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| previous_year = [[2017 Vessarlan General Election|2017]]
| next_election = Next Vessarlan General Election
| next_year =
| seats_for_election = All 461 seats to the Chamber of Representatives
| majority_seats = 231
| election_date = 6th May 2021
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| turnout = 19,786,908 (81.6% {{increase}} 8.8 [[Wikipedia:Percentage point|pp]])
| opinion_polls = Opinion polling for Vessarlan General Elections
| party_name = no
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| colour8 = 6BF0F7
| leader_since8 = 2nd October 2019
| party8 = [[Illiath Independence Party|
| last_election8 = ''Did not contest''
| seats8 = 11
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| percentage8 = 3.3%
| swing8 = ''New party''
| map_image = File:Final Vessarlan Parliament Election Results 2021.png
| map_size = 425px
| map_caption = Party composition of the Chamber of Representatives after the election
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| after_party = [[VES Democratic Socialists|Union of Democratic Socialists]]
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'''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 ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Party
! rowspan="2" | Party leader(s)
! rowspan="2" | Leader since
! rowspan="2" | Leader's seat
! colspan="2" | 2017 election
! rowspan="2" | Seats at<br />dissolution
! rowspan="2" | Contested seats
|-
! % of<br />votes
! Seats
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= E80005 |
|[[VES Democratic Socialists|Democratic Socialists]]
|[[Roderick Lockwood]]
| October 2014
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |[[Talzott|Talzott]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 29.8%
| style="text-align:right;" | 178
| style="text-align:right;" | 178
| 461 seats in the United Kingdom
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= 311CD3 |
|[[VES Conservatives|Conservatives]]
|[[Jason McDonough]]
| November 2018
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |[[|]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 18.9%
| style="text-align:right;" | 103
| style="text-align:right;" | 103
| 439 seats in the United Kingdom
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= 46EF1F |
|[[VES Greens|Greens]]
|[[Gabriel Dobbs]]
| November 2015
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |[[|]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 14.2%
| style="text-align:right;" | 63
| style="text-align:right;" | 63
| 302 seats in Vessarlian and Illiath
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= A5071A |
|[[VES Communists|Communists]]
|[[Sylva Rosala]]
| September 2014
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |[[|]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 11.5%
| style="text-align:right;" | 39
| style="text-align:right;" | 39
| 420 seats in the United Kingdom
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= D5DD2A |
|[[VES Libertarians|Libertarians]]
|[[Nancy Rogers]]
| February 2018
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |[[|]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 10.0%
| style="text-align:right;" | 35
| style="text-align:right;" | 35
| 265 seats in Vessarlian and Illiath
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= CC31C4 |
|[[VES Nationalists|Nationalists]]
|[[Oliver Hawkes]]
| June 2019
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |[[|]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 8.5%
| style="text-align:right;" | 23
| style="text-align:right;" | 23
| 139 seats in the United Kingdom
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= 000000 |
|[[VES Monarchists|Monarchists]]
|[[Alois Rosala]]
| September 2014
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |[[|]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 7.1%
| style="text-align:right;" | 20
| style="text-align:right;" | 20
| 103 seats in Vessarlian and Terevelia
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= 6BF0F7 |
|[[Illiath Independence Party|Illiath Regionalists]]
|[[Fletcher Von Euler]]
| October 2019
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |''None''
| colspan="3" |''New party''
| 34 seats in Illiath
| |||