1997 Jonathian general election

The 1997 Jonathian general election was the 30th biennial general election, held on Tuesday, January 7, 1997. In the biggest landslide ever, the Republican candidate Robert Alexander coalized with the Liberals and Nationals to defeat the controversy-riddled JFP and then-prime minister Josif Klanton. This election had the highest voter turnout in decades.
The JFP-led government, which had been elected in the largest parliamentary majority in Jonathian history, had been muddled with endless controversies due to the tyrannical nature of Josif Klanton, who had previously used his party's loyalty to overturn any act that would in any form affect his position of power. He attempted cancelling the 1997 election, and nearly pulled through with it, with parliament voting 101 to 19 to do so. However, the bill was overturned by the Supreme Court, who called it unconstitutional to cancel an election. Immediately after this decision, the Liberals, Nationals, and Republicans coalized with each other in a temporary agreement.
This election is considered the biggest defeat in Jonathian election history, with the JFP effectively being booted from parliament, losing all 101 of their seats and not winning any further in parliament until 2019. Klanton attempted overturning the results under the claim that the election had been rigged, but this was overturned by the Supreme Court. Six days prior to Robert Alexander's inauguration, Klanton would be subject to an impeachment trial that concluded after his term as prime minister ended. The trial resulted with parliament voting to find Josif Klanton guilty of corruption.
The 1997 election saw a major shift for some time away from multi-party politics and begin to shift towards a two-party system involving the Republicans and Liberals as major parties. The Nazi and National parties hung on with some seats for some time, but this evaporated by the 2001 election. Following the election, the Republican-Liberal-National coalition would break down following division over the Provincial Richts Act, proposed in July of 1998, leading to the Republicans being the sole governing party in 1999.
==Election results==
The election results are shown below. A record total of 87,192,388 eligible voters cast votes in this election, beating the previous record of 81,252,683 of the 1983 election.
Party	Party 	Leader 	Votes 	Percent	Seats 	Seats	Seats	Seats
Party	Party 	Leader 	Votes 	Percent	Parliament	Diff 	Local	Diff
 	Republican Party 	Robert Alexander	36,114,805	41.4 	58 	+42 	 	
 	Liberal Party 	Leyla Wilson 	27,608,044	31.7 	42 	+40 	 	
 	National Party 	Camille Rambeau 	12,294,553	14.1 	17 	+16 	 	
 	Nazi Party 	Adam Wenthorpe 	5,191,492 	6.0 	3 	+3 	 	
 	Green Party 	Eli Fletcher 	2,391,084 	2.7 	0 	New 	 	
 	Jonathia First Party 	Josif Klanton 	1,283,489 	1.5 	0 	-101 	 	
 	Social Democrats 	Laura Seabear 	1,142,485 	1.3 	0 	0 	 	
 	Tapanthia United Party	Henry Boring 	556,194 	0.6 	0 	0 	 	
Other	Other 	Other 	610,242 	0.7 	0 	0 	 	
== See also ==
Category:Elections
Category:Jonathian elections
Category:Jonathia
Category:1997