2023 Jonathian general election

The 2023 Jonathian general election was the 47th biennial general election. The 2023 elections were held on Thursday, January 5, 2023. At present, general elections follow caucuses and primary elections are, if necessary, held to determine the nominees of the major parties. Incumbent prime minister Jonas Albert did not seek a fourth term in this election.
After a brief primary, Lily Danyon was chosen as the Liberal Party candidate for prime minister, with Jonas Albert announcing their intention not to seek reelection after being eliminated. Danyon's running mate, Aliyah Williams, became the first Ando-Tapanthian deputy prime ministerial nominee for a Jonathian political party. Deja Smith of the Nationals secured re-nomination, while Alisson Pardiac and Mike Pence became candidates after the resignations of their respective predecessors, Mark von Lanadi and Donald Trump. Dillon Cunningham was selected as the candidate for the Jonathian Party, a new party formed in 2022 as a splinter of the Republicans. 2023 marked the first election in which a majority of the major party candidates were female.
The central issues of the election included the public health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic; abortion rights and LGBT rights; the state of public transport; Jonathia's efforts in combating climate change; and the future of Jonathia's coal mining industry. Heated ideological division led to bitter debates between the candidates. In a continuation from 2021, the 2023 election saw a large number of ballots cast by mail. Many more left-wing voters voted by mail than right-wing voters. However, the number of mail-in ballots decreased in the 2023 election.
The election was one of the most hotly contested elections in Jonathian history, making it hard for polls to project a victor for the election. In the end, the results of the election created a hung parliament; the first parliament of it's kind since 1991; with the Liberals as the largest party. Coalition talks opened the day after the election. The Liberals, prior to the election, had already agreed to a coalition deal with the SDP and the Greens, set to start on February 20th. After three days, the JFP agreed to join the Liberal coalition, certifying Lily Danyon as the next prime minister, and Aliyah Williams as the first Ando-Tapanthian person to hold the position of deputy prime minister. This election marks the Unity Party's first seat win since 1977, and the TUP's first seat win since 1993. The Republicans, meanwhile, received their worst result since 1995.
Danyon, Williams, and the new parliament, were inaugurated on February 21st, 2023.
==Candidates==
===Liberal Party===
The Liberal Party began the primaries to select their candidate on July 23rd, 2022.
During the campaign, Hopkins and Stejskal all pulled out early, while Upalekar withdrew due to scheduling conflicts. Jonas Albert, the incumbent prime minister, endorsed Danyon and Williams' campaigns, but did not pull out themselves. Kris Dantejo, the then-Secretary of Finance, had often been proposed as a possible party leader, however he refused to put his name forward and instead endorsed Danyon's campaign.
After some time, Lily Danyon won the primaries, and selected Aliyah Williams as the Liberal candidate for deputy prime minister.
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 	Jonas Albert 	Prime minister of Jonathia(2017 - present) 	
 	Lily Danyon 	Deputy prime minister of Jonathia(2017 - present) 	
 	Aliyah Williams 	Secretary of Health(2019 - present) 	
 	Nicholas Cromwell	Liberal MP for Genderspeak, SG(2009 - present) 	
 	Andrej Stejskal 	Head of the Department of Intelligence(2012 - present)	
 	Harsh Upalekar 	Mayor of Neutsfield, JE(2015 - present) 	
 	Amanda Hopkins 	Liberal MP for Revameria, MI(1993 - present) 	
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===== Publicly expressed interest=====
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Wilbur Neumann (portrait, 2 May 2020).png|Member of ParliamentWilbur Neumannof North Point
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===National Party===
The National Party chose their current leader and deputy leader as their candidates on July 24th, 2022.
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Deja Smith 	Jane Carforth 																										
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===Republican Party===
The Republican Party's caucus elected on August 2nd, 2022, to choose Mike Pence as the candidate for the 2023 election instead of Donald Trump, citing voter discontent. Trump, in reaction, withdrew from the Republican Party and decided to run as an independent candidate under the Jonathians for Jonathians moniker.
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Mike Pence 	Lucas Sallow 																										
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===Social Democratic Party===
===Jonathian Party===
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Dillon Cunningham 	Alex Olver 																										
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===Jonathia First Party===
On July 11th, 2022, Mark von Lanadi announced he would not run in the 2023 election as JFP leader, but would still contest his home electorate of Barcklegate in Leafland. This opened the door for JFP's primaries, which began on July 24th, 2022. After much discussion, the JFP caucus voted in Alisson Pardiac in a unanimous vote on August 18th, 2022. Pardiac's opponents, Rupert Delagreen and Sasha Havenbank, both pulled out before the final vote.
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Alisson Pardiac 	Oliver Ambridge																										
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==Results==
Voting opened on December 28th, 2022 at 7:00am JST, and closed on January 5th, 2023, between 8:00pm and 11:00pm, depending on the province. 71,846,329 people placed votes.
Party	Party 	Leader 	Votes 	% 	Seats	Seats	Seats	Seats
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 	Liberal Party 	Lily Danyon 	22,731,364	31.6	40 	-29 	607 	
 	National Party 	Deja Smith 	19,578,056	27.2	35 	+4 	518 	
 	Jonathia First Party 	Alisson Pardiac 	9,738,202 	13.6	17 	+14 	258 	
 	Jonathian Party 	Dillon Cunningham 	7,943,571 	11.1	14 	+10 	211 	
 	Green Party 	Imelda Muddock 	3,506,792 	4.9 	6 	+4 	94 	
 	Social Democrats 	Greta Leafberg 	2,602,589 	3.6 	4 	-1 	68 	
 	Tapanthia United Party 	Lauren Keito 	1,340,668 	1.9 	2 	+2 	36 	
 	Republican Party 	Mike Pence 	1,114,357 	1.6 	1 	-5 	30 	
 	Unity Party 	Christina Wenhold 	841,620 	1.2 	1 	+1 	22 	
 	Conservative Party 	Chaise Fleur 	635,976 	0.9 	0 	0 	17 	
 	Teal Party 	Nathan Gump 	430,561 	0.6 	0 	0 	11 	+11
 	Jonathians for Jonathians 	Donald Trump 	381,737 	0.5 	0 	0 	10 	+10
 	People Before Profit 	Mark Stanley 	209,385 	0.3 	0 	0 	6 	
 	Communist Party 	Johan Scaliter 	138,112 	0.2 	0 	0 	4 	
 	Nazi Party 	Adam Wenthorpe 	107,489 	0.1 	0 	0 	2 	
 	Christian Party 	Mary Greenford 	100,710 	0.1 	0 	0 	1 	
 	New Libertarian Party 	Shelby Pearce 	96,153 	0.1 	0 	0 	1 	
 	Catholic Party 	Hano Tumbliech 	81,549 	0.1 	0 	0 	1 	0
 	People's Party 	Anne Linforth 	67,228 	0.1 	0 	0 	1 	0
 	Advance Jonathia 	Tamsin Wolfe 	58,483 	0.1 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	Muslim Party 	Muhammad Abbas 	51,061 	0.1 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	Federation of Free Fascists	Orpheus Morrigan 	33,551 	0.1 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	Independent candidates 	Independent candidates	57,115 	0.1 	0 	0 	2 	-1
== See also ==
Category:2023
Category:Elections
Category:Jonathia
Category:Jonathian elections