1919 Dissauian General Election

The 1919 Dissauian General Election was held on the 14th of April and was the 22nd legislative election in Dissau. The election was called by Prime Minister, Karl Cameron, after the party lost its majority earlier in the year due to MPs resigning and two MPs changing parties. Karl Cameron was determined to win a large majority in the hopes that his upcoming bill called the Representation of People Bill would pass after the results of the election, hoping that it would give his party a powerful majority.
The election resulted in yet another victory for Labor, giving the party a whopping 89 seats out of 146. National Moderate won their lowest amount of seats at the time, winning 47 seats and Free Liberal won one of the lowest amount of seats at the time, winning 10 seats. Cameron's Labor government secured a majority for his party and allowed him to successfully put forth legislation in Parliament.
== Background ==
Cameron's party had entered a state of disarray during late 1918 and early 1919 over Karl Cameron's Representation of People Bill that intended to enfranchise all women for elections under the same basis of men's voting rights. The bill was massively opposed by National Moderate and pretty much all of Free Liberal who condemned the bill and voted against it. Labor was generally supportive of the bill but a good portion of the party who weren't as progressive as the rest opposed the bill and voted against it. This caused the bill to fail to be passed and after some Labor MPs resigning and changing parties as well as failures to get the bill voted after some amendments, Prime Minister, Karl Cameron, called an election in March 1919 for April. Cameron was upset that he had to call an election but felt like he had to after his government became a minority government due to MP resignations and party swaps.
Cameron's campaign had a massive wave of support from women but because women could not vote, Cameron believed the election would topple the Labor government. Instead of targeting voters that could not vote in the election such as women, Cameron instead targeted younger male audiences that possible supported a woman's right to vote. This proved successful and forced many young votes, whether they were right-wing or left-wing, to take the election as choosing between women's rights or no women's rights. This made right-wingers who supported National Moderate but supported women's voting rights to suddenly switch to Labor because they believed that voting for women's rights was a more pressing issue than being left-wing or right-wing.
National Moderate failed to campaign with much direction due to a lack of funding in the party due to some of their biggest donors backing out because the party would not budge on women's voting rights. National Moderate stood firm on opposing enfranchising voters or even letting a certain group of women vote, leading to the party falling into a bad state during the campaign. National Moderate were thus clouded by Labor's victory in the campaign.
== Results ==
The results of the election were expected to be a gain for Labor but many political commentators and political scientists did not expect the massive wave of support for Labor on the day of the election. Labor ended up winning a big majority of 89 seats which was a gain of 11 seats from the previous election. National Moderate won 47 seats, a decrease of 8 seats, and Free Liberal won 10 seats, a decrease of 3 seats. National Moderate suffered their worst defeat ever at that point and Free Liberal shared in that failure, leading to Labor scrutinizing the parties for not supporting women's voting rights.
Party	MPs 	MPs	Votes 	Votes
Party	Seats	Net	% of Seats	Change
LAB 	89 	+11	53.4% 	+2.0%
NMD 	47 	-8 	37.7% 	-4.1%
FRL 	10 	-3 	8.9% 	+2.1%