2021 Vessarlan General Election

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2021 Vessarlan General Election
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All 461 seats to the Chamber of Representatives
231 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered24,257,309
Turnout19,786,908 (81.6% Increase 8.8 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Roderick Lockwood Jason McDonough Gabriel Dobbs
Party Democratic Socialists Conservatives Greens
Leader since 3rd October 2014 9th November 2018 24th November 2015
Leader's seat Talzott
Last election 178 seats, 38.6% 103 seats, 22.3% 63 seats, 13.7%
Seats won 201 73 50
Seat change Increase 23 Decrease 30 Decrease 13
Popular vote 6,549,466 3,027,396 2,552,511
Percentage 33.1% 15.3% 12.9%
Swing Increase 3.3 pp Decrease 3.6 pp Decrease 1.3 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Sylva Rosala Alois Rosala Nancy Rogers
Party Communists Monarchists Libertarians
Leader since 1st September 2014 1st September 2014 1st February 2018
Last election 39 seats, 8.5% 20 seats, 4.3% 35 seats, 7.6%
Seats won 45 31 31
Seat change Increase 6 Increase 11 Decrease 4
Popular vote 2,354,642 1,761,034 1,523,591
Percentage 11.9% 8.9% 7.7%
Swing Increase 0.4 pp Increase 1.8 pp Decrease 2.3 pp

  Seventh party Eighth party
 
Leader Oliver Hawkes Fletcher Von Euler
Party Nationalists Illiath Regionalists
Leader since 20th June 2019 2nd October 2019
Last election 23 seats, 5.0% Did not contest
Seats won 19 11
Seat change Decrease 4 Increase 11
Popular vote 1,365,296 652,967
Percentage 6.9% 3.3%
Swing Decrease 1.6 pp New party

Party composition of the Chamber of Representatives after the election

Prime Minister before election

Roderick Lockwood
Union of Democratic Socialists

Appointed Prime Minister

Roderick Lockwood
Union of Democratic Socialists

The 2021 Vessarlian General Election was held on Thursday, 6th May 2021, four years after the previous general election in 2017. It was part of the ordinary election cycle, in which elections are held every four years.

Contesting political parties and candidates

Party Party leader(s) Leader since Leader's seat 2017 election Seats at
dissolution
Contested seats
% of
votes
Seats
Democratic Socialists Roderick Lockwood October 2014 Talzott 29.8% 178 178 461 seats in the United Kingdom
Conservatives Jason McDonough November 2018 [[|]] 18.9% 103 103 439 seats in the United Kingdom
Greens Gabriel Dobbs November 2015 [[|]] 14.2% 63 63 302 seats in Vessarlian and Illiath
Communists Sylva Rosala September 2014 [[|]] 11.5% 39 39 420 seats in the United Kingdom
Libertarians Nancy Rogers February 2018 [[|]] 10.0% 35 35 265 seats in Vessarlian and Illiath
Nationalists Oliver Hawkes June 2019 [[|]] 8.5% 23 23 139 seats in the United Kingdom
Monarchists Alois Rosala September 2014 [[|]] 7.1% 20 20 103 seats in Vessarlian and Terevelia
Illiath Regionalists Fletcher Von Euler October 2019 None New party 34 seats in Illiath