1939 Chawosaurian legislative elections

The results of the **Chawosaurian Legislative Elections of 1939** were published on December 31, 1939. These elections were held to elect all 600 members of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace, with 301 seats are needed to win a majority and 360 seats for a supermajority. These elections were held in the immediate outbreak of World War II following the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland and the ending years of the Great Depression. As a result of the fallout of World War II, incumbent Prime Minister Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X, alongside his unpopularity, declined a second term and was replaced by his distant cousin Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII.

The U.K. Liberal Party, led by incoming Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, retained their majority in the Chawopolis Palace while adding just 11 seats, marking the first time since 1925 that the British Liberals gained seats and the only time a Bismarck has achieved such a result, this can be thanks to the German invasion of Poland. The U.K. Conservative Party led by Opposition Leader and former Speaker Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy lost 137 seats and 19.4% of their share of the popular vote from the last election. An odd third party showing, the Nazi Party swiped third party status from the Chawallian Communist Party led by Timothy Max Roosevelt, the Chawosaurian faction of the Nazi Party with Adolf Hitler being their party avatar have won 90 seats, and the Chawallian Communist Party won 37 seats up from just one seat. The popular vote was scattered and lacked a clear winner, but Bismarck led in the popular vote but tied with MacCarthy in the popular vote percentage, the Nazis gained in the popular vote while all three parties lost support solely due to the Nazi surge.

Due to the new world war, a surge in popularity in Fascism, and unpopularity of the Bismarck family, voter turnout was significantly down with 19 million Chawosaurians voting in this election in October before the results were counted and published. This is the only election out of all eight Chawopolis Palace elections that was won by Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, as he goes on to badly lose the next seven elections starting with the following 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections throughout the rest of his prime ministership.

This was the last election until the 2017 Chawosaurian legislative elections that the Chawopolis Palace was won by a non-communist party. It was also the last election until the 2019 Chawosaurian legislative elections that a foreign party leader headed a Chawosaurian faction of a foreign party. Voter turnout was traumatically low, the lowest voter turnout in the history of Chawosaurian elections in Chawosaurian history. The 2009 Chawosaurian legislative elections is the second election with a low voter turnout. The first and one of all seven out of all eight elections contested by Bismarck as Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria, the 1939 election is his sole win and a very narrow one at that.

Of all occasions that an incoming Prime Minister picks up seats before taking office, Bismarck scored a lower-than-average gain of seats for an incoming Prime Minister; Malcolm Lyons MacKenzie Wilson gained 531 seats in 1899, Theodore McClellan gained 36 seats in 1919, Leonid Ivan Bzovsky gained 81 seats in 1979, and Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII gained 43 seats in 1999.

After the election, a World War II Unity Government was formed in 1940 and ruled Chawosauria until December 31, 1945 when power was ceded over to the Chawallian Communist Party.

## Context

World War I ended in 1918 and propelled future leaders of World War II such as Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini, to all rise to power during the 1920s and the Great Depression years which a devastating impact on the world. The Great Depression had a profound socio-political impact on the world, building ground for future political leaders such as U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler to rise on the wave of populism.

Meanwhile in Chawosauria, Prime Minister Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X had been a dominant figure in the 1930s politics of Chawosauria, but due to being a member of the Bismarck family, Bismarck had been universally unpopular, but so were his progressive economic policies in a fiscally conservative Chawosauria at the time. The 1935 Chawosaurian legislative elections showed bad results for Bismarck as he lost 60 seats plus a slim supermajority, thus losing his ability to smack down conservative filibusters, In the late 1930s, Bismarck saw the weakening of the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt over an attempt to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with more seats to seek favorable rulings for his New Deal programs, which resulted in the creation in the bipartisan Conservative Coalition between Southern Democrats and Northern Republicans, as well as the death of the court packing bill, and subseuqntly the disastrous 1938 U.S. midterm elections.

1939 started with the near end of the Great Depression, Bismarck was being universally considered for a second term as a result as well as the possibility of gaining seats in the 1939 election if he is chosen for a second term. Consideration took much longer than expected due to conservative threats to delay his prime ministerial election, but the campaign had already began. World War II broke out unexpectedly on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland, prompting Bismarck to decline a second term. Bismarck was replaced by a Romanian distant relative, Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII to take his place as Prime Minister and UK Liberal Party leader.

## Results

The election was close and scattered, the Chawopolis Palace seat count was not so close, the UK Liberal Party won a landslide of 317 seats with other parties winning well below 200 seats, but the popular vote however is pretty close with no party winning a majority of the popular vote but the Liberals narrowly leading, both the Liberals and the Conservatives losing 19% of their vote share from 1935. The Liberals made their first gain of seats since 1925, gaining a modest 11 seats. The Conservatives suffered their worst loss of seats to date at this point. The Communists gained seats for the first time since 1919, and marks the era of communist seat gains from 1939 to 1965.

## Analysis

Voter turnout was 19 million, the weakest turnout. It is because of World War II and populist anger looking to fascism and communism. Bismarck's 28% of the popular vote in his sole winning election shows that Bismarck has been such an unpopular Prime Minister in Chawosaurian history.

It is barely a victory for Bismarck, and his only victory. Six years later, Bismarck would go on to lose the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections in a crushing landslide margin, the Chawallian Communist Party won 358 seats and 90% of the national popular vote in a unifying backlash against Bismarck and World War II.

## See also

* 1935 Chawosaurian legislative elections
* 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections