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| leader1 = [[Franklin Barvata]]
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| leader_since1 = 31 August 2017
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| leaders_seat1 = Cavenhelm
| last_election1 = 910 seats, 50.7%
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| leader2 = [[Benjamin Wardola]]
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| leader_since2 = 11 February 2020
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| leaders_seat2 = Belver Coast and Ruthdon
| last_election2 = 655 seats, 36.5%
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| leader3 = [[Osbourne Saudaran]]
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| leader_since3 = 9 May 2020
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| leaders_seat3 = Drunningsham, Celidizia
| last_election3 = 147 seats, 8.1%
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| posttitle = Appointed [[Prime Ministers of Great Morstaybishlia|Prime Minister]]
| before_election = [[Franklin Barvata]]
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| after_election = [[Franklin Barvata]]
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'''The 2021 Great Morstaybishlia general election''' was held on Thursday, 1 April 2021, two years after the [[2019 Great Morstaybishlia General Election|previous general election in 2019]]. It was triggered following the Labour Party loosing their working majority.<ref>[[MBC]], 9th March 2021. ''Barvata calls an Emergency General Election after Anti-Terrorism amendment fails''. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/mbc-t3205-s120.html#p243439</ref>
The
Barvata lost his working majority after members of his party voted against an amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act 2020 following the [[2021 Joralesian attacks]] on 8 March 2021. Barvata put an early election to the House of Representatives but it was defeated. He attempted to reconvene his working majority with a second amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act 2020 but it was again defeated, this time by only 2 votes. Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 1999 an election had not been due until February 2026, but following the string of vote defeats Barvata circumvented the operation of ordinary electoral law by passing the Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2021 which only required a normal majority and which passed 1139-64.<ref>[[MBC]], 9th March 2021. ''Early Election Bill Passes Representatives''. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/mbc-t3205-s120.html#p243440</ref>
The governing
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
== Date of the election ==
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