By-elections to the 25th Chawopolis Palace

By elections to the 25th Chawopolis Palace will be held to fill vacancies of members of the Palace who either died in office, resigned, or been impeached and removed. These elections will be held during Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker's first five years in power.

In the 2021 special elections, the 9 vacancies caused by fallout of Social Democrat Joe Walz's suicide have emerged but in these special elections, the vacancies that the Communist Party hoped to pick up were never won by a communist candidate, 7 out of all 9 of these vacancies were successfully defended by the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party mostly because of the coattail effect of Sydney Lucas Webster as he wins election as Chawosaurian Leader of the Opposition in the 2021 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election and an embodiment of social democracy after two key victories in Germany and Norway.

In the 2022 special elections, there were two vacancies in the Imperial Senate of the Empire of Chawosauria to be filed by these two by-elections, where Imperial Senators Linghu Xiaoliang and Jonathan Drasko Bismarck XXV retired, Linghu retired to become General Secretary of the Empire of Chawosauria, and Bismarck retired because of his old age of 72. The Senate District of East Asia was the most personal because Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker was born and he grew up in the People's Republic of China, but these two elections were held in the midst of tensions between Russia and Ukraine, and the Parker administration's poor handling of this crisis, The Parker administration led the creation of the Socialist Coalition between the Chawosaurian Communist Party and the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party during the Russo-Ukraine crisis and ignored Western World warnings of a looming Russian invasion, dismissing it as Anti-Russian hysteria, and the Parker administration enacted as a joke SL Order No. I-2022 to evacuate Chawosaurian Ukrainians to quell concern for a Russian invasion, but the Russian invasion did in fact ended up happening on February 24, 2022, forcing the Parker administration to escalate SL Order No. I-2022's use, leading up to the Chawo-Ukraine Airlift Disaster. This political climate helped strangely two conservative candidates sweep the special elections in East Asia and the British Isles, crumbling the Socialist Coalition's delegation from 992-8 to 990-10. On March 21, 2022, Chawosaurian Member of Parliament, Lord Jonathan Sarban Boleslaus VII, died of leukemia at 72 and his House of Lords district of New York City will be up for a by-election by June 3, 2022. On May 16, 2022, 20 Communists have had it with Shang Jong Parker and became independents, boosting the number of Independents from 8 to 28. On June 3rd, the Social Democrats won a surprise victory, Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem V was elected, dealing a blow to the conservatives and to Wendell Rawlings Burton.

## Background and Procedure

These special elections are set during the whole term of the 25th Chawopolis Palace to fill vacancies of the Chawopolis Palace for them to continue business. Both the Parliament (all its three houses) and the Senate are to have their vacancies filled via special elections.

## 2021

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The Communist Party won a special election in 2020. In 2021, there were nine vacancies, none of which are a Senate seat. 7 were won by Social Democrats.

The first special election on June 4th, was won by a USDC candidate, Jonathan Striebeck. On August 7th, Moscow elected a conservative to the Chawopolis Palace, a chilling sign of anti-war sentiment especially among Russian Chawosaurians. A conservative in a solidly left-wing 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government creates discomfort among Chawosaurian elected officials and there were threats of refusal to seat Stanislav Balakhnin by the Chawosaurian Communist Party and the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party.

## 2022

2022 Special Elections for the 25th Chawopolis Palace
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## Analysis

### 2021

The **2021 Chawosaurian elections** were offyear elections held in 2021, mostly on Friday, October 1, 2021. It included the 2021 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election and 2021 by-elections for the 25th Chawopolis Palace. The 2021 opposition election is intended to elect the Chawosaurian Leader of the Opposition and the 2021 Chawopolis Palace special elections are intended to elect those to fill vacancies in the Chawopolis Palace. Much of these elections were of the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party's own making, and they at first posed a risk for the party after entering their new role as an official opposition party on January 1, 2020, in the weakest position for an opposition party in Chawosaurian history. But due to the emerging development of the Chawo-Uralic War and decline in popular support for Shang Jong Parker as a result, the Social Democrats regained control of the Chawosaurian Opposition through the election of Sydney Lucas Webster and due in part of the recent success of social democratic parties in Norway and Germany, the Social Democrats were helped by Webster's coattails and swept only 7 out of all 9 Chawopolis Palace vacancies that the Chawosaurian Communist Party had hoped to sweep.

Sydney Lucas Webster (a Social Democrat) defeats a centrist and brother-in-law Charles Walpole (a Liberal Democrat) by a landslide victory of 93%, becoming the second person in a roll to defeat Walpole. The election was called as a recall election against the incumbent conservative Leader of the Opposition Charles Muskie after Donald Trump, U.S. President, loses reelection to Joe Biden in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and it became a three-way-race between Muskie, Webster, and Walpole, but the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol forced Muskie to drop out, creating a two-way race between just Webster and Walpole. Webster ended up winning at the end.

Social Democrats, taking advantage of Webster's election, defended just 7 out of all 9 vacancies caused by fallout of the suicide of Social Democrat Joe Walz in February 2021. The analysis of these results is social democratic turnout brought by Webster's election to the Chawosaurian Opposition Leadership, social democratic encouragement from recent social democratic success in Germany and Norway, and dissatisfaction with Supreme Leader Shang Parker's handling of the Chawo-Uralic War.

These elections were a defeat for Shang Jong Parker, who betted on his COVID-19 Halo that his Communist Party will sweep all 9 social democratic vacancies, but that COVID-19 Halo was broken by a Chawo-Uralic War that has broken out of control and fell out of favor as well as Parker's himself.

### 2022

The 2022 elections were a continuation of backlash against Shang Jong Parker, the 2022 Chawosaurian Senate special election in East Asia and the 2022 Chawosaurian Senate special election in the British Isles resulted in historic conservative victories brought by anti-war sentiment, an urge for change, adequate candidate quality on the conservative side, and just basically dislike and popular fatigue with Shang Jong Parker, which enforces the yielding towards change.