2022 Chawosaurian Senate special election in the British Isles

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The **2022 Chawosaurian Senate special election in the British Isles** was held on Friday, March 4, 2022, to elect the Imperial Senator and Governor of the Imperial Senate District of the British Isles, to replace the retiring Jonathan Drasko Bismarck XXV. This Senate special election will take place coincided with the 2022 Chawosaurian Senate special election in East Asia just across Eurasia.

This election was won by John Middleton by a sizeable plurality, winning 43.7% of the popular vote and defeated Jack Leo O'Callaghan and Charles Walpole, who won 34.1% and 22.1% of the popular vote, respectively.

The election campaign had a rocky environment; the saga with Prince Andrew, Partygate, and in the following days the Chawo-Ukraine Airlift Crisis. The Partygate scandal threatened the Tory campaign in this Imperial Senate by-election, with U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosting parties at 10 Downing Street while the country was under lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, which enraged all including the Tories themselves that they pressured Johnson to resign. The tory candidate John Middleton condemned the secret parties and called on Johnson to resign as well. Jack Leo O'Callaghan and Charles Walpole tried to tie Partygate to John Middleton and there were many Chawosaurian election observers who thought that with Labour gaining the lead for the next UK general election, Jack O'Callaghan could win the election and keep the Imperial Senate seat in SDWLP hands.

The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine ultimately changed the tide of the race, with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson joined the pride to condemn Putin and helped lead the charge to confront Putin with sanctions and crush the Russian economy into submission. On the Chawosaurian side, the Administration of Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker was ill-prepared for the Russian invasion; amid tensions between Russia and Ukraine, the Parker administration laughed at the western world's warnings of a looming Russian invasion as just Cold War era hysteria against Russia, so they jokingly enacted SL Order No. I-2022 to begin evacuating Chawosaurian Ukrainians from the country, but when the Russian invasion actually did took place, the Parker administration ramped up SL Order No. I-2022 to speed up the evacuation process, leading to the Chawo-Ukraine Airlift Disaster.

With the Russian invasion dramatically pulling the rug from under Jack Leo O'Callaghan, the election at the end was won by John Middleton, with 43.7% of the popular vote and O'Callaghan losing with 34.1% and Charles Walpole himself losing by a miserable 22.1% of the popular vote, making this the third election since the 2019 Chawosaurian elections that he has lost an election so badly.

## Background and Process

It will be a plurality based voting system, whoever got the most votes will be elected due to the lack of time for a two-round election. British and Irish political parties will fusion with Chawosaurian political parties behind a candidate,

Imperial Senator Jonathan Drasko Bismarck XXV retired due to his age at 72, thus throwing his seat up for a by-election.

## Fusion Candidates

Fusion Nominees

## Results and Analysis

The election was won by John Middleton by a sizeable plurality of the popular vote, winning most of England and massively losing in Scotland and Ireland to Jack Leo O'Callaghan and Charles Walpole.

## See also

* By-elections to the 25th Chawopolis Palace
	+ 2022 Chawosaurian Senate special election in East Asia