2021 Great Morstaybishlia General Election: Difference between revisions

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The Labour Party, which had led as a single-party majority government from [[2019 Great Morstaybishlia General Election|2019]], was defending its overall majority of 6 seats after [[Prime Ministers of Great Morstaybishlia|Prime Minister]] [[Franklin Barvata]] removed the Whip from 6 Valerian Labour MPs. The official opposition was led by [[Benjamin Wardola]].

The governing [[MBE Labour|Labour Party]] remained the largest single party in the House of Representatives but lost its small overall majority, instead relying on an 11 seat working majority after a net loss of 47. A total of 54 MPs within the Labour Party identified with the Valerian Labour faction and Barvata signed a special arrangement with their leader, [[Nellie Hermin]], on the basis that South Staynes be allowed three votes; one for independence, and if that failed, one to hold a name referendum and another for a devolution referendum. Labour lost seats in the Marislia region but gained many seats in Justelvard for the first time. The [[MBE Conservatives|Conservative Party]] won 600 seats, their lowest since the [[1998 Great Morstaybishlia General Election|1998 general election]]. The [[Marislian Independence Party]] (MARIP) made a net gain of 83 seats and won 3.5% of the MBE (translating to 39.45% of the popular vote in Marislia), resulting in 89 out of 155 seats won in Marislia. The [[MBE Democrats|Democratic Party]] improved their vote share to 22.9% and won 205 seats, a net gain of 58 since the last election and the most amount of seats they have held since [[2005 Great Morstaybishlia General Election|2005]]. The [[MBE Liberals|Liberal Party]] won 14 seats, a net loss of 13 seats. The [[Green Alliance MBE|Greens]] lost 9 of their 11 seats that they gained and entered parliament with for the first time in 2019.

The [[Justelvardic Unionist Party]] (JUP) won 15 of their 33 seats, facing losses to all three major parties, all of which seats won from metropolitan Morstaybishlian parties for the first time. The election saw a trend where minor parties saw decline, besides both the [[Marislian Independence Party|MARIP]], which gained the most seats of any independence party in any general election in Morstaybishlian history; and [[Jūs Herekore]] which gained one seat in the Western Outliers Provinces. Due to MARIP being abstentionist and winning 89 seats, the working majority was significantly less than working majorities of the past, allowing Labour to govern without a coalition. This polarisation of seats to the bigger parties has been put down to several crises that has hit the MBE since early 2020, including the [[2020 Puntalian Crisis]], [[July 2020 Kaltar attacks|July]] and [[August 2020 Kaltar police attack|August]] [[Kaltar]] terrorist attacks, the [[2020 Aegis independence crisis]] and the [[2021 Joralesian attacks]]. For the MARIP leader, [[Romilda von Anzitter]], her party's landslide victory in the Marislian region led to calls for an independence referendum, to which the Labour Party had expressed its opposition before and during the election. Although nationalist MPs outnumbered union oriented ones for the first time in history, the unionist popular vote remained higher (60.5 percent). The Speaker of the House of Representatives Baron Munchiro was re-elected on Monday 5 April 2021.