2017 Jonathian general election

The 2017 Jonathian general election was the 44th biennial general election, held on Friday, January 6, 2017. The Liberal ticket of St. Gelta MP Jonas Albert and former secretary of state Lily Danyon defeated the Republican ticket of incumbents Andrew Harvings and John Clyde. Jonas took office as the 37th prime minister, and Danyon as the 39th deputy prime minister, on February 21, 2017. It was the fifth and most recent Jonathian election where the incumbent was voted out of office.
The election came months after the verdict regarding the Midnight Inquiry. Despite all charges being cleared, Liberal leader Joshua Hammond resigned in February 2016, and his replacement, Mike von Staufstad, resigned too six months later. This led to a hotly-contested primary for the Liberal leadership. Jonas Albert eventually won the primary, becoming the first LGBT person to lead the Liberals. As the incumbent prime minister, Harvings secured the Republican nomination without serious opposition. Mark von Lanadi, meanwhile, was selected as the JFP candidate, and Derrick Launte as the National candidate.
Initial campaigns focused heavily on domestic issues, including immigration, further tax reform, social reform, and further protections against illegal drug trading. Foreign policy was also discussed, particularly regarding trade, as well as relations with the Tapanthian Republic.
The Republicans were disadvantaged greatly with a fractured conservative opinion following the 2016 political crisis. This was not helped by Harvings' poor polling numbers in his final month in office, all of which projected a Liberal win. Jonas led in nearly every pre-election nationwide poll and in most swing state polls, leading some comparisons of 2017's Liberal victory to that of the JFP victory in 1995 as one of the greatest election landslides in Jonathian history. The massive Republican loss caused a number of fractures in the party, leading several Republicans to break off and form the Conservative Party. Further factions split off in 2022 to form the Jonathian Party.
==Candidates for prime minister==
===Liberal Party===
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Jonas Albert 	Lily Danyon 																										
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Andrew Harvings 	John Clyde 																										
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36thPrime minister of Jonathia(2015 - 2017)	38thDeputy PM of Jonathia(2015 - 2017)																										
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==Results==
Party	Party 	Leader 	Votes 	Percent	Seats 	Seats	Seats	Seats
Party	Party 	Leader 	Votes 	Percent	Parliament	Diff 	Local	Diff
 	Liberal Party 	Jonas Albert 	19,801,623	73.3 	83 	+29 	528 	
 	Republican Party 	Andrew Harvings 	6,517,256 	24.1 	37 	-29 	72 	
 	Jonathia First Party 	Mark von Lanadi 	541,955 	2.0 	0 	0 	25 	
 	National Party 	Derrick Launte 	106,551 	0.4 	0 	0 	2 	
 	Green Party 	Dan Manford 	42,106 	0.2 	0 	0 	1 	
 	Social Democrats 	William Pandio 	18,749 	0.1 	0 	0 	5 	
 	Tapanthia United Party	Mike von Koschkov	467 	0.01 	0 	0 	1 	
Other	Other 	Other 	26 	0.01 	0 	0 	0 	
==See also==
Category:Jonathia
Category:2017
Category:Elections
Category:Jonathian elections