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| previous_year = [[2021 Vessarlan General Election|2021]]
| previous_year = [[2021 Vessarlan General Election|2021]]
| next_election = Next Vessarlan General Election
| next_election = Next Vessarlan General Election
| next_year = Next
| next_year = [[2027 Vessarlan General Election|2027]]
| seats_for_election = All 922 seats to the Chamber of Representatives*
| seats_for_election = All 922 seats to the Chamber of Representatives (seat count doubled from 461 to 922)
| majority_seats = 231
| majority_seats = 462
| election_date = 1st May 2025
| election_date = 1st May 2025
| registered = 24,894,170
| registered = 24,894,170
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| after_party = [[VES Democratic Socialists|Union of Democratic Socialists]]
| after_party = [[VES Democratic Socialists|Union of Democratic Socialists]]
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'''The 2025 Vessarlian General Election''' was held on 1st May 2025, 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. In all previous elections the country had used a constituency-based First-Past-The-Post electoral system, however a party-list Proportional Representation electoral system was introduced for this election, alongside the House of Representatives having its number of seats doubled from 461 to 922.

== 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" | 2021 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;" | 33.1%
| style="text-align:right;" | 201
| style="text-align:right;" | 201
| 774 seats in Vessarlian and Illiath
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= 311CD3 |
|[[VES Conservatives|Conservatives]]
|[[Jason McDonough]]
| November 2018
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |[[|]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 15.3%
| style="text-align:right;" | 73
| style="text-align:right;" | 73
| 922 seats in the United Kingdom
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= 46EF1F |
|[[VES Greens|Greens]]
|[[Gabriel Dobbs]]
| November 2015
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |[[|]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 12.9%
| style="text-align:right;" | 50
| style="text-align:right;" | 50
| 708 seats in Vessarlian and Illiath
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= A5071A |
|[[VES Communists|Communists]]
|[[Sylva Rosala]]
| September 2014
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |[[|]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 11.9%
| style="text-align:right;" | 45
| style="text-align:right;" | 45
| 922 seats in the United Kingdom
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= 000000 |
|[[VES Monarchists|Monarchists]]
|[[Alois Rosala]]
| September 2014
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |[[|]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 8.9%
| style="text-align:right;" | 31
| style="text-align:right;" | 31
| 274 seats in Vessarlian and Terevelia
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= D5DD2A |
|[[VES Libertarians|Libertarians]]
|[[Nancy Rogers]]
| February 2018
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |[[|]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 7.7%
| style="text-align:right;" | 31
| style="text-align:right;" | 31
| 788 seats in the United Kingdom
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= CC31C4 |
|[[VES Nationalists|Nationalists]]
|[[Oliver Hawkes]]
| June 2019
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |[[|]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 6.9%
| style="text-align:right;" | 19
| style="text-align:right;" | 19
| 294 seats Vessarlian
|-
| width="1" bgcolor= 6BF0F7 |
|[[Illiath Independence Party|Illiath Regionalists]]
|[[Fletcher Von Euler]]
| October 2019
| style="white-space:nowrap;" |[[|]]
| style="text-align:right;" | 3.3%
| style="text-align:right;" | 11
| style="text-align:right;" | 11
| 68 seats in Illiath
|}

<div style="overflow:auto">
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right;font-size:90%;line-height:1.2"
|+style=line-height:1.5|Results by region
! colspan="1" | Region
! colspan="3" | UDS
! colspan="3" | GP
! colspan="3" | CP
! colspan="3" | CPP
! colspan="3" | LP
! colspan="3" | IIP
! colspan="3" | VNP
! colspan="3" | MP
! colspan="2" | Margin
! Margin<br />swing{{Efn|Percentage point difference in margin from the [[2021 Vessarlan General Election|2021 election]]}}
! rowspan="2" data-sort-type="number" | Total<br />votes
|-
! data-sort-type="number" style="padding-left:0.2em" | Region
! data-sort-type="number" | Votes
!data-sort-type="number" | %
! data-sort-type="number" | Seats
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! data-sort-type="number" | Votes
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! data-sort-type="number" | %
!data-sort-type="number" | %
|- {{Party shading/Communist}}
| style=text-align:center | [[2025 Vessarlan General Election in Asanbu|Asanbu]]
||288,282||18.24%||12||–||–||–||586,317||37.10%||24||'''639,976'''||'''40.50%'''||'''27'''||–||–||–||–||–||–||65,680||4.16%||3||–||–||–||53,659||3.40%||–||1,580,255
|- {{Party shading/Libertarian}}
| style=text-align:center | [[2025 Vessarlan General Election in Asrale|Asrale]]
||–||–||–||–||–||–||421,677||17.28%||18||621,437||25.47%||26||'''1,106,213'''||'''45.34%'''||'''46'''||–||–||–||190,521||7.81%||8||100,110||4.10%||4||484,776||19.87%||–||2,439,958
|- {{Party shading/Democratic Socialist}}
| style=text-align:center | [[2025 Vessarlan General Election in Cerasale|Cerasale]]
||'''2,051,669'''||'''35.89%'''||'''83'''||1,347,813||23.58%||55||906,128||15.85%||37||820,795||14.36%||33||589,954||10.32%||24||–||–||–||–||–||–||–||–||–||703,856||12.31%||–||5,716,359
|- {{Party shading/Illiath Regionalist}}
| style=text-align:center | [[2025 Vessarlan General Election in East Illiath|East Illiath]]
||396,821||23.88%||16||103,619||6.24%||4||220,165||13.25%||9||401,670||24.17%||17||–||–||–||'''539,506'''||'''32.47%'''||'''22'''||–||–||–||–||–||–||137,836||8.30%||–||1,661,781
|- {{Party shading/Democratic Socialist}}
| style=text-align:center | [[2025 Vessarlan General Election in Greater Rocaster|Greater Rocaster]]
||'''1,182,123'''||'''34.54%'''||'''47'''||1,099,627||32.13%||44||300,043||8.77%||12||510,123||14.90%||20||331,008||9.67%||13||–||–||–||–||–||–||–||–||–||82,496||2.41%||–||3,422,924
|- {{Party shading/Conservative}}
| style=text-align:center | [[2025 Vessarlan General Election in the Heartlands|Heartlands]]
||230,481||7.90%||10||325,544||11.16%||14||'''1,421,096'''||'''48.72%'''||'''61'''||405,789||13.91%||18||311,853||10.69%||13||–||–||–||103,470||3.55%||5||118,581||4.07%||5||1,015,307||34.81%||–||2,916,814
|- {{Party shading/Libertarian}}
| style=text-align:center | [[2025 Vessarlan General Election in Terevelia|Terevelia]]
||–||–||–||–||–||–||367,457||30.60%||14||249,979||20.82%||10||'''577,281'''||'''48.07%'''||'''22'''||–||–||–||–||–||–||6,103||0.51%||0||209,824||17.47%||–||1,200,821
|- {{Party shading/Green}}
| style=text-align:center | [[2025 Vessarlan General Election in West Illiath|West Illiath]]
||1,020,894||28.84%||42||'''1,619,284'''||'''45.74%'''||'''67'''||138,128||3.90%||6||531,406||15.01%||22||230,812||6.52%||9||–||–||–||–||–||–||–||–||–||598,390||16.90%||–||3,540,524
|}

Latest revision as of 17:16, 23 May 2024

2025 Vessarlan General Election
File:New Vessarlian Flag.png
← 2021 1st May 2025 2027 →

All 922 seats to the Chamber of Representatives (seat count doubled from 461 to 922)
462 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered24,894,170
Turnout22,479,436 (90.3% Increase 8.7 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Roderick Lockwood Gabriel Dobbs Jason McDonough
Party Democratic Socialists Greens Conservatives
Leader since 3rd October 2014 24th November 2015 9th November 2018
Leader's seat Talzott
Last election 201 seats, 33.1% 50 seats, 12.9% 73 seats, 15.3%
Seats won 212 184 179
Seat change Increase 11 Increase 134 Increase 106
Popular vote 5,170,270 4,495,887 4,361,011
Percentage 23.0% 20.0% 19.4%
Swing Decrease 10.1 pp Increase 7.1 pp Increase 4.1 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Sylva Rosala Nancy Rogers Fletcher Von Euler
Party Communists Libertarians Illiath Regionalists
Leader since 1st September 2014 1st February 2018 2nd October 2019
Last election 45 seats, 11.9% 31 seats, 7.7% 11 seats, 3.3%
Seats won 172 129 22
Seat change Increase 127 Increase 98 Increase 11
Popular vote 4,181,175 3,147,121 539,506
Percentage 18.6% 14.0% 2.4%
Swing Increase 6.7 pp Increase 6.3 pp Decrease 0.9 pp

  Seventh party Eighth party
 
Leader Oliver Hawkes Alois Rosala
Party Nationalists Monarchists
Leader since 20th June 2019 1st September 2014
Last election 19 seats, 6.9% 31 seats, 8.9%
Seats won 15 9
Seat change Decrease 4 Decrease 22
Popular vote 359,671 224,794
Percentage 1.6% 1.0%
Swing Decrease 5.3 pp Decrease 7.9 pp

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 2025 Vessarlian General Election was held on 1st May 2025, 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. In all previous elections the country had used a constituency-based First-Past-The-Post electoral system, however a party-list Proportional Representation electoral system was introduced for this election, alongside the House of Representatives having its number of seats doubled from 461 to 922.

Contesting political parties and candidates

Party Party leader(s) Leader since Leader's seat 2021 election Seats at
dissolution
Contested seats
% of
votes
Seats
Democratic Socialists Roderick Lockwood October 2014 Talzott 33.1% 201 201 774 seats in Vessarlian and Illiath
Conservatives Jason McDonough November 2018 [[|]] 15.3% 73 73 922 seats in the United Kingdom
Greens Gabriel Dobbs November 2015 [[|]] 12.9% 50 50 708 seats in Vessarlian and Illiath
Communists Sylva Rosala September 2014 [[|]] 11.9% 45 45 922 seats in the United Kingdom
Monarchists Alois Rosala September 2014 [[|]] 8.9% 31 31 274 seats in Vessarlian and Terevelia
Libertarians Nancy Rogers February 2018 [[|]] 7.7% 31 31 788 seats in the United Kingdom
Nationalists Oliver Hawkes June 2019 [[|]] 6.9% 19 19 294 seats Vessarlian
Illiath Regionalists Fletcher Von Euler October 2019 [[|]] 3.3% 11 11 68 seats in Illiath
Results by region
Region UDS GP CP CPP LP IIP VNP MP Margin Margin
swing[a]
Total
votes
Region Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % %
Asanbu 288,282 18.24% 12 586,317 37.10% 24 639,976 40.50% 27 65,680 4.16% 3 53,659 3.40% 1,580,255
Asrale 421,677 17.28% 18 621,437 25.47% 26 1,106,213 45.34% 46 190,521 7.81% 8 100,110 4.10% 4 484,776 19.87% 2,439,958
Cerasale 2,051,669 35.89% 83 1,347,813 23.58% 55 906,128 15.85% 37 820,795 14.36% 33 589,954 10.32% 24 703,856 12.31% 5,716,359
East Illiath 396,821 23.88% 16 103,619 6.24% 4 220,165 13.25% 9 401,670 24.17% 17 539,506 32.47% 22 137,836 8.30% 1,661,781
Greater Rocaster 1,182,123 34.54% 47 1,099,627 32.13% 44 300,043 8.77% 12 510,123 14.90% 20 331,008 9.67% 13 82,496 2.41% 3,422,924
Heartlands 230,481 7.90% 10 325,544 11.16% 14 1,421,096 48.72% 61 405,789 13.91% 18 311,853 10.69% 13 103,470 3.55% 5 118,581 4.07% 5 1,015,307 34.81% 2,916,814
Terevelia 367,457 30.60% 14 249,979 20.82% 10 577,281 48.07% 22 6,103 0.51% 0 209,824 17.47% 1,200,821
West Illiath 1,020,894 28.84% 42 1,619,284 45.74% 67 138,128 3.90% 6 531,406 15.01% 22 230,812 6.52% 9 598,390 16.90% 3,540,524


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