative elections that were also held in this season.
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We now havve the first results for the list seats for the House of Councilors coming in from the territories of Fiowa and Carolina along with the results of their legislative and Senate Elections. From the looks of it, the Progressives are still holding a lead in the house but that might change as there are still many senate seats to go.
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The territories of Elsweyr and Niose have just released the results for their series of elections that range from the House to their legislative branches. So far, the Progressives are now starting to gain a lead for the Senate and keeping it on the House.
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Good afternoon, we have more results from other provinces within the Commonwealth of Leagio. The territories of Vernach, Karptniz, and Sule have just submitted their results for the Senate, the House list seats, and the provincial elections. So far, the Progressives still have a lead but the Socialist Union Party has something to smile over in the House. In the Senate, the Progressives seem to be on the way for a possible majority.
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The territories of Beika and Freedonia have released their results, the Progressives are gaining a strong push for the majority in the Senate and a lead in the house but that might change as we have not hit the bigger states and territories. However, the socialists and greens are doing well in some of the territorial legislatures with the greens mainly gaining seats there and not registered for the House of Councilors.
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Hello, everyone, we now have the first series of states of the Commonwealth submitting their results in this election season. In Jullien, the Progressives continue to receive a gain in seats with the Conservative Reformists joining inside the House. However, the section is reversed in the state of Muale as the Conservatives gain more seats their than the other parties especially winning control of Muale's Legislative Assembly. Inside the state of Wilson, the Progressives still have a lead. When looking at the Senate the Progressives are getting closer and closer to wining a majority if they keep it up at this rate.
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Additional States have just submitted their results, where the Progressive are still holding a lead in both houses of the National Congress. the states of Arlick, Gopen, and Condris have announced their results. In Gopen, a state that was once solid Civil Populist, the Civil Populist Party will have to rethink their policies as the only Senator of the party that was elected in the state was former premier commissioner candidate Maria Kerstin. The Conservatives have been showing in their results that they have more love and support with Leagioan Voters within the Commonwealth.
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Near the completion of this election, the states of Tullion and Diamond Heart have released their results. The Progressives are still leading in both the House and Senate but there is the question on whether or not they will have the 271 seats needed for a majority. The Senate race shows that the Progressives might actually get the 51 seat majority needed to win the Senate, but that we will be seen when the results for the State of Huttson is released along with the results for the aboard seats.
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As we still wait for the results from Huttson, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have released the results of the election of the aboard seats within both houses of the Nation Congress.
In the House of Councilors, there are 16 seats up for grabs. Here are the results:
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2 Seats to Socialist Union Party
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2 Seats to Civil Populist Party
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2 Sects to the Social Democratic Party
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8 Seat to the Progressive Alliance Party
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2 Seats to the Conservative Reformist Party
In the Senate, there are 4 seats up for grabs. Here are the results for them:
- All 4 seats go to the Progressive Alliance Party
The Progressive seems to really benefit from the abroad seats, especially in the senate where they gained enough votes to get all of the Senate seats and half of the House of Councilors seats.
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