2025 Vessarlan General Election

2025 Vessarlan General Election

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1st May 2025
All 922 seats to the Chamber of Representatives (seat count doubled from 461 to 922) 462 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	24,894,170
Turnout	22,479,436 (90.3% 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 11 134 106 Popular vote 5,170,270 4,495,887 4,361,011 Percentage 23.0% 20.0% 19.4% Swing 10.1 pp 7.1 pp 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 127 98 11 Popular vote 4,181,175 3,147,121 539,506 Percentage 18.6% 14.0% 2.4% Swing 6.7 pp 6.3 pp 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 4 22 Popular vote 359,671 224,794 Percentage 1.6% 1.0% Swing 5.3 pp 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